Look, I've got a rural district in Louisiana, have a couple of large areas and a lot of rural areas. So the rural hospitals are an essential lifeline to people all across this country. We're going to protect those rural hospitals. There were some proposals on the table to change the funding formulas basically under Medicaid, not to get too deep in the weeds, but I don't think that's going to be part of the final bill. (08:39–08:42)
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