When you read a VA manual on how to deal with Toxic and radiated Veterans it's clear the workers within the system are shown how to use verbiage to their favor  Using other lifestyle choices to be reasons for different diseases such as drinking a beer a day a reason for  cancer any open door to place causation elsewhere seems to be taken               ( stories I've read from widows) . The Veteran just has to accept the diagnosis and has no real recourse that can happen in any real reasonable time frame. Homes are being lost men /women are dying while they wait ,all so some manager somewhere can meet their "bottom line"   This is not what the VA is for.