It's no disrespect to those who need health services to ask this question, because if we're taking resources away from those who need them because the system has become skewed, then we have a duty to look at it.
Some of us are new to veterans affairs. There obviously was a policy rationale for that. Are any of you able to say, as dispassionately as you can, what the policy rationale was to allow for an active service person to apply for pension?