On the recordMarch 17, 2021
the first thing I would like to do is correct what my colleague from Pennsylvania said with regard to preexisting conditions. I was here last year. I brought to the floor a bill that would say it didn't matter what the Supreme Court did; we would make sure that we could keep preexisting conditions if the Supreme Court declared that the Affordable Care Act was not constitutional. The Democrats blocked it. I have been up here 2 years, and I have never seen once my Republican colleagues want to reduce spending for Medicaid. What I do think is unfair is, in my State of Florida, what money we receive from the Federal Government is significantly less per person than what a State like New York has. So I would like changes to the Medicaid Program. I would like it to be a fair program in which States like Florida will get treated just as well as States like New York.
