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Allowing the group to roll over our freedoms and libraries. you understand this, governor, this makes our system work, the ability to have an opinion and express that opinion freely and come in to the public spaes and wrestle through the issues. what they are notti doing is silence the americans who dont agree with them. >> tony, i know your own organization targeted with violence in a way that very few have. you have seen what economic terrorism and physical terrorism locks like. i appreciate y...

There has been a lot of concerns within the administration they would not meet their enrollment target which was 7 million then scaled back 6 million. we also heard 5 million. the real question is the demographics. are there enough young people to make this system work. as far as the delay in the individual mandate is concerned, the timing a little bit of a surprise. two weeks ago from the department of human health and services kathleen sebelius was. >> are you going to delay the mandate that i...

Transitioning to more expensive plans or on to medicaid, and those medicaid rolls by the way, the cbo says medicaid roll, expected to go up by 9 million, meaning taxpayer costs go up, too. >> another figure we have to put out from the numbers issued this week, that the age of those people signing up is still focused on the older folks. they need the younger folks, and only 25% of the people enrolling are young adults. those are the people that they need to make this system work. >> well, thats r...

Detailed people, and they have paid very, very close attention to everything, and they have analyzed this thing from every angle whether they can agree or not is another matter, but, you certainly could never fault them for their effort and in how they have conducted themselves throughout the trial. i could not be as i said once before, i could not be more proud of these folks in the work that they have done to try to get this case to a resolution. so, i will probably have a little bit more to s...

Act. the administration plans daily events through december 23rd but convincing young people to sign up for obama care may be a tough sell. according to a brand-new gallup poll, americans aged 18 to 29 are the least familiar with the health care law. this is the main group, by the way, an the administration needs toe attract to make the whole system work. call it crisis management on a global scale. vice president biden is on a mission to ease tensions between china and japan. he and the new u.s...

The ted cruz wing of the republican party which has been hell bent on destroying the affordable care act any way it could. is that message getting through to the american people? is the president being successful in this regard in explaining this? >> i dont think the white house still after all this time has fully figured out how to deal with this blanket opposition and obstructionism they get which is fueled by statements that are not true and hyperbolic. very simple fact. right now the republi...

Detailed updates on problems. the latest says, in part, were also getting information on which parts of the application are causing the most errors, enabling us to prioritize what we fix next. the website is key to getting young tech-savvy people to sign up, young, healthy people are key to making the whole system work, chris and kate, because they offset the older less healthy who are more expensive to provide health care for. >> brianna, thank you so much. a lot of news this morning. lets ge...

Affordable care act. weve signed up over 26,000 people. >> mostly medicaid. it is not the young and healthy people getting the insurance plans that are really necessary to make this system work; correct? >> of the 26,000, 21,000 are in medicaid. 5,000 are in qualified health plans. but weve got another 10,000 going on to the plans that are in the process of choosing. >> by the way, that was the magic of the follow-up question. theres 5,000 people who signed up for obamacare out of the 26,000 who...

The plan and its not working when it comes to limitation. how disappointed are you with this rollout where you think you have a good story to tell because you set up your own exchange? >> at 12:01 a.m. when our exchange opened up to enrollment, kentucky started swarming all over our exchange, all over our toll free lines, and in about four weeks, weve had over 300,000 kentucky yaian trying to sign up for obama care -- >> mostly medicaid, though. its not young people getting the insurance plans t...

Working system. >> and its the process of failure and feedback that makes a system work. >> thats exactly right. so what they did in a way, they saved up all the failure more after the public launch. >> thats really important. >> and the real managerial failure, the thing that finally made me wloe my stack, as i did the other day, was recognizing that on october 1st, when obama was going to go out to the public to talk about healthcare.gov, no one could pull him aside and say, hey, chief, play i...