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

Well, it seems to me that's an area that we should be talking about in Washington.

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.'

I've told my staff I want to be the falls senator; without falling.

That's a big part of----

It would be nice to have WiFi in the CBOCs; [Laughter.] just saying.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I want to thank all of you. This has been very informative.

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.