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>> steve are we done with the rob ford story? it's not done yet? thanks for inviting us into your home tonight? that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. greta goes "on the record" right now. this is a fox news alert. new and more evidence that the obama administration had fears about healthcare.gov in the days leading up to the october 1st launch. fox news correspondent james rosen is here with the latest. james? >> greta, good evening. these documents released by the house energy and commerce committee, the g.o.p. controlled panel that had primary legislative oversight over obamacare when it was snaking its way through the congress. among thosen on the sending and receiving ends of some of these emails were henry chow, the project manager for the healthcare.gov web site for cmf. the agency with oversight responsibility and also todd park the chief technology officer at the white house. on one email sent on september 26th of this year and received by henry chao,
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among others, an official at cmf described how, quote: on wednesday, 9/25, the test finished with a lot of errors. he continued the individual app. race and ethnicity transactions were taking a long time and eventually the system reached a break point after which everything started failing. he went on in the wednesday evening we ran two more cycles of testing, neither was successful, unquote. the next day chao wrote to cmf staff in all caps and i quote. i do not want a repeat of what happened near the end of december of 2005 when medicare.gov had a meltdown. this chao said is to get your attention if i didn't have it already. just three days after that, greta, todd park with the white house emailed his team massive kudos again for the incredible progress the team is making. what some might consider just two days before the launch a kind of a heck of a job brownie moment if you will. >> indeed. james, thank you.
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>> thank you. >> we have to ask where is the transparency. chief white house correspondent ed henry grilling press secretary josh earnest. >> did you consider turning over some of the emails white house officials healthcare.gov instead of drip drip from republican darryl issa. give american people an insight to the president and his aides knew in the final week leading up to october 1st. would you consider that. >> it's apparent mr. issa has taken that task upon himself. >> full context. >> and has worked very carefully with the journalists to ensure the americans have access to those documents. sometimes he has done that in a way that has left people with a pretty misleading impression what's happening here. that's unfortunate. but, look, ed, what's that's indicative of is our willingness to cooperate with legitimate oversight. >> former congressman allen west joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> always a pleasure, greta. >> transparency i don't know how much we are getting because we have got to get these emails drip drip drip. now we get them from one
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house committee and others yesterday. the white house is not too willing to give them to us. >> it's amazing. this was supposed to be the most transparent administration in the history of this country. i think the thing is if we really knew what was going on, you know, coming from the white house, coming from this administration, and the implementation of this obama care and this healthcare.gov, we would be absolutely appalled of and slowly the drip drip that's occurring is eroding, again, the confidence and the belief that there is confidence coming out of this administration. >> i thought what is was more painful about the documents that was released yesterday in in fact in part of the emails worried about the impact it would have on the media media would rev up at them knew that the testing was failing. there wasn't one part that said oh no, what about the american people? what about their health? there was no indication they were worried about covering their own -- not one email that i saw did it show any indication they cared that their product was going to hurt people. >> well, that comes back to
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the truth. and if you're telling the american people exactly what your goals and your objectives are, which the left is not going to do then you want to keep the american people kind of in the dark. think about this whole thing about perception. fox is reporter all these commentators invited over to the white house today all about messaging. >> juan williams from fox was over there we had one there too as well. there is sort of the interesting thing of this whole transparency thing. the president is teflon on this. he said he had no idea that these problems were existing with the system that he never would have launched. i mean, what's with that? >> well, again, you know, you continue to hear the president when he talks about irs i did not know. i found out when everyone else found out. benghazi, fast and furious, what have you. that's not an excuse anymore. if you're the leader. if you are the chief executive officer of the united states of america, you are supposed to be having these cabinet meetings, these staff meetings. you are supposed to get updates. you are supposed to know the
