of the website that won t be activated until spring of 2014. plenty of time to fix the problem if there are any security concerns. i said yesterday on this program i think the mainstream media wants obama care to fail. i feel stronger about it today. this is a cultural war at this point. we have to find our moral compass if we are going to succeed. they are gathering every morsel of information in using it against obama care that will definitely save lives. why? because of corporate interests. more to come. get your cell phones out. i want to though what you think. tonight s question. does darrell issa want to hurt president obama or help americans? text a for hurt president obama. text b for help americans. to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring results later on in th on obama care oversight
text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring the results later on in the show. i was going to have a text question. do you think i should let buck hunt with dick cheney. but i thought we shouldn t do that one tonight. for more, let s bring in congressman elijah cummings of maryland. good to have you with us tonight. appreciate your time. good to be with you, ed. were you expecting this low enrollment early on, and are you alarmed as all the tv anchors are that only 50,000 people have signed up nationally for obama care? i expected a low enrollment, because i had studied the massachusetts plan just like you did, ed. and so, you know, i expected that. the other thing that i did not expect early on is that so many governors would have refused to expand medicaid. because that would have taken care of a lot of people. but unfortunately, they did not.
about obama care. and they are so strong and so influential, they have even infiltrated the sunday talk shows. you know what you get on sunday talk shows now? a bunch of conservative crap. you get the truth here on the ed show with people who are out in the workplace telling their stories about what is happening to obama care. i challenge one of the sunday shows, go to frankfurt, kentucky and find out just how the heck it s working out. go there on the ground. talk to the people. see what s happening across america. now, a warning again. this would be a positive story. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. can you trust fox news sunday to report the truth on obama care? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. results later on in the show. fill disclosure. the very first show i ever did on msnbc was about health care.
will qualify for subsidies under obama care. this is what not is not being reported. if you earned $46,000 a year or less, you would qualify for tax credits to reduce the costs of monthly premiums. that s good news. and if you earn $29,000 a year or less, and there s a lot of americans that are there, we ll explain that later in this broadcast, about just what 29 grand is to the working folk of america in this country, you can get additional subsidies to cover out-of-pocket costs like co-pays. these are the details that, well, fox just isn t talking about. and if you re wondering how many people in this country make about $29,000 a year, stick around. we ve got some staggering numbers for you on that a little bit later on. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question. will red state governors pay a political price for not implementing obama care? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622, you can always go to our
and i think handy is doing a serious disservice to the country by saying what he is saying about obama care, because it is lie after lie after lie. come on, sean. let s go face-to-face. i ll make sure that you don t swim with the fishes. you ll be well-protected. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. is sean hannity telling the truth about obama care? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. leave a comment. we ll bring the results later on in the show. now, i want to go to the reporter who did the follow-up. and this gentleman is eric stern, salon.com. eric, good to have you with us tonight. hi, ed. had you are you doing? good, sir. did you actually tell us your intrigue with the story that you motivated you to follow up on this, and what did you find? well, i called these i called these three couples, and what they were having was problems with the current insurance system. it wasn t obama care.