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Whether she regrets and not, the point is that this a ministration has been very successful at getting celebrities to endorse his policy. the reason they step do this kind of stuff, salaries are especially useful because obamacare really needs jen people to sign up for it to work . >> turning out young people is crucial to make this law work. that is with the obama administration says. there numbers shows in order for this lot to really work and be sustainable in need about two half-million youn...

And when he told the american people that you could keep your health insurance if you wanted to keep that plan, period, he said that time and again, he wasnt telling the truth. and i think that fundamental dishonesty has really put in peril the whole foundation of his second term. >> on that point, we are talking about a small piece of the individual market, about 5%. in your law in massachusetts, there were also minimum requirements for health plans in order to qualify for health insurance in m...

Campaign and as a centerpiece of obama care over the last several years saying time and time again that fundamental to his plan was the right people would have to keep their insurance plan, and he knew that was not the case. he could know it by looking at massachusetts and seeing people there lost insurance. he could have learned those lessons and told the people the truth, but he didnt. he told people they could keep their plan. and, you know, it was nbc news that said, look, some 6 million peo...

Everything. >> the administration pointed to the states if they are not enrolling in the exchanges, medicaid under cut it all. it was successful at the state level. they were enrolling in a different program which is medicaid. >> the way the medicaid rolls wanted to get people on who werent insured. the people who were supposed to the sign up and pay money out of pocket which you dont have to if its medicaid. >> their money would be used to do what? >> that would pay for it. if you dont have hea...

Everything. >> the administration pointed to the states if they are not enrolling in the exchanges, medicaid under cut it all. it was successful at the state level. they were enrolling in a different program which is medicaid. >> the way the medicaid rolls wanted to get people on who werent insured. the people who were supposed to the sign up and pay money out of pocket which you dont have to if its medicaid. >> their money would be used to do what? >> that would pay for it. if you dont have hea...

Insurance is more affordable and more secure. if you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan. >> if you have health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, your choice or doctor, keep your plan. >> if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. >> period. no qualifier, no caveat. how many people are signing on oh to the bill now? >> currently we have 40 republican cosponsors. we need democratic senator...

Curve down. that also is a broken promise by this president. >> the other problem for some americans is i took a look at a couple they are junk policies. im surprised the state attorney generals arent going after companies for selling absolute junk. they sold nothing. no hospitalization, its obscene what some of these policies are. >> greta, what really prompted me to drop this now, there was a couple mel in wisconsin, both suffering from cancer, she has stage 4 lung cancer. they got dropped fro...

Affect the cost of those who do choose to enrole? >> certainly, a risk pool needs a balanced market so you need people who are older and sicker to be balanced with people who are younger and healthier. that is how a pool works. >> at what point are we going to see a problem having the risk pool if the tech problems cause affecting folks who are entering? what are we going to look for? what are we going to use to decide something needs to be done? >> again, sir, well be monitoring the during the ...

We are basically keeping this private insurance industry on life support. and if which had a single payer situation, there would be no uncertainty. it would be very clear, people would get -- thats what they want, they want security from their insurance. >> theres a bunch of headlines from the medicare rollout that i thought were pretty interesting. check out medicare, there is a simplicity and that gets us back to the rye kwlan plan, which is going to put -- can you imagine 50 million senior ci...

Have had a point person reporting to kathleen sebelius every week, to the president pre week. weve got this, this, or at the end of september saying were not ready into this . >> actually doing the nuts and bolts work of making that policy function correctly. i think those are two different thingsings. >> also inforing the american publicing about why, for example, that some insurers might cancel insurance. this is why. when you go into a risk pool as dana was talking about, why it might cost yo...