when you're ginobi ee're given in the front, you get the short end in the back. we cannot condone veterans to be placed in agent facilities that cannot immediate their most basic of needs. the american lee june fears that these will not bear fruit in the real world of 2013. setting aside concerns that the oig found in the project while the cost cutting for va, the proposed increases in the building amounts, va's new budget opposes to provide insurance at the current provider rate, rather than the new medicare rate. this changed billing repts 90% of proposed increase in this area of the budget. frankly this has never been authorized before and even if it were authorized--when this fails to meet the necessary revenue, we will have to find it elsewhere in the budget and that means more broken promises to our veterans. as a whole we -- surely this committee's aware of the pessimism of the american people regarding the ability of congress to come to terms and pass a complete budget. while we acknowledge that many work tirelessly to break these budget dead locks and su