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The success of the obama care rests on getting young, healthy people in particular to sign up for these exchanges. they can sign up vibrant risks, making it affordable for everyone. if the website isnt working or the stories of the website not working scare off would be customers, then that is a threat to the risk people. a threat to the risk pool is a threat to the heart of the law. there is still plenty of time here. december 15th is the first deadline for people looking to buy insurance excha...

Were not there yet. we dont know how long its going to take to fix this. >> the point is you want the young people like the ones we have here trying to log in today, you want the healthy ones to get in, because otherwise, the whole risk pool becomes a problem. so you need young, healthy people to affirmatively want to have this experience. >> we have asked three educated young people who are all healthy to go ahead and try to log on. >> theyre not under any pressure, are they, with that clock? >...

To give republican as chance to hold a hearing for her successor. what do you think about that? >> well, you know, this is not about the congress, it is not about the senate. this is about whats fair to the american people. look at whats happening, bill? you know the risk pool is being redefined. healthy people that are going out to that website and getting turned away, theyre saying, okay, i dont need to worry about this because im healthy right now. the people that are staying with it and pers...

Theyre seeing the costs. i think theyre looking at those $6,000 deductibles. in maryland its 6350. and i think if they think about it, theyre thinking wait a minute, i got to pay a monthly premium or i can pay a couple $0 hundred dollars. or i can pay $114 a month which is the cheapest plan, not 80 like the president said. and then id have to pay the first $6,000 out of my pocket, except for the three routine visits, which actually young people dont go to the doctor three times a year. thats jus...

District dont have haemt snins >> texas abo -- heart insurance. >> about 25%. >> how would you like your constituents that dont have health tendonitis get health insurance? >> our frustration is that we did have a high risk pool in texas that worked pretty well thats now gone replaced by this. secondly most of our businesses, most of our workers were in small businesses. they just cant afford health care. the problem with affordable care act it didnt tackle affordability it shifted the cost arou...

Well. states have been able to do this. they did a bad job managing cgi. they did a bad job integrating the contractors. so they took a project that yes was very complicated much harder than a standalone website because youre integrating with the computer system of the irs and social security administration of states of insurers a bunch of computer systems that are not that great so its a very difficult project. but simply not acceptable to say it was impossible. it was not point. from where it ...

There are goinging to hbe hiccups, how long do you think people can give patience to this? >> i dont know exactly. you get this question of how long do you need to get the number of people into the federal exchanges that you need for an appropriate risk pool. on the -- on eugenes comment, and ive heard this a lot, i actually dont think you can overstate ha complicated what theyre doing here is. how complicated this website is. its not like building a static website. its not like building the kin...

Sure that the young and healthy people are in the system and are part of the risk pool because if you are left with the risk pool and older and sicker people, that will drive up costs for everybody. and so if you do away with the mandate and incent aadvisory young and healthy people to stay out -- >> it means young and healthier people need to pay a clip to finance people like me. great to talk to you. thank you very much for you having the courage to vote your convictions, and now to make somet...

Pool. if you are left with just the risk poll with the older and sicker people that drives up cost for everybody. you will spread the risk with the entire risk pool and do away with the man date, that is going to have a bad impact on the system. >> that is a reality. and basically means younger and healthier people need to pay a good clip in order to finance the old gesies like me. thafshg you, young people by making my insurance less expensive. >> and congressman thank you for joining us and wo...

Wide as possible and make sure young and healthy people are in the system and part of the risk pool. if you are left with just the risk poll with the older and sicker people that drives up cost for everybody. you will spread the risk with the entire risk pool and do away with the man date, that is going to have a bad impact on the system. >> that is a reality. and basically means younger and healthier people need to pay a good clip in order to finance the old gesies like me. thafshg you, young p...