thank you very much. i m very disappointed that sallie mae did not come today, and i think it s important that we take a closer look at how all of our servicers are performing. but we need accurate data to be able to do that, so thank you. want to ask a second question, that s about the student loan program. you know, student loan program just from 2007 to 2012 are now on target to make $66 billion in profits for the united states government. just that small cohort. and let s keep in mind these are the best data we have available. these are government data, these are not data anybody else made up. the gao, the cbo to, the fed are all looking in the same direction at what s happening to students that are loading up on student loan debt. and right now best estimate we have is that the interest rate we re going to charge next year to our students is double, nearly double, the rate that undergraduates would have to pay in order to have the program break even. and as much as tri
we have had everything talked about from dollars to construction to milestones to all sorts of stuff. helpful. i m going to ask you, each one of you, because you represent veterans in this country that are being served by the v.a., i think you have an understanding of what the challenges are out there. you tell me what you would do first to fix the v.a. and what you would do second. i am assuming there will be 3, 4, 5 more down the line. is it money? is it the resources they have the need to be allocated different? do we need to put a focus on hiring professionals? you cannot say do all of them. we want to hold folks accountable. if you can give me your priorities of what we need to do, it could be helpful. assessment is the first thing that needs to happen. speakhave heard the v.a. , they have enough money. they do not have the accurate numbers. system,are gaming the how many actual visits are they going to have a year? instead of having 85 million, will of the 150 million?
.nd we have exposures to things but chemicals and on and on. what it means is that when at v.a. hospitals, the average presentations are things wrong with an individual is five to seven per individual. the formula was built on a middle class p.p.o. s and h.m.o. s and they had one to three average presentations of things wrong with them. which means that the burn rate of resources at v.a. is much higher. that s particularly true as old guys from vietnam age and become from re aged and uncles korea and fathers from world war ii. presentations per individual of o.i.f., o.e.f. veterans is over a dozen for each individual that comes through. so the point is, we need to reprogram some money. pass the have management accountability on this side of the hill and reprogram money and frankly go for a supplemental if that turns out that it s needed. in the meantime, we would urge everybody, every hospital, something we have been urging is screened screen everybody at the hospital for t
there are veterans whose problems have been so acute and not address that they have ended up without homes. if other services come through, people do not end up on the street. each one is a failure. it does not mean people set out to fail, but we have failed those folks coming home somehow. the vfw believes the resources the v.a. can provide should never come at a trade-off. the obligations to provide holistic services to the assistance,ployment but also health care has to remain a cornerstone. when veterans transition off of active duty, there are a litany of transitional resources that need to be made available to them. to deliverhe most of those. seeould never want to trade-offs made on how we deliver other benefits. , other t injecting will suffer. senator moran did not talk about audits, i just one of the theesses to know that was assessment of chairman miller, from the house committee. jackson. i am not sure how many facilities he is covering. that was his assessme
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