In a State like Kentucky, which suffers from poor health on virtually every front, a Medicaid block grant would be a dis...
The path forward is not a 'replacement' plan that covers fewer people and provides less robust benefits.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not perfect but in Colorado there have been over 600,000 people covered including more ...
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's good to be back for another session of Congress.
Program integrity problems are, however, not new.
I take a backseat to no one on program integrity issues in the Medicaid program.
There is simply nothing in the recent reviews of program integrity that justify the policy proposals that are now on the...
But as important as combatting fraud and abuse in Medicaid is, policymakers should keep it in perspective.
I worry a little bit, and whether we are trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act or we are trying to fix the Affordable...
I just do not want us to get to a place where people in America have to settle for something that no one else in the ind...
In 2011, due to the dysfunction in Congress, we almost failed to raise the debt ceiling here.
So just to be clear on that, though, Senator Thune said, well, in our history the average growth rate we have seen is ab...
Do you support a budget that increases the debt by $10 trillion?
Will you commit as a member of the Tea Party that no replacement for this dreadful Obamacare that allegedly created this...
Will you commit today that any replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act will not in any way contribute to our defici...
I would hope that you could take a pledge today that would say that nothing that you would advocate for or would pass or...
we need to make sure that international norms are set on standards that we believe are best for the world and economic o...
The idea that that should be a precedent for the Democrats, eight of whom are here tonight, to ask questions, even follo...