So our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum.

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So the higher the poverty, the better quality of the program, the more the subsidy that you got, which I thought was a clever way of trying to deal with the quality issue as well as the issue of access.

I think the question maybe is a slightly different one because it is sort of a balance between how prescriptive we want to be from here versus how much flexibility we want to give people to make the right decisions.

We need to incent that kind of integration at all levels.

I think it is echoed in Senator Murray's statement about what Washington State is doing to integrate at the State level.

I hope that we can somehow reach into our taxpayer dollars that go through you to find ways to have them better coordinated.

We're putting a boot on the neck of BP.

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