Barbara Mikulski actually said...

This might be the last billion you get, unless we really show results. That is not a threat, it is an analysis.

They often get a stigma, 'oh that is the charity hospital, that is where the poor go.'

One of the big things we want to improve is health outcomes for patients. That is our large, bipartisan, public policy goal.

Essentially the intervention is relatively low tech, as Senator Mikulski noted.