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I started off by pointing out that I was Collins, I am Collins, I'm still around, and I know what my intent is.

I think that may be what we're talking about here, is, if you have a structure that is overly bureaucratic and rigid, the policy will be slow, cumbersome, and itself not responsive to immediate problems.

But, by writing them in and requiring that they be established, isn't that almost a contradiction in terms?

I'm very supportive of this concept, as a general principle.

Allowing Medicare patients to receive home health services before they are finally homebound, but when it is cheaper and better to serve them at home, ought to be another restriction we can work around.

Allow patients to receive Medicare coverage in skilled nursing and without these 3-day inpatient hospital stay rules ought to be something that we can work through.

Allowing Medicare patients to receive hospice care and curative treatment at the same time ought to be a sensible solution.

As Senator Collins pointed out, most everybody would prefer to die at home, and yet, most die in an acute care hospital or a nursing home.

In many cases hospice care enables dying patients to remain in the comfort of their own homes, free from unnecessary pain, and surrounded by family and friends.

The Gosnell Memorial Hospice House provides an alternative when care in the home is no longer possible or sufficient.

I think this is a very important issue, and I know you recognize we are inadvertently making the problem worse by not providing sufficient funds for the management of these lands.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

There is no better way to overcome a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth.

So we have a situation in our country where 22 veterans commit suicide everyday.

This has strong support from key veterans groups, like the VFW and The American Legion.

We see a decline in opioid use. We see a decline in suicide. And I think that is obviously good for the veteran.

And so our bill, the PAWS Act, takes these veterans, particularly the ones that have severe Post-Traumatic Stress, and authorizes a small amount of funding so that the VA can pair them with specially trained service dogs.

I thank the Senator. I thank him for his answers and thank him for his leadership on this issue.