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Plans are no longer going to be offered. but you are pleased that people with preexisting conditions who were never eligible for health insurance are now -- now have eligibility? >> of course. we are pleased that they have access to something we on our side of the aisle would have handled it differently, with some state-based risk pools, so that they had the ability to have access to affordable health insurance. that should be the goal of everyone in this process. how do we make certain that everyone has access. what we see happening now is that people are being priced out, and what started ...

And when people managed to get on, they can't even create an account or get pricing or competitive quotes or find out about subsidees and doctors. the list of things that don't work is endless. some states have nobody signed up. delaware managed one person who signed up. is this turning into the biggest bough -- debacle of president obama's presidency? >> it could be. if they are unable to enroll millions of people by march, the exchanges could stumble out of the gate. prices could sky rocket if the risk pools are out of balance. there is no question that there is a very heavy lift facing fede...

In order for these insurance pools to work, you've got to get young, healthy people. you pool the risk. that's why the mandate exists, right? if you have this glitchy program in which only people desperate for insurance, you have this perverse adverse selection via web glitch where you're creating risk pools that are disportiold sick. why should i not panic about that? >> there are a lot of instances, younger, healthier people would not selectively enroll. that it won't be fixed in time for them to be happy to be in it. it's better to have insurance than not and now, we're beginning going to g...

>> it's a good question. i am not sure the failure of the exchanges would destroy the private insurance market. we have to remember that most americans, the vast majority, ar ensured through their work or through a program like medicare or tri care. we are talking about a small group of americans. >> that is different than obamacare exchanges. you have 48 million people who are uninsured out there. the whole goal of this is to get a bare minimum of 7 million. >> that's right. >> if you don't, and you have to get it by march according to the administration, the whole system falls. >> it is true...

Cabinet members to tout the positive effects of the law to young adults, with commencement speeches, pr blitzes and repeal votes, expect continued debate about a law that is anything but settled. woo! >> wow, that's a lot. sam stein, i'm a freshman republican in the house of representatives. is this my initiation process? to have a vote on the repeal of health care? >> don't you want it to be, even if you're a freshman. it used to be repeal and replace, they were tied together. they tried to do a replacement thing and it was high risk pools and i could be wrong, they took money for preventat...