Walter B. Jones: “Let me ask the gentleman, before he became a Member, since he was a dentist, is it not true that the dentists, and you…”

“Let me ask the gentleman, before he became a Member, since he was a dentist, is it not true that the dentists, and you explained this 30 cents out of a dollar, I believe you said, they work on a very tight margin, so many times these dentists, even though they might have been in business for 10 or 12 years, they still owe for equipment, they still owe moneys on the facility itself. So the concern that I had when I first heard about this was the fact that Concordia, if you will let me use this word, seemed to come in there in a very roughshod way to say, 'You either buy into our plan, or we are going to hurt your business by putting our own people in.' If you do not mind touching on that, I think you might have just a moment ago, but do you not see a problem with a company that has been OK'd, so to speak, or approved by the Department of Defense going into a community that has welcomed and loved the Marine base, it has been there for years and years, and then they come in and say, 'If you do not accept our fee structure, which is quite a reduction from what you had previously, if you do not follow our orders, then we are going to go in direct competition with you.' Is that any way to build rapport in a town where you have a military facility as important as Camp LeJeune?”