Does the commission anticipate any additional burden for servicemembers obtaining healthcare through the existing system but having their dependents rely on a distinct system?

Commissioners, I understand active-duty families could continue to access MTFs as a venue of care. How would this work?

Commissioners, the commission's report details substantial anticipated cost savings after full implementation.

How confident is the commission that a majority of our men and women who are serving and have served support the commission's recommended reforms?

I think it is very clear the impact that it is going to have, and our ability to defend the Nation is one that calls all of us to act to address this for each of you.

There is a clear consensus among those who have served and have formerly served in the military, the devastating impact on our ability to defend the Nation and our men and women in uniform.

I do think it is helpful for each of us to hear from people serving what they see firsthand about the impacts of some of these policy decisions.

It would be important for us to address that.

The core of where the Affordable Care Act came from, is that the hospitals were getting paid for every reentry.

It is an honor to serve on this committee, and I appreciate all the time and effort.

I think that would be helpful. And I know my time is up.

I think this is an issue across programs, so we have got these--it is required, but we are not really measuring whether they are getting results out of where we are putting in programs.

We owe the people who really need this fund, and it is important to them that we actually try to solve the long-term viability of it.

Let us just be honest. When you say 'a small reallocation,' that is transferring the money, and yet it is a system that already, as we look overall, is going insolvent.

So, if it does nothing productive for us, are you not concerned at all as we look at the budget proposal when we get to 2021, which is not too far off, that we are already spending more on interest than defense?

I do not mean to interrupt you, because I do not have a lot of time, but I just want to be clear: What you are doing is basically ignoring the fact that it is exhausted and transferring the money?

You and I just have a disagreement on whether this is a productive way to look at things, and I know that the American people will decide themselves on what they think about that.

I think that is just basically robbing Peter to pay Paul. Let us not kid ourselves.