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questions you should be asking of your cabinet members and your staff tone sure that you are informed. because, if not, how can you expect the american people to believe in you and you see the trust that the people have in president obama. it's just declining right now. >> it's sort of curious. you mentioned benghazi. it happened on 9/11. and i think on the 25th of september, two weeks later he was at the u.n. still talking about that video. was he disconnected or was he trying to be slippery? then you have this situation where on the 14th of november he says he had no idea there was no problem. is he uninformed? was he not curious? did he ask someone in the white house? hey how is going? if so, if he did ask that, did he lie to them. >> two things. either we have a president that is so detached or a president that no one trusts to tell him what is going on. the emperor has no clothes. kind of like the timken village of catherine the great where everyone is telling hey, it's fine -- i
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think there is something intentional. the president does know what is happening. he continues to go out and blame others. he continues to go out and talk about excuses because he believes he has some type of teflon approach. i think when you are enlisting other members of media sources to come in and give them some talking points, that is his sense of -- you know, that's my get out of jail free card. >> as i recall during the bush administration, to be fair on that point or at least from my perspective is that president bush oftentimes had the conservative radio talk show host come in. i remember a couple videos. i think that's sort of a white house thing that you try to manipulate the press. >> he got beat up from both sides no matter what. >> the thing that's curious here is that he just says things that simply aren't. so the question is he uninformed or is he not telling us the truth? that's the problem. let me ask you about one other thing. that's about this knockout game which is really a crime. >> it's horrific. >> it's not a game. it's a crime. it's even murder. >> when we passed each other, he punched me in the face.
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>> it's called the knockout game. unprovoked attacks on strangers for the fun of it. >> why would we do that to somebody? >> it's terrible for something like that to come to our neighborhood. >> deaths have been reported in new york and new jersey. >> would you want that to happen to your little brother or your little sister or your mom. >> "on the record" has been reporting on these violent attacks all week but few community leaders and few in the media are willing to talk about it as we talk about this spreading crime take a look of a few of the attacks caught on camera so you know what to look out for. congressman west this horrible game, you know, first of all, it's a group of people, a gang might not be the right word and after it's done everybody laughs at doing it as the victim is lying there suffering. in some instances even murder. the question of race. frankly, so far it's been african-americans, as far as i can see on whites. i don't know if it's completely that way but that's what we have seen. >> that's true. that's exactly what you are seeing. this talks of the state of
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depravity that is in the black community right now. again, where are these black leaders that should be talking about this breakdown? where are the parents? where are the guardians of the black community to say this is unacceptable behavior? now, this is what is going to end up happening. at some point in time one of the people that's going to be attacked is going to have a concealed weapons license. they are going to draw down and unfortunately someone is going to get shocked. then what is going to happen? you will hear all of the rhetoric coming out from the al sharptons and jesse jacksons that this unarmed black teenager was shot and killed and assaulted when right now they should be out there stopping this so we don't get to this point. >> they have been silent and the president attorney general also role models in the african-american community. but one. >> this doesn't fit political narrative. >> obviously the ones who do it criminals arrest them, process them or whatever. those who laugh may be aiders and abetters encouraging them to deal with it too. the thing that concerns me a the love these communities have 12 and 13-year-olds
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look up to people in the community. there is always the peer pressure. if we don't stop this now. immaturity of a 13-year-old is a 13-year-old going to follow suit and do something really stupid, have the person die or end up in prison and no one is speaking out to try to stop this now. >> well, you have already seen this happen. think about down in brunswick, georgia, where the two black teenagers shot the white baby in the face. and so now that's, again, a life that has been lost because no one intervened and no one tried to get in those communities. you have got a breakdown. it's not just the family. it's the education opportunities. job opportunities. we should not have these roving gangs out there saying we are going to knock someone out just for fun. they should be studying. >> one attacker i should tell you in michigan was shot. so we are seeing a little bit of that all right. what should president obama do if anything? i mean, is there anything? would making a statement or putting out as public dialogue, would that help?
