republicans have to give us an alternative. they've never done it. >> i agree. thank you. that is all the time we have

. >> people don't have gaps in coverage. that's the responsibility i think all of us as regulators share. >> in terms of the reinstatement, what is the

incentive for insurance company if they sent out cancellation notices? what would the incentive to go back and rewrite those policies? >> the problem would be if those folks who were canceled can't get on this flawed website and are not able to find out alternative coverage, find that alternative coverage, then the insurance company that sent the cancellation notice looks like the bad guy. i don't think they want that. they also want to find a way to kind of provide a little bit of a -- close the gap a little bit so that people don't fall through the cracks here, partly because and mostly because they weren't able to go on that website when they got those cancellation letters to find out what would be available for them. >> in terms of policies that would be canceled because they didn't meet the requirements of obama care that would go into the exchange so people theoretically can access the exchange and choose them, do the

insurance companies -- are these more expensive for the insurance companies or do they make more money with them or less money or be magnanimous and decide to offer them back? >> these are policies that will be sold outside the exchange. the policies in the exchange will still comply with the affordable care act requirements and essential health benefits. these are policies that would be outside the exchange not eligible for tax credits. would still have the benefits that don't meet the essential health benefit requirement. in most case, they were canceled because they were less generous, let's say, with the benefits than the affordable care act requires. so they may still be priced at a favorable rate for the -- for these individuals. the concern that we have from a regulator standpoint is the folks that want these policies are people that are younger and

healthier. those are the folks you heard that frequently said they want to get the young healthy folks into the exchanges because that's what helps offset the costs for older sicker folks. this further segments the market and keeps that market seg mentation around for another year. that for me is one of the bigger problems. >> for those 9,000 if they all decide they all want their own policies back and the insurance companies offer those policies back, do you expect the premiums will rise and to what extent do you expect that to rise? >> the premiums may go up. we'll have to see because the companies will have to look at a different marketplace now. the marketplace is changing. i don't anticipate they are going to go up considerably. of course, this fix that's been proposed is just a short term, that some of the considerations

today being debated in congress were for these substandard policies to be allowed to be sold going forward. that really does continue the market seg mentation that would make it very problematic for the exchange. where the increases potentially we'll see would occur are the exchange policies that then don't have younger healthier folks in there to help offset the costs. that's where you may see some price increases. >> in terms of doing the math, i would think the insurance companies prefer to sell them on the exchange because you're forcing people to buy more than they otherwise want to by and added addition because these will be subsidized for many americans and subsidized means you have the american guaranteeing it. in my occupation, if the government guaranteed we will get ad payments every four or five minutes. this is a nice guarantee. don't the insurance -- the people selling insurance, wouldn't they prefer to sell it on the exchange? >> i think they probably would

prefer to sell on the exchange. but in this case, if they are going -- if the president has said, if you -- you know, he said frequently, if you like your policy you can keep it and people started getting cancellations and now they're in a situation of having to live up to that promise, and i think it's -- you know, it creates some problems, yes, i think they would prefer to have policies that were uniform across the board. several of the state regulators have already spoken out and said they're not going to require companies or ask companies or permit companies to renew those policies, washington state for example. >> all right. bottom line- >> so, it's -- >> you are republican, you are a commissioner, i'm curious, with that laid out there, has this been a good idea or bad idea what's happened to the insurance industry and access of americans to medical care? >> well, i think everyone needs to have access to health care.

