Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to thank you for your fine presentations here this afternoon. I'm sure the veterans that you deal with, as well as all of us sitting here today, realize how devoted you are to this program and how much care and thought you put into it. For that, you deserve words of congratulations for your work and your presentations to all of us here this afternoon.
We all realize how very important the veterans are to us, how much they've done for us, and how much we should be willing to open up and help them. I feel it's our job as MPs to make sure we represent our veterans well.
When we look at slide number 12, we see that an individual who was ranked with the care level of six or higher is less than the one with a care level of five. I was just wondering why that is. At what care level is it necessary, or even more cost-effective, to put that individual into a nursing home--even though they're eligible for VIP benefits--and have them get the support there?