Joseph P. Kennedy III: “Thank you for calling such an important hearing.”

Beyond the horrific loss of life caused by this pandemic and the administration's failed response, the economic consequence of job losses, business closures, imminent evictions, will last for generations.

Twelve years later, time flies. There you go.

We are still reeling from the opioid crisis, which we never quite got our arms around. And I am just thinking that we are adding fuel to the fire here and that we should be very mindful of the fact that this is going to get, as we are…

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?