this and a belief in the government that borders on insanity to me. that you have the confidence they can pull this off. look at the website roll out. here is the thing. the difference is i m not trying to empower anybody. yes, you are. it s not social security. it is a national compact in which we say we ll the take care of the elderly, veterans. and we ll take the money from young people. you have a situation where i think it is now something like 40 million people didn t have health insurance, plus the people not adequately covered. bait and switch. worse health care, less access and higher prices. better coverage. no. often times better coverage at lower prices. what? like the website? millions uninsured after this. cbo says 30 million will be un-i sured. illegal immigrants. no. you guys wouldn t offer insurance to them anyway. not true. juan, the whole thing is a
to say we didn t work together. what can we do now. but i would love to see a world in the house i know you would too because you care deeply about this country and community. to say where do we go now? what are the parts we re going to see emerge? i think we re going to see this whole thing with the web site mess, it is a debacle. everybody agrees. the president, the secretary, we all agree it s a mess. what s going to happen next is people asking questions about access and price. people are going to say i have coverage or i don t have coverage? i can see the doctor i want to see or i can t see the doctors i want to see. we ll see the waves coming through. the question is will we be able to come through proposals that will make it through committee, floor, the senate? i don t know yet. if you re willing, if the republicans are willing to sit down and acknowledge, this is a great thing, that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. that is absolutely true. that women ha
came with a clear sound-bite length mea culpa. i apologize. i m accountable to you for fixing these problems. she repeatedly fell on her sword about the problem-plagued obama care web site. i told the president that we were ready to go. clearly i was wrong. reporter: republicans eagerly pointed out that the web site wasn t even working during this 3 1/2 hour hearing. it s been down the whole type you ve been testifying. reporter: democrats were eager to point out the positive. women can no longer be charge more than a man for the same coverage. reporter: but some worried web site problems are masking all that and want to be sure it will be fixed by the new november 30th deadline. do you have full confidence in this new hard date? i know that the only way i can restore confidence that we get it right is to get it right. reporter: still sebelius flatly ruled out extending a march 31st deadline to enroll or delaying a fee americans must pay for not buying insurance.
was overshadowed by irritation. it s great that you re a team player and you re taking responsibility. it is the president s ultimate responsibility, correct? you clearly whatever. yes. he is the president. he is responsible for government. obama care confusion reaches beyond the web site. insurance companies are dropping people s plans, something the president promised wouldn t happen. sebelius struggled to explain why. many of those plans do not have beefed up coverage required under the new law. the policy that they had may not exist, but they have a lot of choices of new policies. reporter: republicans called it unfair. some people like to drive a ford, not ferrari. and some people like to drink out of red solo cup not out of a crystal stem. you re taking away their choice. reporter: republicans came armed with constituent horror stories ant questions why sebelius herself isn t on the
that continues on. but the law says they have to provide different coverage. better coverage. different coverage, whatever that is. for the 50-year-old woman who was writing to me she says i m not going to have any more children. and i don t have a prostate, okay? that s fine. but the point is for folks to say they re now going to pay so much more because they re not the grandfathering option. that s a myth there for a lot of people. because if a plan changes its coverage, if a plan changes how much they re charged in co-pays, deductibles and premiums there is no grandfather option. people are saying i can t afford to make this adjustment. the compassionate thing we need to say its how do we help these people? i don t think they have an out right now. the question i want to ask you, do you honestly believe the administration is open to any significant fixes? everybody now the new word from democrats is we should work together. which i think is great. but that would actually i