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The president allowed veterans to make a claim for agent orange. that s a veteran saying i need into the system. this was a wait time issue. this was veterans trying to go to the hospital who weren t getting in quick enough to see their doctors. so there s a lot of reasons that happened. iraq and afghanistan veteran cans go to the v.a. for primary care for the first five years they return home. there was a million veterans in this country that were uninsured that chose the v.a. as their primary provider under the affordable care act. so a lot of these issues, iraq and afghanistan, veterans coming home, a lot of this not only caused a backlog in claims process but wait times. but the issues have been decades in the making. it s ironic that general shinseki who was an opponent of the iraq war is dealing with this. the house bill passed last week is a joke. this isn t about one or two bad apples. this is a systemic issue. senator mcconnell blocked a $24 billion package two months ago ....
You can t put this in the lap of the v.a. and say we don t have any problem for boehner to stand out there and say this is a failure of the president, he should check his files and see how many veterans or family members september letters asking him to look into this. to that point, we have john with us. i heard you talk about this so i know it is a fact. the v.a. system and the problems with the v.a., this is not new. this is a long-term problem in terms of the bureaucracy. one of the things that is tragic on the one hand, shinseki was trying to do the right thing by adding additional veterans to be able to receive care. at the same time, the system i don t think could handle that. there s a lot of things that caused this to happen. i want to clarify a couple basic points. people have been confuse d. this was not about the backlog. this is not about disability claims. there s been a backlog because ....