we need a simple system. albeit far more expensive. arlet saines traveling with the biden campaign. reporter: biden kicked off a three-day swing in iowa through des moines touting a health care plan. it will allow americans to buy into a medicare type of a program and also provides massive subsidies to make purchasing insurance through the exchanges cheaper for all-americans regardless of income. biden also insisting that medicare for all isn t the answer when it comes to health care worrying that programs like that will be difficult to implement and also are, quote, kind of a little bit risky. you re talking now about a public option as part of your health care plan? yes. that was very tough the last time when obamacare was first coming around. sure it was. and it did happen. can you imagine medicare for all if you think that s tough?
biden also insisting that medicare for all isn t the answer when it comes to health care worrying that programs like that will be difficult to implement and also are, quote, kind of a little bit risky. you re talking now about a public option as part of your health care plan? yes. that was very tough the last time. sure it was. when obamacare was first coming around. sure it was. can you imagine what medicare for all, if you think that s tough? come on, look, here s the deal, guys. one of the things that s happening is all of a sudden the american public has figured out what obamacare was about. it s solid, it s real, it s consequential. we can in fact for a significant portion of the price, we can infact ensure 97, 98% of all the american people who want to be ensured and they can keep their policy if they want. reporter: biden has focused in the past week and a half on establishing clear lines of differences between himself and his democratic opponents who are supportin
states which opted not to expand medicaid. those nearly 5 million people would be automatically enrolled in the public option for free. basically anyone that is unhappy with their insurance can buy into that public option. but biden also making it clear that he does believe private health insurance should stand. now, as for the subsidies, those would be provided to all americans regardless of income to make it cheaper to buy obamacare through the exchanges. so the campaign estimates that a family of four making roughly $110,000 would save $750 a month in their premiums. now, the entire price tag for this plan is approximately $750 billion. later today we re going to be hearing from joe biden here in des moines as he s talking at an aarp forum getting into some of the details of this plan, as he s insisting that obamacare is the way to go and that medicare for all isn t the answer. all right, arlette, thank you so much. so, zeke, assess this for us as
assaulted viciously, lambasted by a president in sexist terms. and unfortunately and tragically not only does the republican party not have a spine, but the masses of white brothers and sisters who find themselves in league with or at least contra distinctive to this guy will not stand up. we have to leave it there. we have a whole lot more, including reaction from former republican governor john kasich, who is calling on republicans to speak up against the president. also, was the president s threat to carry out raids on undocumented immigrants a stunt? he said they happened, but we just didn t see them. we re going to look at that. and joe biden unveils his health care plan. one that goes farther than obamacare but not as far as medicare for all. . .you can do no wrong. where did you learn that? the internet. yeah? mmm! with no artificial preservatives or added nitrates or nitrites, it s all for the love of hot dogs. so you have ten years experience.
subsidies along with a public option that would allow people to buy into a program that s similar to medicare. joining me now is cnn s arlette saenz and here in studio is dr. zeke emmanuel. arlette, walk us through biden s new plan so we can understand what s in it. reporter: yeah, brianna. for weeks joe biden has been teasing this forthcoming plan and is putting some flesh onto the bones of what this would look like. at the center is he would want to enhance and build on obamacare. biden s new plan would create a public option that allows american consumers to buy into a medicare-like program. it also provides massive subsidies to make obamacare cheaper for people to purchase. along with that, it would also allow medicare to negotiate drug prices. now, to get into the public option, this would be a program that would be similar to medicare. there are nearly 5 million people in 15 republican-led