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.

You're dipping into savings to pay the rent.

I've got lots of notes.

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

I think that's something we have to figure out how to waive or something.

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.

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

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

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

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

Certainly that's important. You have what amounts to a nursing home at Togus.

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

For the record, I totally agree with that statement.

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.

We're not helping veterans if we have--if beds disappear.

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

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

Fifteen percent is the gap?