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Count on the security of health care when with get sick. that the work and dignity of every person is acknowledged and affirmed. the newly insured, like marla, deserve that dignity. working americans like jeanie deserve that economic security. women, the sick, survivors, they deserve fair treatment in our healthcare system. all of which makes the constant politics around this law so troubling. like every major piece of legislation, from social security to medicare, the law is not perfect. we hav...

Estimated number. californias well over a million. new yorks done extremely well. so you will see in these major pockets of where the uninsured are a very stable platform. but, again, you want a stable platform going forward, so god forbid someone loses a job or god forbid employers decide theyre not going to offer insurance, you actually have a place you can get affordable coverage, and so we really do need functioning vibrant exchanges in every state of the country. >> as we move forward and a...

Forever. well i dont think they have ever been that high. >> it would be surprising if the numbers dont go up because a lot in the plan already implemented. people like thing like preexisting conditions and younger people being able to stay on their parents plan. anecdotally in my life i hear people talking about the direct impact on their lives and people they know lives from the plan from the law as compared to few a months ago when people were talking negatively about it. its still very popul...

Care when we get sick. that the work and dignity of every person is acknowledged and affirmed. the newly insured like marla deserve that dignity, working americans like jeannie deserve that economic security. women, the sick, survivors, they deserve fair treatment in our health care system. all of which makes the constant politics around this law so troubling. like every major piece of legislation from social security to medicare, the laws not perfect. weve had to make adjustments along the way ...

When the politics and pr will be removed from it? and should it be separated? the problem here is that the pr and the politics -- it seeped into the policy. its getting in the way of the implementation of the plans. >> no question about it. i mean, thats been the whole story here. and one of the real stories of our time, the gap, the huge gap between narrative and reality, when it comes to politics. but people at the end of the day will experience this for themselves. part of the high bar republ...

Exactly. so i think on the policy side, youre definitely starting to see that, but politically, they want to keep their policy positions and their political positions separate. >> so if we move one step forward from the idea that maybe it can be repealed and we row move that, we still have to deal with the idea that it does need to be negotiated and worked on, any gigantic change to a complex american system will require work. i dont think anything this large that we have tried to do ever in the...

Implemented and too costly. so there will be a very big reason why the republicans have big gains. >> but you do have to sort of chalk it up to a good week for the white house, when you go back to the enrollment and the white house and whether it would even meet the six million target. so here it has met the target and could possibly exceed it. >> well, that six million target was reduced from what they previously had in. and we dont know how many people paid their premiums, and the design profi...

Getting rid of the name and rebranding it keeping the standards and implement them on a local level. the real problem here has not been the standards themselves but the implementation of the standards. people are unhappy with that. the interesting part about it is that this is a fight with within the republican party, indiana being a red state. its a fight between the tea party, which sees it as a federal intrusion into local education, which it isnt. its a state adopted standard. and it also a ...

States. parents are really concerned. this is a m of the grass roots of parents and concerned teachers. yeah, the implementation has been poor. these states where many of them filling out race to the top grant applications seen the final draft of these standards in the first place and many of them before the tests were written and now they are giving to their children. >> what is the problem at the state level, mike, when they have these states having these issues, row brand it and change the na...

President obama and the two spent nearly an hour on the phone discussing ukraine and de-escalation. the two agreed to have their top diplomats further about ways to diffuse the crisis. this moment is a significant test for president obama. back home political allies and opponents wait to greet him on implementation of health care reform and abroad the world waits to answer two questions. has the united states sufficiently rebuilt its moral authority to convene our allies for action against russi...