Thank you very much for coming this morning.
As always, everyone coming before us represents the department extremely well. I think your care and compassion always comes across. Yet it continues to concern many of us about what I think is the department's desire to satisfy the needs and so on. We continue to hear of other problems. What we are trying to do here is find ways to correct those problems.
When we look at Antonio's situation, or Ron's, or any of the others, you think, how could anybody complain about this? They get a lump sum and then they get these monthly benefits. Why should anyone be complaining? Yet there are still lots of issues.
Before the charter, what would any of these cases have received as a lump sum payment compared to what any of them receive today? If you look at Antonio, and he gets $260,000, what would that lump sum payment have been before the charter for that kind of injury of loss of limbs?