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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), provides primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services to enrolled veterans. VHA provides medical services through an integrated delivery system that includes roughly 150 medical centers, more than 900 outpatient clinics, and other facilities offering readjustment counseling, long-term care, and other services. In 2008, VHA's medical facilities treated 5.1 million veterans, or about 22 percent of the nations population of veterans, at a cost of more than $40 billion. VHA uses an enrollment system to keep track of veterans who plan to use the departments care. As part of the enrollment process, applicants must document their status as veterans and are assigned to one of eight priority groups on the basis of their service-connected disabilities, service-related exposures, income, assets, and other factors.