Bill Cassidy

Actually, for non-expansion states, there would be billions more.

But as I gather, and Senator Hassan from New Hampshire as Governor instituted this, but as far as I know, it is the only state that has done so.

Now granted, we need teachers, and we need this, we need that but nonetheless, it does seem program failure.

If 20 percent of the population is dyslexic, it is program failure for 20 percent.

I suspect that that would vary from facility to facility as well.

Is there a difference in suicide rates associated with different facilities?

Now, your State, I think has a higher rate of poverty than New Jersey.

Interestingly enough, the one demographic that really jumped out was white males between 30 and 60.

For my general knowledge--I do not know--is suicide more common among certain--clearly, suicide would be more common among people who have addictions.

If we embrace the SAVE program in the VA and work to do it, we will save a lot of lives.

But, VA represents the hope.

Easier to put up solar panels than to rebuild lines across the mountain.

I think there's a present opportunity to utilize it as a test bed to integrate all sorts of renewables.

It seems like if ever there were a place for both distributed energy and distributed storage, that would be Puerto Rico.

I look at the people of Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas with great empathy because that was our state 10 years ago.

It ends the Medicaid expansion and the affordability provisions to help people pay for private health insurance.

It ends Medicaid expansion which has enabled more than 400,000 moderate to low income Coloradans pay for health insurance.

We stand united in opposition to the proposal put forward by Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller, and Ron Johnson.

That is why they have excluded them from the block grant.

The Graham-Cassidy proposal, even though it does include a short-term reinsurance program, would destabilize the individual market.

Reductions in provider payment rates could limit access to specialists and make it more difficult to support integrated delivery systems.

I don't defend this process, but I will say that no Democrat was interested in addressing the problems with Obamacare in my State.

My colleagues, it is a privilege to speak to the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson amendment to H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act.

That's why I, with my friend from across the aisle, Senator Collins, have introduced the Lower Premiums Through Reinsurance Act to help States establish their own reinsurance programs.

Before being Senator Cassidy, I was Dr. Cassidy, caring for uninsured and Medicaid patients in Louisiana's public hospital system.