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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished, excuse me, well, i want to call it the oversight Investigation Committee room which is sometimes used by energy and commerce, and what a but beautiful room. It is more conducive to the good hearing. This is the the first one of the 115th congress and welcome here, and welcome in the Witnesses Today. This is the and welcome back to my friend and colleague Ranking Member from colorado. This is our Medicaid Oversight Committee on existing problems and ways to strengthen the program. We are convened to examine a critical component of the Af...

That is the discussion we need to be having. Is it fair to say most of the people who are in the waiting list who are develop mentally disabled traumatic brain injured people and those with serious Mental Illness are on medicaid, a different type of population and what has been your findings with the governors with respect to how most of them would like to take care of this population if there are consensus among governors, what is the governor, the legislature to deal with respect to the population. I will say there are exceptions to that rule. How did they do it. And they are focused on thos...

But the congress and the government created a situation where the states are rewarded for cutting traditional medicare which deals mostly with children and people who are in greater need and that because of that disincentive or incentive to spend it on the new folks, the newly found undermedicaid, under the new categories, we create the situation where states have to make a decision as to whether they quicken the shortage on the waivers, get rid of the waivers as fast as they can or spend money somewhere else. Is my understanding correct . Yes, theres both direct and indirect outcomes as relat...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished i dont want to call it the oversight investigation room. Which is sometimes used by energy and commerce. What a beautiful room. And it will be more conducive to hearings. This is the first of the 115th congress. Welcome here. And welcome to our Witnesses Today. This is our and welcome back to my friend and colleague, Ranking Member from colorado. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the problem. The subcommittee convenes this hearing to examine a critical component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act...

There say vote going on. This is the way i handle the meeting. Im going to call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go to and so i want him to make his statement. Then ill make my statement. And then ill introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until mrs. Feinstein gets here. So proceed, senator durbin. Mr. Chairman, thank you for doing this, this is out of order and for those that are new, i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend from iowa. I have a Ranking Member of the defense appropriations subcommittee, we have a closed door hear...