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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 that's 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 cap on medicaid, everybody loses money over tile. i thi time. what you've seen on capitol hill tod...

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, there's many steps along the way and there's 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? >> right, one of the things with affordable care act they expanded medicaid. what they are doing ...

Couldn't 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 won't 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. that's one of the things they're going to be talking about and these issues will be debate the as they go on to the senate. they haven't been debated that much in the house but the senate consideration will take some time. the...

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 ryan's medicare voucher plan entirely. it's 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 and they always got to go on ate tack, right? so, what's new? medicaid. toomey's plan follows the r...