our system today does not do that. i think we -- probably the bigger issue is getting costs under control. that will be even more difficult. there are things in the affordable care act that attempt to do that. this short term fix, i think, does address the concerns that i as a regulator would have, that's people falling through the cracks. going without coverage, having a coverage gap because they can't get on the federal website. that's really what's caused, i think the angst. if people had been able to get their cancellation notice, and then go directly to the website and see what's available for them, i don't think we would have the concern that's being expressed today at least to the extent it's being expressed, i don't blame those folks. it's scary, especially for somebody who had pre-existing conditions to think they might have to go without insurance. >> commissioner, thanks very much. >> thank you, greta. >> h hrhhs secretary kathleen

sebelius is adamant insisting the obama administration is not blaming insurance companies, meeting with health executives to discuss the proposed temporary administrative fix. josh is here with the latest. nice to see you, josh. what happened at the meeting? do we have any information coming out of the meeting? >> we have a little bit of information. the president spoke briefly with reporters in the room. interesting he didn't talk about this new fix mentioning he wanted to make sure he worked with insurance companies to make sure americans know what's available, what their options are. we did get word after the meeting from the white house a little more detail what they talked about and do know one of the major topics was this fix, how was this going to work? how are they going to work it out so people who already lost their insurance might be able to get it reinstated and a lot of concerns the insurance industry has about how this is going to work. when the executives walked out, did they talk to the press?

the white house has spoken, were the executives talking? >> none of the insurance executive executives talked to reporters. sometimes they do and don't and some issuing statements saying look we're not sure this is going to work out for us. >> are they now mum today or giving us any information how the meeting went and whether or not they liked the president's fix? >> it was within minutes of him announcing this fix, a lot of insurance groups and represent insurance companies came out and said this is really -- we need to take a step back and see how we're going to be able to do this. i think the reason you're seeing a muted reaction, people are still waiting to see which states will do it, which insurance commissioners, like your previous guest, will allow this to happen until there's a little bit more clarity, it's hard to tell. >> i follow the money. if the insurance companies can make money doing this temporary

fix, i think we will see it. if they can't, this isn't going to happen. >> everybody under the affordable care act has to have insurance or else they have to pay a penalty. >> some insurance you make more money. if you oversell insurance you will make more money or if you sell it to a healthy person youl it to a cisick person. >> if they don't make this possible to sell insurance the obama administration is going to hammer them for the next year and say, look, we did our part and the only thing standing between you and your insurance is your insurance companies. >> any good lawyer said you fed t them to t-- >> and coming up, is this really a fix or is the president in a fix? abc's rick klein is here to talk about that next.

>> it's a siz ling question. does tom's fix really fix anything. abc political director rick cline joins us. feenk, rick what's the word on it. i think he may be o for 2 on the politics had you 39 democrats today bucking the white house on this bills need to veto. on the policy. if you the key if you liked

your plan. you still can't say that with a straight face because several offer those not the federal government. it's not obamacare's fault. but he won't be able to say you definitely get to keep the coverage you have. >> what do you think the reaction from the white house is tonight. >> yesterday was the fix. they had the vote today. are they like high fiving and dodged a bullet or are they freaked out? what do you think? >> i think they are happy to have congress out of town and have the weekend here. they had to pull off the band-aid with what they talked to the president said and extraordinary series of admissions about and the apologies that came kind of every few minutes during that hour. but i think now they need to fix the problem. >> is it actually -- here is what i don't get. is it the president's bill let's everybody who got cancelled, is that you can now, if it's offered, you can now -- if it's offered. which i'm not convinced it will be offered. if it's offered you can buy into it. the bill today and it's for

one year. the bill today, fred upton the republican bill says the same thing except one thing allow people who weren't cancelled who weren't part of that group they could buy into it if it's offered. >> that's right. >> the president said he would veto it why does he care? >> it's not just a one year fix because the whole -- the thing is that the fix that the president put forward yesterday actually could hurt the law. probably will hurt the law. because the whole idea of these substandard policies they have to be phased out to make the financing of obamacare work going forward. get away with it one year. their concern is if you do over a longer period of time the reforms don't make any sense. >> i can't figure out why the insurance companies would resurrect policies. under the new scheme they sell you a then brew buy a lot of things you don't need. overbuy. like buying a camera that you don't know how to work it but you pay all the money to buy all the other stuff you can't use. go back to reissuing the other policies they are more refined and cheaper. what's the incentive for the insurance companies to try to resurrect.

