From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-F.

This is the Daily.

When Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill just over a week ago,

they kept making the same argument about sweeping changes to Medicaid that were key to the law.

There are now work requirements for Medicaid, as there should be.

The American people want that.

That the measures, including new work requirements, would only encourage able-bodied adults

to earn their health care, ultimately creating a fair system for everyone.

You ought to be working to prove that you're not taking the Medicaid benefits away for people who they were intended for in the first place.

Critics said the opposite.

All this is is more red tape meant to kick people who should get Medicaid off of Medicaid.

They predict millions of working people who need health care would lose it.

I mean, this is going to hit rural America right in the face.

The truth will emerge in rural and often red areas, where cuts to Medicaid funding will be felt most deeply.

Today, I speak to a family doctor in one of those places, Western North Carolina,

about what she thinks will happen to her patients.

It's Monday, July 14th.

Hi, can you hear me? Yep, we've got you. Great. I'm so happy to have you here here. I want to know,

should I call you Dr. Dowler, Shannon, what do you prefer? Shannon is fine. Okay, great. So, Shannon, we are talking to you today because of this giant bill that President Trump just signed into law.

We know that North Carolina is going to lose a lot of federal funding for Medicaid and that

a lot of people may get kicked off Medicaid.

Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina, he's one of the few dissenting Republicans who voted

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