We've really got to work on that because it would be awful to have somebody who's ready, wants a mission, wants to do it but they can't wait for nine months or a year.

For the record, I totally agree with that statement.

Someone asked Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect, for advice on how to live a long life. His answer was 'always use the bannister.'

One of the concerns--and I've heard this when I've met with their agencies, particularly in rural Maine, is an epidemic of loneliness.

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

We want to keep that permanent.

Your costs didn't go down? Your cost didn't go down----

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.

I mean that can't work for very long.

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

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

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

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

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

By the way, that's a problem across the board. We had an Armed Services Committee hearing this week about the inability of many small businesses to interact with the Pentagon.

If retention is the goal, one of the ironies is that as you have gaps and you have longer hours and--that is a vicious downward spiral because people burn out.

I don't think there's one in Washington County either.

It seems to me to start with your testimony, as I mentioned, the problem that you had with the VA wasn't with the programs or the adequacy, it was the time, and I'm delighted my office could help, but it shouldn't take that step to get…