The truth is, the work just begins when the bill passes.

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.'

Well, I think that's--that's something that you're going to have to be thinking about because it ties back to the workforce problem.

It would help if we had a budget, not a continuing resolution.

the best news I've heard so far is the expansion of the home-based care.

My concern about that--and we'll talk to others about it--this is a rule that the--CMS is the federal agency, it's the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services.

And my problem with the regulation is it's the best being the enemy of the good because if the result is closed nursing homes and fewer beds, we haven't gained anything.

As the population ages.

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

If you can't--if you can't get enough people, you're not going to be able to meet the staffing ratios which could mean a loss of capacity rather than a gain for the veterans.

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

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.

If we don't have the people to staff them, it ain't gonna work.

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

I believe that we have leaders there that want to help us, they care.

Could you define expansion? Are we talking 20, 30 percent, 40 percent? I mean----

That's a big part of----

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