there are individuals that are presently in the Virgin Islands, maybe in other territories as well, who are just not receiving any health insurance.

Obamacare provided some relief--an extra $7.3 billion in temporary Medicaid funding and a permanent change to the match to 45 local/55 Federal.

The devastating life-and-death outcomes that we face with the potential loss of this ACA funding justifies an increase in the territory's Medicaid funding block grants.

I hope Ms. Muna will be able to tell us what the loss of Medicaid funding will mean to the hospital's ability to deliver services.

I love my island--it is my home, and I am committed to working with Congress to create a Medicaid system that all of us can be proud of.

Thank you for your consideration and attention to these urgent matters.

the Virgin Islands qualifies for it, meets the qualifications, Congress and CMS have said we would not receive that.

The Territory's severe disaster-related cashflow problems make it extremely difficult to advance the cash to pay those contractors, and this has led to long delays, work delays, and contractor dissatisfaction.

This is a very tenuous situation that we are living in, and there is no media attention to what is happening in the Virgin Islands.

But you can change that because you do have the discretion under the Insular Areas Act to take away that cost share.

The 2019 hurricane season has now commenced. More than 400 families in the Virgin Islands badly need this assistance.

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Leaving that structured community of the military and heading back to life, express feelings of lonely--homelessness and abandonment.

There's work to be done.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, all of the witnesses, for being here.

I wanted to just have you all talk for a few moments about how the VA and the Department of Defense share responsibility and work together for those servicemembers that are separating.