Jay Rockefeller: “Medicare, as far as I know, is a 'public plan,' which people kind of like.”

You could see it, but you could not do anything about it.

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.

This, I have to say without sentiment, will be the last Health Subcommittee hearing that I chair.