Why is it important for Medicaid programs to have a high functioning senior executive team or leadership team? Why should anybody, a member, folks in the public, why should folks care?

Yeah, that's a great question.

You really cannot succeed as an individual Medicaid director or in the activities and projects you are doing and serving your members without a high functioning team.

You guys have touched on the amount of things kind of coming out Medicaid directors from a lot of federal change, state initiatives, our own running the day-to-day business.

It's like you cannot be successful if you're trying to do everything yourself or if you have a team that's not cohesive.

You know, in Medicaid, departments in various states do different things depending on the structure, but there's so much varied activity and kind of knowledge needed, everything from managed care to financing to program and policy that you have to have multiple people with these various expertise who are willing to work together.

And I think another piece that for people on the outside who always want to talk to the boss, they want to talk to the Medicaid director and the person in charge, if you have a strong leadership team, they will feel comfortable building relationships and going to those on the team who they know are responsive and knowledgeable.

Emily, to you.