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Companies, no mandate, no waiting period if the coverage lapses for any american. rand paul was a no vote before the meeting yesterday at the white house. he is with us live now from capitol hill and senator good morning to you. you met with the president as well yesterday. i just rattled off a number of ideas that you have now for the senate majority leader. your colleague in the literal sense from the state of kentucky. has he given you an audience on these ideas, senator? >> we haven't heard from anyone in senate leadership yet. i had a good meeting with the president. he is open to making ...

There's no guarantee on that as is in the current plan. what's in with the current plan, the age-based tax credits, penalties for coverage lapses, high risk pools. so and then the list goes on. how would you compare these plans? >> well, i think, you know, as paul krugeman said it best, this is obamacare version 0.5, based on every dimension takes affordable care act and makes it worse. take one example, the tax credits, seems obscure but important to understand. under obamacare it's set up so a low income person only has to pay a certain per tcentage of their income to make it affordable. und...

Big changes that would make you perhaps support them? >> you know, one baseline president obama and the house and senate democrats should get credit for is protecting people with pre-existing conditions, not putting that uncertainty across the country. i also believe that making sure that young people can stay on their parent's coverage up until the point they are 26 it. under this bill, if your coverage lapses as a young person, you could be charged up to 30% more for a lapse in coverage and right now millenials across america are finding it very hard to have long-term jobs. they are changing...

Preconditions thing? >> yeah, i think the conservatives ran on the notion of pulling up obama care by the roots and having a perfect free market sin. that is a lot of money, and part of the thing was they were spending too much money on health care and now they added $8 billion. >> no, but the idea is the reason you have the option for states to apply for raifrs it you would allow them to suspend -- you could charge people more money. that is the danger. they would have to pay more money if their coverage lapses, but you do that so you have a high risk pool that has

Millennials today are moving from job to job to chase economic opportunity. and insurers can charge a 30% surcharge if your coverage lapses. this is bad for everybody. we hope they come back to us and do everything to improve the affordable care act but this is going down in flames. >> do you think this vote is going to happen tomorrow in the house? >> they are rushing it for a symbolic reason, not because they've been working or collaborating over it. they want to repeal it on the seven-year anniversearies of the affordable care act. i don't think that's wise. we should move baseod what has t...