we ll reform medicaid so it it s a disaster right now but we can reform it so it will work. we ll help the poor up to 300% of poverty will be able to get the subsidy they need to purchase their own insurance. reporter: the unveiling of this bill comes at a time when it s becoming increasingly clear under obamacare there will be millions upon millions of uninsured people. the sponsors of this bill say this bill will correct that and also allow people up to the age of 26 to remain on their parents plan. martha: what is the white house saying about this? reporter: when jay carney was askedb about this he said he has not seen this. he he it s a de facto repeal of obamacare. we haven t seen a proposal. what i have seen in press
reports. this looks like another appeal proposal. another attempt to raise taxes on the middle class to ray costs on seniors and take away medicaid from millions of americans to stand to gain coverage. reporter: the sponsor of this bill says it gives people rather than the government the power to empower their healthcare choices themselves and provide the states with the authority and money to do so. obviously this is going to a dead ender in the democratically controlled senate. with so many democratic senators and house members feeling the heat perhaps that will change as obamacare continue to evolve. martha: we ll talk to nor john cornyn about that plan. bill: 24 pert of the total enrollment said to be between the age of 13-34. even democrats in the house like
bill: we are learning about this healthcare plan from three republican senators, unveiling a new alternative to obamacare. we we tried to do is we looked at it and said how can we make healthcare coverage more affordable for every american. the idea is to give affordable access care where you run your healthcare and the state makes the decisions and it s not mandated what you buy when you will buy it. there is no employer or individual mandate. bill: there is a will the more to this plan. we have a guest from the senior public policy center. let s tick through them. get rid of they want to allow employers to ban together
it would slow the growth of cost without the government mandate, taxes and huge spending of obamacare. it s a plan to address the problems that americans want fixed without the big government baggage of obamacare. there is a shift of huge amounts of power to the department of human health and services. they can t dictate wham in everybody s insurance plan. there wouldn t be the hhs mandate. this will be shah decentral sighed approach. standing coverage. slowing costs and frankly allowing americans to decide for themselves what s best for their insurance plan. bill: one of the important tenets of plan is the tax credit. does that go to company and individual it goes to individual, not companies. the individual household would control it. they can use to it buy insurance.
with billboards talking about what? add voking the use of marijuana. in some cases taking aim at nfl s stance about pot used by players. coach of the super bowl team pete carroll says he hopes nfl looks into medicinal value of marijuana especially when it comes to treating concussions. is this a big deal for mill millenials to talk about pot? will this be a big campaign issue for millennials? it could be depending how it s phrased by each party and candidate. i think based off obamacare and other things duped into by this administration, a loss leader. when the time comes, obamacare hurting me, where are we on immigration. it s one of the issues like gay marriage obama used in 2012 to get millenials to swing his way one more time. i don t think these will help