While the Obama administration may have rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic, in this case the Department of Veterans Affairs, it is still a sinking disaster. On March 13 President Barack Obama traveled to the Phoenix VA medical center, which CNN's Anderson Cooper called "ground zero in the scandal, a place where as we reported, at least 40 veterans died while waiting for appointments." "You know, some things have changed, no doubt about it," said Cooper on his show. "There has been progress."