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You get the gold star for today. Very impressive.

In my family's native island of Puerto Rico, only 30 percent of people are on employer-based insurance.

We would like to remove the cap altogether, and we would like territories to be treated as states.

It is time to end this injustice.

The territories do not receive any DSH money. And that will help our hospital.

Increasing the FMAP and removing the cap will definitely help all the territories.

More than half a million American citizens living in Puerto Rico, they are not covered by Medicaid full programs as they were in the states just because of the lack of funding

Puerto Rico has 47 percent of poverty level.

If we fix it now, we may save a lot of Federal funds.

So, the Oversight Board required to the island to include all future plans regarding health care. And that means, if we don't receive the money, the state, in this case Puerto Rico, needs to put up front the money from the state to do the…

How does the unequal treatment under the Medicaid program and the fact that we are losing a lot of our people every year--how does the Government of Puerto Rico have the ability to budget for, modernize, and reform our healthcare system if…

That is the reason the FMAP, the formula for the matching funds, needs to be changed.

In the case of Puerto Rico, as an example, you can have Mississippi and many other states receiving more than $7,000 per enrollee and less than $2,000 to our territory.

And I commend Mr. Soto for always being an original co-sponsor of all those bills.

Approximately 600,000 lives. And that will be if we can keep the program viable for Puerto Rico.

We are losing providers, we are losing doctors.

If the Congress is not acting, a lot of people are going to lose their insurance, a lot of people are going to lose their services.

I am willing, as the Representative of Puerto Rico, to work across the aisle to reach a long-term solution for the territories.