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They say this is what the governors asked for. they wanted flexibility. i can give it per capita or a block grant. that is what they wanted. what they ignore is they are cutting how much you are going to get period. they will shift that cost to the state as if you guys had bottomless pockets. what is the reality? >> the reality is we need that flexibili flexibility. a good example is we want to put a simple work requirement in for those on medicaid and able-bodied and don't have dependent children. obamacare refused to give that to us. we need the work requirement in place to get people traine...

In other words, they want medicaid expansion to end early. that would cost a lot of people money. the bill may head to the house floor for a vote as early as thursday of next week. our main man on capitol hill is mike emanuel. he's live with more. what is the deal here? sounds like they want to take the medicaid expansion that is not suppose to end in 2019 and end it in 2018. >> a lot of horse trading trying to get the votes. speaker ryan and top trump administration officials. mark walker talked about some of the changes that he likes allowing the states to block grant medicaid and imposing a...

Going to repeal obamacare. we did do a bill in january that president obama vetoed. this bill, though, for some reason, even after it were to be signed into law, actually allows more able-bodied people to sign up for medicare for several years into the future. i think medicaid should be focused on folks who are truly needy, poor kids, people with disabilities, seniors. i don't think it's a really good option for able-bodied people who are able to work and get insurance elsewhere. and what happens is, fewer and fewer physicians will even accept medicaid, so it's harder to get access to actual c...

Who can win a million and $2 million and still stay on medicaid the way the federal law is? the bureaucrats say you can't kick them off. we have waiting lists in america, jake, for disabled and frail seniors to get on medicaid. they've been supplanted by able bodied adults who have won lotteries. this makes no sense. these are things we're going to tackle. >> congressman, you'll come back ask talk about some of these other proposals you're bringing before your committee next week. thanks so much. coming up next concerns had in several states about a growing number of mumps cases. it isn't just...

Without children to seek or gain employment or to study to gain employment -- >> what do you mean by able-bodied. you just used that term again. >> that's what would be defined in the regulation itself. i don't know the -- >> you used a term without an idea of how you would define it? >> i think people have an understanding of what able-bodied is, and that's doesn't have the kinds of things that you described, i don't believe. >> that was a simple answer to my question. able-bodied does not include people who have addiction, mental health, and behavioral health issues? >> again, it's the work ...