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Because the affordable care act is gumming up the works and all of the insurance companies cant process and their computers arent working effectively. its really causing a lot of problems. >> maybe im confused. but why is your insurance starting on january 1? isnt that when you need the new cards? >> we started december 1. so we paid our bills in early november. signed all of our contracts in early november. usually its a time when we do the mac reina, were all done. we dont have to think about ...

You wont see the changes right away. it could take months before flyers even notice the difference. theres the cosmetic changes, the painting scheme on the planes and the counters merging. there could be some computer glitches that could impact reservations but heres the good news. if you already have travel booked on either airline, experts say you should be fine. that integration of the computer systems, that is many months away. also big question, frequent flyer miles, they are safe. there is...

Well and im sure there will be more to come in the days and weeks to come. >> there is a new poll that came out tonight. i want to share it with our viewers. the presidents approval rating at an all time low. 42%. five points down this month. the white house though is saying republican does them a favor on the hill. thats the quote we just got. how so? how did the republican dozen the president a favor? >> by point outing that they have continued to be opposed to providing access to health care ...

Deal with voters in a race of his own, which wrapped up next tuesday. in clinton, hes got one of the most famous closers in politics, a southerner who can help him turn out votes in the more conservative parts of the state. with a way of helping smooth things over. >> look, the computer glitches, its a bad deal but theyll fix that out. >> reporter: despite concerns about obama care, mcauliffe has been leading republican ken cucinelli, the state attorney general, in every poll since mid-july. in ...

Obama care. >> but excuse me, the health care system as currently operated needed some tweaks. >> yes, it needed tweaks. it did not neat to be completely reengineer reengineered and now its just mired down in a constant stream of bad headlines. you just got a $1 million grant to findened tell good stories about obama care. why arent we hearing those? >> right now, because weve had all these computer glitches, which are unmistakably a problem, but that doesnt meep that the affordable care act is ...

Unintentionally. you lent a sense of optimism to all of this, right. >> i think the own goal is obviously hugely problematic. my point was that were obviously in a climate wherein the opponents of the affordable care act are very interested in confusing the product launch which has been pretty terrible with the product which i think is very good. so to give them the opportunity to do so is truly an own goal. but the historical perspective that i wanted to introduce is that im, i think im probabl...

To sign up dont start working soon, theyre going to have to extend the rollout, theres no other way to do it. youll have to have longer open enrollment and a delay. >> cheryl, let me come to you. under president bush, we just heard this from the congressman as well, republicans defended the administrations attempt to implement medicare part d back in 2005 and 2006. there were major computer glitches back then as well. so is it hypocritical as well that the same republicans urging americans to be...

Prescription drug benefit thats been in effect almost two weeks now for thousands of beneficiaries, its been a rough two weeks. it turns out there are quite a few problems with the new system, leaving some without the life-sustaining medicine they need and forcing states to step in and help. >> what went wrong? on january 1st, 6 million people got switched to the new program. because of the massive changeover, and because of computer glitches, one out of five people got lost in the system. >> co...

Beneficiaries, its been a rough two weeks. it turns out there are quite a few problems with the new system, leaving some without the life-sustaining medicine they need and forcing states to step in and help. >> what went wrong? on january 1st, 6 million people got switched to the new program. because of the massive changeover, and because of computer glitches, one out of five people got lost in the system. >> computer glitches. people stuck in the system. but now, things are running smoothly. wh...

Decisions? >> well, we shouldnt be throwing good money after bad. and, you know, of course, greta, when you look at this, ultimately the buck stops with the obama administration because h.h.s. was the agency that was tasked with making all of those individual pieces work that were plugged together and ultimately didnt work. and it was a lot of it was because of the decisions they made in the obama administration to change the system to make people have to give all this personal nothingion. to do...