As the Commander in Chief, it is the President's responsibility to ensure that our veterans are receiving the highest quality care. The recent VA waiting list scandal is an atrocity and instead of playing a blame game, the President is obligated to fix the problem first and then work with congress to come up with an effective preventive strategy.
As has been mentioned by former Marine and Navy Lt. Commander, Montel Williams, the President should call for a "surge" of medics and corpsmen to correct the existing backlog. We have veterans in dire need of medical and mental care and before any heads roll, these veterans deserve immediate treatment. The surge can be accommodated by temporarily activating reserve troops as well as recalling those troops that have recently retired.