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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