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At your doctors office on january 1st or shortly thereafter, you are expecting to be covered and your doctors office may have no record you are actually indeed covered. what are folks supposed to do then? >> thats a real challenge. this is the back end questions that have been asked for the past couple weeks. we are transitioning from the sign up period for obamacare, for the affordable care act, into the implementation and the actual service of health care for individuals. as a physician i can ...

In." welcome, everyone. if you think obamacare costs america a lot this year, wait until 2014. the new year ringing in without enough people signing up. we have been warning you all year. now listen to this alarm sounding. >> the insurance understands it will be completely ruined and what will happen as a result? there is one way out, a huge government bailout of the insurers is waiting at the end of next year. >> michelle, is a huge government bailout of the insurers, is that on the horizon for...

>> oh, yes. i would put him at the top of the losers list. he put himself at the top of the loses list. he admitted he had had the worst year of his five as president. now, you know every year is different. id have to say 2014 doesnt look a whole lot better. its the midterm election year. obama is down to 41%. frankly, the sixth year of a two-term presidencicy usually not always but usually is not a very good year for the incumbent white house party. so i think the presidents going to have anoth...

Mandate but among the uninsured 77% more people disapprove of the individual mandate. >> it is by far the most unpopular part of obamacare. you are right about those numbers. 77%. and that is of the group that is supposed to benefit the most from this. the republicans have tried to delay the individual mandate several times. back in the summer, the republicans said why give that break only to business? what about individuals? they held a vote and 22 house democrats voted for it. my guess is now,...

Dramatic change to this law when congress comes back to work in the next week or so. here is jerry moran from kansas. >> we need to do things to improve health care in our country. the affordable care act is not the way to do it. but for us to determine where to go from here, one would think. jon: particularly spending taxpayer dollars, that congress would have something to say about it. >> reporter: the president is also going to have something to say to get back when he gets back from hawaii. ...

Democrats were up there. it is flipped and flipped quite a lot, 44% say democrat, and 49% say that they would go for republicans. i mean, what do you think about this? how much -- this has to do with americans not liking republicans because of the shutdown, and now the flip is theyre not liking democrats because of the rollout of obama care. how much does obamacare have to do with 2014? >> a huge issue, one way or the other. democrats will say, once people get coverage, once they start realizing...

People were able to shop for health care options. the fact that a million people went to the website is indication that the demand is high for the affordable health care options that are available. reporter: but they expect the problems to be ironed out. including better criticisms of obamacare itself. its not enough young healthy people sign up for health care coverage, some fear that it could add to the death spiral and it could pose a risk to congressional democrats who are seeing the dwindli...

Showed the two men dressed in identical robes but the pope wore a cape during his visit. americans are getting an extra few hours to sign up for health insurance. the white house changed the deadline to midnight after the healthcare.gov web site was hit with a last-minute rush. heres abcs chuck segerson. >> reporter: last-minute stymied americans and procrastinators flooded the governments health care website on monday. over a million of them attempting to beat the deadline for getting insuran...

>> david, the fact is, if you dont so more improvements in the future, we are hearing more reports of the democrats defecting and they dont want to do anything with obama care going forward. are you concerned about the defections in the 2014 elections? >> not concerned personally and i dont think democrats are. they are united in making obama care work and addressing the fixes to see it through to final implementation and with regard to john saying that we overblown the benefits, that may be joh...

>> yeah, i think theres always been a majority for the law or didnt think it didnt go far enough. and also when you see the numbers oppose the law, a lot of those people oppose it because its been implemented in an incompetent fashion. which is different than opposing the idea behind the law. so i think this is an example of the polling. but keep in mind the polls dont really matter. if they can get the technology together, if they can get the implementation together in the next six months, its ...