Political Quotes

“Ms. Kaptur, thank you for your comments. For years you have been the strong voice of working men and women in the State of Ohio. Thank you for bringing us the message from mid-America. Also, in your wrap-up, you began to talk about the issue of prevention. One of things that the Affordable Care Act does so very well--ObamaCare, if you will--is prevention, particularly for seniors. There is a free annual healthcare checkup for seniors as a result of the Affordable Care Act. When seniors get that healthcare checkup, they also are able to understand that they have high blood pressure, incipient diabetes or other illnesses that ultimately, as Ms. Kaptur so correctly pointed out, become extraordinarily expensive if they are not treated. One other fact is that the Medicaid program in America, more than 50 percent of the total expenses in the Medicaid program are for men and women who are in the nursing homes. We are not just talking about families and children. We are talking about the elderly that are being cared for in nursing homes. Now, the result of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the reduction of the Medicaid expenditure is that those men and women who are in the nursing homes will no longer have the support to keep them in a nursing home. So what comes of those men and women? What happens to them if they are no longer able to have care in a nursing home?…”