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For republicans. if the government shuts down and there's glitches in the beginning, the government shut down, how can you expect a very smooth rollout of obama care? most of obama care funding is mandatory spending. it's not subject to this discretionary funding. but if you have to imagine if the government is shut down and all these nonessential government workers, close to a million, are at home, it's probable to believe that some of the glitches are because the republicans shut down the government. >> you know what else alike? the idea if everybody is home, maybe they'll go on their local ...

At the point of care. a lot of health insurance companies are going to be doing huge marketing blitzes to try to get people to sign up. i think there's too much inertia to overcome. i think you're going to see no matter what barriers are erected for the navigators, we're going to see a lot of people get good information. >> a lot of you have suggested different levels of optimism, but both are kind of structural and they're about this idea that there are interests and these interests will push -- but this for me comes back to, i'm n convinced that my neighbors in louisiana are going to look to...

Wrangle with medicare to determine what's right for my patients. >> jay, let me ask you this. is it true that the administration bungled telling people what the affordable care act is about? because part of what i find so stunning and difficult to sort of navigate, even as we're sort of making fun of what the calls are, is the extent to which the branding, the branding of obama care, the branding of big, you know, socialized medicine, sticks for so many people, so that all these years later, there just isn't enough basic information about what the affordable care act is. >> that's true. the ca...

Okay, eric, we have time for just one more caller. >> melissa, we have the president on the line. >> what?! really? well, mr. president, you're on the air. >> the affordable care act is here to stay! >> oh, well, you heard it from the source, folks, this is going to happen. joining me now, jay engolf, the man who until recently was inside the obama administration and was responsible for the implementation of the president's health care law. carmen wong ulrich, host of "marketplace money" on american public media, igor wolski of thinkprogress.org, and dr. chris liliss, a primary care physician ...