so all these things are tied in and what we're looking at in the audiology community right now.so we talk about the imprtance of early intervention and detection. so whenever i give presentations throughout the city, i always ask how many people in the room have had their hearing tested and most of the times hands don't go up. but as i look around the room, i see that a lot of people are wearing glasses s i know that people get their eyes checked regularly. but hearing tests are not regular. and that is something we want to change to if you're not treating your hearing loss at least you know what your hearing loss is. please stand by.

spinal surgery, prosthetics, audiology, services for the blind. you won't find that anywhere. i do believe that if we believe that the veteran is central, we can also make the argument that as long as the va is at the central node in his care and not veteran has a day-to-day experience with the va and walks through where va can help him with care when he immediately needs it, that reinforces the future of the va and that's what i believe in. i also think. >> i apologize. look, let me just ask you a question. would you support a full funding of caregivers program so that every generation of veterans will have that service. >> as i said, i come from, i'm a dependent of the vietnam era. >> one of the concerns that many veterans organization half is that dental care, which to me is an integral part of healthcare is not part of va healthcare other than service-connected. would you be willing to look with me at expanding health care to dental care even when it's not service-connected. >> i left your office, and yesterday we talked with the chairman about that issue. if the chairman

prosthetics, audiology, services for the blind. you are not going to find that anywhere, even in the mayo clinic. >> right. >> i do believe though that if we believe that the veteran is central, we can also make the argument that as long as va is at the central node in his care, and that that veteran has a day-to-day experience with the va and walks through where va can help him with care when he needily needs it, that reenforces, i think, the future of the va, and that's what i believe. and i also think that that's -- >> i apologize to interrupt. i have little time left. let me ask a couple of questions, i'll probably preempt senator murray that led the support on care givers. would you support the full funding of care givers, the care givers program so that every generation of veterans will have that service? >> senator, as i said, i come from -- i'm a dependent of the vietnam era. yes, sir. >> okay. one of the concerns that many veterans organizations have is that dental care, which to me is an integral part of health care, is n