"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?"
"That can get very, very difficult if not impossible."
"We just don't have enough doctors in rural America."
"The Medicare reimbursement rates are often much lower in a State like Arkansas."
"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."
"that's very un-Federal and un-Government like, and that's good."
"It is much more efficient, actually, if we could sit down as Federal, State, and local and jointly work on guidance."
"Should you let the various States make that decision on how it is distributed, or should there be one national policy that the States just follow?"
"I think that we have to really put our decision making on the fast track about what to do because by the time we make decisions over the next couple of months, the virus may have jumped out ahead of u..."