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One incentive that could get them support, but they have indicated concerns over the cuts to medicaid. republicans in states that expanded medicaid are under pressure. the current senate bill would shave $772 billion over ten years from federal medicaid funding. so that's a big issue. republicans have indicated that even though they want more opioid funding, that alone is probably not enough to get them on board. >> shepard: that just sounds like if that's not enough, what else are they going to want? the conservatives, the rand pauls of the world are not going there. won't seem they will. >> ...

They've made the more severe cuts in medicaid. we can argue whether or not the benefits of the medicaid program, the fact is, they're in place and to be really uprooting them as much as they are and really as quickly as the bill proposes is going to call real impact to hospitals in new york and lower-income people in new yo york, also middle-income people, for instance, people with alzheimer's in nursing homes, kids suffering from opioid crisis. these are all issues which i think are really almost separate from obamacare. we should have dealt with obamacare, but as far as these big cuts in med...

Know, the benefits of the medicaid program, but the fact is they're in place. and to be really uprooting them as much as they are and really as quickly as, you know, the bill proposes is going to cause real impact to hospitals in new york and lower income people in new york but also middle income people, for instance people with alzheimer's who are in nursing homes, kidding suffering from opioid crisis. i mean these are all issues which i think are really almost separate from obamacare. we should have dealt with obamacare, but as far as these big cuts in medicaid, that should have been really ...

You need to make sure women have access to this care, including referrals for cancer screening. >> thanks very much. well, up next, another concern with the health care bill, the estimated $772 billion in can yous uts to medicaid, cn tuchman has some of their stories when we come back. (woman vo) is now a good time