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buckin'bronco right now. >> if you get dizzy, let me know. or we painting this room? >> no. >> thank god. i've had enough of paint. right here, right? all right. nice. a beautiful couch. i love the color. ready? catch. doing good. little more. perfect. >> i like it. the family in the space. now it is time to get the family and show them what we've got. maybe we can take a second to take it all in. how is it going? >> good. good morning. >> good to see you.

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a house to be. >> those are actually the beaches of italy. you are on your treadmill walking. you can go where you want in the world. >> perfect. >> i feel relieved for my parents. they can come down and relax. my dad can work out and get into shape. >> i feel like working out right now. renovatedsement being is the biggest relief we could ever imagine. it is not going to be a chore. it is not going to be a place he is going to be afraid to go down because it is too hot where he could get sick instead of get well. >> you're giving me something i can get better, to take care of the people in my life, and thank you for that. thank you for that. process killed us. --

healed us. it made us face what we are keeping inside because we were so afraid of upsetting each other. it came out. we were able to say this is what we were feeling. this is how we move forward as a emily. -- as a family. we are going to be ok. >> these are the amazing people that made the rescue possi ble. [applause] i just wanted to say that i'm a big believer in family. i learned that from my mother and father. everybody here today that has been a part of my life to this moment is part of my family right now. la famiglia. >> the gym is now open for business. if you want a membership, talk to rosemary. george.e to challenge

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this sunday, what appears to be another beheading of an american by isis. the victim is apparently peter kasich, a former aid worker. the gloves are off, again. >> what i'm not going to is wait. >> a president no longer constrained by another election. on the other side, triumphant republicans. at stake, two huge issues, immigration and healthcare. >> we're going to fight the

president tooth and nail. president obama prepares to bypass congress. >> it's overdue. >> how will republicans respond? also, will republicans follow through on their goal to dismantle the affordable care act? where you stand on the issue -- >> it's more taxes. >> may depend on where you sit. >> the people that want to repeal, you go without insurance and tell me how you feel. following the republican midterm wave. can democrats reassemble their winning coalition in 2016 without president obama on the ballot? i'm chuck todd. joining me with, chris matthews, helene cooper, car whethlene an

sylvia burwell are here. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." good morning. we begin with grim news from syria. intelligence officials are investigating a video that was posted online purportedly by isis that claims to show that captured u.s. aid worker peter cassick has been killed. he was 26 was working as a humanitarian aid worker in syria when he was captured in october of 2013. he was born peter cassick but changed his name after converting to islam while in captivity. the national security council has released a statement.

i'm joined by richard engel in istanbul where he has been based to cover this war. richard, it seems as if the government is assuming this video is authentic. what do you know? >> well, i've seen the video. unfortunately, it does appear to be authentic. we see the same now familiar militant dressed in all black with a distinctive london accent saying that peter kassig has been killed. you don't see the beheading. you see the militant and then what looks to be peter's head at his feet. it was a long video. it shows the beheading of other hostages, a group that are allegedly syrian soldiers. if, in fact, it's confirmed that kassig was murdered, he would be the fifth western hostage killed by isis. the reason they said they killed him is because he was a former soldier who served in iraq before he changed his life and

went to syria to help provide some humanitarian and medical relief to syrian victims of war. >> speaking of iraq, again martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs, he made a surprise visit to iraq yesterday. i think he is still there. he is supposed to get a look at the iraqi military. we have advisors on the ground. there's talk ta maybe more have to go. what is the state of the iraqi military, and how are they doing in the fight against isis? >> i think it's very mixed, frankly. there are some units of the iraqi military that are making progress. they made advanced north of baghdad in the last several days. but the military is infiltrated. just a few weeks ago, in fact, a unit from the iraqi military backed up by militias and killed some isis but then they went back and butchered sunni civilians in the town.

this was an act, according to officials i have spoken to, directly carried out by an iranian-backed group within the iraqi security services. so i think it's a very mixed record of success so far. the kurds are making advances. some units of the iraqi army are making advances. others are running back death squads. this is the iraqi army that we are supposed to be guiding, advising and leading in a fight against isis. >> looks like it's a longer slog than anybody wants to deal with. richard engel this morning, thanks very much. now i want to switch gears, get to domestic politics. immigration reform. democrats now want it. republicans, not for what the president wants. then president obama says he is going to go ahead with or without the gop. the other is healthcare reform. it's president obama's signature achievement, his place in history. here come the republicans. they want to take it apart.

