On the recordDecember 7, 2010
The Medicaid expansion of ObamaCare is going to break the budgets of States, which are already suffering, because it is going to drastically increase the people in this country who are going to qualify for Medicaid. Again, the Republican Party is the party of ``know,'' K-N-O-W, because we know how to deal with this in a better manner. In fact, as the gentleman from Georgia, Dr. Gingrey, knows, I've been trying to get on the Energy and Commerce Committee. One thing that I will do--and I know that there are others who are on the committee today who will--is push for dealing with Medicaid in a block grant to the States. Let's just send the Medicaid money, with no strings attached, to the States. Let the States, which is what our Founding Fathers believed to be the best laboratory of public policy, figure out the best way to deal with people who desperately need Medicaid or State Child Health Insurance Programs. Let's send those back to the States, as they should be. Even under the Constitution, those functions should be dealt with by the States, not by the Federal Government.
