I appreciate the Member’s comments and we do over time look at base budgets. We don’t just keep them pegged at last century’s costs or that type of thing. When we look, the Health budget has grown since 1999. It’s doubled. With the THSSI money from the feds, part of which was dedicated to medical travel, there is going to be a bump-up in this coming fiscal year.

In keeping with the Member’s comments, recognizing that the cost drivers are going to be there, some of the biggest being on an upward climb. For example, just the cost of fuel. Then the demand.

I appreciate the Member’s comments and our intent is to be as realistic as possible. We would like to minimize our coming back for supps. We would like to be able to budget exactly. But it has proven to be with the beast, as the Member said, an ongoing challenge. We are going to be, in fact, looking to those suggestions and, in fact, have made some enhancements for the coming year.