So this goes back to your opening statement, when you said we need to communicate what our program is all about...

It seems like what we are doing is we are setting people up here and giving them some hope...

This goes back to our discussion about resolving the willing payor issue.

These workers and their survivors are entitled to far better treatment then many of them have endured.

The findings of the Hays Group further reinforce the need to move claims processing from the Department of Energy to the Department of Labor.

I appreciate that. Thank you.

I think certainly Senator Bunning and myself are in total agreement that it is not working, we have got to figure out a way to fix it.

Is the DOE defending its physicians panel determinations when they are challenged by insurance companies, and if not why not?

Well, how can you get the claims processed with no understanding on the other end as to how you are going to make the payment?

I think that speaks a lot. And if you listen well to the concerns and are willing then to implement afterwards, I think we all win.

I do not know whether it is in the Administration's kind of spot light, if you will, to elevate this position as Director to perhaps an Assistant Secretary level, but perhaps you would be the first so named.

We have some statistics that, unfortunately, are off the charts when it comes to rates of alcoholism.