Quote of the Day

"Robbing the money from the [ACA's $1 billion prevention and public health fund] — the very thing that will help bend the cost curve in the future to keep people healthy — to set up the Navigator system to me is totally illogical and self-defeating. We're not going to accept that. I believe the Navigators need to be funded, especially to get the young and healthy into the system, but to rob it from the prevention fund, that doesn't go and is not going to go." — Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and a key architect of the ACA, told Gary Cohen, director of CMS's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, at a recent hearing, in response to reports that HHS plans to reallocate roughly $304 million from the prevention fund.