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