make less money. >> look, they had less benefits attached to them some insurers no doubt and pressure to offer what they offered in the past. they are not under an obligation to do it. just talking about what the enforcement from the obama administration comes. but that makes it a real problem. it's at the same time that you have the structural failing on the front end this web site that still isn't working. people can't sign up if they want to. this is a week of real concern about whether this whole thing is going to work. i follow the money. if the insurance company can't make more money by resurrecting them. it's not going to happen. i don't see how they make more money by resurrecting these old policies. >> there will be people who were told initially they would be able to keep their insurance. told again yesterday they would be able to keep their insurance and they won't be able to keep their insurance. >> the president can't force insurance companies to reissue this insurance? >> no. >> all right. nice to see you. >> thanks. >> straight ahead, president obama and secretary sebelius might think about having a chat. at least getting on the same page. the president and the secretary are sending messages conflicting with each other. the messages are about your health insurance.

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>> does the obama administration need to get its story straight? president obama and secretary kathleen sebelius seem to be sending some mixed messages. >> before the affordable care act these bad apple insurers had free reign. >> the affordable care act is not going to be the reason why insurers have to cancel your plans. >> we are going to help folks whose old plans have been cancelled by the insurers. >> i don't think there is any blame on insurance companies. they were trying to follow the law. >> i think it's legitimate for them to have to expect me to win back credibility on this healthcare law. >> he doesn't need to win it back.

>> editor bob cusack joins us. >> hi, greta. >> that was rough. i mean, the president says he needs to win back his credibility. secretary sebelius says doesn't. maybe she is being plight or maybe he is being plight. i don't know, not good. they should be on the same page, at least. >> it's tough for the white house this is an old play in the playbook to go after the insurance companies. we saw that during the bill's passage in 2009 to 2010. the insurance companies were the villains. immoral villains nancy pelosi called them. now, they are partners in obamacare. so you can hit them a little bit but at the same time you knead their help. and that's why they have been having these meetings at the white house to try to get somewhat on the same page. how much loyalty from the insurance agency to the white house is there? not a lot. >> peculiar thing is you have got sacket sebelius saying it's not the insurance company. the president blaming the insurance company. that's the sort of thing like maybe just go in the same room and talk out, you know, get it straight. got two people saying something conflicting. >> yeah, you had the

president yesterday saying it's on me, it's on me. seeing different administration officials saying it's really the insurers. i don't think that is the strategy is going to work. they have to try something because this is such a debacle as sebelius has called it herself. they have got to go another play. there is so much unrest on capitol hill among democrats about this especially with a year to go in the election. a lot of these democrats set months ago and we talked to them. they were jennifers have you about the obamacare implementation. they warned the white house through the press and privately max baucus thought it was going to be a train wreck it was a train wreck. >> one is implea member station and rollout which has been bad. but there is also the substance. i mean, the substance is pretty much still -- the substance of how we even fund this. i mean, that still remains, we haven't even hit that part whether or not young people are going to come out in droves and buy this and support it. we haven't even hit that part. that's been there since day one. >> that's going to be, i think continue to be -- the web site you think is going to get fixed, okay. it's young people. and in the breakdown at hhs

release, the administration release. there is no break down of young people vs. old people. 100,000 plus are likely sicker people. they are not medicare. medicare is not part of this. probably between 50 and 64, something along those lines. and probably pretty ill. unless they get the young people though sign up. then you are going to have premiums skyrocket. >> are republicans gloating at this point on capitol hill? >> oh, yeah. they took a beating in the shutdown. and the reversal of fortunes is something i haven't seen and i have been in washington since 1995. this dramatic has done a 180 where democrats were united really on the shutdown. republicans divided and now democrats are -- problem for the white house is this is going to be the story for so long, months, maybe years. >> the president promised us november 30th. secretary sebelius, somebody did november 30th that this web site is going to work. and for the life of me i can't figure out why they gave us a set date. we are all sitting there waiting for that date. >> i think so much pressure from the press. they are like when is it going to be fixed?

