Joseph P. Kennedy III: “Every heartbeat hurts.”

The Affordable Care Act is before the Supreme Court, and the Trump administration is urging the justices to throw out every aspect of the law.

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.

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

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?