Today obviously circumstances have changed.

You get a really good return on your investment in community health centers.

How important is it for underserved areas and Medicaid populations, in particular, to keep these Medicaid rates for primary care pegged at the Medicare number going forward?

Clearly, that tells us that if you pay physicians in the Medicaid program and you pay practitioners in the Medicaid program close to what it actually costs them to do the work, they're going to start taking Medicaid clients, many of which…

I think we do hear regularly, obviously, reimbursement rates can help us drive change and really drive innovation in the healthcare delivery.

We have one of these community health center residency programs in Connecticut, run actually by a former Congressman from Connecticut, Jim Maloney, in Danbury.

To the extent that reimbursement is an issue, as you know, the ACA made a pretty significant investment in raising Medicaid rates for primary care physicians.

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That is not, just as Senator Warren said, to create an advertisement for divesting in traditional residency programs.

We owe it to ourselves and to everybody to exhaust the possible remedies that the diplomatic process might provide.

One of them clearly is to reestablish control over what he calls the 'near abroad.'

If this is ultimately just a geopolitical battle between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, we lose.