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From medicare and medicaid. we are fakes decreasing reimbursement and increasing cost of doing business. >> doctor, the patient who has medicare and medicaid. it is not like it cost you 100 to go through the procedure. they are fixed costs that the government decides no matter how long it takes and do. is that why you quit taking medicare and medicaid. >> that is part of it. the biggest problem with medicare was the regowls and coding. where as every other insurance company has one code for an a...

Politician i have ever seen. i though, exactly. you are waiting for him. you are waiting for his marriage to end. he is something a child would draw. >> he was great in "babe." >> oh. i have a feeling none of us have any strong opinions about what happened today, but did you watch any of the hearings? you didnt. >> no! >> i didnt think so. >> the summary i read was shorter than what you read. >> i know, i know. >> i learned more just now. >> do you think she should resign? >> i dont know. this w...

It was built, the software was designed by researchers at the u.s. naval research laboratory. they knew once you have these levels of coding, its very hard to trace. so now the fbi is trying to have new tools which they can penetrate the layers of anonymity that this software allows that hides the identity of the criminals. its a real challenge to law enforcement because a lot of the laws were written 20 years ago. and are in no way strong enough to be able to penetrate this technology. >> reall...

Important enough that each of the contractors said they had been through some hipaa training. what we wanted to do in the interests of privacy of our constituents is make certain as they build this data hub that will contain your medical as well as your financial information and as this is shared with the different agencies with the insurance companies that are going to be -- >> but what specific information does the website ask for and specifically what private information that the government d...

Frustrated, how do we fix this? there are reports that there was a massive amount of coding involved in the project, something like 500 million lines of codes and 5 million lines of code needed to be fixed they asked cheryl campbell, she again, shes a vp of one of the contractors, listen to what she said. listen to her answer, suzanne. >> does cgi have to rewrite 5 million lines of code to fix the problems weve seen thus far? >> no, sir. i can tell you 300-plus employee i have back in the office...

Technology but they werent communicating with another contractor working on another technology and some people realized that the coding was off. so they told another contractor who was in charge of telling someone else. this is why you -- i mean, from a silicon valley perspective, successful website happens in a successful company -- even google in those beginning phases, when youre in this lean phase, identify it, take it to the top and get it fixed. here it sounds as if that simply didnt happe...

Problems are. i think were discovering right now, which is a problem in and of itself. so just going out there saying, we got it, well fix it, is -- >> not we got it, we blew it and well fix it. >> i mean, he did say that. >> i know, but thats part of the problem. >> the reason he was perhaps long winded or 26 minutes longer than you would have preferred is the administration feels like they need to make the case for the aca independent of this website stuff. i think theres a legitimacy to that....

I am a little less forgiving because they did have three years to put up that website. but three times is plenty of time to get the coding right. and what were looking at is a real coding failure. that said, you are seeing a patchwork of health care reform develop in this country, in which some states are buying into the concept of bawl care, places like kentucky, new york, et cetera. and even now in ohio where john kasich announced that he would expand medicaid to poor and lower class ohioans, ...

That? >> i dont know any specific test. would i send to you hhs. >> im confused. is the hhs not part of the obama administration? because of all of this, the more the white house should delay the individual mandate immediately. frankly, wed be best off without any of this. joining me to help try and sort through all the spin, the democratic strategist trying to heap upon you, our guests, three years, $26 million, a 12-year-old could build a better web site. >> i hardly doubt that. this is about ...

Website. its sort of a website thats supposed to be functioning like a 2013 website its built using 1990s coding language so you get error messages, crashes, freezes and so forth. >> how can that be? this is a country that gave us google, amazon, apple. and the government cannot create a functioning consumer-oriented website? >> a lot of this is deliberate political choices. for example, the health and human services department didnt want people to see what the total cost of the plans would be. ...