"Okay, so now turn to Medicaid. This is now regular Medicaid not the expanding Medicaid, you project expenditures growing from $389 billion in 2017 to $650 billion in 2027 which is a significant increa..."
"the projections if, not your projections, but other projections, show that if we actually were to rescind the Affordable Care Act, the Medicaid expansion or just the Medicaid expansion we would lose a..."
"In listening to both sides and to Director Hall during this hearing we heard very few ideas for stimulating growth in the economy or specifics about what we would cut or how we would fix some of the m..."
"The American people have made it clear they do not support repealing the Affordable Care Act."
"We will hear a lot of ideas today from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle."
"I would wager that at the end of the day, these ideas will also fail to garner the majority of their conference."
"I will keep an open mind. I will ask questions and I look forward to hearing more from our witnesses."
"we spent a lot of time hearing about the problems with the ACA and very little hearing about the alternatives"
"Republicans have been unwilling to address problems. Instead, they have just said, 'Let's repeal it,' and they have done that 65 times in the House."
"We are going to repeal it; that is first priority and really there are no ideas for replacing it."
"There are only, in my opinion, two alternatives to the Affordable Care Act. One is to go back to where we were, where insurance companies decided who lived and died, and single-payer, Medicare for eve..."
"In my State, which has probably done the best job of expanding Medicaid of any State in the country, we have reduced the uninsured population by 60 percent."