Unfair?

This is part of the transcript of an NPR article about the United States Army, and its demand that the United States Veterans Administration cease helping disabled soldiers document their disability status. The full article can be found here.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, who co-chaired President Bush's recent commission on veterans' care, says stories like this one show how the whole disability rating system is broken and needs to change.

The system is "fundamentally unfair," according to Shalala, "and that's the point about the need for reform in the system. It has to be reformed for everyone."

My question: is that last phrase code for "We don't want to do this at all, but we can't say that, so we'll say that we want to do it for everyone, knowing full and damned will that it'll take forever, if not longer, to accomplish that." I surely hope not, but, based on my doubts regarding the humanity and compassion of the Bush administration as regards the military personnel damaged in its service, I have suspicions.