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>> it's a significant amount of revenue, no doubt. it's a factor. it could be said we are addicted to the money. >> the money is paying for the most basic of government functions. in colorado it's building schools. in oregon, 40% goes to teachers. some is used to hire state troopers. washington statesmen's more than half on medicaid, easing the financial blow from obamacare. now it's the feds who could deliver the blow. >> what lawmakers are doing is becoming reliant on this new revenue and they are starting to devote it to essential state programs even though they don't know what the future o...

Program for someone with autism who was aging out. this is what we saw, at one a group of adults gathered in a room doing very little. at another, people with special needs are working, gluing strips of rubber to metal. a staff member tells us they spend most of their day in this room. >> the hours are from 8:30 to 3:00. they have a break from 10:30 to 10:40 which is a coffee break. and then they have a lunch break from 12:30 to 1:00. >> reporter: and outside the facility there's barbed wire the staff says is there for safety reasons. and the thing is there are often huge wait lists to get int...

The last 48 hours. last night, medicaid directors from every single state, all 50 states, red and blue, the very people who would be charged with implementing this bill, put out a unanimous statement arguing the legislation would weaken state programs. the most outspoken crusader against the bill was arguably late night host jimmy kimmel who used his national platform four nights in a row this week to slam republican efforts. >> lindsey graham, the senator who cowrote the bill, says donald trump is focused like a laser on health care. and i'm guessing he means he's focused in the same way that...

The legislation would weaken state programs. the most outspoken crusader against the bill was arguably late night host jimmy kimmel who used his national platform four nights in a row this week to slam republican efforts. >> lindsey graham, the senator who cowrote the bill, says donald trump is focused like a laser on health care. and i'm guessing he means he's focused in the same way that cats on youtube are focused on lasers. i guarantee he doesn't know anything about this graham-cassidy bill. he doesn't know the difference between medicare and medicaid. i barely knows the difference between...

And state programs. that's not going to happen. also it has some moral problems. creates an idea you have an array to other other people's y for no reason whatsoever and it kind of hurts initiative and drive. >> bill: on a serious matter, is this going to happen? >> no, but it is getting some traction. not only on the left. charles murray, a conservative thinker at the american enterprise institute has his own plan. his view is the welfare bureaucracy is such a mess. let's get rid of it, roll it into one check and say goodbye. the big problem is who is supposed to get this money? if it's a uni...