Mark Begich actually said...

"It is very important, obviously, to many of our States here, but very much so to Alaska, which is very, very rural in a lot of ways and access issues are a huge problem."

"if there is a kind of freeze-frame and it gets altered in the sense of a new idea of how to improve rural health care, does the consortium have the capacity in the areas from the small villages on up ..."

"Again, this is very parochial, but can you give me any update on the Juneau facility?"

"We see these as very important issues and are trying to deal with them."