To hear your experience as youve dealt with those online exchanges. The phone lines are open. You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media sites, on twitter, on facebook and on email. The story of the president s address and the problems the ongoing problems with the healthcare exchanges. Of thea front page atlanta journalconstitution. Over to the denver post. The front page of usa today calls for help for healthcare websites. That store noting that the white house yesterday signaled a shift in its tone in acknowledging the problems with the launch of the Affordable Care act. The front page of the i will readpost you a little bit of that post by amy goldstein. The front page of todays Washington Post. The speech is expected to take place at 11 25 today and you will be able to watch it here on cspan. We are taking your calls. What you want to hear the president say . What do you want to hear from that speech . Already getting a few comments on our Facebook Page already. This from alan. This release last night from the government blog. The initial Consumer Experience of health care. Gov has not lived up to the expectations of the American People. We are committed to doing better. Night from hhs, the president talking today at about 11 20 five. What you want to hear . John is up first from annapolis, maryland on a line for republicans. John, good morning to you. Caller hello . High. That the website is not up and running anywhere near what it needs to be. It was good to hear the president , i do want to say concede, but at least put on suspension if you will until he can get up and running and be able to handle all the very Sensitive Information that is being collected to look at a program for people to use. Side it is a kind upcoming, but the elections may see a third party emerge. I think the American People have not been heard through the whole of the i guess you could call it the funding by the republicans to put this in play. So it is a little premature. I think some things need to be looked at hard, but i do think the president ought to hold somebody accountable for the waste of money that went into this website creation. Host john talked about putting this website on suspension. This usa today story talks about the website being down for maintenance between 1 a. M. And 5 a. M. Daily this week. From houston,t texas on a line for independents. Betty, good morning. Would you want to hear from the president today . Caller i want to thank him because there are a lot of people here in texas that are not insured. I got on there and i appreciated the feedback i got from fromce insurance different insurance giving me their fees. It gave me time to find insurance on my own. It is a good thing. Everyone should have an opportunity to qualify to get on there. Cathy on a line for democrats. Good morning. Caller i tell you, im on c span and im a traumatic brain injury survivor. In a delphi, maryland working for dod when i left working for two star general. Chair, had an a 65 grand maul seizure. I am today fully disabled as a result of that injury. When i flipped to the channel and i see the federal cspan subject, i think cspan needs to hear about me. Kathy, what has a new Health Insurance law done for you. Has affected your coverage in any way . Hasnt done much for me. I am traumatically injured. Im fully disabled today. I pay a lot of money as a disabled woman for supplemental insurance. It is hard. I am 391 a month for fullemental medical on a medical disability in case you need to go back into brain surgery at gw hospital. Host that is kathy from laurel maryland. We will be talking a little bit more on a third segment of the washington journal today about what is actually being offered on this Health Insurance exchanges. Of your actual Insurance Coverage, that is with her segment with Kaiser Health news. In this morning were talking about the president s speech is happening at 11 25 today. We want to hear what you think the president needs to say about the problems with health care. Gov ahead of the thernments ahead of president speech. Jack lew was on meet the press yesterday and he wanted to address the glitches with the Affordable Care act website. Here he is. First, let me say that the huge outpouring of interest shows how important it is that we get this right. There are millions of americans who want Health Insurance. It is important for our economy for them to have Health Insurance. I think that there is no one more frustrated than the president at the difficulty in the website. I can tell you most people around me have been working fulltime on solving the more immediate challenges with getting the government open and dealing with the with making sure that we didnt default. There are people working 24 hours a day around the clock and the hhs has said that is going to putting out information on a monthly basis. Hhs has cut plans to fix it and it has to fix it and it has to be done right. That is treasury secretary jack lew. He is talking about the interest of his been shown in the website since it opened up. Obama demonstration has been touting some of those numbers as of saturday, this according to the Washington Post. 19 Million People had looked at the exchanges since it opened on october 1, that compares with about 8. 