but brayden spent 291 days in the neonatal intensive care. insurance company paid the bills as long as brayden was in the hospital but wouldn't cover home health care. the family was told brayden might have to be hospitalized for life. >> hearing that he would possibly be institutionalized broke my heart. >> reporter: then the family found out brayden's disability qualified him for medicaid. braid season one of 62 million people on the federal health insurance program for people who are low income, disabled or an eligible senior. >> the medicaid program was our only option to get that coverage we needed right away covered. so it was night and day between the ability to bring brayden home or whether he prolongs his stay in a hospital or any sort of institution. >> reporter: but the medicaid program could undergo a major overhaul. families like these worry they'll lose coverage. mitt romney and paul ryan have proposed changing the existing open-ended program into fixed allotments for each state. currently as long as people qualify, they will re

so it was night and day between the ability to bring brayden home or whether he prolongs his stay inpital or any sort of institution. >> reporter: but the medicaid program could undergo a major overhaul. families like this one worry they'll lose coverage. mitt romney and paul ryan have proposed changing the existing open-ended program into fixed allotments for each state known as block grants. currently as long as people qualify they will receive coverage. under the gop plan, states would have the flexibility of redefining who is covered. democrats say that would translate into major future cuts. >> they also want to block grant medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming ten years. >> reporter: according to the budget and policy priorities, what's known as the ryan plan would curb medicaid spending by $810 billion over ten years. federal funding could be cut by 34% over the same period. but fiscal conservatives say that is precisely the point, to reign-in federal medicaid spending that will only continue to go up under the obama health care plan, placing more of a burden on taxpa