they had to have some answer. now we are seeing leaked reports well maybe not november 300th. role numbers down playing estimates for role numbers as well. >> don't they know we have cameras that they have said. maybe they were desperate. maybe they will be ready, who knows? i would not have given a date. a new strategy. >> it's a tough road for the administration right now. >> bob, nice to see you. >> thanks, greta. >> straight ahead, something slippery might be going on. we have some new emails from the project manager for healthcare.gov. we will tell what you his emails say and ask you are you suspicious? that's coming up. and up next, here is an unusual pair to be together. former secretary of state hillary clinton and former first lady laura bush. are they bff? that's next. and you can hash it with us. 15 days to go president obama promised the web site will be fixed on november 30th. will it happen? tweet or post on facebook right now if you think it will. you can #greta.

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>> well, these emails are rather disturbing. one from henry chao dated july 16th. another one from mr. jeff grant on july 8th. both pretty much saying it like it is like this is going to be a problem. >> well, those emails went to cgi federal. the u.s. subsidiary, cgi group. canadian company. the overall contractor to develop healthcare.gov web site. now, this email came from henry chao, deputy chief information officer at cms and the manager of the project. and he basically sent these emails and said, guys, and this contractor cgi, cgi federal. we are worried. you are north going to be ready and we don't have enough people, and sure assure me that you are going to be ready the very next day, greta, he goes before the oversight government reform committee, house of representatives and says we're going to be ready october the 1st tavenner

and ourselves are under oath. our tails are in a bind if we don't get this right by october 1st. they clearly knew it and lied to congress and said we are going to be ready. >> are you going to do anything about it? fudge the facts and loose with the truth. it's not a game. there are a lot of americans out there tonight who are really terrified about their health insurance. and maybe if henry chao on july 16th or jeff grant on july 8th had gone over to the white house and told somebody, maybe that it wouldn't have been launched on october 1st. maybe people wouldn't be without their insurance because their policies are cancelled. maybe because it's not funny. this isn't a game what they are playing. they have been, you know, maybe i mean, this is stunning. this is disgraceful. >> it is disgraceful, greta.

and, yes, we can take it all the way to, you know to the white house and they say executive privilege and obama done that to us on a number of times. they did that on the solyndra case and i'm on energy and commerce committee and oversight committee, we are right there. that's where those emails that came out about this healthcare.gov and we knew now. we know that they lied to us. and they lied to the american people. so, this bill that we passed today, of course, the president comes out the day before, tries to reelement that with some fiat or executive order or whatever. and then you hear nancy pelosi, the democrat say oh well, you know, we won't lose but maybe a couple of dozen democrats. and there were 39. that's significantly more than a couple of dozen that voted with us on that bill. this is all about the american people and them having no insurance and a gap and then if something horrendous happens to them, boy, that is a plane crash.

>> well, you know what else? even today, this is what i don't get. almost like we are just sort of the -- basic decency, secretary sebelius saying i don't think anybody anticipated the level of problems that were particularly plaguing the site in early mid october. and then i go back to and look at this july 16th email from the chief tech officer who says i just need to feel more confident they are not going to crash the plane at takeoff. it is just appalling. i mean even today trying to pretend like nobody knew. nobody knew at all. >> a massive plane crash is a lot worse than a train wreck, isn't it, greta? that's what it really comes down to. that's why in this georgia senate race for next year i have taken a pledge. if i can't repeal obamacare in my first term, i will go home. that's an accountability pledge. that is not just some term limit pledge. it has no meaning, you know. >> i would like the pledge that we're going to hold

