Agency Quote by Thad Cochran

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Medicaid is one of the rare times where Democratic governors are saying, "Hey, states' rights." We don't want the federal government coming in and…

— John Hickenlooper

Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid covers - targeting resources to sicker people and giving…

— Scott Gottlieb

Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of…

— Sherrod Brown

Medicaid is needed by people who are not of means.

— Al N. Green

The federal government would give money to the states. States would be able to negotiate at local rates. It's not Medicaid. People didn't want…

— Maria Cantwell

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited…

— Mike Huckabee

“Free-loading at emergency rooms—mandated by government—makes being uninsured a viable option.”

— Thomas Sowell

There's some experiences you can't get in Congress. You don't learn what it's like to turn patients away because they're uninsured, or be passed…

— Cori Bush

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

What Medicaid basically does is allows them to choose the two base years that they would calculate current their reimbursement levels on. And they…

— John Thune

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

— Tedros Adhanom