11/19/2013
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"The staffing ratio issue, which Senator Cassidy and Senator King and probably everybody around this table could talk about, from a CMS standpoint is a big issue, and I think I found a solution."
"Chairman Tester led a bipartisan letter to CMS on this very issue, discouraging CMS from taking a one-size-fits-all approach."
"Increasing staffing requirements at a time when we cannot find the people to fill open positions is a dangerous policy."
"So for a number of reasons, in Montana, not having anything to do with CMS, we have, I think, lost 11 rest homes."