Eliot Engel actually said...

I hope the upcoming regulations will not punish these States, these States who did the right thing by expanding Medicaid eligibility.

I made sure when we were crafting the Affordable Care Act that my State, New York, which is a so-called do-gooder State was not penalized fo...

I simply cannot understand why a State would choose not to provide health care coverage to its neediest citizens.

I want to make sure that we were not penalized.