Don Nickles: “I am wondering about all these savings. I am looking at my State. You said if the State had a prescription drug program…”

“I am wondering about all these savings. I am looking at my State. You said if the State had a prescription drug program, the Federal Government might be picking up a lot of that State program so therefore it is saving. My State doesn't have that, other than the fact we provide Medicaid prescription drugs up to 74 percent, and that is limited to three prescriptions per month. So where is the savings for my State? HHS said this is going to cost my State something like $62 million. My director of Medicaid said it is going to cost our State, and we can't afford it. There, obviously, under your proposal are some States, maybe a lot of States, that would be losers; isn't that correct? It would increase their Medicaid costs dramatically?”