Joe Manchin actually said...

"Medicaid was never intended to be the primary provider of long-term care coverage, yet Medicaid is the largest payer of long-term care services."

"If I can just very quickly ask Mr. Holtz-Eakin, in your testimony it's a common misconception that Medicare covers long-term care."

"The bottom line. It took so long for this contract to be revealed to what was going on and why such a blatant protection of a contractor that was charging $28 billion and held totally harmless--totall..."

"You believe in health care waivers, correct?"