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Stick and it was going to be healthy. and in order to do that, off to mexico we went. >> reporter: that's right. off to mexico. that's because the gonzaless live in el centro, california, in a county designated as a medically underserved area. ariana has health insurance through her job as a high school teacher but there simply aren't enough doctors to go around so she was going to have to wait six weeks to see her obstetrician. that's why ariana was relooefd when a planned parenthood clinic opened in her town, filling the void. but now she's worried all over again. >> 217 and the neays are 21...

So many people in this country. >> yeah, because there are a lot of people who don't get health coverage the normal way, which is mainly through an employer unlesses you're 65 or elder, in which case you get it through medicare. if you don't get it one of those ways, what do you do, that's what medicaid is. it's funded jointly by the federal government and by states. the feds put in about 60%. the states put in about 40%. and this was expanded under the affordable care act or obamacare back in 2010. and that's what the republicans are going after right now. >> so it was expanded -- to your poi...

Particular that have expressed, each one of them has concerns, and in order to get over 50 votes, we're going to -- we'll listen to them. and to others that will help strengthen the bill and gettous that point. but that's part of that, that's part of the process, same thing we did on the house side too. >> so nothing specific from the house point of view. >> this is a discussion that we'll have with those senators, but i'm not going to telegraph it right now. as i mentioned, you correctly quoted me from earlier this morning that we're going to have those conversations with them, find out what ...

You saw, we're not at that phase. and just because of the nature of, you know, these are individuals, because of the numbers, the senate being what it is and the numbers that we have to get to 50 plus 1 is in a different place than the house where you had many more members to address. >> you look at the house bill and the senate legislation, is the senate legislation the preferred vehicle for this going forward? >> i think that the president's very supportive of the senate bill. there's a lot of ideas in there. he's talked about having heart and he likes a lot of the are reforms that have been...

Years, so $88 billion a year, total funding for the program at the federal level is about $350 billion so that $88 billion would be about 25% of all federal funding for medicaid right now, and that's why -- that's a lot of money, and that's why the cbo found the house bill would take probably -- put about -- it would take health insurance away from about 14 million people who would otherwise have it. >> but then what? i mean, if they take it away. >> that's a great question. then what? so the idea is that the republican idea is they're going to try to make -- adjust the incentives and subsidie...