Community health centers serve 15 percent of Medicaid recipients at 1 percent of the cost. We save the system $24 billion.

We have doubled funding for federally qualified health centers, and we're going to hear about what they are doing all over America.

Thank you very much, Dr. Dobson.

The United States of America ends up spending almost twice as much per person on healthcare and yet our end results, our healthcare outcomes are not particularly good compared to many other countries around the world.

Let me just conclude, first of all, thanking all of you, personally, for the work you are doing.

Yes, absolutely. Starting with some very profound research that was done by the late Barbara Starfield...

Maybe people can comment on this--my understanding is that if the U.S. military wants a doctor, what they will say to you is, 'Young man, young woman, congratulations. We're going to send you to medical school, and in payment, you're going…

The more primary care docs, the better the ratio.

I think you have heard from Senator Burr and myself and, I think, from a whole lot of folks that we have a crisis in primary healthcare.

You're going to be able to go to medical school regardless of your income, but we need a commitment from you of X number of years to serve in underserved areas.

We spend almost twice as much as do the people of any other country, and yet we heard from Mr. Brock that all over America, you have people who are desperate.

But we are not just talking--so everybody understands, this is about physicians.

Is it cost-effective for America to invest in primary care?

So what you are saying is that you think if we increased funding, you would be able to attract more young people to get into primary healthcare or dental care. Am I hearing that?

Reauthorization of the THCGME program is funded at $800 million in S. 2229, though use of the funds is not expanded to include NPs or PAs; unfortunately, the bill as drafted supports only training of physician residents.

I would therefore ask you to support the reauthorization and funding of section 5316 in the amount of $75 million through fiscal year 2019.

I will tell my colleague from Louisiana that I don't intend to be addressing this issue. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.

While my friend from Louisiana is still here, let me answer yes in response to his question. Senator Landrieu has asked me, very forcefully, to move forward on this provision on more than one occasion, and my response to Senator Landrieu…

First, I would tell you that--two things in terms of Senator Landrieu. She has, in fact, spoken to me on numerous occasions about her concerns about this issue but, more importantly, she has shown a willingness to stand for all veterans in…

Reserving the right to object, I thank my colleague from Louisiana for coming to the floor today to talk about, in fact, an important issue. Before I respond to him directly, I did want to comment he is right, there were 43 Members of the…

it is not my intention to get involved in Louisiana politics, but just let me say that Senator Landrieu has voted for this legislation, she has been a champion of veterans rights, and I look forward to continuing to work with her on…

how much time remains? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont has 53 minutes remaining in his postcloture time.

I believe at this point--please correct me if I am wrong--that I control the floor; is that correct? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct.

Do we have a problem that one family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people, one family?

From a moral perspective, do you have a problem that the top one percent owns 38 percent of the financial wealth of America while the bottom 60 percent owns all of 2.3 percent?