Bill Nelson: “I would say just quickly, and further, that this Senator gathered up a group of constituents who had written to our…”

“I would say just quickly, and further, that this Senator gathered up a group of constituents who had written to our office. In this particular case it was the Tampa office, and three of them have been helped enormously by being on the Federal exchange, since the State of Florida has not adopted an exchange. One person who is on Medicaid said that they would not be alive had they not had the sanctity and the integrity of the existing Medicaid system, which covers some 70 million people in the country. Would the Senator tell me, is it accurate that the Senate Republican bill would eviscerate Medicaid by taking some $800 million out of Medicaid over a decade?”