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Charges. the doctor passes on some of those additional costs to everybody else and that raises everybody else's rates. >> mike: governor rendell that's a concern many have. it is a cost shift, let me commend you. in pennsylvania you have done something already expanding health care access to many people in pennsylvania and you've done it with the innovation of having co-pays and deductibles. that's the kind of medicaid reform that i personally think is the way it ought to go. this particular bill doesn't necessarily create that shared partnership. so you have more government money than individ...

About the medicaid program. this bill would cover 100% of medicaid costs to the stays for the first year or two then states start picking up an increaseed share. how does that affect your state budget? not so much while you are still governor, but for the next guy? >> between now and the year 2019 it will cost 62 million dollars. after that it will cost us 32 million dollars per year. but that's not the biggest cost. the biggest cost is to the people that aren't on medicaid, who have health insurance or who are individual payers of their own health care costs. those individuals will receive th...

Increaseed share. how does that affect your state budget? not so much while you are still governor, but for the next guy? >> between now and the year 2019 it will cost 62 million dollars. after that it will cost us 32 million dollars per year. but that's not the biggest cost. the biggest cost is to the people that aren't on medicaid, who have health insurance or who are individual payers of their own health care costs. those individuals will receive the cost, medicaid only pays between 50 and 52% of billed charges. the doctor passes on some of those additional costs to everybody else and that ...

Increaseed share. how does that affect your state budget? not so much while you are still governor, but for the next guy? >> between now and the year 2019 it will cost 62 million dollars. after that it will cost us 32 million dollars per year. but that's not the biggest cost. the biggest cost is to the people that aren't on medicaid, who have health insurance or who are individual payers of their own health care costs. those individuals will receive the cost, medicaid only pays between 50 and 52% of billed charges. the doctor passes on some of those additional costs to everybody else and that ...

States that 31 states who took the medicaid expansion, advantage of obamacare's medicaid expansion. one of those is the great state of arkansas. and arkansas' governor esa hutchison is joining me. thanks for joining us. >> it's really good to be with you today. >> so paul ryan is encouraged from what he sees in this congressional budget office report. are you encouraged? >> well, i was concerned before the cbo report came out, and i'm concerned about a cost shift to the states. and if you're looking at 20-some million that might be not covered based upon the cbo report, who is going to have to...