or losing our beautiful son were enough to get me to stop using. i ended in jail and eventually got treatment through new hampshire s drug court program which was 100% paid for my medicaid expansion. if medicaid was cut health really great question. number one, congratulations on overcoming something that is just incredible. we re all one pill away. you don t know until you take the first pill. it s not a character problem. it s just the body. you never know if you get hurt and you take a pill. eve just got to deal with it, but it s not medicaid expansion that saved you. it was somebody who knew what they were doing who walked you through how to get better. let s talk about $20 trillion of debt. let s talk about medicaid. medicaid medicare, social security and interest on the debt is going to consume all the
arthritis association and the aarp, that s just the a s, guys. those are just the ones beginning with a have come out against this bill. these are independent groups that many of you trust because you may have the diseases, you may have reasons that you re working with those groups. so i ask you to look at what they ve said about this bill and to this bill we have a preliminary analysis on monday. we don t even have a full analysis on how it impacts each state. something that senator susan collins put out in a really good statement tonight that you should read about why she opposes the bill because she s so many version, doesn t know how it impact her state and that s why we have these analysis. so, please, every piece of legislation, major one has gone through a thorough analysis. look at social security privateization. that didn t pass, right? that had a cbo analysis. medicare benefits for drugs, medicare part d, that had a cbo analysis. that passed. that s what we need. and the reas
social security and interest on the debt. somebody needs to deal with this. i choose to be that somebody. medicaid is highly inefficient. we need it match it up not cut it and give people the flexibility to run it better than they have today. all i can tell you about this fight, it s just beginning and to my friends on the other side, every group you cited told you that obamacare would work. every insurance company against this bill and if i were them i d be against it too because we take money from them and we give it to the state government to help you. and all these other organizations, you don t think they ll have a voice in your state? you don t think somebody in your state will listen to them? this is not about this is not about caring. this is about changing things while we still have a chance, because ten years from now if we don t fix it today, it s going to collapse, and god help us