It makes no sense that an American citizen living in Puerto Rico is ineligible for the EITC.
I have offered several efforts here. We skipped over the Puerto Rican hospitals in terms of health care technology.
If we wanted to help Puerto Rico, CMS is capable of finding an alternative way to calculate Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital payment...
The poverty rate in Puerto Rico is approximately 45 percent.
Even with those boosts in Federal funding and the related increases in Commonwealth spending, all we see is added Commonwealth debt.
Puerto Rico needs an orderly process to restructure its unsustainable liabilities;
could cause long-term damage to the health, safety and financial well-being of the families living and working in Puerto Rico.
We have to look at all of this in the totality for the 3.5 million citizens who have served this country.
The last thing Puerto Rican workers need right now is a pay cut.
We've all watched with great interest as the debt situation in Puerto Rico has unfolded.
This is a comprehensive bill that includes provisions ranging from ensuring the island has equitable and sustainable Medicaid funding.