Obamacare provided some relief--an extra $7.3 billion in temporary Medicaid funding and a permanent change to the match to 45 local/55 Federal.
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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.
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 2019 hurricane season has now commenced. More than 400 families in the Virgin Islands badly need this assistance.
But you can change that because you do have the discretion under the Insular Areas Act to take away that cost share.
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.
If you want to be calculating about it, how is it helpful to us in the long run? If you don't want to do it out of Christian goodness, out of the depths of humanity, then think about the long-term ramifications. Think about what it does to…
I have to tell the gentleman that his remarks were very enlightening and thoughtful. The logic of this administration and what they are thinking just does not make sense. In the end, it is going to cost us more. As you said, how is denying…
I thank my good friend and colleague from Philadelphia who always stands up for the rights of the working class of those in cities and elsewhere who are struggling, the working poor. Mr. Speaker, I thank him so much for the work he is…
Leaving that structured community of the military and heading back to life, express feelings of lonely--homelessness and abandonment.
I wanted to just have you all talk for a few moments about how the VA and the Department of Defense share responsibility and work together for those servicemembers that are separating.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, all of the witnesses, for being here.
Because in reading some of the literature on this and the studies, it says that, leaving that structured community of the military and heading back to life, express feelings of lonely--homelessness and abandonment.
We want to be a part of those plans. We want to be a part of those discussions.
If I have problems in the Virgin Islands, and having to report to Puerto Rico about those problems, that becomes problematic.