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It would be nice to have WiFi in the CBOCs; 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.

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.

This is a field hearing of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

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

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

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

You're dipping into savings to pay the rent.

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

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

And the VSOs have an important role to play here it seems to be. They're representatives that can act as that navigator buddy system for an individual veteran.

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.

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

We need a sustainable system of care. And if we want that sustainable system of care, we have to fund it. Our veterans deserve it.

Fifteen percent is the gap?