The one step that most concerns me is in the making of the first assessment within the department, and that was what I was addressing in my comment. When a person is released from the military they go through a process of review, and it's determined whether or not they should be retained, retrained, or released. When a person is released, they can be released for a number of different reasons, one of which is medical reasons. In order to be released medically, you must have a condition that precludes you from doing certain things in the military. That is all based on what a doctor, or doctors, think.
When that gets sent over to VAC, someone unknown--because it's very difficult to ascertain from the department who makes these assessments--decides at what level of the table of disabilities you will fall. If more of these decisions initially were better made and were made with accountability and transparency, then there would not be an average of 6,000 cases annually going to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board.
I mentioned 6,000 because on average there are only 4,000 releases from the military every year. So this indicates to you that there's a gross difference between how many people appeal and how many people get released. I can't say specifically what the percentage is, but to me it means there are too many people questioning the initial assessment.