I was actually out on Alaska Dutch Harbor, this is out in the Aleutian chain.
We also want to work on your ideas on Federal lands because to me that's where we clearly have a jurisdictional role.
We need to start holding contests for communities and tell them, 'There's a reward in it for you if you figure out a way...
I want to thank all of you on the work that you and your staffs did on the Alaska Plan.
the delivery of care in rural communities--extreme rural communities.
there seems to be a very different standard, depending on the community.
I want to thank Senator Manchin for his passion on this issue with regard to opiates.
I want to thank the panel and all the great work that you have done and everybody who contributed to the report.
I commend you again on your map.
Remember, most rural places in America you can get in a car and you can drive to.
It is very humbling because you will go to a small rural village in Alaska and you ask for a town hall with veterans, an...
In my State----we do not have roads, unfortunately.
Some said, well, they had the opportunity to just go to a local Native Alaskan health clinic, if you were a Native Alask...
I want to commend you for it.
What are we doing to make sure to try to recruit younger Americans to, you know, be on the right side of the issue?
this has been going on, and it is a very discouraging thing.
the sooner we can get the government out of it and let you run it, I think it would be a lot better off.
the efficient spending of the taxpayer dollar is a pretty important thing.
