Bill Cassidy

Medicare was cut $716 billion to fund Obamacare, and frankly, when you cut that much, it has got to give.

The President's healthcare law cuts Medicare Advantage by over $200 billion.

When I see that the people who would come to me are having this many cuts in the programs that cover them, intuitively, common sense tells you that they will have increased problems finding a doctor.

MA plans offer higher quality care and additional benefits, more so than offered in traditional Medicare, and yet despite MA's popularity, MA has challenges.

Common sense would suggest that.

In order to protect the self-insurance market, I introduced H.R. 3462, the Self-Insurance Protection Act (SIPA).

Over 100 million Americans are currently covered under self-insured health plans.

Mr. Abedini is an American, an American who, while he lived in Iran, converted from Islam to Christianity.

The bill will protect consumers from higher energy prices by providing additional oversight of EPA's most expensive rules that regulate the production, supply, distribution, or use of energy. Most importantly, it protects blue collar jobs…

You mentioned that there is going to be 100 percent attestation for income.

I am not sure if we are much healthier that way.

Much less mercury and much less lead.

Of course, intuitively you know since EPA has been operating our environment has become cleaner.

The best study from NBER has shown that Medicaid expansion did not improve health outcomes.

Medicaid prevents people from having financial duress, but you did not make the claim that it improves health.

I am a doctor who takes care of Medicaid patients in a public hospital clinic, so I am very familiar that Medicaid can actually have a beneficial effect.

Medicaid, as I like to say, is the illusion of coverage without the power of access.

No one likes change, even from worse to better.

So, when I spoke to someone from Wyoming today, she goes, Oh, you're only getting 37.5? Wyoming gets 48 percent. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Hultgren). The time of the gentleman from California has expired.

Assuming that the gentleman continues to yield to me, I would say, in that case, we need to go back to every State which has a better royalty sharing arrangement with the Federal Government than we and ask to reconsider that. We're not…

If I may say, I admire your verbal sleight-of-hand because never in the past has royalty sharing been considered earmarks. But if now we're going to start considering royalty sharing earmarks, heck, let's go back and look at every State…

Well, if you decide to cut off your economic nose to spite your face, I can't help that.

If we want to speak about lucrative revenue, all I ask is to have the same deal that every other State has. No, I don't even ask for the same deal that every other State has, because every other State, if they're interior, gets 50 percent…

Because we channeled the Mississippi in order to create navigational services for the rest of the inland nation. And so as you channel that Mississippi, the wetlands lost the nourishing sediment that comes to them.

This is what is broken. This is our coastline, which is melting away. This is what increases our risk. We've lost a land mass equal to Rhode Island in Louisiana. Now, the money that is received, our share will go to this, but it is not…