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Sleight of hand here. states are not going to be able to do the same thing as they could have with federal money? >> i think thats absolutely right. every state at the end of the day under graham/cassidy loses money. some lose it right away. some of the states that have actually enrolled more people which is two-thirds of the states in the country, have added, expanded medicaid populations as the law allowed them to do. they would immediately lose money. but under the bloc grant program, and the...

Right now they are not allow to deny coverage, you cannot discriminate or deny coverage but they can charge more. we will have to go state by state and if it does happen, there has to be accountable. they will have to create high-risk pool to subsidize some of this. you are not going to be dropped or afford to do it, theres many steps along the way and theres a lot of states that say we want to keep this in place. laura: what and medicaid? what about maternity leave that a lot of us worry about?...

Couldnt afford it. another way of doing that and i this i it will be looked at in the senate to provide a bloc grant program annually appropriated so it wont be a new entitlement but it will target on these people and look at both how their income, their health situation, and provide a spending program to help those people afford to buy insurance in the private market. thats one of the things theyre going to be talking about and these issues will be debate the as they go on to the senate. they h...

Man,ing they are runninging for the hills. they are so far up that hill, they are out of breath. geez, lord, mercy. democrats got them on the run on this one w the hill reports the senate republicans are dropping ryans medicare voucher plan entirely. its not included in their new budget unveiled today by pennsylvania senator pat toomey. wow. run, run, run, run. stay, stay, stay, stay. they did not have that worked out for them and they are saying, you know what the time to attack something new a...