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>> it would help. you can't just cherry pick when you go in to intervene. you can't look at the skip gaits. >> harvard. >> absolutely. acted stupidly. you can't jump in and say trayvon martin or could have been me or my son. then you have these instances where you complete la -- show leadership it doesn't fit that narrative. >> how about jesse jackson and reverend sharpton? they can certainly draw attention. they can draw attention toward important issues. why are they silent? >> no profit or political gain or advantage. >> how about helping these neighborhoods? this is terrorizing some of the inner city neighborhoods? >> they don't care. they live off victimization. therefore, as long as you have black communities that see themselves as victims, that helps to perpetuate their existence. now, all of the sudden if you jump in, why aren't they say anything in chicago about the black-on-black crime? they don't have a point on that. it doesn't elevate them whatsoever.
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that's why these guys should be totally irrelevant and not listened to whatever. >> we got to get this dialogue going. we are trying. anyway, congressman, nice to see you. >> let's you and i go into a black community. >> i will go. for 12 years i represented poor people. i have more on the street community activists than a lot of people. >> let's have a road show. >> indeed. nice to see you. >> pleasure. >> coming up later there is news of more knockout attacks in several major cities. what happened and where? reports coming up. new cancellations are coming and you might be next. first almost 6 million policies cancelled is your employer provided healthcare plan next? we have new information for you straight ahead. huma.
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we've seen individual policies being cancelled. the next shoe to drop is employer sponsored plans where people may lose their coverage that they have with their employer. >> we are almost into december. by the time we turn the corner into january, i just worry that the chaos is going to be even bigger than ever. >> there were reports three years ago that said over 60% of families would lose their healthcare. yet they still ran around saying if you like what you have, you can keep it. >> a ticking time bomb, a new warning there could soon be explosion of more health plan cancellations, millions more.
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the elizabeth viebeck joins us. >> employers lowering healthcare costs by shifting people on to obamacare's exchanges. a trend continue into 2016 to 2017, 6 to 7 million people loading employer based coverage by that time. >> is that the insurance company making that decision sending cancellation notices or your employer making that decision. >> that's your employer. ceeos are looking it the budgets and saying healthcare is the one line they can't predict because healthcare costs are rising so quickly. maybe 15 to 20% a year. even though the government under obamacare requires us to offer health insurance to our employees we might take the penalty because it's more predictable there sar word out there. i don't believe. this people think if employers give up those plans that he this be unable to attract good employees. i think the job market is so grim they can do a lot to everybody and people are still going to stick around. is there any fear by employers if they do dump
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them and get rid of these plans that suddenly the employers are going to flee and go some place else? >> i think that's very possible. >> where are they going to go? >> major american companies aren't doing this yet. they are doing it on the margins at least with retirees, with spouses who might be able to receive healthcare through their own employer. trader joe's is cutting coverage for their part timers. we are not seeing major employers say listen, no more healthcare coverage for anybody they still understand in order to attract the best workers they still need to offer it it's seen as a basic american benefit for working big company. under obamacare that might change. because these marketplaces now offer what employers might sees a a viable alternative for people to pick other plans. >> what's the time line when the second wave could probably start kicking in? >> 2016 which means the administration is going to have to answer for it even if it's not directly connected to obamacare, anything that's changing in the health insurance market is now their political problem to deal with. i pity the next president
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number of folks who have enrolled from october 1st through the end of the month. percentage of the population is -- should be around 25%. there is certainly an oversampling of older folks. >> in the younger category, the ones we had hoped would sign up and pay, do you have any idea what number that is and sort of where it -- where people wanted it to be in order to have them fund this? >> so they have never given an exact sort of target for where they want that number to be. i just though they want that number to be high. that number roughly matches the population of that group. it's certainly is not high. it's in the teens for each of those segments; you know, you call them the millennials, they certainly want to do a better job is what the folks from the state exchange said today. >> any idea what the total numbers is for october in california? total number for the month of october was 30,000.
