It's the amount of abuse that they have experienced. It's unfathomable. People don't really understand how much abuse the women have gone through in terms of repeated sexual assaults, repeated rapes, and the betrayal by the government system.
Then there are the issues in terms of getting the appropriate medical documentation, rehashing, preparing the legal files—that was a big issue for class members—getting civilian health care professionals who can understand the level of abuse and the impacts of the abuse, and then working with Veterans Affairs in terms of collecting the medical evidence.
Veterans Affairs is using a methodology that was built in the nineties in terms of matching the nineties' health care system, without recognizing the problems or recognizing that we don't have the same health care system. It's a lot harder for us to get the documentation that is initially required in order to provide the health care benefit or service to us whenever we are first starting to get in.
Then other women are experiencing issues in terms of.... Let's take women who went through in the eighties. They were not able to get their musculoskeletal issues taken care of because at the time when they were first going through, there were discriminatory practices whereby they were not being acknowledged. When you have post-traumatic stress and you're going through and trying to compile the medical evidence, the process is very difficult for you, and you need support doing that.