outstanding folks here at this va and all the vas across the country who are deserving. that sounds great. there s the president insisting that the veterans affairs administration deserves our trust. but a brand-new report from the associated press suggests otherwise. the bombshell study shows that nearly one year after the va scandal first broke the number of patients facing long waits at va facilities has not dropped! at all! and that is not the worst of it. fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. has been looking at the numbers. peter? the numbers are horrifying we all believe in trust but the verification is not working out for the secretary of the va or the president. there are about four different issues that highlight how veterans have become the new american underclass. one, let s look at the stalled appeals. there s more than 300,000 appeals that are pending with regard to benefits as of january according to the va. nationally the average length of
time to receive a decision on an appeal is 1,255 days. do you know how long that is? that s 3 1/2 years, steve. wait a minute 3 1/2 the president said a year ago he was going to take care of it. fast-forward to now. fast-forward to now and nothing has happened, little has happened and these americans have become the new permanent underclass. read the e-mails i get. in addition to the president saying i m going to fix this a year later he hasn t didn t congress pass something that they spent billions of dollars but it s a matter of administration and what s going on in the middle. the choice card program launched in november to help allegedly give vets who live more than 40 miles away from a va hospital the option of government-funded private care. but confusion over the program has led to low enrollment. especially in terms of how many miles you have to be right. that is not working out. 27,000 people made appointments using choice cards. 9 million vets were mai