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Americans of jobless benefits. folks who want to work but cannot find a job. >> meanwhile republicans would rather keep the focus on any and all problems with the affordable care act forever and ever and ever. >> obama care right now causes people to spend more money, have less choice, have a higher deductible and less freedom. what i would say is we need to change health care. but what they have done, you can't fix this mess. >> okay. today the health care law reaches the critical enrollment deadline. since this is officially the last day people can sign up to get coverage that starts january...

And we've seen them hammering the website, they moved past that, hammering plan cancellations. they're moving past that now. what do you anticipate is the next chapter of this? >> i think the latest line of attack seems to be this strand of thinking that the affordable care act represents a redistribution of wealth in some way, shape or form. we saw that rolled out as talking points over the weekend, and to some extent, we can expect that that may continue. i don't believe that that really is going anywhere, and it's a debate that we should actually embrace. >> that's right. >> the republican ...

Reduced. the number of people who can simultaneously get on the website at the same time has been increased significantly. these are all positive steps in the right direction. now, the republican obsession with the affordable care act is legendary, as you've indicated more than 40 times voting to delay, defund or destroy it, shut down the government, cost the american taxpayer $24 billion in lost economic productivity as a result of this obsession. hopefully, though, given the successful relaunch, we'll be in a place where we can move forward collectively toward insuring tens of millions of ad...

But the insurance regulator saying we are not going back and a boyd by. this they got their state exchange up and running and feel like it is a success. they did all of the work and now the president is undoing it. it is just one situation. every state commissioner and regulator will have to decide the rules on the fly for their state. wow, i don't envy them their job. >> melissa, thank you for explaining it to us. >> we are watching the house floor and waiting for the vote on the upton bill that is trying to offer a solution to all of those insurance plan cancellations. we'll bring you the la...

About plan cancellations, and you said there's a lot les here than it appears. what do you mean by that? >> you try to put some meaning into this, okay, president obama said you can keep your plan. what do you think he meant? did he mean that insurers could not drop plans? i don't think people could have thought that, because it makes no sense. he also said you could keep your doctor, does that mean he's going to keep doctors from retiring or dying? presumably what he meant that the affordable care act would not directly cancel plans that were in effect. and it doesn't cancel plans that are in...