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>> okay, i will submit more questions and writing. thank you. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am convinced that the fundamentals of the affordable care act the we have seen over the last three years, the implementation in an orderly way, protecting millions of americans on this coverage and giving assurances that the practices that existed before the affordable care act are being dealt with. so this goes back before the passage of the affordable care act and we have seen how...

Way for the court to say, look, dont do only an all jesus. youve got to have some diversity here. were okay with religion as long as youre not funding it or making people who work there or want to go and be involved in government say anything themselves or participate in the prayer. >> well be watching for you later this afternoon. thanks so much. kathleen sebelius about to testify in front of the senate finance committee. chairman baucus as we reported said its clear that shes working as hard...

Office in june and another from the department of health and human services office of the inspector general in august identified significant implementation challenges months ahead of the october 1st deadline. more and more promises made at this time are made at the time this law was passed are now crumbling under the weight of reality on a daily basis. >> in the last five weeks access to healthcare.gov has been a miserably frustrating experience for far too many of these americans. it is unaccep...

That message will go out across america tonight. >> reporter: florida senator marco rubio who campaigned aggressively with cuccinelli in virginia is sponsoring a senate bill to delay the implementation of obama care nationwide. >> whats clear from the election yesterday is the discontent that exists with obama care is going to be a major factor in the elections next year. >> reporter: as soon as the obama care rollout went off the rails, the republican party and outside super pacs start bounding...

Click in come the middle of next year i think this will be in the rearview mirror. if the problems continue it will be an issue relitigated. i can tell you there are parts of the health care law that need to be fixed, 30 hours a week, whether youre a full-time employeee oar not, something ive pointed out for some time. youve got to have other folks who want to try to fix and improve it rather than relitigate the whole issue. >> senator as you know, some of your colleagues are calling for the enr...

Else thats happening with the health care law. first of all, the basic context is that we are seeing the most sustained post implementation resistance and political conflict over a major entitlement really at least since social security and arguably exceeding that, so theres a very charged atmosphere here and the administration has given the critics a lot of ammunition here. most importantly with the failure of the website on launch and now, with the president being forced to as you show ed n yo...

Gallup, take a look at the numbers with me. just completed a survey and found this approval rating now dipping down to 39%. so lets take you to the white house to our senior correspondent there jim acosta, who had a pretty interesting exchange with jay carney not too along ago. tell me about that. >> reporter: thats right. the only thing that can explain that dip, and its a significant dip, in those poll numbers is this intervening event that occurred with the rollout of obama care. then the pre...

Campaign wrote a memo saying i dont think that either the people or the processes that you guys have put in place are likely to produce a result that we all want. after that memo arrived the head of omv, the economic team basically said yeah, we are kind of concerned about. this and they raised some questions as to whether somebody from the outside, somebody who knew more about startup insurance, about running a business be brought in to manage the implementation of law. but obviously thats not ...

Law, people who were good at health policy, people good at lobbying, that they also have the skill set to carry the law out. and david cutler wrote these memos saying he didnt think that was the case. >> as the summer went on there were lots of meetings and she was running them and then the meetings people started stopping attending the meetings and she moved on to another motion, right. >> thats right. she was promoted and another woman who had been at hhs for a long time was very involved with...

And what our job is and the failure of the website to function effectively made the job more difficult, make sure that americans and portion of five percent of the population are getting information they need to know that they can avail themselves of tax credits, that will make their insurance cheaper than it otherwise would be. and in all situations for them, insurance options they have available to them is better and more quality coverage than what they are getting now. and the boston said the...