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People are at least doubling their payments. some of the payments they have to make, they have gone out of sight. that is money sucked out of consumers wallets. a big deal. martha: white house says some of the people will get subsidies, they don t realize it yet. we ll see if that turns out to be the case. stuart, thank you. see you later. bill: when the president was in boston changing his tune, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius was finishing her testimony on the hill under fire taking responsibility for this obamacare rollout. here is part of what happened during those hours. i m as frustrated and aigry as anyone with the flawed launch of healthcare.gov. so let me say directly to these americans. you deserve better. i apologize. i m accountable to you for fixing these problems. while i think it is great that you re a team player you re taking responsibility it is the president s ultimate responsiblity, correct? you clearly, whatever. ....
Tone in the coverage of president obama. it started with the botched obamacare rollout and the coverage turned very aggressive. the clip you just played has become this president s read my lips, no new taxes in that, obviously, it s more complicated, but you can t just keep your plan because many of these are deemed substandard under obamacare. but i would say it s even broader than health care, martha. when the wall street journal reported the other day that the nsa conducting surveillance of allies like germany s angela merkel and the president said not to know about this, that created a whole spate of stories, analyses, blog posts about a disengaged president. martha: yeah. you know, you look at history, and you sort of seize on the appointments that really changed things on the moments that really changed things for better or worse for presidents, presidential candidates. health care in particular, it took hillary clinton a long time to shake the legacy of the health care plan, ....
Team as washington. what do you think? bill hemmer? bill: i think there is growing support and pressure to change the name. martha: i think that s very true. bill: and i think, you know, whether you re a redskins fan or not, it s just a question of time whether you own the team or it s the commissioner, roger goodell, who forces your hand. you know how this stuff works. martha: i sure do. bill: the more attention it gets, eventually the pressure s too high martha: i had a redskins pin that had the two ribbons and a rabbit s foot hanging from it? i m sure that would be really popular now. bill: keep that, okay? it s going to be valuable someday. martha: i think it might be. all right, so has the media coverage of obamacare and this presidency, in fact, started to change? howard kurtz watches these things closely, so he will tell us whether he thinks the honeymoon may be over. and nasa s intergalactic discovery, a whole new world out there bill: hot dog. ....
Threshold, but obviously, senator paul is making his point. this comes as lawmakers are faced with that decision, do i put my staff on the obamacare exchanges here in d.c., or do i argue that they deserve an exemption? those who have fought obamacare are clearly not happy. services in this building said to my staff don t buy the health insurance at healthcare.gov because once you go in, you can t get out. you might remember there s a cockroach product, a remover of cockroaches? it was called the roach motel. and their saying was once you get in the roach motel, once you get in, you can t get out. well, that s the way it is with the obamacare plan. reporter: the way it stands now, leadership and committee aides are exempt. the question is whether these lawmakers who are leadership will also try to bring their personal staff under that umbrella. bill: what about getting other top government officials to sign ....
Up for obamacare? reporter: a lot of people arguing that the president should live under it, the chief justice should live under it, and there are those who are trying to recruit the secretary of health and human services to join. you re the architect of the whole program, and you won t go it into it with the i did not say that, sir, i think it s illegal [inaudible conversations] come on in, the water s fine. reporter: a lot ofize of eyes are on the democratic leadership side to see if they will actually allow their employees to go on to the exchanges or whether they will exempt them. bill: mike, thanks. we ll watch it. i mean, why just roll a computer in the office and sign on up, log in, show everybody how easy it is. martha: just like buying a book on amazon.com. bill: right. everybody that s got a computer martha: check out all the choices ....