Sherrod Brown: “I appreciate too, as the gentleman from Massachusetts said, the work the gentleman from New Jersey has done on…”

“I appreciate too, as the gentleman from Massachusetts said, the work the gentleman from New Jersey has done on children's health. I am concerned in what has happened with Republican efforts to, quote unquote, cover some of these 10 million children that do not now have health insurance. Pretty clearly, the Democratic idea of using Medicaid, a program that is in place where administrative costs are low, a program that has a couple of decades of working effectively and efficiently to insure poor and near-poor children; it is in place, it works, it makes sense to do that. I am concerned with the Republican plan for a bunch of reasons: First, there was talk earlier of using all kinds of tax schemes. I am concerned about the tax schemes that the Republicans tried. Now I am concerned about this whole block grant effort that the Republicans want to use to just turn money over to the States, when it is clear from all kinds of analyses, whether it is the legislative budget office or other analyses, that show that in fact this money likely will not be there to insure children.”