Liz Melton Apathy at Menlo Park VA is not unique.  Although President Obama pledged to overhaul a “broken VA bureaucracy” during his campaign in 2008, veterans awaiting treatment for over a year grew from 11,000 to 245,000 in the first year of Obama’s presidency—a 2,000 percent increase.1  Critics of the VA cite understaffing and complicated computerized claims processing as the basis for failure in the … Continue reading My Rhapsody in Blue