6 million who visited the site in its first three and a half days. Coming in on this subject of what the president needs to say today in that address from the rose garden. Red on twitter says john mccain offered a different take from jack lew. Here he is. Look, it has been a fiasco. Plane out to silicon valley, Principe Blodget are washington and fixes problem. It has been ridiculous and Everybody Knows that. Do think that somebody who needs to take the fall . That kathleen sibelius, some have suggested should resign . Lets have congressional hearings, lets find out whos or for this fiasco and then take the appropriate action. In my view. This is just the beginning of the problems associated with a massive restructuring of 1 5 of our economy. Theres going to be a whole lot more problems associated with this before it is done. That is why we republicans have to keep up the fight, but we have to rifle shot it rather than go at it with a meat ax which cannot succeed. Was john mccain yesterday. Some of the criticism of hhs head catherine sibelius. She has been asked to testify at a hearing on october 24. According to a press release from the committee, the administration has rejected the committees invitation to participate in publicly answer questions, including asking the secretary to come to that hearing. Heres a quote from the chairman of that committee, fred upton, a republican of michigan. It is well past time for the administration to be straight and transparent with the American People. Officialstion repeatedly testified, but brought technological failures revealed that is not the case. Youre the administration was not ready for launch or was not up to the job. The president and top officials were quick to boast a number of visitors to the health care. Gov, but theyve since gone silent, refusing to release basic enrollment figures. Those Administration Officials responsible have indicated they will not be available to testify next week. That is a release from late last the healthhe head of energy and commerce committee. We are taking your calls and comments. Neil is up next from darby, pennsylvania on the line for republicans. Newcomer what you want to hear from the president in this rose garden address today . Caller i want to hear him explain to people why is he in wontmocratic Congress Change obamacare. Hes a man. He should stand up for his own plan. Notes can says on twitter, maybe the president says he will not compromise with the website and appear to be holding his Affordable Care act hostage. Jean is up next from strongsville, ohio on our line for independents. Jean, good morning. Caller i just want to make a comment that my computer is 11 years old and i have trouble even getting on facebook, so part of the problem could be the computers that the people are using. That is all i have to say. Host thanks, jeanne. This morning political has a story. Were kind of thinking this is a tech surge in hhs official told politico. The person leading the tech surge is chief u. S. Technology officer todd park. This from bloomberg today. Getting a little background about todd park, about the u. S. Technology chief who is cofounder of the medical athena healthpany inc. And gaslight health inc. The efforts to fix website are members of the White House Program innovation fellows. That Program Brings leaders from the private sector and academia and nonprofits to temporary work on government projects with difficult histories, including computer and data systems and disaster response. If you of those folks who will be leading that tech surge as it is being called. Bill is up next from oldline, connecticut on the line for democrats. Bill, good morning. Caller good morning. I am a selfemployed guy who had cancer and ive been unable to get health care, so here in connecticut we have our own exchange and first data couldnt get on it, second it worked perfectly. I was surprised at how affordable the stuff is and it is really terrific. I think the states that have republican governors that have went to this federal ones which are having more problems and check the other places that are doing pretty well. Who called before from pittsburgh or someplace in pennsylvania, he said that the politicians and the whatnot were not involved in obamacare, but that is something they keep saying but it is not true. They are part of it. They have to be. Bill from oldline this morning brings up the difference between federally run exchanges and staterun exchanges. Heres a map to show you what those are courtesy of the wall street journal today. The blue states have federally run Health Exchanges and the orange states are state run exchanges. The green have a joint federal and state run exchanges. That is in todays wall street journal. Will explain the differences between state run an federally run exchanges later in our segment. Angelicao first to from edgewater, maryland on our line for republicans. Angelica, good morning. Justr good morning, wanted to say that i hope the president will talk about who he is going to hold accountable ,hat the system does not work with the account creation in particular. I may Health Insurance broker and i tried for myself to set up an account and was not able to do that for about 12 days. I have a customer for example who was able to set up an account, but what happened in she and her husband do not have any dependents. Theyre making 46 or 48,000 theyre making about 46,000 or 48,000. She was eligible in the system for medicaid which obviously is a huge mistake. The system is not working. The problem that i have its not really a problem, but this is what im dealing with, all my customers about insurance from 2010, they allof have to switch. Even now, im not doing with signing up new customers, im dealing with my existing book of business sorting through who cannot keep their coverage into next year and what that means is there are of course a lot of people that are getting these notices from blue cross, blue shield and other insurance carriers and they have to switch and i think that creates more backlog as well, because he notion that everybody who has insurance can keep it, thats not really 100 correct because they cant. They all have to either buy insurance on the exchange in