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So you keep those people out of the system and allow them to keep their plans, and you probably don't have a lot of young, healthy people willing to try 8, 10, 12 hours to get on this website. so already the people who are signing up are probably the older and the sicker. and the entire economic basis of this exchange system starts to collapse. that's a really big problem. >> well, that's really why the administration is saying to democrats, hold on, kind of like paul, saying democrats, hold on. we want to try and do some kind of an administrative fix. because if you do a legislative fix like ...

54% disapprove. that's another low for the -- for this president. >> let me give you ather number, the questn whether you trust the president, consider him is down 10 pointsince october. andha is as a direct result of saying to people, you can keep your -- you can keep your health care if you like. >> it's because of the -- if you like your plan you can keep your plan. >> and that goes to the -- a design. the administration said we are going to have a program to bring coverage to more people, many of whom will be poor and sicker and that's a noble, laudable goal. but if you don't want costs to...

>> i think we should spend more money on health care for the poor. >> talk about disparities in general. when we think about the question of these disparities should we be more worried about the floor, whether or not people have a decent life span, quality of life that's better than some previous time or should we care about disparities, that even if the floor is up, if there's a big gap, that should still matter to? >> we should care about both. improving everybody's health is a great thing but inequality also makes us sicker. when people exist in the world and are experiencing racism, are ex...

It would steam hospital still has a lot of explaining to do. >> dan simon, thank you very much. absolutely bizarre and disturbing story. still outfront, did the u.s. drop the ball again in libya? why the timing of two raids on terrorists may have cost america at a chance of a very high value target. then open gym for congress, new china as in plates. this is wra the shutdown looks like? then a blogger calls out a sicker for what she calls racist lyrics. was she listen go to the same song? and a machine for bad, three more episodes. i don't want to spoil anything. i'm just saying there was ...

Jim engle reports there are not too many people expecting a smooth start, though. >> reporter: there are still numerous questions about how and whether it will work. >> obama care succeeds or fails based on enrollment, period. >> the most important thing is whether young people sign up. >> the key are the young and healthy who don't have big medical bills but whose premiums will be used to cover the older and sicker. younger people are subsidizing older people in this law because health care costs for older people run more than seven times more than the cost for younger people. >> the key ques...