"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."
"low Medicaid reimbursement rates often leave nursing homes with no choice but to close their doors."
"I think the point Senator King made, that closing down a rest home is not a higher outcome necessarily."
"Increasing staffing requirements at a time when we cannot find the people to fill open positions is a dangerous policy."
"It is obvious that we have more work to do to be able to meet that obligation, and I look forward to partnering with anybody who will partner with me and folks on this Committee to make sure that we m..."
"Thank you and Senator Murkowski for introducing the CHARGE Act, which would reinstate the waiver for bed-hold occupancy requirements."
"Chairman Tester led a bipartisan letter to CMS on this very issue, discouraging CMS from taking a one-size-fits-all approach."
"What happens with the others? Which is not what this Committee is supposed to be about, but the truth is we all have--there ought to be some notifications made by the rest home that talks about what t..."
"They may not have been born here, but they love this country as much as any of us who pledge allegiance to that flag."
"Ultimately, this person didn't do it without somebody above him knowing what was going on."
"A full-year continuing resolution (CR) would be a fiscally unsound way of funding the Department, the Navy, the Navy Reserve and government as a whole."