I think the expansion of Medicaid is a flunk to what the President suggested, and that's quality and access have to be linked.

I believe these are essential features that we're going to have to exercise to hold down health care costs.

Why was NRC not asked to review a broader set of risks?

As you know, I have introduced legislation that would explicitly authorize the VA to care for veterans and family members that show illnesses that might be the result of their time at Camp Lejeune.

Providing health care to veterans and their families would be one step toward meeting our moral obligation to those who have put more at risk.

Why would we rather wait to see if I pass legislation versus initiate the authority of the Secretary to create through that general authority the coverage for individuals that we fear might have a condition which is the result of having…

It is simply not right for us to continue to tell our veterans and their families to just wait for another study.

We have an obligation to figure out how much of these dangerous chemicals veterans and their families were exposed to at Camp Lejeune and what impact these exposures had potentially on their health.

Thank you for that, Dr. Hunt, and thank you for noticing that I blurred the line between disability back to medical care, unintentionally, but I am glad that I did so that you could sort of fill me in on that.

I do not want to get into the NRC results with the Veterans Administration.

It is about making sure that we get the most pertinent information to all the people that can affect the best long-term quality-of-life for the individuals that may or may not have been affected.

The Navy sent out letters to veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune between 1957 and 1987, encouraged them to participate in the health registry.