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The new new hampshire republican wants a bipartisan group to convene about the problems with the website and the law. there are serious concerns about obamacare's long term financial liability. early numbers from state exchanges, nearly all of those enrolled are being funneled into medicaid, not insurance plans that the system will depend upon for financeing. >> look, the system will never look unless there are five to seven million people in the private side of this exchange, not the medicaid side side. they are no near that. jenna: the architect of obamacare says he is not worried. >> we hav...

They can't be cut off if they get cancer, for example. and a lot of those plans that people had in the past that were paying a little bit of money for, that's exactly what happened to them. now, if they stayed healthy, they were fine. but if they got sick, that's when the insurance companies clamped down on them and that's what we're ending. >> do you think there's been some miscommunication on the part of the president, on the part of the white house and what do you want to get out of the hearing tomorrow? >> well, first of all, i want to be reassured that they're fixing the glitches in the s...

The gop faithful then kept up their crusade past the president's re-election. in a pattern of massive resistance not seen since the southern state's defiance of the brown versus board of education in 1954. let's look at just a few instances of the gop's attack to derail the health care law at all costs. republicans withhold all support when the law first makes its way through both chambers of the congress in 2009. in 2010, scott brown of massachusetts wins the special election up there after running a campaign to kill the legislation. his victory gives the gop 41 votes in the senate which give...

Okay. so then, cal, do you think the republicans should come up with a better way to overhaul the insurance market? >> yes. they have from paul ryan to the cato institute, heritage foundation, many, many good plans. you've got portability. preexisting conditions. nothing wrong with those. but when health care is run by a central government and decisions are made by bureaucrats on whether a 60-year-old person needs ob-gyn or pediatric care, clearly that's sowing the seeds for failure. republicans need to get out of the way. >> go ahead, crist cree. >> that's obviously not what's happening and f...

Surge in medicaid applications. we pulled numbers from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. they say obama care will add 9 million people to the medicaid rolls in the first year costing $21 billion more than we would have spent. by 2023, it will include 13 million more people at a cost of nearly $100 billion more than we would be spending on medicare without it. look at the numbers of the people signing up so far. we talked about it the other day. here are examples. in maryland so far, 96% of folk who is signed up have been on medicaid. in oregon, 100% have been medicaid. washington st...