let me ask bob hale. >> like i said, you have some extensions, so i am not picking on you. but i think it is important. some of us have these arsenals and other facilities that are very important. mr. hale, let me ask you, on healthcare -- i want to follow- up about that. senator graham talked about a premium increase. questionan important about our health care for men and women in uniform. how should we go about reforming our health care system for the military? are we looking at some sort of blue-ribbon panel? are we looking at congress doing it? are we looking at a situation where someone comes up with a package of recommendations that we say yes or no to? >> i think we are looking at a number of options. some of them go to making the health care system more efficient. for example, in this budget, we have undertaken as preparation an overview of our military treatment facilities, some of which are very low levels of utilization for a variety of reasons. a number of efforts we have made to try to make the health care system more efficient, to deliver the benefits at less c

let me ask bob hale. like i said, you have some extensions, so i am not picking on you. but i think it is important. some of us have these arsenals and other facilities that are very important. mr. hale, let me ask you, on healthcare -- i want to follow- up about that. senator graham talked about a premium increase. an important question about our health care for men and women in uniform. reforming we go about our health care system for the military? at some sort of blue-ribbon panel? are we looking at congress doing it? a situationng at where someone comes up with a package of recommendations that we say yes or no to? think we are looking at a number of options. some of them go to making the health care system more efficient. , weexample, in this budget have undertaken as preparation an overview of our military treatment facilities, some of which are very low levels of utilization for a variety of reasons. a number of efforts we have made to try to make the health care system more efficient, to deliver the benefits at less cost. we believe some modest increases are appro

bob in the community. we also have bonnie of access northern california over here to the house left. we have christina here at the house right. jessie lorentz from the living resource center and via hale representing seniors and my cochair ed ruskin. and of course role and wong who is part of our accessible advisory committee. can i have the slides on the screen please. so in our presentation today we are going to be talking about the problem, the process and the recommendations. and our first slide up on the screen is a good visual image of part of our problem. what we see is a man in his car. a person with a disability. you can see he has a hand control that he uses to operate his vehicle and he has a parking placard. the problem is not that he has a placard, the problem is that he could find the parking he needs close to his destination. i have an example of that problem and i would like to actually turn to my fellow presenter jessie lorentz and ask her to share that. >> jessie lorentz from the executive director of the independent living resource center in san francisco. we've been a part of san francisco's community since 1977 and one of the things that we've noticed as an organi