Congressman, why has it been so much difficulty in getting a full service Veterans Hospital in Manchester? Well we have a hospital in White River Junction also in Jamaica Plain and in Togas. I support a full service hospital. We have to figure out a way to do this legislatively without using it using a near mark to get there and I'm working with the rest of the delegation to see if we can achieve that goal. In the interim I've supported efforts to make sure that the contract at the VA Center in Manchester has with the Concert Hospital is renewed. Veterans seem to be pretty happy with this at least on an interim basis but over the long term I think the solution here is to open up the VA system so that Veterans can get some sort of an identification card and get services at any hospital. In that way we would make every hospital in America a full service Veterans Hospital. So would that be you do use the term the juror of this election cycle? Would that be a voucher system? Of course not. It wouldn't change in any way the benefits that Veterans receive today. All it would do is expand the possibilities or the options for them so that if you live in Colbrook you wouldn't have to drive to White River Junction or to Littleton. You could go to the Colbrook Hospital and get a service there and they get reimbursed. We have many small hospitals in this state that are under utilized and why should Veterans have to drive to Veterans hospitals? We certainly like the Veterans hospitals and want to continue to have them but we also wanted to be able to provide services in rural areas for Veterans that need help and allow them to go to local hospitals not in more than just life threatening instances.