The April 2015 report, leaked to the Huffington Post by VA whistleblower Scott Davis, indicates that 238,657 of the 847,882 veterans waiting to be enrolled in VA healthcare are already dead, suggesting that over 28 percent of veterans applying for health coverage perished while waiting for it.
VA spokeswoman Walinda West played down the number, insisting that some of those listed as having "pending" status may well have not completed their applications for healthcare coverage and that the data could be decades old.
It's a gov't enterprise. Backlogs mean job security.