Thank you all. We have got a little bit of a lift yet. We would hope our Senate colleagues will follow our lead.

The dynamic here is a model for all of our colleagues.

It is a pleasure to work on this Committee.

How do you care for pre-existing conditions when there's no care at all?

We're going to pass it. We're going to pass it. Let's be optimistic about life. I think today that you all read the story of the health care pulling out of Iowa. We have 94 counties out of 99 that don't have health care. That's why we…

We are going to pass it. We are going to pass it. Let's be optimistic about life.

Re: H.R. 1989, the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses Act

So from the standpoint of what we saw in Ohio as many of the people on the program were working so we believed--and we had a Healthy Ohio waiver which we turned into CMS that was disapproved--that having people participate not only in…

the Affordable Care Act of course expanded Medicaid and the expansion populations were eligible for a federal match of 95 percent this year

The purpose of it is to have a person actually make a choice of where they are going to go.

I agree with what Dr. Roy said. It is really important to say that it was the pre-ACA versus post-ACA.

If you are asking if all federal dollars, no. That would be very difficult for a state to do.