Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Another is the Medicare rule that forbids patients to receive Medicare coverage in a skilled nursing home without having had the two-night rule, the consecutive 3-day inpatient hospital stay first."

"These rules, in your view, are obstacles?"

"When we are dealing with this patient group--people who are usually elderly, often very, very ill, and at least in contemplation of their mortality--and we are trying to develop care plans for them th..."

"Thank you so much, Chairman Collins."