Okay. You actually are asking veterans to believe that cutting the rate of reimbursement on a $245-million-a-year program will amount to $4 billion over four years. I don't think any veteran will believe that. I don't think we'll get a different response from you on that, so I'll move on.
I have another thing I want to ask you about. We've heard a number of different areas of concern where there has been some indication of what your government's going to do. I want to ask you about a couple of them.
The first is with regard to vulnerable veterans in long-term care. Due to a mistake, I think an honest one, made by your department, those vulnerable veterans were overcharged for their long-term care. The response by your government was to sneakily put into, say, page 375 of the BIA a retroactive change to the legislation that would ensure that those veterans continue to get shortchanged. On the other hand, we have disabled veterans who, again due to a mistake by your government, were overpaid on IRB. Now they're getting bills for tens of thousands of dollars in many cases, going back six or eight years, and being expected to repay those immediately. These are veterans who are vulnerable. They're on a fixed income. They may be dealing with mental health injuries. This might drive them right over the edge.
The commonality in both these cases is that veterans are the ones who are getting screwed. That's the commonality in those cases.
I guess I have to ask, why is it your government's reflex to always make veterans pay for your mistakes?