Hillary Clinton unveiled her plan to fix the Department Veterans Affairs yesterday in Derry, New Hampshire, but it was an exchange between the presidential hopeful and a frustrated veteran that exposed her true thoughts on the slipshod agency.

Not only did Clinton seem disingenuous in her concern for the veteran, she defended the Obama administration’s half-hearted efforts to address rampant incompetence and mismanagement that’s leaving veterans without the medical care they deserve.

“I was very glad to hear you talk about New Hampshire not having a full service hospital, first of all, a lot of us have been fighting that for many years,” the white-haired vet told Clinton in a live MSNBC broadcast that was later posted to YouTube.

“Secondly, as a Vietnam veteran who filed for an increase in my service … disability six years ago and it’s still pending. I was at the VA medical center yesterday for my fourth examination. Six years and it’s still going on,” the man said. “I tell people this on the outside and they think I’m crazy. They say, ‘How can the VA take six years to process a claim.’ …

“So I’m very happy you can talk about those two things, for sure.”

Clinton, however, seemed more interested in talking about the “progress” the Obama administration has made in recent years.

“Well, I want to,” Clinton said before rephrasing her approach.

“We’ve made a little progress in the last year or two in processing claims,” she said, “we still have a big backlog, as you know personally and we’re getting an increasing backlog in appeals from denials or only partial approvals.”

She then went into her very vague “all hands on deck” plan, which apparently involves hiring a lots of lawyers and number crunchers.

“I think we need a kind of all-hands-on-deck program, where I’d be open to working with VSOs and others. Let’s recruit people who have some accounting, some legal, some other experience and let’s put them to work on this,” Clinton said.

“It’s not just a question of getting everything on the computer, which we need to do also, but while we’re dealing with all this paper, let’s get more hands and eyes to help us,” she continued. “That’s one of my goals. Let’s just tackle it like we would tackle any other challenge in our country and get everyone who can to participate.”

“Maybe the next time I see you, we will make some progress, Bob,” Clinton told the vet with a nervous laugh.

“I hope so,” he said.

Some of the “progress” the current administration has made on the scandal plagued VA system was highlighted recently in a 12 News report about the Phoenix VA, where veterans are protesting the local medical center’s culture of corruption.

Recent reports in The Arizona Republic alleged a federal task force sent in to investigate the local hospital’s history of fudging patient wait times and toxic work environment was met with indifference and hostility by management.

“It’s just disappointing,” Navy veteran John Keith, who was among a handful of protesters outside the hospital Monday, told 12 News. “It just needs to be changed from the top down and the more we talk about it, the more veterans die.”

“The employees, the little guys are really trying to do what they need to do. Maintain their family, their integrity. But they’re being hindered by upper level management,” said C. Tyrone Dumax, a disabled U.S. Army veteran.

The March 30 report by a panel of national experts highlighted by The Arizona Republic alleged that when the task force went in to help last spring, the place was a mess and nobody seemed to want to fix it.

“Our hands were tied at every decision point,” the panel wrote, according to the news site. “Instead of our expectation to work with a leadership team that genuinely desired positive change, we were met with a leadership team that displayed obstructionist attitudes, and clearly lacked integrity.”

“But perhaps the most glaring find was the poor state of the office culture,” the report continued.

“There were widespread allegations of employee mistreatment, retaliatory tactics, illegal hiring practices, veteran discrimination, nepotism, bullying and an overall abuse of power. The work environment was clearly toxic, and having a negative impact on HR operations, which ultimately impacted their core mission of hiring those who could provide access to care.”

A video recently leaked to DisabledVeterans.org also exposed exactly how VA employees are spending their time while veterans wait for hours or days or years for treatment.

The video shows employees at the Tomah, Wisconsin VA acting out the kids game “Hungry Hungry Hippos” on a gymnasium floor for the better part of the work day.

That “Civility Respect Engagement in the Workplace” exercise Oct. 30 also featured other carnival games. The event occurred at the same VA hospital run by psychiatrist David Houlihan, whom staff members have dubbed the “Candy Man” for staggering number of opiate prescriptions he doled out to his zombified patients, The American Mirror reports.