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So I belong to an organization called NFIB, National, I think, Federation of Independent Businesses.

Which

all veterinary practices should consider.

Absolutely.

Everybody.

If you're an independent

business,

anybody can join.

And they're extremely representative of independent businesses and they communicate well and they're constantly asking, what is your top concern? Like they had one woman there that we talked to the first day.

All she does is research and statistics and polls.

So they're constantly pulling the membership.

They're constantly looking at the bigger world out there and going, what is a big deal for independents? businesses right and that that changes and so the number one thing that came back from the survey was health care for all the independent businesses of all their membership right which is a lot there's they have a lot of members um I don't want to misquote, but let's just say it's a

significant number of memberships and

they're all independent businesses and they're all different sizes.

And I met a lot of people of all different sizes.

And, you know, from all over the United States, they flew people in and it's called a fly-in.

I didn't even know some of the terminology.

So different organizations like the NFIB fly in groups of people to Washington, D.C. to talk to representatives and senators and also other like I met other committee people like I had no idea the committees like we were talking to the Ways and Means Committee have a whole team that just supports the committee.

They write policy.

They sift through because I mean, come on, there's so much data out there these days.

It's insane, right? We were talking to a policymaker from the Human Health Services Department, which makes sense.

We're talking about health care.

And his whole job is to write policy that then goes in front of the Congress people.

So kind of what I kind of learned is the teams that support these Congress people that you elect are like almost more important than the Congress people in this sort of way.

You know, the Congress person that can't do everything.