Political Quotes

“It is amazing to me that 17 navigators, according to CMS, during the grant year 2016 to 2017, 17 of these navigators that my friends on the other side of the aisle are such big fans of enrolled fewer than 100 people at an average cost of $5,000 per enrollee. That doesn't seem to be very cost efficient to me. As I have said before, today, The Wall Street Journal investigation found one grantee got 200 grand and enrolled one person. This is a great program. You can't understand why the Trump administration wants to cut back and put some boundaries around? I can't imagine why you would embrace that. I just don't get it. The top 10 most expensive navigators collected $2.77 million, and they signed up 314 people. Let that one sink in. I mean, if you all want to embrace that, that is up to you. Not the way I would do business. The Las Vegas Review-Journal editorialized: ``The navigator scheme is a make-work government jobs program rife with corruption and highly susceptible to scam artists. It's a slush fund for progressive constituent groups.'' That is a respected newspaper. The journalist is writing this, Wall Street Journal's investigation. We figure out $62.5 million in grants enrolled 81,426 individuals. That is less than 1 percent. That is your navigators, Mr. Chairman, that some are so enthralled with; that is their body of work: $62.5 million, 1 percent.…”