and since fema grants s.b.a. loans and disaster assistance are reserved for unmet needs, more uninsured homeowners mean more disaster assistance payoffs. we should be incentivizing people to purchase insurance so they have skin in the game and they will be motivated to take proactive mitigation measures, not pricing them out of insurance so they're forced to rely on taxpayer-funded disaster assistance. now there is no question that we need to reform the national flood insurance program in order to put it on the long-term path afford solvency and sustainability. unfortunately, biggert-waters forces changes that are far too fast. it increases rates far too dramatically even mor morpheme - even before fema knows the impact. wreer making dramatic changes in policy which could impact more thank 5.5 million policyholders, have written l effects throughout the house -- ripple effects throughout the economy before we know the extent of these changes or their impact. i have heard from countless new jerseyans, many coming