And that is woefully inadequate.

Unless Congress acts, we will be faced with potentially catastrophic damage to our Medicaid program and our healthcare system.

But loss of that funding puts healthcare delivery at risk, not just for Medicaid recipients in our islands, but for the population at large.

the Virgin Islands qualifies for it, meets the qualifications, Congress and CMS have said we would not receive that.

I hope Ms. Muna will be able to tell us what the loss of Medicaid funding will mean to the hospital's ability to deliver services.

We made a difficult decision to deny the referral of this child because we didn't have the local match.

The 2019 hurricane season has now commenced. More than 400 families in the Virgin Islands badly need this assistance.

This is a very tenuous situation that we are living in, and there is no media attention to what is happening in the Virgin Islands.

The Territory's severe disaster-related cashflow problems make it extremely difficult to advance the cash to pay those contractors, and this has led to long delays, work delays, and contractor dissatisfaction.

But you can change that because you do have the discretion under the Insular Areas Act to take away that cost share.

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