Big bold letters right, top, bottom, in the middle, Medicare does not cover any type of long-term care.

I think you can see the dilemma we have as being one of the states where the state is forcing substantial costs.

I think you can sense my frustration, as the county executive of a very poor county, being treated like we were from Westchester County.

I know it would take a bill in Congress to say for those states which push it back to the local level, we will look at each county as a separate entity and recalculate that rate.

I felt very good about that.

I guess I live in a world if the answer is not yes, it must be no?

I believe taxpayer money is more important than a smooth transition when it comes to $265 million in losses adding to our debt.

I will take the lack of an affirmative as--if I am a doctor, I am going to start worrying come Christmas on my bounced checks.

You lost another $91 million.

that is an embarrassing runaround, disrespectful to my office for sure.

you have paid this lip service and, frankly, little more than lip service.