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Moment, but what if they walk into a dr.s office and find out they have cancer, what happens to them? >> a really important point to what youre asking about is that with the legislation that the house passed, anyone that is on medicaid as part of that expansion population, anyone that signed up by 2020 as part of that expansion population, the federal government continues to pay 90% in perpetuity. it only impacts new enrollees not yet signed on. for someone currently part of the expansion popula...

Pregnant moms and kids. he promised not to touch that program. the house bill decimates medicaid, would cause 23 million people to lose coverage, raises prices according to every economist, anybody whos in the market now would pay more, not less. theyd pay more out of pocket, pay more deductibles. so then the president called that bill mean and turned to the senate. the senate bill in some ways is worse. at least the draft that they got close to putting on the floor, 22 million people lose cover...

Close to putting on the floor. 22 million people lose coverage. it makes much deeper cuts in this very important medicaid program, not the expansion population. those go away yacht together. the extra help to states to insure the lowest income working adults. but the cuts made in every state in the country, to the underlying medicaid program. would blow up state budgets across america. thats why you have republican governors like brian sandoval of nevada and asa hutchinson in arkansas and john k...

Dollar, our plan no longer works. now, the simple argument about why the united states can afford this is because what theyre planning to do with the savings realized from these draconian cuts to medicaid is to give a tax cut of the about the exact amount of the cuts to the medicaid program. so i believe we can afford it. i believe we can afford it. and if were going to fight the opioid epidemic, if were going to make sure that our labor force is healthy enough to be productive and go to work, w...

Thats correct. we need to find a way to either keep medicaid expansion, give states the options, give states the flexibility to build in better programs or to have folks in that expansion population be able to afford with tax credits and other supplements to be able to afford. thats where the opioid money comes in, and thats where i think it would be important for my population, which is really reeling, and if people around the country dont think theyre going to get it, its coming to their state...

Thinking the house bill was okay for people of nevada? >> i suspect that the deal will have a chance now. i came out initially and said im noit putting my state in debt and im not kicking expansion people off health care. we went through the process to make sure those things werent dwoipg to happen expansion population in nevada. he didnt get to, he didnt dwet to see much of it beforehand rk so im assuming hes going through the traps now seeing how it actually works. i talked with with secretary...

>> it actually wouldnt make sense to have everyone covered under the same fmap, the same formula. the normal match which was 50%. if you have a state where the normal fmap is 50% for those on the lower end of medicaid by, the best way for the state to save money for the state is to actually reduce medicaid costs on the more vulnerable and not the less vulnerable. it would make sense for everyone to be on that same funding formula. it doesnt go to zero. >> it seems like by your definition there, ...

Does, that medicaid improves screening for cancer, hiv, high cholesterol, and everything like that. screening doesnt necessarily transsbliet decreased mortality, but they did find that by implementing these improving access to care will save tens of thousands of lives. how is that going to help the "downward spiral" that we hear so much about. >> there is a couple things to bear in mind here. this includes kids, the disabled, the populations that say these are the most sympathetic folks. the que...

It eliminates the individual mandate. it suspends funding for planned parenthood for a year. that was all in the house bill, as well. but there are some significant changes. it maintains the cutting -- the deep cutting. medicaid. however, it would extend medicaid funding for the expansion population for one year, and then it would phase down the funding more slowly over sleethree years instead of steep cliff. thats going to be a plus for some moderates. whats really also going to hurt a lot of k...

Blame them for opting out and trying to create their own. correct? >> right. but a lot of states are coming forward with creative plans. the speaker of the house in florida, for example, came up with a plan where he said, we need to see who really needs help with health insurance. were going to create a state plan with these same dollars. even though this plan is supposed to be -- mostly paid for by the federal government, this expansion population, states still would have to pay $118 billion ov...