have tried to get health care, comprehensive health care reform through in one way or another, and while there is tremendous controversy over this particular piece of legislation, and as you ve talked about, legal challenges to come, and republicans saying how is it going to be paid for, what is it going to do to generations to come, this is a huge win for the administration, and make no mistake about it, this signing is the beginning of a p.r. effort that this administration will make to go around the country and try to sell to the american people that this is a good thing for them, and that the termo and that to turn public opinion around. once the president signs this piece of legislation, the senate health care bill, it becomes the law of the land, even as, as carl talked about, the machinations in the senate about trying to deal with the fixes continue. but on the flipside of this, there is a flipside, and bret, before i say that, i want to get the attention
have insurance will be insured. and subsidized by the federal government. so the question becomes on this bill that will become law when the president signs it, will the benefits that kick in right away be enough for the american people to sustain them until 2014, to where the substance, all of the package, goes into play. that s the give and take. the benefit, will people see it and feel it, because the people, the 32 million, 16 million of them will be put on medicaid in 2014, and obviously, there are many concerns about medicaid and how states will be able to pay for that in the long term. but 2014 is quite a long time away, as we as the president signs this bill in 2010. martha: jenna: bret, we understand the president is meeting with congressional leaders before he comes into the east room. as we see the congressional