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Don't. what are the health plans, what do they look like, do i qualify for a premium subsidy. and then once they had all of that, then they can create an account and go and do the job that it's set up to do. >> what reaction are you getting from consumers, from kentuc kentuckyia kentuckyians? do they care about the politics or are they here to get something they don't have or have never had an option to get? >> we have 640,000 people who don't have health care coverage. and just the numbers speak for themselves. over the first month, we have had almost 400,000 people swarming all over this web...

Problem is becoming a metaphor for how we see obama care overall. is that fair? well, joining us now is the governor of kentucky. his answer is no. thank you for joining us this morning. you're trying to get out in front of this issue and say don't get caught up in the glitches. you need the law. you can make it work and it's working in your state. tell us about it. >> well, it's working very well here, chris. we hit the ground running on october 1. i think everybody in the country now feels like the kentucky health care exchange that connect, as we call it, is the gold standard, because it's ...

1,000 a day to get affordable health care. so it's working in kentucky. >> all right, so you talk about it working because of the preparation that went into it. you basically pushed through to make sure that this happened, against republican roadblocks that were happening in your state. we know a lot of republican governors around the country, they have not been, shall we say, lit on fire to make this fire. but connect had so much traffic on the first day, the system went down in about six hours. you all had to provide more servers to deal with that surge. were you surprised at the overwhelmin...

Law that 37 states would just fall back and let the federal government do it. so i know they're working hard. they'll make it work. you know, glitches are going to happen. when you've got millions of people like they do from all over the country, it's going to be a lot of glitches. but we've got a good long time to get this done and it's going to happen. we're going to get eventually all 640,000 of those kentuckians enrolled or in medicaid. you know, we're the only southern state that is both expanding medicaid and running our own health benefit exchange. and i'll tell you, it's going to put u...

Next few weeks. >> this has to be maddening to people like you. just last week the house with republican and democratic support passed a bill that would take care of the veterans. it went nowhere in the senate. >> our troops and veterans often become a political chew toy for both parties. you hope this is the group both parties could agree on supporting. our people have been under tremendous stress for a decade. this is the last thing they need. themp dealing with sequester already. now the shutdown and maybe the debt ceiling again. the calls to our education support hotline quadrupled because...