We can play the blame game all we want on this, but the bottom line is, right now, there are lots and lots of locally ow...
In Arkansas, we don't have a Base Flood Elevation. It is not determined.
But again, is that more on the HHS side or the FEMA side?
Good. Well, that is encouraging.
I have heard, and I don't know how accurate it is, that it may be difficult for a lot of Federal employees to actually s...
Good. I may have some follow-ups there in a minute----
We need it to respond to emergency disaster events wherever they occur in the country.
So there again, that is collaborative, as well, in terms of how that works.
I was going to follow up on that.
They have indicated a willingness, but we have yet to see something in writing to the point that our hospitals feel comf...
Is that because the two agencies are being inflexible, or is it because you are dealing with two or more Federal agencie...
I mean, obviously, that is the least efficient place you want to have someone.
Let me ask you about something I think was in your written testimony--you maybe said it a few moments ago--but about the...
But also, it is a lesson learned area that you guys are working on to try to make sure it doesn't happen like this in th...
But to me, that seems that planning would take care of a lot of that.
I think that everybody's heart is in the right place, trying to do the right thing.
But it seems to me that they ought to consider that compensation, because most of those patients wouldn't have that exce...
It seems if the Federal Government has a lot of expertise, has a lot of people that have expertise that might be part of...