And the problem with that is it's going to be uncompensated care for hospitals. And we have five rural hospitals in Maine. We just recently lost one. We have about 32 [hospitals] in total. We have five that are teetering on the brink of closure. because they're already in trouble because the Medicaid reimbursements are not high enough and also because of population changes. And Maine is the oldest state in the nation, which doesn't help. (23:59–24:08)
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