Massachusetts family says VA offer of help came two years late

By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Last month, Suzanne Chase opened a letter from a Veterans Affairs hospital offering her husband medical help – an offer that she said came nearly two years after his death. Douglas Chase, a Vietnam veteran, died in August 2012 of complications from melanoma, several months after he applied for transfer to a Veterans Affairs hospital in Massachusetts. The VA is embroiled in a scandal over widespread evidence of delays. President Barack Obama has pledged to overhaul the agency, which he says has frayed under the strain of caring for more than 6 million patients a year.