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 for it."

"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."