Thank you for that. And from your side, if you'll follow up on that, we will do our part here.
I'm going to branch off just for a minute, and I don't do that too often.
The committee has not even been out of this room 12 hours. We had a fascinating night last night. We had probably 30-plus PTSD survivors and some professionals in the room.
We know your focus is on World War II and Korea, but you mentioned earlier that you look at all veterans and the different ages, realizing we have to serve them all.
One of the things I heard last night, which was quite surprising—we know there are always institutional problems and administrative problems—and I'd like a comment on it, is that all of these survivors deal with different challenges, and they meet them as well as they can to survive every day, but the administrative problems or the institutional problems inside Veterans Affairs are one of the hugest obstacles they face.
For health care providers, you've mentioned repeatedly that early intervention is important. Last night we heard that the lack of health care providers, the challenges of health care providers working with veterans who are suffering from any of a host of things, from PTSD to other issues, and their inability, really—this is what they feel, rightly or wrongly so—to get access—or if they have access it's cut off. They build up trust with the people who are working with them, through this early intervention, and then it's not carried on.
So it was a bit of a surprise for me—and I'm sure for the committee members—that we have this problem inside the system to the extent we do. I'm wondering if in your deliberations or your discussions with other professionals on the committee you have run into this. Do you know how widespread the problem is?