people's feet to the fire. we are going to get honesty. if not consequence in they don't come to testify there will be subpoenas. i'm taking the last word on that one. congressman, thank you, sir. >> i'm with you 100%, greta. thanks so much. >> now to 39 democrats turning their backs on president obama voting with the house republicans today. 39 democratic lawmakers saying president obama's new fix does not go far enough so they snubbed their leadership and voted with the republicans. "the washington examiner" susan greechio joins us, nice to see you, susan. >> good to be here. >> i think the the republicans expected more than 39 but 39 is bipartisan. >> there would have been more if the president had not come out and announced his fix the day before that quald a lot of mutiny in congress. it didn't end it. a lot are vulnerable and up for re-election next year. if you listen to democrats in the senate. they weren't pleased at all. they want a legislative fix they can vote for in the senate. this doesn't end it for the president. democrats are really angry. both of us cover capitol

hill and on the floor talking to these guys, they are really angry. they think this whole thing was completely botched, the rollout. they are mad at the president. one congressman told me we are not going to walk the plank for him on this. this is it it's about saving their own skins politically. >> what was nancy pelosi trying to say? twist the arms of the democrats to try to get them to go along or has she had it too. >> she wants unity. she is a much better whip than the speaker is. she is much better keeping her people in line. sheparded it through congress when did looked like it was never going to pass. she wants this to survive. got out there in front of the cameras and unapologetic about the botched rollout and said this thing is going to resolve itself. she wants the democrats with her. they offered own substitute plan or two trying to give democrats something to vote on to say to their cints we did something to allow people to keep their healthcare plan too. >> what's the difference between the president's fix.

>> sign up for the plan that the president's healthcare law deems insufficient. it invites new customers in. it keeps that side market open. >> is it the same length of time though, a year? >> it's 2014. the president said he is going to veto it what does the president have against at least opening up that market for others just for a year? i mean, what's the big deal because he says he is going to veto it. >> here is why. the first year is very critical. it's only 2014. if you just offer it to the old customers the way the president suggested we could do the other day, then that would be a smaller pool of folks who would be keeping their old policies. if you invite in new people to these same plans that are cheaper and don't have the essential benefits, it keeps them out of the healthcare exchanges. the more people you keep out of the healthcare exchanges and the critical first year, the less money you have to support it. >> and less money to the insurance companies, right? >> less money for the insurance company. which rising healthcare costs. >> which is why i think the insurance companies won't resurrect policies.

insurance companies selling the old policies than if they are selling the new ones. >> actually it may be possible for them to do it without being catastrophic to their own companies too. >> susan nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> a trojan horse? really. democratic leaders calling the bill a trojan horse. what's that all about? just the beginning of the fireworks over the upton bill. we will show you what went on inside the capitol and congressman joe barton goes "on the record" next. plus it is a bat kid to the rescue. batman for a day. his absolutely amazing story is coming up.

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39 democrats snubbed their party. >> for the last six weeks, they stooby. >> republicans believe they can help americans harmed by obama care. >> our straightforward one page bill say, if you like your current coverage you should be able to keep it. >> i would urge my colleagues to defeat this trojan horse.

>> the trojan horse. >> the trojan horse whose underbelly is poisonous. >> it wasn't until this bill he came to the mike and said, i'm sorry. >> the president needs to realize he cannot wave a magic wand and fix this by executive fiat. this is a law. >> for millions of americans. cancellations today and sticker shot tomorrow. >> this bill creates and entire shadow market of substandard health care plans. >> they want to derail and destroy and eliminate and repeal universal health care for americans. >> they stated they had an intent that americans can keep their plan. today is their opportunity to keep that pledge. >> republican representative, joe barton joins us. good evenings, sir. >> the bipartisan bill passed today in the house is if your

insurance company continues to offer your plan you can keep it. what happens if your current insurance doesn't offer that, the if part. what happens to it? >> there's not a mandate. it doesn't mandate the insurance companies have to offer their plans but does allow them to and allows any american to buy one of these plans. the president is like a car salesman. he's been touting obama care the last three years and how shiny and how fast the car will go. well, the american people an democrats bought it, they own it and they don't like it. the car barely runs, uses lots of gas, sputtering along. i think the american people want their money back. the question is how long is it going to take before we agree that it's a lemon and let the american people go back to stage one? >> so you can have your old policy if it's offered. what is the incentive for the insurance companies to resurrect these policies, soon to be canceled unless they make more

