VA says it’s improving in Alaska; Murkowski calls it ‘chaos’

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (File photo: KTOO – Juneau.)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a top VA official this morning that she’s still hearing disaster stories about the Choice program. And, she says, some Alaska vets who used Choice to get medical appointments in the private sector now find collection agencies are after them because the VA hasn’t paid their claims.
VA undersecretary David Shulkin says his agency is doing a better job now, at least compared to last summer, when he visited t