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The new new hampshire republican wants a bipartisan group to convene about the problems with the website and the law. there are serious concerns about obamacares long term financial liability. early numbers from state exchanges, nearly all of those enrolled are being funneled into medicaid, not insurance plans that the system will depend upon for financeing. >> look, the system will never look unless there are five to seven million people in the private side of this exchange, not the medicaid si...

They cant be cut off if they get cancer, for example. and a lot of those plans that people had in the past that were paying a little bit of money for, thats exactly what happened to them. now, if they stayed healthy, they were fine. but if they got sick, thats when the insurance companies clamped down on them and thats what were ending. >> do you think theres been some miscommunication on the part of the president, on the part of the white house and what do you want to get out of the hearing tom...

The gop faithful then kept up their crusade past the presidents re-election. in a pattern of massive resistance not seen since the southern states defiance of the brown versus board of education in 1954. lets look at just a few instances of the gops attack to derail the health care law at all costs. republicans withhold all support when the law first makes its way through both chambers of the congress in 2009. in 2010, scott brown of massachusetts wins the special election up there after running...

Okay. so then, cal, do you think the republicans should come up with a better way to overhaul the insurance market? >> yes. they have from paul ryan to the cato institute, heritage foundation, many, many good plans. youve got portability. preexisting conditions. nothing wrong with those. but when health care is run by a central government and decisions are made by bureaucrats on whether a 60-year-old person needs ob-gyn or pediatric care, clearly thats sowing the seeds for failure. republicans n...

Surge in medicaid applications. we pulled numbers from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. they say obama care will add 9 million people to the medicaid rolls in the first year costing $21 billion more than we would have spent. by 2023, it will include 13 million more people at a cost of nearly $100 billion more than we would be spending on medicare without it. look at the numbers of the people signing up so far. we talked about it the other day. here are examples. in maryland so far, 9...

Costs. what are we see? >> reporter: secretary sebelius puts the price tag at about $174 million so far, others put it closer to $300 million, but now numbers on how much it cost to set up the state exchanges, too, and the price is actually very hefty when you start looking at that. to start with, every state out there, except for florida and alaska, received a state planning grant, even if they did not plan to purchase in obama care, just to study how it fits into and affects state government i...

Billion,767,000, a little more than that. bottom line for level 1 establishments, more than 1.25 billion. bottom line for the level 2 establishment grants? well over $2 billion. this is how much of your tax money has gone to helping the states get ready for obama care. >> the white house has pointed out that some of those state exchanges, they are working quite well, suggesting the money was well spent. >> they have said that, and that may be a fair claim. other places are not helping much with ...

Plan through this website? >> no, sir, we do not have any reliable data around enrollment, which is why we havent given it to date. >> i understand you have said approximately 700,000 people have applied for coverage via the healthcare.gov and state exchanges. >> they have completed an application. >> right, which is different from enrollment? >> thats correct. >> my question is, are you expecting -- i know you dont have exact numbers yet -- but are you expecting a large number or a small number...

I have questions about enrollment concerns that i have. now, i understand that youve said approximately 700,000 people have applied for coverage via the healthcare.gov and state exchanges. is that -- >> theyve completed an application. >> right. which is different from enrollment? >> thats correct. >> my question is are you expecting, are you expecting a large number or a small number of enrollments during the first month? what is your thoughts on that? >> well, our projections prior to launch w...

Medical society is indicative of this. 44 percent of the doctors are saying they can only participate with obama care. and only 23 percent of the physicians surveyed in the poll said they will use and work with the state exchanges. and now 44 percent is a more important number because obama care is more than a state exchanges, bill. obama care is employer based insurance how it changes with regulations and individual market outside of the exchanges and every policy that is going to be obama care...