On the recordMay 1, 2025
Let's fast-forward. What we are really talking about--for everybody at home watching C-SPAN, all 14 of you--we have a situation where ObamaCare expanded the Medicaid population, and it expanded it massively to a population that is much bigger and much more able- bodied, i.e., healthier. Now, you would think is that good or bad? I have my problems with it facially, but even if you were going to do it, would you then say, as it does, that that population, the healthier, able-bodied population, should get a 90 percent match from the Federal Government? Because that is what is happening. They get a 90 percent rate for that expanded population, then layer on top of that, and this is what you are now dealing with. The gentleman's chart that The Wall Street Journal did, where you have the provider taxes, you have this high rate that they are able to collect, and they are juicing it using the provider taxes. They get this 90 percent Federal dollars, and then they are openly--California, for example, has stated they are gaming the system to get Federal dollars to use that to subsidize illegal aliens and people who are not the vulnerable population and, frankly, put it in their general budget. That is what the gentleman is talking about. That is the current state of affairs.
