"implementing the Affordable Care Act eclipsed things."
"The 477 tribes across this country agree with Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Mark Begich in pushing Congress to amend the original law."
"I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?"
"How we approach this mental health system for the VA cannot be in isolation of the mental health system of this country."
"If we do not do this as a national model, you will not be as successful as we need you to be for the veterans of this country."
"Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic."
"if we pass laws like this, the Choice Act, and we put funding in it, we also have to have sustainable funding."
"The Nuka model... is a holistic approach."
"The work that has to be done is significant."
"I would hope that you would do the same thing. It is critical to get those different layers of services available."
"That is actually an old model. That is a model that we are trying to get rid of."