re: #37 Testy Toad T

The VA has been fighting an uphill fight for decades to get an appropriate level of funding. Between insufficient investment in facilities for years (like those depicted in Born on the Fourth of July during the Vietnam era) to being caught in sequestration despite an increased demand on services due to retiring service members, an aging veteran population, and a whole new group of veterans with specific care needs - such as survivors from IEDs that a generation earlier would have been fatalities - and you’ve got a stressed agency that barely manages to do the job Congress requires.