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the number that they added through tuesday brings it up to about just under 80,000 people that have picked their plans any idea what the total number of what they expect or hope to get when enrollment ends? >> through march 31st they are shooting for 500,000 to 700,000 folks that are eligible for federal subsidies to sign up for the state exchange. so i think if you look at some of their numbers lately, they are on track to hit that number. if you were to take the first month, the first couple of weeks they would be well-short. it's all determined by how many folks sign up from here on out on whether they hit their numbers in california. >> are they content with how it's working in california? are the people, who run the exchange there? >> they are extremely content. today the board that unares the exchange took up a measure that would actually have accepted president obama's invitation to delay some of these individual policies that are all being cancelled on december 31st. and they actually rejected
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that proposal. you know, they could have given folk as three month reprieve, they could have given folk as longer reprieve, they said this will undermine the pool as you are talking about they feel like they are doing well web site like unlike the federal one has been largely online. i don't think they want to shake things up at this point. they basically want to keep the status quo and they do point to themselves as sort of a bright spot in the country as we have seen this thing rolled out. >> okay. so their system works for the enrollment. how about the part where you actually pay it and the money goes to the insurance company. is that all worked out there? >> i think that is a question where the answer certainly is a little murkier. i think what the state exchange says is they don't expect people months out to start paying their premium. today they did a slight delay on when folks can pay by about a week or two. it used to be the last week of december for coverage to start on the 1st. they pushed that back just alit0 number that we're talking
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about, that is not folks who have paid their first premium their first monthly charge. that is folks who have just selected a plan. >> christopher, thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, people across america are scared that knockout game, it really is a violent crime. it's even murder. it's spreading now from state-to-state. up next, news from two major cities where more and more people are getting attacked and seriously hurt. and you can hash it out with us. do you think community or political leaders should speak out against the knockout game? would that help at all? tweet or post on facebook right now using #greta.
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the lawyer failed to adequately. now to california prison where charles manson plans to get married. 79-year-old mass murderer planning to wed 25-year-old girlfriend star. manson spent 24 years in prison for murders of actress sharon tate and other victims. now to kansas wayward cargo jet now back on course. the boeing 747 taking off from the airport where it had mistakenly landed last night it was supposed to land at mcconnell air force base which has a long runway. the airport where the plane landed up short runway only 6,000 feet. so the pilots could not immediately take off again. they usually need 9,000-foot runway to take off. today the weather was good. the jet had already used up most of its fuel making the plane a whole lot lighter so the pilot taking chance and luckily it took off safely. now to north carolina, and great news there tonight. 9 a-year-old reverend billy graham is back at his home. he had been hospitalized for two nights for respiratory
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problems. all is well and he is home and he is in very good spirits. that's tonight's speed read. and not stopping. knockout, vicious random crime the teens are committing and laughing about. all this week "on the record" has been bringing the very latest on this deadly trend of crime. tonight news of more knockout attacks this time in the philadelphia area. for the latest wtxf chris o'donnell joins us. nice to talk to you. tell me what is going on? what evidence do you have that that is happening in your city? >> well, video evidence, greta. we got surveillance video of these attacks on the local transit system in philadelphia. and, you know, put it bluntly, they are violent indescripple that the attacks on random people just walking down the street. in one case this happened just a couple weeks ago. it was a 24-year-old medical student was walking to the subway. she was minding her own business. getting on the subway where out of nowhere a guy comes behind her and cold cocks
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her in the back of the head. she stumbles. she didn't fall to the ground. the guy just runs away. it turns it out ojust today, less than 24 hours after that video was released the transit police actually arrested a man in connection with with one of these incidents, possibly two of these incidents. but, it's going on all over the country. a very very disturbing trend, greta. >> you know, chris, there is some people who have said to me sent me emails don't report. this you are going to create copycat crimes which frankly i don't think the people who are doing these crimes are watching "on the record." whatever. is there any sort of discussion in your city as to what can be done to do it. it's so random. what's happening is people are getting seriously hurt. honestly, greta, it is copy cats. mainly not because of mainstream media. go on the internet. if you do a twitter search under smack cam, it's another prank where you have a cell phone camera. you say into it smack cam and you smack someone. put it up online and it gets tons of hits and people copycat this.
