Don Nickles: “I mentioned this home health program, which is currently 100 percent Federal with no State match. Right now the States…”

“I mentioned this home health program, which is currently 100 percent Federal with no State match. Right now the States are not paying anything. So to have this in Medicaid, where Medicaid will pick up for lower-income beneficiaries a small portion of that--I might mention the Federal Government picking up, in most cases, 60 percent, in some cases 70 percent--is not the problem. What we are asking to do, what you are talking about, we are saying, ``Beneficiaries pay $5; pay $5 out of a total cost of a $70 visit.'' So the Federal Government is paying 65 percent, and the individual would pick up $5, and in some low-income cases, for some low-income individuals, the State might pick up 30 percent, or in some cases 40 percent, in some States maybe 50 percent of that share. To me that does not seem unreasonable.”