What should we be attending to in the next round of VA and veterans' legislation?

I like the idea. In other words, additional federal funds not generally but targeted toward workforce retention?

By the way, I got a great piece of advice. Someone asked Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect, for advice on how to live a long life. His answer was 'always use the bannister.'

As the population ages.

I want to publicly thank the chair and co-chair of the committee, Jon Tester of Montana and Jerry Moran of Kansas.

I urge this committee to focus on the impact that Medicare and Medicaid payment policy is having on veterans' access to post-acute care services.

Everything we talked about still comes back to workforce, doesn't it? Home-based care, respite care. It's all having the people.

Everything we talked about still comes back to workforce, doesn't it? Home-based care, respite care. It's all having the people.

It's not exactly a morale booster.

Will that access information include information about VA availabilities?

Every day that you delay a nursing-home placement, the veteran is happier and the taxpayers are happier.

The cheapest health intervention is the one that doesn't happen.

What can we do to expand and support home health services which I think everybody, including veterans, would prefer and really ramp that up.

So on a dollar to a nursing home, the State of Maine puts up roughly 40 percent, the feds 60?

Fifteen percent is the gap?

I've got lots of notes.

That's a scary thought, isn't it?

I'm so grateful for your office, Senator King.