Let me tell you about the young man in the blue shirt on the poster board behind me. This is Dr. Bignall, whom I met at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
So you see in Columbus and Harrisburg and Denver and Jeff City, you can see lobbyists for nursing homes fighting with advocates for children...
Medicaid keeps her alive so she is able to spend time with her kids and her grandkids.
This bill is an all-out assault on vital consumer protection.
This bill dismantles Medicaid as we know it.
The guarantee of essential benefits--gone. That means prescription drug coverage is on the chopping block.
The competition in State capitals from all those advocates, children's advocates, opioid treatment advocates, senior advocates, hospital adv...
I do think we are looking at huge transfers of funding from expansion States to non-expansion States.
Mr. Chairman, I just want to interject that, comments notwithstanding from the panel, CHIP expires this Saturday.
We know this Graham-Cassidy bill does not at all address the issue of opioid treatment, of treatment paid for by Medicaid.
I appreciate what Senator Bennet said a moment ago about the discussion from the other side on, their words, the failure of Obamacare.