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But how concerned are you about people who have now enjoyed that medicaid expansion for several years now, just taking it out from them and what happens to them? >> if that medicaid expansion goes away and if there is no coverage, that's a bad thing, willie. on the other hand, if they move from medicaidthing, if they mov medicaid to private insurance, that could be a good thing. for example the individual market is doing so poorly because there are so few people in the individual market. if we take those folks off of medicaid expansion, putting them in the individual market, it expands the ris...

Gabe gutierrez took a little trip for us. he's looking at the impact beyond the beltway. watch. >> reporter: it was the letter single mom sarah dreaded. >> your current humana health plan will no longer be offered. >> reporter: dropping the bo bombshell that it was pulling out of kentucky's obamacare exchange. this isn't the first time you got a letter like this. we were with her when her previous insurance company did the same. >> i don't know if i'm going to have coverage. which doctors i'm going to go to. which pharmacy i'll get my medication from. i don't know. >> reporter: in a written st...

So much of this is giving the responsibilities and the authorities back to the states, those are the people that need the flexibility and can make much better decisions than this one-size-fits-all that we see coming out of washington, d.c., mandated by the obama health care law. >> melissa: but do you anticipate seeing states coming back at you, screaming that they don't have enough money, but you put all of the responsibility on them, and that they don't have the funds to pay for it, what are we supposed to do? >> well, governors would always like more money for just about everything, i thoug...

Build of the senate has put forward so far, there is a big contradiction here in my mind, and this is what it is, it says that under the current bill, just like obamacare, insurers have to sell everyone, including with pre-existing conditions for the same rights as everyone else, while also repealing obamacare is individual mandate tax, there is no enforcing mechanism anywhere there. so i just don't understand how it is currently constituted the republican plan would reverse the fundamental flaw of obamacare, which is risk pools that are unsustainable. that to me is ultimately, should be impor...

Particular bill, it requires states to offer essential health benefits. he seemed to indicate he was interested in having a bill -- >> obama care required that every plan sold offered these essential health benefits that inclu include opioid, mental health treatment, maternal care, and a lot of people make these arguments. why don't you let me buy a policy that i'm not likely to want or lose. the risk pool, when you spread it among everybody, including people like the three of us, not likely to get pregnant, if we're paying into a pool that covers ma tern ternity maternity, is spreads over the