Lamar Alexander actually said...

"That would suggest that the cost overall of taking Medicaid to a 150 percent to States is going to cost somebody, either the Federal Government or the State governments, $4-$5-$600 billion over the ne..."

"That's the States' share and that's typically about a third, right?"

"Your testimony at other times is to say rather than get rid of the flexibility you now have to reward healthy behaviors by incentives, you'd like to have more flexibility, is that not right?"

"But you would agree that the investment is only a beginning of the amount of money that we may need?"