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Is what the president did potentially the beginning of the end of obama care? david cutler is the former senior health care adviser to barack obamas 2008 campaign. a harvard economics professor. hes been an influential figure in shaping the law and somebody who sounded the alarm about its implementation in 2010. professor, good to see you again. >> thank you for having me. >> when you were on last week i asked if they dont get enough people in the exchanges then what happens. you said then the p...

Is what the president did potentially the beginning of the end of obama care? david cutler is the former senior health care adviser to barack obamas 2008 campaign. a harvard economics professor. hes been an influential figure in shaping the law and somebody who sounded the alarm about its implementation in 2010. professor, good to see you again. >> thank you for having me. >> when you were on last week i asked if they dont get enough people in the exchanges then what happens. you said then the p...

Jona goldberg, juan williams, and george will. george, we have a lot of numbers to digest here. they told me there would be no math. but your thoughts on this day. >> the mathematics is small numbers as far as the enrollment is concerned. well, its not working. the exchanges themselves and the website arent working and neither is the explanation of both failures. the problem is we have no experience rolling out things like this, at least for about 200 years of our history. when we rolled out, if...

Republicans i think are going to want to pass saying if you can buy insurance policy x before the 1st of october you can still boi it and if you were selling it before then, you can still sell it, thats all you have to do. after that obama care disappears. >> juan, theres a few hearings up on capitol hill today. one of them dealt with the website and the web team thats working on this website. you can see a congressman asking about the timeline here. take a listen. >> youve got to tell us when i...

Folks said, keep your mouths shut. if you like your plan you might be able to keep it. doesnt sell as well as the message he has now. if thats the case, how can he come out and say, im sorry. isnt he responsible for what happens in his white house? >> id like to think that didnt happen. i would like to see the reporting and proof. if the it did happen its wrong and the president of the united states running the white house should say its wrong. they can forgive when somebody is honest and full d...

Of the plan suddenly are finding themselves in the hot seat for things that, you know, have to do with technology problems that were managed out of the federal bureaucracy far from their day to day lives and their offices. >> its not just that, not just the technology. we are talking also about individuals who are losing their health plan despite president obamas -- i think we moved on from the website in some ways. >> but they intersect in such a damaging way because youve got these people whos...

>> you may not keep your doctor or plan or hospital. one of those three and they are the big three. you may not get the health care you are expecting either. i think it is a about. i think its a real big problem here. it isnt just, bill, that the state exchanges arent working. thats the tip of thes iceberg here. thats a great headline. but once you get on that exchange, is your insurance working? >> youre helping us see the fine print. thank you so much. >> thank you. they served our country r...

About where they go from here, but its very clear from the tenor at this press conference that there doesnt seem to be a lot of room to move and maneuver for both sides. we are expecting susan collins. as soon as the democrats are finished, to come up and take the mike. she will have some words about what happened to her deal that she offered up. we want to bring in athena joans, who is watches all this. so much workers arent working, congress is sort of working. can you put this in any context ...

To pay the people who arent working. youve also suggested, it may be already if interest rates go up. lets sell freddie mac and some other real estate. thats like a guy that cant pay his debtssh so pri soon youre out of business. >> thats sort of a ridiculous statement. one of the things ive worked for is how do you do debt management? is the fact of is the matter is were $600 brill onshort. so 16% short of spending to the revenues. houses would you cover that shortfall? >> you borrow more money...

Could actually negotiate what the talks are going to look like so everybody is comfortable. and you mentioned yourself. this is a tough vote for the house republicans. youre asking them to take a tough vote for the debt ceiling. usually people in both parties want to have some cover, something they can point to and say -- >> which is fine. >> i want some budget process reform or another trillion dollars in debt. >> which is fine. if they want to do that, reopen the government, extend the debt ce...