money from them, because at least under obama care with that more expanded menu you will pay more because you're paying for more things. insurance companies are in the money making business. why would they ever want to go back to these other policies unless they could spike the premiums? >> incentive is they want to keep their customers. wou one would assume if they had a plan that just got canceled, most people would prefer to keep that plan than one that has coverage they don't need. markets do work. a lot of insurance companies will continue to offer these plans and once the american people look at it and compare the plans with all the bells and whistles in the exchange, they will want a plan that fits them and costs less money. >> here's the situation. if you're on the exchange, we talk about the subsidy for the

persons buying insurance, that subsidy is actually money that goes to the insurance company. so they like their money. that's a done deal for them, preserved for them, money on the exchange by taxpayers. >> the upton bill is step one. i have a bill hr 348 that makes obama care voluntary for the first year, doesn't repeal it, doesn't delay it, lets the voters choose, let the market work. there are some people who will be helped by obama care. i don't think very many will be. there are a lot of people that will be hurt. this is just the first phase of people that are being hurt. when the employers start canceling their employer-based health care plans and start putting those people in the exchanges, it will get worse. the democrats own this law. it is a turkey, it is a lemon and it is just a question of time before a lot of democrats wake up to that fact and start

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. now favorite story of the day the city of san francisco transforming into gott them city to make a boy's dream come true. nice to see you, awfd dry. tell me this little boy and what was his wish and what happens? >> we have not had this much fun in strand i don't know when from northern california, leukemia, is he in remission now. his wish to the make-a-wish foundation was that he be a super hero for the day and

they pulled out all the stops for him today. >> so how did it happen? what did he get to do? >> well, it started around the beginning of the work day. there was a damsel in distress that was stuck on the cable car tracks in our knob hill neighborhood. he saved her. he gets in the bat mobile and it turns out that the riddler was robbing a bank vault of all gotham' citizens. the riddler got put in jail. then he went to have what he thought was going to be a relaxing lunch but overlook -- at a restaurant overlooking union square and there were thousands of gotham residents down there alerting him to the fact that the pep begin had stolen the mascot of the san francisco chronicle or the san francisco giants lucille. so he he went to at&t park, our baseball park here. and he stopped that, he rescued lucille and duly awarded later by getting the

key to the city by the mayor. >> and, of course, we only have 20 seconds left. miles is in remission. that's the good news, too? >> absolutely, yeah. san francisco can get behind a lot of things, especially a a-year-old in costume. 13,000 people today up for it. >> audrey, thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. let's all go off-the-record for a minute. how great was that story that audrey told you about it and how about san francisco? i know a lot of you viewers have taken jabs at san francisco and i can bet even i folk fun at california cities been scanneddized by them. they have lots of problems. some towns in bankruptcy some teetering on the edge and that's starters. i think we agree on this one today. san francisco hero city today. joined forces with make-a-wish foundation. a thrill for us sitting on the sidelines watching. makes easy getting up in politics and even a bit snarky especially at a time like this washington. hearing about a child like miles and city and organization doing things for him puts things in perspective. reminds us there is good in the world and there is big

good. this is big good. congratulations to miles and to san francisco. miles, we we need you in washington. that's my off-the-record. good night. welcome to "red eye." tonight -- >> coming up on "red ides." mansters, are these half man and half monsters teaming up with other hybrids to ignite a revolution? and does the? president want to get rid of all traffic lights? >> this is>>hi something that i not only the right thing to is do, but it is critical to our economy. >> and finally, christmas cool or christmas crap? why some parents are going all g out to give their kids the worst presents ever. eve none of these stories on "red eye" tonight. >> let's welcome our guests.elig she is almost edible, the star of the legendary movie "clueless." posit