S.658 will allow veterans to support one another and receive the counseling they need.

One reason for this increased rate of morbidity and mortality is that in rural States, prolonged delays occur between the crash, the call for the EMT, and the EMT arriving.

The DAV appreciates Senator Tester's leadership in improving health care for veterans residing in rural areas.

Twenty percent of the rural counties lack mental health services versus 5 percent of metropolitan counties.

The obstacles faced by veterans and providers in rural areas are vastly different than those in urban areas.

The suicide rate among rural men is significantly higher than in urban areas, particularly among adult male veterans.

As our Nation prepares for a historic debate over the direction of health care policy, hearings on waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid are vitally important.

If, in fact, you defraud the Federal Government, consequently, there ought to be a harsh penalty for that.

According to some estimates, the annual amount of fraudulent payments made by Medicare approaches $60 billion.

Making Medicare an even less attractive model for nationalized health care is that the program is rife with fraud, waste, and abuse.

What I am afraid is we are going to be 3 years behind on the recovery audits and we are going to be taking money from people that may or may not deserve it.

To me, that would tell me where to work, because if there is a correlation, you don't need to be spending your time in Minnesota or Iowa, where we know we have lower costs and better outcomes.

we look forward to significantly increasing our energy efficiency investments in the state.

it's going to be very important to have a position that Congress and the United States have taken to go to Copenhagen.

It's not just to put a price on fossil fuels, but it's really to try and put a price on carbon.

Unfortunately this seems to be severe regulatory barriers in the form of tariffs and difficulty in interconnecting CHP projects in many States.

we have to deal with climate change, that we are experiencing now in New Hampshire.

Do you agree that in order to meet an aggressive national EERS that these barriers to combine heat and power have to be removed?