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Care benefits. >> let me stop you there. there's no guarantee in the legislation that those bloc grants, that money through 2026 would not continue through 2026 as of now, and those bloc grants go that can be used for health care and they could be used for a lot of other things, and there's no guarantee they go to the poorest individuals who rely on medicaid. is that best for your constituents? >> i know this governor and i believe the kentucky general assembly and the governor of kentucky care about people and they are going to do everything they can to manage the medicaid dollars in a more e...

Going forward without it whereas you have seenior house republicans who say they agree with senator mccain and it's time to start from a clean sheet of paper. this is the opposite of how the bill came forward and no committee hearings and no mark-ups and no real, i guess, amendments to the actual bill on the floor before it was passed. so, you know, there's a division there, and there are a number of republicans who want to move in a good direction. he controls the purse strings on these legally ambiguous cost-sharing subsidies and his hhs can decide to whether they can make the case that the ...

Grants as a package as part of this health care bill. could you explain, from your understanding so far of the health care bill, what happens to the poor, the elderly, the young, and the sick, if bloc grants go to states instead of being part of a national package in the health care bill? >> well, so bloc grants is a word nobody understands, and republicans like that, because what it really means is massive cuts in medicaid funding. so under the republican plan that came out of the house, they include $880 billion worth of medicaid cuts. president trump in his budge proet poses cutting another...

Impacted the gop budget plan leaves defense spending and social security alone. one of the cornerstones of the republican proposal is repealing the president's health care law. it would end corporate bailouts and ensure the government won't get involved in bailouts in the future. the plan takes aim at pretty high profile and what some would say politically risky targets including medicare and medicaid. the government would provide vouchers to seniors instead of doing the medicare program and this would allow them to get government approved private health care plans and medicaid for lower incom...