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1    that requirement. If you add onto that requirement taking
2    care of the active duty, Reserve Guard and their dependents
3    who are still going to be seeking care from us, that number
4    is now above 15,000.
5              If you then say that you are going to continue your
6    training programs, which are the basis for both the
7    retention, recruitment and retention of particularly
8    specialty physicians, you get very close to the 15,000 or
9    16,000 beds.
10             Now, the way that you have a lower requirement is
11    relatively simple, and I think it goes to Commissioner
12    Cornella's point is that if we all of a sudden decided that
13    we're not going to take care of any retirees or no Medicare
14    retirees or if we go to war we're not goi g to take care o
15    the dependents of the soldiers who are d.,:lo"ed, then you
16    need less beds.
17             The Department's feeling about that, as reflected
18    in the last couple times that we've been put in that
19    position, Southwest Asia being the biggest, is that, in fact,
20    the expectation is, A, we take care of casualties; B, we take
21    care of families; and C, we continue to take care of as many
22    of the retirees as we can relative to our hospital structure.
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