I do not understand the obsession with winding down and ultimately getting rid of Medicaid expansion.
Hiram Bennet
The Public Record
The United States is unusual among advanced economies in that we have millions of children living in poverty in our country.
Let me ask you what your thoughts would be about a universal Child Tax Credit of some sort that might provide a monthly benefit to families in our country.
you may not approve plans that don't include what we call the patient protections or patient protection guardrails.
I would like to ask the committee to do would be to fund Federal reinsurance for at least the next 2 years.
we're dealing with 6 percent of the people that are insured when we're focused on that.
I think one of the biggest benefits of reinsurance programs over high-risk pools is that they are less expensive.
I think that the expanded Child Tax Credit is maybe a slightly more moderate version of the same idea.
I applaud your proposal to expand that refundability and reduce that threshold.
Is it your understanding that the 1332 Waiver, as is it written now, would allow a State, if it wanted to, to apply to have a public option in their State?





