Unanimous Consent Request--Executive Calendar

Floor Speech

Specifically, my concern is that the reconciliation legislation that the House of Representatives passed last fall, which is the very vehicle for the reconciliation bill currently being discussed in the Senate, included provisions that cut DSH and uncompensated care pool payments for nonexpansion States. This would result in less healthcare for vulnerable populations in my State, it would accelerate hospital closures, and it would disadvantage rural communities. These are places and populations for which we are trying to secure more quality healthcare, not less.

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Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, I would like to respond to my friend from Pennsylvania.

That is a very reasonable request. We are getting ready to go through a process of which I have not yet seen the text--an amendment process that is hard to anticipate--and dread to think that there would be another wraparound, that that could happen as well. But assuming that we get to an end point and this language that I have discussed is not in the bill--the same language that the House included is not in this bill--I would be more than happy to lift my objection.

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