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Well call the subcommittee back to order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair would remind members, pursuant to committee rules, all members Opening Statements will be made part of the record. And we do want to thank our witnesses for being here today, taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an opening statement, followed then by questions from members. ...

Well call the subcommittee back to order and thank everyone for their forbearance. We have concluded with member Opening Statements. The chair would remind members, pursuant to committee rules, all members Opening Statements will be made part of the record. And we do want to thank our witnesses for being here today, taking time to testify before the subcommittee on this important issue. Each witness will have the opportunity to give an opening statement, followed then by questions from members. ...

Abrams with the Commonwealth Fund, and we thank them for their since medicaid was the medicareside program in 1965, it has grown into one of the most farreaching programs in our country, in terms of the number of people it serves as low as their health and life circumstances, and the cost of the program. It is run by the 50 states and territories within federal guidelines and financed by both the state and federal government. So while medicaid policy has National Implications it of course has ma...

This is 90 minutes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah, the president of the alliance for Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you today. For those of you that are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. To say hello as well to those of us watching on cspan this afternoon, and to those that are joining us on twitter using the ha...

Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in...

Includes medicaid administrators at the state and federal levels. This is about 90 minutes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah dash and the president of the alliance or Health Policy. Its a pleasure to be with you here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. I want to say hello as well to those in...

For those of you that are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. To say hello as well to those of us watching on cspan this afternoon, and to those that are joining us on twitter using the hash tag whats next for medicaid. Collaborating with these Melinda Abrams at the Commonwealth Fund, and we think the fund for their partnership and organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created al...

Its still a hail mary pass to get this done, just the tax stuff. For that wait, the well to do are going to have to live with nothing, potentially, or worse, a hike, and yet the markets up. Its wild. Stuart still shaking the head. Neil i know its affecting your spending plans. Stuart i knew you would get to that. Neil thank god youre so cheap, otherwise this would have such an impact. Stuart it would have killed me. Neil thank you, my friend. It is amazing, stuart, that this market follows its o...

Right now we go forward recognizing the value of the Affordable Care act which last night was once again protected. We take great pride in that, but we also know there are updates and improvements that we can make. We call upon the speaker to establish a process. We can go right to the committees and have a discussion on how we keep america healthy. Calls on the president to release the funds that are essential to having the lobby effective, and those two things are very, very important to us. W...

And the democrats in the senate for their unity. I want to thank senator mccain for establishing a higher level of participation as to how we should proceed and to the senators who courageously, senator murkowski and senator collins and senator mccain, thank you for hearing the voices of the families. To the families and outside groups who weighed in on in our offices, in town halls, on the phone, in the mall outside the capitol, thank you for making your voices heard in such an important way. R...