It is not just the recent Republican wars in Iraq an Afghanistan that has overwhelmed ENTRANCE into the Veterans Administration system, it is also recent legislation that has declared both Agent Orange and PTSD qualifying for Veterans Administration support.
Not to mention the American health care system that forces unemployed and working poor veterans to stand in line at the Veterans Administration to get any health care at all.
Thought the biggest problem at the Veterans Administration is the Republican Party reducing taxes year after year resulting in the Veterans Administration not able to hire and retain the number of doctors and nurses needed to get veterans into the system and helped. Remember this is about INTO THE SYSTEM not those already in the system.