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It cant be abrupt. yes, its not perfect policy but the makes sense for fairness and implementation. >> is there a certain that legislation like this could chip away at a lot of the key goals of legislation? >> when its to fix for transition reasons i dont think so. if you totally unravel the individual mandate which was what the republicans were holding out for when they shut the government down and threatened to default that would have unraveled the design of it. if we were in a more functional...

Broken promise that washington seized on this week. harry reid said that hes done legislating over the affordable care act. do they feel that the administrative fixes introduced this week do enough? if so, does the sort of public outrage start to die down and implementation of the law start to continue? the way democrats see theres still a year to go stand obama care wont be the central issue of next years campaign. >> lot of people are noting all were hearing is the problems with this rollout, ...

A continual version of this as the implementation of the law struggles. so the president is trying to assure partners in the insurance industry that he wants the policies still destroyed and we can also assume that hes reassuring liberal supporters that the fix is meant not to work and that the policies will be destroyed. >> we talked about it with one of the architects of obama care who explained to us how if you keep people out of the exchanges and let them stay on their existing plans it coul...

President yesterday saying its on me, its on me. seeing different administration officials saying its really the insurers. i dont think that is the strategy is going to work. they have to try something because this is such a debacle as sebelius has called it herself. they have got to go another play. there is so much unrest on capitol hill among democrats about this especially with a year to go in the election. a lot of these democrats set months ago and we talked to them. they were jennifers ha...

A pitch battle without retreat and unrelenting. so that makes it difficult to just have cooperation on implementation issues which would make things better for all americans, even if you are somebody who doesnt support the health care bill. >> this week the president said that insurers should temporarily restore cancelled plans but he said that without talking to the insurance companies first, just the latest gaffe. what do you think the white house needs to do right now from this point moving f...

Legislative fix. of course the stakes couldnt be higher, the presidents legacy riding on all of this. >> thanks such kristen. earlier today i spoke to joe cesstack. he said president obama could have used a few of the lessons he learned in the navy. >> i learned inspect what you expect. the president should have been down there demanding input to see that a botched implementation didnt occur. when 60,000 pennsylvanians were losing their health care every year, before the affordable care act was ...

Achieve meaningful reform for more than 100 years, in fits and starts from teddy roosevelt to bill clinton. weve had incomplete but deeply important successes with medicaid and medicare, even cobra policies. but it was not until president obama and speaker pelosi finally made this decades-long struggle a top agenda item that we finally, at least in some measure, began to move toward a meaningful, contemporary expansion of health care coverage for all americans. and republicans fought it every st...

>> jim:ing me now is antheeya butler, professor at the university of indiana, and a republican strategist former aide to rick santorum. thanks for sitting through my rant. >> it was interesting. >> i think no doubt republicans scored a big political win in terms of having the president to back down on this question of full implementation immediately, right, by basically allowing people an extra year with those plans. but is it a win for the american people? its clear its a win for the republican...

98% of the american people, either, genuinely wouldnt change at all or they would be pleasantly surprised with the options in the marketplace and that the grandfather clause would cover the rest that prove not to be the case. thats on me. joining me now is joe sestak. you have been a supporter of obama care. with the problems of this rollout, has that changed your feeling? >> no, not at all with legislation. look, i learned in navy, expect what you inspect. the president should have been down ...

President yesterday saying its on me, its on me. seeing different administration officials saying its really the insurers. i dont think that is the strategy is going to work. they have to try something because this is such a debacle as sebelius has called it herself. they have got to go another play. there is so much unrest on capitol hill among democrats about this especially with a year to go in the election. a lot of these democrats set months ago and we talked to them. they were jennifers ha...