maryland or off the exchange. That is all i wanted to say. Other than that i do have to say there are some good things about the new health care a lot that i definitely support. I do have customers that to qualify for that subsidy and im not saying that this law is all bad. There is room for improvement and i do hope that our Dysfunctional Congress in washington dc will be able to sit down with our president and better make the system host . Angela talking about some of the problems she had in signing customers up. Some of the problems are highlighted in todays New York Times. Some of the major problem solving those repairs is that the senators the centers for medicaid and Medicare Services is responsible for making sure that the separately designed databases and pieces of software from 55 contractors work together. If not, for a federal agency to assume that role and numerous people involved in the project to the agency did not have the expertise to do the job and did not fully understand what it entailed. The story goes on to note that a part of the system hidden from users i think id really want to see tell us when we [indiscernible] all they have to do is continue to improve and i hope they will again be honest. We are working it and were going to get it done. Thank you. Host a caller from bladensburg, maryland on the line. Good morning. Good morning. Have a quick comment i actually love the idea of the Affordable Care act. I just want to say that we just need to be patient. Things like this happen all the time. Has beendable care act debated extensively during the election and after that it was law not anow it is a bill. I dont know what republicans trying to sayp crazy things about hitler and nazis. Line for cant wait in Michael Jordan shoes if people can wait in line for Michael Jordan shoes or for movie tickets for hours and days and months, why cant they be patient with this. It happens all the time. I want people to be careful about what they say about a law that is law already and that is not really as bad as they try to make it seem. At that rose garden speech today, the hill newspaper mentions that obama will be joined by enrollees, consumers, Small Business owners and farmers who have already enrolled in obamacare online according to a story this hillg from the newspaper. Jan is from ted field, indiana on a line for republicans. Good morning, jan. Caller i think what i heard on sunday from every news reporting station is that this is a disaster. I think that is what the American People feel has been thrown on us. When the president came in he was going to give us jobs. He never rolled up his sleeves to get us jobs. Has given us another entitlement within 20 years we are not going to have Social Security. Heres no money within 10 years theres no Social Security and now another government program. Is going to be run just like everything else. Theres not going to be any box to put the money into. It is going to be spent. The problem is there is no security. Youre going to give all your Health Information to the irs who is not running anything and then the thing is that it is going to be able to be used by criminals internationally because they are a secureet into this location when you sign on. Im just asking the people to hasize that even the news said that the republicans were right. They should have waited. All they wanted to do was not shut down the government, the republicans in the tea party wanted everybody to wait because as you know, nancy pelosi said no one read the Insurance Plan of the obamacare plan. Before they approved it. Now maybe people will start to read it and realize that is going to cost us more to ensure 50 million americans that want that dont want to be insured. They want to do it privately. Some of theings up issues of who has access to the information. That is something we will get into it in hour later segment today with Kaiser Health news talking about insurance exchanges. That is coming up in our third segment of the washington journal today. We are talking about the president s speech today in the rose garden and we are getting your questions and comments. Some of the criticisms coming from texas republican senator ted cruz. That story quotes cruise on abcs this week. I will do anything and i will continue to do anything to stop the train wreck that is obamacare. Within 10 to do standing with the American People to work to stop obamacare because it isnt working. Caller thanks for cspan. I hope that president obama postpones the individual mandate for at least one year. I think all the problems that youre seeing right now are indicative of much worse of thes and probably most concern to me would be the security. Have how many people involved, how Many Companies and people involved tobacco the thingstion that so many can go wrong. We are party postponed it for the same kind of reasons for major companies, i think would be fair to do it for the people also. I guess that is pretty much what im thinking about host that was dave this morning. We will go to bethesda, maryland on a line for democrats. Heartened byreally some of the comments that im hearing from all side. To be verystarting thoughtful about the problems here. Anybody who has dealt with Verizon WirelessCustomer Support knows that when you have a huge organization trying to deal and help with a lot of people there are going to be glitches. It is a huge undertaking that they are doing. Theyre dealing with different kinds of code, it is like people coming into a room and everyone speaking a different language. Anyone who knows about i. T. Knows that this is an i. T. Problem. I wanted to Say Something about the way cspan handled the shrill and craziness that was going on in the last few weeks before the buildup to the