That can get very, very difficult if not impossible.

One of the concerns there would be by creating a new office are you creating another layer of bureaucracy or another little section of the maze there, or are you really cutting through some of that and streamlining your operations?

The Medicare reimbursement rates are often much lower in a State like Arkansas.

We just don't have enough doctors in rural America.

So it will be at capacity in the next few months?

There is no more expansion space here on Capitol Hill.

Great. That is music to my ears. I would love to be part of those discussions with you and try to figure out how we can proceed from here.

What is the single most important step that we can take to increase our preparedness in the next 3 months?

I want to thank all four panelists. I hope I didn't grill you too much.

But given the last few months where the flu was first discovered in North America and it was almost wall-to-wall coverage there for several days on the cable news channels, etc., how did the media do and how did the public health officials…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has described pandemic flu as both inevitable and as one of the biggest threats to public health in the Nation.