Now, you might try to tell us that those people found jobs and employer-sponsored coverage, but a recent study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that Arkansas' work requirement increased uninsured rates without increasing…

Can you show me one study that says that that is a good policy?

Your work requirements caused him to lose a job and his healthcare.

In Arkansas, more than 18,000 Medicaid recipients lost coverage after CMS approved a work requirement in that State.

MACPAC, a nonpartisan agency that makes recommendations on issues affecting Medicaid, said that low-level reporting in Arkansas was 'a strong warning that the current process may not be structured in a way that provides individuals with an…

Are you aware that for that same cost 2,000 kids could have--excuse me, 200 kids--in CHIP, eligible for CHIP in Kentucky, could have kept their healthcare?

Eighteen thousand people lost their healthcare. How many more people have to lose their healthcare before you can make a determination?

What is a better use of those healthcare dollars, of U.S. taxpayer dollars: to employ an additional communications person underneath CMS that already has dozens, if not hundreds, or 200 more kids that could get access to healthcare?

there was clearly a massive regulatory failure that allowed for this to happen was there not?

At a certain point, I do think we have to say enough is enough and we will force this issue.

It's about--it's $5.7 billion.