the frustration for me is the responses to all of the points that all of you have made this morning have really been nonexistent.

It seems to me that this goes in the wrong direction, that instead of opening things up to provide more innovation and more access, what we're talking about is closing things in a way that reduces access, reduces innovation, and that's not…

If we don't want the exodus of all our young people to urban areas, this is something really important to consider.

39 percent said it's the only option available to them.

Yes, it does, and we also don't really know what all those implications are, as many of you have said.

For, again, so much of the State, because we're rural, it's the one way we have access to different specialties.

It's a double whammy.

Small business owners have repeatedly expressed their concerns about what the impact of these changes would mean on their access to the internet.

Uncertainty, whether it's around the internet or budgets or whatever it is, is a real problem for business in general.

This is about the vitality of our rural communities.

I am, like all of you, very concerned about what the implications may be.

Absolutely, and I want to get back to the tele-medicine piece because it is so important in New Hampshire.