It's not possible to protect against all of them, but certainly where we can strengthen the overall kind of systems that we talked about in the bill signing is something that we are working to do, but recognizing that Among the first things to go, particularly as there are pressures on hospital budgets, it's often labor and delivery. And we've seen it in states across the country and certainly we've seen it in Virginia. And it's. It has long term economic impacts as well. (08:11–08:24)
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