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and it's just disturbing and frankly it's deadly. these kind of attacks have turned out starting as pranks ended up to be a murder charge against these people. it's really not a new phenomenon. this knockout game started several years ago. it's just every time these come up it goes online and yes you do get copy cats. >> in these instances where there are groups of young people and racially -- racial divide one issue and secondly are people laughing after it goes on. >> in most of the cases, yes. you hear reports of people laughing. mainly teenagers. that's kind of been the age group. there is no racial thing. the victim i spoke with yesterday was an african-american gentleman, the three suspects were african-american one of them was holding a video camera. she staged it. he was rolling in the video. one guy game behind him and punched him in the head. he was dazed. he was on his way to see his granddaughter on the subway when he got hit.
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and just that quickly the kids ran out of train and the doors closed and they were gone for good. but, they were caught on video which a lot of these things now on surveillance video that's the evidence they need. >> chris, thank you. i really appreciate your reporting because i know you are putting the spotlight on it thank you, chris. >> you got it, greta, my pleasure. >> "on the record" is tracking cases of the knockout game investigates this. take a look at a few of the attacks that are caught on camera so you know what to look out for. in new york city a growing number of knockout attacks, many of them targeting jewish people. the latest victim a 78-year-old woman. new york state assemblyman hiken joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening, the 78-year-old woman who i met with and then reported it to the police this is a woman who walked the streets of our city. [lost audio] >> i think we have lost our guest, but we try to
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reconnect him. can i tell you a little bit about this is a 78-year-old woman she was just walking the streets. she is now of course terrified. she did not die as a result of the attack. the reason everyone is so convinced that this is a knockout game is because she wasn't robbed. that's one of sort of the key signature aspects to these knockout things is nobody is robbed. no one is sexually assaulted or anything. this is strictly hitting someone in the head and oftentimes a group of people laughing. i should mention that there was a congressman woman in washington, d.c. last night or the night before who was attacked. some people had suspected it was a knockout game. her purse was taken. the person who attacked her apparently was alone to at least sort of put the lid on that one that that was not a knockout game. take a look at these videos. look at this. just up behind. no indication and just hit just for no reason. and as chris has just reported, you know, this is being spread on the internet
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at some sort of games. seeing in michigan, new jersey, philadelphia. there is a case in st. louis. this is very serious. we will stay on top of this story so you will see it right here "on the record." straight ahead, president obama probably wishing he could get a little help from his friends but that's not happening. why not? our next guest has some answers you have to hear. we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. life's an adventure when you're with her.and i. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use
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did you know that ritz crackers are a food group? sounds crazy it's at least in one part of canada. a mother two of learned that lesson after fined for not giving her children a balanced lunch. sent day care full lunch box. milk, carrots and fruit. sounds balanced right? not according to the local canadian guidelines. they say a local meal must include grains day care workers gave the woman's kids ritz crackers to supplement their lunches. they slapped the mother with $10 fine. she says that's crazy. processed junk food should not count as a food group. you be the judge. was the day care center right to fine the mother or are they just sticking their nose in the mother's business? go to gretawire.com and vote in our poll. coming up, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor? senator and dr. john barrasso will be here to talk about that. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982.
