dr. cassidy. >> i'm sorry. if it's all right, do you mind if i also say something about our experience with ems? >> go ahead. >> i would just like to to to -u know, we've negotiated now two waivers with cms in order to do our own experiment. i want to say that our experience has also been a very deliberate, very sometimes feeling tedious experience with the current administration and the administration before. now when we have raised the issues in the past, they have expressed what i think is the perennial concern which is that they know that they have also, as much as we want flexibility, they know that we have to be accountable. so there's been a lot. if there's a way to smooth that up, smooth that out, i think that's something that we'd love to work together. >> gentleman's time has expired. mr. markey. >> thank you. mr. patrick, mr. barbour said he accepted a deal that they receive 50% of the medicare money they receive today. he could live with that deal. >> i'll take 50%. >> what would be the impact in ma

dr. cassidy. >> one of my concerns is how the state medicaid budgets will be supplemented. mr. waxman's state of california suffers from this because one of your consultants publisher article that says in his state about 1.7 million people will be added to medicaid under this plan. do you see concerns about how the current map is constructed regarding states? about $7,500 per beneficiary, -- for mott gets about $7,500 per beneficiary and mississippi gets less. >> there are constant concerns about the formula that is the allocation formula. mississippi has the highest match. . >> but they only get $3,000 from the federal government. >> i want to speak that. i don't know the numbers. i know they have the highest that operate -- the highest map rate in the country. in louisiana, it became an issue after katrina in new orleans and the changing demographics of the city changed dramatically, their share of the federal budget, so there have been concerns and we would work with congress to look at updating the map on a regular basis. >> i yield five minutes to the ranking member. >> th

dr. cassidy. >> thank you, mr. secretary. one of my concerns is how the state budgets are going to be supplemented. currently, there appear to be crepe i says how much -- says how much a state does get and should get. jonathan gruber, i think, published an article that said in his state about 1.7 million people will be added to medicaid under this plan, so it's going to stress it further. do you see concerns with how the current fmap, smap is constructed? i say that because mississippi gets with a higher fmap about $3,000 per beneficiary. any thoughts about that 124. >> i though there are constant -- i know there are constant concerns about the allocation formula. mississippi has the highest match rate -- >> they only get $3,000 from the federal government, so they have an 83% fmap, but they only get $3,000 per beneficiary. >> and i won't dispute that, i don't know the numbers. i do know they have the highest fmap rate in the country. i think that there is a constant analysis of changing demographics, changing populations. i

dr. cassidy. >> thank you. do you mind if i say something about cms?>> go ahead. >> we negotiated now two waivers with cms in order to do our own experiments, and i want to say our experience has also been a very deliberate, very -- sometimes feeling tedious experience with the current administration and the administration before. now, when we have raised these issues in the past, they have expressed what i think is the perennial concern which is that they know that they also have just as much as we want flexibility, they know we have to be accountable, so there's been a lot, but if there's a way to smooth that out, i think that's something we'd love to work together. >> thank you. gentleman's time expired. would recognize gentleman from new jersey for five minutes. >> thank you. governor patrick, governor barbour said that he had accept -- he would accept a deal where his state would receive 50% of the medicaid money they received today, and he could live with that deal. >> i'll take his 50% if that's all right. >> what would be the impact in massachu

dr. cassidy of louisiana is recognized for five minutes. >> now, i am struck that you mentioned the subsidies, the heightened or continued subsidies for wind, solar, and other renewable energy. i am looking at something from the energy and -- information administration, and it says that of 2007, the subsidy and support per unit of production of solar is $24.34 per megawatt power, for wind is $23, for coal it is 44 cents, for natural gas and petroleum liquids, it is 35 cents. given that there is a 100 times increased subsidy for solar and wind, how much subsidy is required for us to take wind and solar up to 25% of our great, and can we afford that subsidy? >> there are two ways to calculate subsidies kiwanis by dollar amount, and the fracture of energy produced. >> doesn't that seem like the more reasonable way? if something is 50% of our production, to take the ethics of a number is a bit misleading. >> it really depends. if you look a subsidy of oil and gas, beginning with the 20th century -- >> i did not mean to interrupt, but just to take electricity, because there is the megawatt power i