"Fifteen percent is the gap?"
"My concern about that--and we'll talk to others about it--this is a rule that the--CMS is the federal agency..."
"Well, I think that's--that's something that you're going to have to be thinking about because it ties back to the workforce problem."
"Well, it seems to me that's an area that we should be talking about in Washington."
"Every day that you delay a nursing-home placement, the veteran is happier and the taxpayers are happier."
"And the VSOs have an important role to play here it seems to be. They're representatives that can act as that navigator buddy system for an individual veteran."
"You're dipping into savings to pay the rent."
"I want to publicly thank the chair and co-chair of the committee, Jon Tester of Montana and Jerry Moran of Kansas."
"The cheapest health intervention is the one that doesn't happen."
"That's a big part of----"
"For the record, I totally agree with that statement."