Jaime Herrera Beutler: “What do you think if the association plans are on their way out and even for next year we do not really have much choice…”

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.

In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.

If we do not immediately put together a COVID supplemental package, we are going to put everyone, and seniors and people who are uninsured... they will turn around and go home.

The data on that is rolling in, and it is not promising.