Eliot Engel actually said...

"The question we need to be asking is, 'is the full payment that a provider receives for treating a Medicaid enrollee fair and sufficient to ensure equal access?'"

"Obviously, nobody wants fraud. We need to root it out. But we don't want to use it as a reason to kill the program."

"While I understand that there is always room for improvement, CMS has significant safeguards to minimize the impact of duplicate coverage; is that not correct?"

"So CMS conducts periodic and regularly scheduled data matches to identify duplicate coverage and will send notices to individuals with duplicate coverage to immediately end their marketplace coverage,..."