Republican Plan To Replace Obamacare Would Turn Medicaid Over To States

Within hours of taking the oath of office, new President Donald Trump signed his first executive order in the Oval Office while the press looked on. Evan Vucci/AP
Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to Trump, told NBC News’s Sunday Today with Willie Geist, that the health care law that will replace Obamacare will turn Medicaid — a joint state-federal health insurance program for the poor — into a block grant program. The change would mean the federal government would give money to th