Mark Begich actually said...

"There was a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed way back in February 2003 between the VA, HHS, and IHS that said they would collaborate together on how to provide better access and how to deve..."

"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?"