But the fact that there are so many people, 70 million people, in Medicaid, and millions and millions of children in the Children's Health Insurance Program, the fact that that is not given weight formally in the CMMI experimentation or approach to experimentation, you think will solve itself?
Senator Rockefeller emphasizes the importance of considering Medicaid and CHIP in health care experiments.
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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.
I thank Senator Leahy for attempting to address my concerns about this bill. I thank his committee staff for working with my committee staff to insert clarifying report language.
Without congressional action, I say again, CHIP will run out of funding next fall, placing at risk the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children and pregnant women.
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