Tom Price: “That's exactly right. That's what we saw with the previous program. It happens every time when you have a government…”

“That's exactly right. That's what we saw with the previous program. It happens every time when you have a government program that potentially can supplant the private program. In 1998, 28 percent of the children in our Nation were covered by some sort of government-run health insurance. In 2005, 45 percent. This is a combination of SCHIP and Medicaid. Now, the problem is that when you look at the number of children that are covered by private health insurance in our Nation, up to 200 percent, 50 percent of them are already covered by private health insurance. If you go up to 300 percent, which is what the Senate proposes, 70 percent of the children in America whose families have incomes less than 300 percent have some form of private health insurance.”