Political Quotes

“I said, what you are suggesting is that someone who is no longer on AFDC but is Medicaid eligible because of this grandfathering is not going to have an incentive to take a better job, potentially with benefits, potentially with opportunities for greater advancement, because if they come into a situation where they lose that job, they would not be able to get back on Medicaid. I am looking at someone making an economically rational decision. To me that would not be an economically rational decision. I think the grandfathering does take care of that situation, and if that mother does have a problem and falls back on AFDC, she is then eligible for Medicaid again. I do not think I see the problem that the Senator from Rhode Island has put forward.”