Yesterday. We want to remind viewers as we peel away the layers of this law from march of 2010 when then speaker of the house nancy pelosi said this about obamacare. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. Now were finding millions of americans could have their insurance dropped as a result. Steve, want to p put you on pause in a moment. When we come back well talk about the politics. 10 any hoyer said yesterday the law should have been more precise. You wonder how many more democrats are falling into that way of thinking, but, steve, standby. There is sebelius in the room. Martha has more. Martha shaking hand to say hello to everybody as she gets ready to go here. A lot of smiles and friendliness on way in. Well she as she sits at table. The lead contractor on healthcare. Gov, warned her, warned hhs, the holt and Human Services website was not ready to go. So what under after that is one of the Big Questions that we exp
enrollment and early enrollment by the consumers the program needs, low-risk young and healthy, is required to keep costs down. so if we only have six people getting through 18 hours on website to purchase coverage all our costs go up. but now niece actually all along the administration wasn t even being truthful what this law would do. changes were made at the regulation level, changes that probably didn t even involve kathleen sebellius. none of this matters. the program is going to collapse under the weight of a lack of enrollees and costs are going to spike. it will no longer be affordable. now people who were insured through this program, who this program wait a minute even for are finding out that the administration wasn t truthful what it would do. why would they belief anything the administration said this point going forward. jon: the president said this time and time again if you like your health care plan you can keep it. turns out they re finding as much as 67% of the peopl
senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts are criticizing the obamacare rollout. she still says obamacare is a good product but quote, getting people in is crucial. i know that is why it is so deeply upsetting that the government just dropped the ball on getting the website launched. talk about it with a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist at the hill. if this were private industry and you were rolling out some big, fantastic new product, and it was taking you six weeks to figure out even how many people are enrolling, well, that wouldn t fly very well in the private marketplace, ab. no i think a lot of people would be fired and it would be deemed a failure but at this point i don t think it really matters if hhs secretary kathleen sebellius is fired as people are calling for because it is not even really a problem with the website. at some point they will fix the website and that, all the troubles with the website deter
because it would bring up all kind of hearings, you know, to replace her. there would have to be senate hearings. it would open this whole barn door again for all the mistakes that have been made to this point. i mean obviously politically they want to do whatever they can to avoid that. don t want to pick a person through the confirmation process. don t want her to take the fall when it might not even have been her fault but really look at the fact they re in this hole. does firing kathleen sebellius get us out of here any sooner? does it fix the website? does it help people who were self-insured and like packages and keep their doctor? it doesn t do any of that. the problem is the genie you is out of the bottle, that promised people with coverage that have no coverage you can t take it away. at this point how can be fixed? is it delay, website fix, combination of both? how have when they haven t been telling people the truth can they fix the problems? democrats can not continue to
partnerships. brazil s president canceled a state visit over the snooping. jenna? jenna: worth pointing out editorial pages for conserve-leaning, liberal-leaning writers taken issue with this. some president s critics calling him the bystander president. why is that? reporter: the republican national committee strung together a group of problems that seemed to he catch mr. obama s unawares, from the irs requiring extra information from conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status to the requests for additional security for the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, and the fas and furious gun-walking. oklahoma senator tom coburn said you can add the obamacare website not being ready for prime time. he asks who knew and didn t tell the president. who was responsible? what one individual was responsible for putting this together, or saying timeout, we re not ready? and kathleen sebellius says, maybe she s not. well who is that person?