Joseph P. Kennedy III: “It is important that we get this right.”

This is, in all likelihood, my last committee hearing as well. It has been an extraordinary honor and pleasure and privilege for me to join all of you on the best committee in Congress.

And, Doctor, you touched on this already a little bit, but just to flesh this out for us a bit more, how does Medicaid expansion specifically help States to respond to the current unprecedented health and economic crisis?

This is an issue that is important to me, important to my constituents across Massachusetts...

In other parlance, it is countercyclical, right? When you have an economic downturn, Medicaid enrollment increases, right?