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okay. let's go off-the-record for just a minute. talk about changing your tune. which is really a polite way to say hypocrite. democratic senators invoking nuclear option today stripping production of their ability to block nominees through filibusters. it has been in the senate precedent for over 200 years. whether this is good or bad is their business. the senate's business and not the point of me talking to you now off-the-record. i will get to my point first. -- i will get to my point in a minute but first this. remember this 2005 when republican senators tried the same move the same stunt to invoke the nuclear option? democrats went wild with rage about how all of the nuclear option was. even accuse the republicans of a quest for absolute power. here is then senator obama leading the charge. >> that the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse. >> now, that's 180 day
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degrees different from what president obama said today. today he likes the idea of a nuclear option. >> so, i support the step a majority of senators today took to change the way that washington is doing business. more specifically, the way the senate does business. >> and president obama is not the only one changing his tune. other democratic leaders weren't keen on the nuclear option back in 2005 either. >> the filibuster is far from a procedural gimmick. it's part of the fabric of this institution we call the senate. some in this chamber want to throw out 214 years of senate history in the quest for absolute power. >> i say to my friends on the republican side you may own the field right now, but you won't own it forever. and i pray god when the democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are
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doing. >> oops? and of course republicans are just as bad. nearly all of them love the idea of the nuclear option in 2005 but today they bark ab saying it is going to destroy the senate. that is a switch. now, as an aside, the only senator to oppose the nuclear option in 2005 and oppose it now is senator john mccain. but here's my point. it's insulting that the politicians think that we are that dumb. we heard what both sides said last time. i hate to say it but they are a bunch of phonies. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. if you have an important story or issue you think i should take off-the-record go to gretawire.com and tell us about it. and president obama, well, he is not making a lot of friends on either side of the aisle these days. why in the "weekly standard" john mccormick joins us. so the president doesn't have a lot of friends? >> he has definitely had a hard time. i think part of the problem is mainly ideological. is he not really interested in going down there and forging compromise with people. i think that you have seen
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that as far bass as his first election you know, there was a debate off the stimulus package was the first big legislation of his presidenciy. and he simply said to the republicans, you know what? i won. that was his response to objections about tax and spending, i won. he didn't want to have a debate we have seen that time and again on these issues. >> i always thought it was a huge mistake. two weeks after he had been inaugurated did that reported in the "wall street journal" at least that's the first place i saw it but then it was confirmed. his standoff admitted it, other people's standoff. but when you say right from the get-go i won, it's basically tough luck. it's not a way to sort of say let's work together. i thought it sort of set the tone. >> it was a great opportunity for him. i mean, if he would have increased defense spending and done more on the tax cuts the way the republicans wanted him to, he could have split the republican party in two. that would have gone a long way to helping him achieve his goals and political power and maybe keep the democrats in power. time and again we have seen him not really interested in going down and negotiating with people. i think part of the problem
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is he doesn't think he has anything to learn through anyone else. there is a great quote from him in 2008 where he says he knows more about any given policy than his policy directors. that's quite a statement. any policy whatsoever. >> i don't know if he is making a the lot of friends in the democratic party. i don't see him out with the exception of i think he went down and helped terry mcauliff in virginia. i don't see him as sort of working the party and setting the party up for 2014 or 2016. you know, see a lot. maybe it's being done behind the scenes. it doesn't look like is he cultivating his own party. >> not a huge personal problem. so politically toxic with the healthcare law failing. >> he wasn't though. he got his whole party to go along with him on obamacare. it wasn't toxic before. >> it wasn't but that's when it was theoretical. now we are seeing the reality. now we are seeing the reality of people actually losing their health insurance. going to happen. losing their doctors. and they can't run from that. that's ideological. that's a feature of his healthcare law. not a bug. it's hard for democrats to stand by him when he made
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all these promises and now they are not coming true. >> do you have any idea what's going to happen with that? what's your thought? are the democrats -- a will the of them are really angry. >> there is a media crisis which is still the web site. if they don't get that thing fixed by the next couple of weeks. people who actually had health insurance, got thrown off of it because of obamacare and now won't be able to have health insurance on january 1st. if they don't sign up by january 15th they will have no health insurance. that's a huge problem. longer term crisis is the functionality of the law. you know, whether or not it's going to keep raising prices through the roof. and i think that's really the deeper problem the way the laugh is structured not simply that the web site doesn't work. >> we have heard they haven't set up the part of the web site payment to the insurance companies. january not getting their money. >> that's a huge problem. people won't be able to have it and get subsidies if you don't sign up directly with the insurers. can you sign up directly it's against the law to go ahead and give them subsidies if they don't go through the federal
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exchange. >> john, thank you. >> thanks, greta. >> now doctors, sending out warnings about obamacare. senator john barrasso who is also a doctor is here to talk about it next. don't forget to watch hannity sean's guest does include the five kimberly guilfoyle that's tonight at 10:00 p.m. on hannity.
