Whereas more than 2,200,000 low-income, uninsured adults fall into the Medicaid coverage gap because State governments have been unable to reach a consensus on expansion; Whereas closing the Medicaid coverage gap will reduce the national uninsured rate by nearly 10 percent; Whereas closing the Medicaid coverage gap will generate upward of $5,000,000,000 in revenue for State and local governments and nearly $130,000,000,000 for the Federal Government to reinvest in our communities; Whereas closing the Medicaid coverage gap will prevent hospital closures, particularly in rural areas that have seen more than 150 hospital closures in the last decade; Whereas hospitals were 6 times less likely to close in States that expanded Medicaid between 2008 and 2016; Whereas financial margins for hospitals improved by 33 percent because uncompensated care spending dropped following Medicaid expansion in the first 36 States to adopt it; Whereas 39 States governed by both Democratic and Republican elected officials have already adopted Medicaid expansion; Whereas it is unreasonable to expect an individual earning less than $13,000 per year to afford health insurance, regardless of employment status; Whereas 1 American who falls into the Medicaid coverage gap dies per day without access to lifesaving health care; Whereas communities of color have been disproportionately disadvantaged by the failure to expand Medicaid and close the coverage gap; and Whereas Congress has a responsibility to provide accessible, high-quality health care to all Americans regardless of socioeconomic status: Now, therefore, be it