individuals are going to be cut by 25% or 25% of those individuals are just going to be simply cut off of medicaid. who is going to make that call? well, that s going to come down to individual state governors, and if this law passes, it s going to put governors in an awfully tricky spot because unless there s another way to raise revenue, many are running deficits as you know, ari. they re going to have to make some draconian choices. they can look to other parts of their budget, but they don t have many. they can cut pre-kindergarten, but that doesn t get you very far. fundamentally they re going to have to choose between how they re going to make these choices. we ve got a baby boomer wave that s entering the nursing home period of their lives in the next few years. the costs are going to go up. we have an opioid epidemic which is paid for largely through medicaid. it s the largest payer of medicaid.
in the real world, half the babies born in the country are paid for by medicaid. half the people in the program are kids. and then 70% of the funds go to care for people who are either living in nursing homes or who are living with a disability. so it s a vital program. it s a program that doesn t have a lot of slack in it. and the plan that we see before us in the senate would take that program and cut it by 25%, which i think we can only interpret to mean that the services for those individuals are going to be cut by 25% or 25% of those individuals are just going to be simply cut off of medicaid. who is going to make that call? well, that s going to come down to individual state governors, and if this law passes, it s going to put governors in an awfully tricky spot because unless there s another way to raise revenue,
most essential programs in our country and one of the most essential promises to american families. in the real world, half the babies born in the country are paid for by medicaid. half the people in the program are kids. and then 70% of the funds go to care for people who are either living in nursing homes or who are living with a disability. so it s a vital program. it s a program that doesn t have a lot of slack in it. and the plan that we see before us in the senate would take that program and cut it by 25%, which i think we can only interpret to mean that the services for those individuals are going to be cut by 25% or 25% of those individuals are just going to be simply cut off of medicaid. who is going to make that call? well, that s going to come down to individual state governors, and if this law passes, it s going to put governors in an awfully tricky spot because unless there s another way to raise revenue,
by some estimates about 27% of americans have pre-existing conditions of one sort or another. the top ten states to exceed the national average in pre-existing conditions are all trump states. here are five of them listed here, west virginia, mississippi, kentucky, alabama, tennessee. so to your point and for obvious reasons, a disproportionate number of people with pre-existing conditions are in trump states. you know what states you don t see, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, you don t see states where barack obama voters switching to donald trump gave donald trump the presidency, those maps that donald trump is passing out to everybody right now, if this law passes, you can just paint those states blue because those people are going to go back and vote for somebody else if this passes, right? yeah. they ll be hammered the most. we have a lot more on today s
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