professor, david cay johnston, and democratic strategist, tara dowdel. i want to start with you, dr. smitherman. why do so many people still not know that obama care is law or have any idea what it does? well, you know, when it was first enacted, they spent a year, the republicans spent a year fighting the legislation. since then, you know, between its enactment in 2010 and its full implementation in 2014, there have been 40 attempts to repeal it in the house. most of the states are refusing to either launch the exchanges, so the feds have to step in, or refusing to expand medicaid. so there have been just a lot of misinformation and confusion over the last four years, including just significant opposition to the law. and all this misinformation is confusing the public. and in addition to that, as
states are waiting to figure out whether they re going to, for example, launch the exchange or expand medicaid, the states are paralyzed to really advertise what s going to happen if they don t know for example whether medicaid is expansion of medicaid is going to actually occur. so we started this show, like, syria 101. the things you need to know to make some kind of reasonable public opinion decision about whether or not you support strikes. so let s do this real quickly for aca. dr. smitherman, what do people need to know about october 1? what are the key maybe two or three things that viewers need to know about what is going to change for them on october 1st? first of all, if you are uninsured currently, that s 50 million people, you should go to your state department of health and human services or your department of human services, to find out what you re eligible for. whether you re eligible for the expansion of medicaid or whether you re eligible for one of the
baltimore ravens will be promoting obama care, but only in the state of maryland. as far as all the other states, the obama administration recently awarded $67 million to more than a hundred groups around the country to act as navigators to help the uninsured understand their options under the new health law. but now republicans on the house energy and commerce committee have sent a letter to these navigators, demanding extensive paperwork, essentially requiring them to spend time doing busy work, instead of educating the uninsured. protesting this busy work, congressman henry waxman, who wrote to the committee chairman, quote, the timing of these letters is particularly suspect. indeed, it appears that these requests may have been sent solely to divert of small community groups. joining me now, live from detroit, is dr. herb smitherman, assistant dean of community and urban health at wayne state university school of medicine. also with me, igor wolski, of thinkprogress.org, professor
nba um of new york presbyterian hospital. rebecca oney, ceo and cofounder of health needs, dr. herb smitherman of urban health at wayne state university school of medicine. you all have long names today. and mayor ed powlowski, mayor of allentown, pennsylvania. let s start here. okay. i have learned so much more about the course of this over the past six months. we are facing an actual shortage in doctors. explain to me what that problem looks like. well, you in your introduction, you said a lot of it, but we actually have a national shortage. probably over the next 15 years, 115,000, 120,000 physician shortage. that s total physicians. primary care physicians, 45,000 by 2020. and primary care physicians are
dr. smitherman, it will create jobs. jobs we need. if there was political will and wisdom, we would provide primary health care providers. thank you to dr. herb smitherman in detroit. best rest of you back for more later. up ñrnext, the political party with the record of marginalizing women is ruling egypt. we ll talk to two women in cairo after the break. we charge everything else. maybe it s time to recharge the human battery. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system from beautyrest. it s you, fully charged.