Joseph P. Kennedy III

Do you know, roughly, how much Medicaid pays annually for that treatment? Well, about $7 billion or so.

As long as there are Americans out there without healthcare coverage or who are underinsured... we will not be able to overcome an opioid epidemic.

A concern, and again for the record that waste was there long before, for a long time.

There is, I think, unambiguous evidence from epidemiology and environmental literature that ultra-fine particles, also known as UFPs, are a very component of air pollution.

I don't expect you to be intimately familiar with this project and we just sent you the letter a little while ago, but there is concern back home in Massachusetts about what could come with the burying of these materials that are already…

I want to thank you for convening this hearing.

I look forward to working with your office and the implementation of that because I have a bit more concern about how that is being defined

there is a seventy-one percent proposed cut to that office under EPA, which I would hope----

I want to thank you all for being here.

Would you consider fewer children with access to healthcare a success?

Yes or no, sir, nearly five million people are forced to forego their health coverage; is that a success?

Do you believe that this administration's opposition to Medicaid expansion that, according to that individual, has cost lives; is that a good policy choice?

Even people with thousands of dollars of uninsured claims in the midst of a potential pandemic, that is a good choice?

Are you aware that under your leadership, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen for the first time in a decade in 2018 by roughly two million people?

do millions of people that have signed up for junk insurance plans pushed by this administration, do they really have a choice?

So refugees having access to healthcare is a success?

When we think about limiting access to healthcare, we need to think about the tertiary and unintended consequences that may come with it.

I think the only word that really encompasses that feeling is infuriating.

I ask that you continue to protect the fact that this is a decision--a deeply moral and ethical and personal decision that should be left to a doctor, a woman, and the people that she trusts most in her life.

Limiting or restricting that access not only negatively impacts maternal health outcomes, but the more restrictions that are in place the worse children's health outcomes become.

Access to abortion enables people to decide when and if they want to have children.

do you think there is any logic as to why a series of politicians like those of us on the dais should be inserted between that decision between you and your partner, your family, your doctor?

What are you going to do to fix it? You can stop advertising now.

It seems pretty easy to get started.

Given that we have now created this industry that has a younger generation that is now addicted, what do you want us to do about it?