The VA raised its per diem rates in 2023 but, frankly, that increase has not kept pace with rising medical costs.
The cheapest health intervention is the one that doesn't happen.
You're dipping into savings to pay the rent.
This is a field hearing of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.
We want to keep that permanent.
I like the idea. In other words, additional federal funds not generally but targeted toward workforce retention?
If we don't have the people to staff them, it ain't gonna work.
Could you define expansion? Are we talking 20, 30 percent, 40 percent? I mean----
I mean that can't work for very long.
That's a scary thought, isn't it?
If retention is the goal, one of the ironies is that as you have gaps and you have longer hours and--that is a vicious d...
Everything we talked about still comes back to workforce, doesn't it? Home-based care, respite care. It's all having the...
I want to publicly thank the chair and co-chair of the committee, Jon Tester of Montana and Jerry Moran of Kansas.
It would help if we had a budget, not a continuing resolution.
I don't think there's one in Washington County either.
Someone asked Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect, for advice on how to live a long life. His answer was 'always us...
So that's compounded by additional regulations that increase cost but don't provide any additional funds; is that correc...
We need a sustainable system of care. And if we want that sustainable system of care, we have to fund it. Our veterans d...
