Jay Rockefeller: “For thousands of Americans and West Virginia families, our economic downturn has meant falling farther and farther…”

It is not right to shift the added financial burdens onto working families when a cost-effective solution for maintaining the coverage they already have exists.

one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.

We simply cannot afford to take this major step backwards and jeopardize the future of generations by allowing CHIP to expire.

We need to provide more transitional housing and more training for law enforcement, counselors, and healthcare workers to make it easier for victims to come forward.