This is not a headline.  This says five years; Obama ran eight years ago saying he was going to 'fix' the VA

The Arizona Republic
 " Investigators from the Office of Inspector General found that, as of September 2014, the Veterans Health Administration had about 867,000 pending applications from prospective patients. They were unable to break down those numbers due to “serious data limitations” but estimated that three-quarters of them were created more than five years ago and therefore inactive. The report says more than half of the enrollment forms did not even have application dates.

More significantly, about 307,000 enrollment records -- more than a third of those backlogged -- were from veterans who are listed as dead by the Social Security Administration. That is more than six times the number estimated by Miller. However, according to inspectors, data was so unreliable they could not tell how many of those applicants had sought medical care, or verify dates for their deaths."