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now, show you what we are watching. we put together the most fantastic videos out there tonight. take a look. a private health insurance company mocking maybe even ridiculing healthcare.gov. check out one of the ads from wal-mart blue cross blue shield. >> let's go ahead and check out those weeklies. >> things don't always work like they are supposed to. good thing the government exchange web site isn't the only plates to buy health
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>> ah you -- [bleep] >> that looks like that didn't go sell, did it? here is one you love baby otter drinking milk from the syringe. lives at a zoo in japan. this is how he gets his daily calcium supply. you love that one, don't you? i do. that's what we are watching tonight. coming up, is obamacare putting the squeeze on doctors? doctors? doctor senator john barrasso is here next. could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk.
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is obamacare giving doctors the squeeze? many doctors say they will be paid less to treat more patients. they warn that could lead to problems not only for themselves but for you the patient. senator and doctor john have a was so he joins us tonight nice to see you sir. >> thanks for having me. >> now doctors. >> president's first broken promise if you like what you have you can keep it we now know over 5 million people have gotten cancellation letters. the next he said if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. we now know that millions of people are going to lose their doctors, including patients on medicare our seniors because of the exchanges and the number of doctors who are being left out of exchanges or left out of insurance plans. >> all right. what's happening is that these insurance plans are not -- are throwing doctors out of their networks. if you want to go to that doctor you have to pay out of pocket which is not going to happen. why do the insurance companies throw doctors out?
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where do they get more money by throwing the doctors out of their exchanges? >> they can say we don't want to treat search conditions. if you don't have heart specialists and cancer doctors and high risk neonatal pediatrics in the networks. we have seen now that whole hospitals have been excluded from many networks. the mayo clinic, cedar sinai. children's hospital in seattle and houston and st. louis. the doctors at those hospitals aren't going to be able to take care of those patients either. >> saw the front page of the "the washington post" today. what some of the insurance companies are saying is that they want them not to go to the mayo clinic and cedar sinai go to the clinics. routine care offered at community based hospitals is often comparable of pricey academic medical centers. i will tell you when you are really sick you don't want to go to a hospital that doesn't have a lot of experience. you want to go to a medical center where they do research and where they see this all the time. you don't want to go to maybe your community hospital which might be great for certain things but not for some other things.
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>> as you said, often but not always. and always is the case when you want to make sure that people get the care that they need from a doctor they choose at lower cost and it's somebody that has practiced medicine for 24 years taking care of people in wyoming. i know there is a lot to be said for that doctor-patient relationship. knowing the patient and knowing the family. this is just one of president's big falsehoods the things deliberately put in to deceive the american people to vote for this law. >> i guess if you go to some of these major medical centers your care is going to be more expensive than if you go to a community center. that's why the insurance company wants to ice out some of these major research centers that are more expensive like the mayo clinic or cedar sinai so that you go to a local community so that whatever medical care you are going to get is cheaper and less for the insurance company to pay. >> the way they set up the exchanges if you want to have a competitive bid it's going to be a huge sticker shock where people are going to be hit with premium hike on exchanges.
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the only way they have tried to keep those prices down a wit we are going exclude certain hospitals that take care of certain problems or exclude specific physicians. that's why it's so limited and people once after they finally fix the web site and can shop on the exchange you have got to really buyer beware. trust but verify not just the security of the exchange but also what you are going to get. i think people are going to be very disappointed by the statements that the president made that we know really weren't true. >> well, senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire was here the other night. she said there are 24 hospitals in the state of new hampshire and the -- 10 of them can't get on insurance exchange so that they will not -- i don't know what's going to happen to those 10 hospitals. i think in concord the main hospital in concord, new hampshire you can't even go there if you have insurance. anyway. see what happens. doctor, senator, nice for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> see you tomorrow might right here at 7 p.m.
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