died, theyer robin instituted a report that has been alluded to already, showing that there are 98,000 people that are killed by medical errors. that is equivalent to a jumbo jet falling out of the sky, killing everybody on board every third day. the chairman has alluded to other estimates, showing that as many as a quarter of a million people are killed by various forms of overtreatment, under treatment, maltreatment. i set out to find out who is doing a better job. i was surprised to find, after healthng literature on care quality and talking to many experts and veterans and such, that the da health care system, by many metrics out performs the rest of the u.s. health-care system as a whole. i seem to have come to a broad consensus, is he a health care -- v.a. quality health care is very high quality health care. the problem is access. robind have welcomed being treated in a hospital that had an inspector general. would that not have been wonderful? ifld it have been wonderful two committees of congress exercised oversight of that hospital? would it have been great if there were vari