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The cost medicaid including the expansion of the program under obamacare. nevada is a state that expanded their medicaid roles. it stands to lose billions in federal funding under the current draft of the bill. >> changing the growth rates of medicaid to make them a little more generous might help some, but if you do too much of that you're going to lose other people. >> reporter: but while the gop seems to be pretty far apart what doesn't appear to be happening yet is an opening for democrats to join the conversation. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is warning conservatives for a conki...

>> reporter: his resistance is one example of the divide. conservatives want to rein in the cost of medicaid including gradually ending federal funding for expansion of the program under obamacare. nevada expanded medicaid roles and stands to lose billions in federal funding under the current draft of the bill. >> changing growth rates to make them a little more generous might help some. >> reporter: despite the gop divide there has been no outreach to democrats to join the conversation. mitch mcconnell is warning conservatives to build consensus suggesting if democrats join negotiations the l...

You've written about the example of a 60-year-old man, one version of it it in alaska one version in another state where they end up paying in alaska the premiums would be $36,000 on such a policy. >> that's right. 60 years old, $50,000 of income, my hometown is agentever athens ohio three three the premium is triple what they are currently paying under obamacare. so it goes to $15,000. in some parts of the country it gets to 36,000, $38,000. the shift of the cost. here is the challenge. you can't take a trillion dollars out of the health care coverage system tax revenues brought into the syst...

I need you to say that premiums are going down. they're not true. >> i like the house bill better than the senate. >> they're the same thing. premiums are going up. >> in maryland, under obamacare -- >> maryland is -- premiums are -- >> they have gone up 58% under obamacare not 5.5%, but 58%. obamacare is a failure for individuals on the individual market in maryland and they have to pay for their policies. we can't afford it. everyone should agree. both parties should get together and say you know what? what we're doing now doesn't work and we should get together and work together. but when t...

Ohio three three the premium is triple what they are currently paying under obamacare. so it goes to $15,000. in some parts of the country it gets to 36,000, $38,000. the shift of the cost. here is the challenge. you can't take a trillion dollars out of the health care coverage system tax revenues brought into the system for coverage, take it away and expect you're not hurting people's care and hurting coverage. and then the results look like these kinds of large costs that even the insured people have to pay. they're paying more for less coverage with very high ductables and not rfrl the good...