"It is time to end this injustice."
"We would like to remove the cap altogether, and we would like territories to be treated as states."
"If we fix it now, we may save a lot of Federal funds."
"So, the Oversight Board required to the island to include all future plans regarding health care. And that means, if we don't receive the money, the state, in this case Puerto Rico, needs to put up fr..."
"That is the reason the FMAP, the formula for the matching funds, needs to be changed."
"How does the unequal treatment under the Medicaid program and the fact that we are losing a lot of our people every year--how does the Government of Puerto Rico have the ability to budget for, moderni..."
"In the case of Puerto Rico, as an example, you can have Mississippi and many other states receiving more than $7,000 per enrollee and less than $2,000 to our territory."
"And I commend Mr. Soto for always being an original co-sponsor of all those bills."
"We are losing providers, we are losing doctors."
"You get the gold star for today. Very impressive."
"In my family's native island of Puerto Rico, only 30 percent of people are on employer-based insurance."