Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mrs. Kiggans for bringing forth such an important solution for our military families. H.R. 8108 would ensure that military families can maintain access to essential care when they are required to move States for Active Duty. According to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission, as many as 867,000 Medicaid enrollees have primary insurance through TRICARE, including as many as 220,000 children. In most instances, servicemembers rely on TRICARE as their insurer to cover most of their needs, but for individuals who also have a disability--take, for example, a military family with a child with a disability--Medicaid will often step in to cover additional care, like home and community-based services. Those services help with daily living activities and are essential to keeping people with disabilities healthy and independent in their communities. Unfortunately, many State Medicaid programs limit access to home and community-based services and often do so by creating waiting lists. It can take years for a patient to get off the wait list and get the level of care that they need. For military families who rely on Medicaid to pay for home and community-based services, moving from one State to another requires the family to join the new State's waiting list and start the whole process over again. H.R.…”