there are two issues so important to each side that neither is willing to give any. defy the side and you are declaring political war. that's what's happening. fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night. if republicans thought a wave election would humble the president, he didn't show it. promising executive action that would stop deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants, a lightning rod for the gop, the president doubled down. >> that's going to happen. that's going to happen before the end of the year. >> we're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. >> so much for the happy lunch at the white house last month. there's healthcare. yesterday marked the premiere of season to of obamacare. the president now playing sales man and chief. >> you can go online or call 1-800-318-2596 and get covered for 2015. >> new website, new cast and this time administration

officials hope a new story line. after a disastrous debut last year. >> nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should. >> 7.1 million americans signed up and paid by the end of the first enrollment period hitting projections. this time around, the government expects a total of between 9 million and 10 million for 2015. that's over 3 million less than the government's original projection of 13 million signups. yes, the future of the law remains somewhat cloudy. 13 states plus d.c. run their own health insurance exchanges. 38 states, mostly with republican governors, haven't set up their own exchange and rely on the federal government. but what the affordable care act is doing for the cost of healthcare, this map shows the change in premiums from the lastest slast e largest cities. it's up in some and done in others. in january, the new republican majority takes off promising to

dismember the law. >> i want to pull this law out root and branch. >> the supreme court will hear another case this term about those exchanges which could cripple the law. i'm joined now sylvia matthews burwell. welcome to "meet the press." i want to start with -- we heard the president earlier this morning or yesterday or tomorrow, however you want to talk about australian time. 23,000 new applications. do you have any up to date numbers? it seems as if new applications went well. people trying to get to old accounts struggled. >> yes, i do. yesterday, we had 100,000 folks submit their new applications. and there were over 500,000 people who logged in effectively yesterday as well. so i think the vast majority of people coming to the site were able to get on and do what they

were intending to do. >> do you have an issue with people getting on to their old accounts? is that an issue that you have identified, or is this just user error? >> with regard to that, we think the vast majority were able to. that's what we see in the 500,000. in some of those, we're tracking them down. that's part of what i said we're going do and what we want to do. some people people forget user names. some people are renewing their passwo passwords. our customer service folks are ready and able to help people. there were over 100,000 calls yesterday. >> all right. let me ask if you guys have things -- the uninsured rate has dropped, the average premium has gone down for 2015, medicare sol v sol vensy has increased. the public's opinion hasn't changed. still more people think it's a bad idea than a good idea. why is that? >> i think -- >> why hasn't success translated? >> one of the things is we need to translate the success.

when you ask the american people about those things individually, or when you ask the american people about the importance of no longer being held off healthcare because of pre-existing conditions or the fact that their children up to the age 26 can be on their plans, that's 3 million. when you ask them about the substance of the issue, the american people respond positively. that's what i think we need to do more about. i think what we need to do is make sure we're communicating clearly and we talk about what is the substance instead of something that's one word descriptions. actually, what this is, this is about three things. affordability, quality and access. and when you talk about as you just did the measures against those things, that's what we need to do more of. >> why did you need to downgrade expectations of how many people would sign up? you are looking at less than 10 million. the original projection was $13

million. the 13 million was the original scoring. it is done to determine -- >> they were accurate about year one. >> with regard to that, what we have done is when i got to hhs, i asked the team to look at the up ins and let's figure out what we think the target should be. it has two pieces to it. reenrollment and new enrollees. with regard to the reenrollment, what we did was went out to the marketplace, what is the general re-enrollment of this type of thing? they created a range 70% to 90%. many of the people were in the 80% to 85%. we chose 83%. then what we did was build the number that way. in setting our target what we did was take the information from last year, including the fact that when cbo did its estimates and others did estimates, they thought more people would switch from employer-based care than did. >> you think that's one of the reasons, that employers haven't dropped people? this is the first year the employer mandate, do you expect to see employers drop people now? >> with regard to the number, we think it's a number of elements. as we made the number that we

chose, that 9.1, we said there would be 28% growth. we believe in the second year of a new marketplace, 28% growth is strong and healthy. >> i got to ask you about the comments from jonathan hooper. he is an opponent of the affordable care, have been pointing to the comments all week long. he's an mit professor. he's an adviser to the healthcare law and people that wrote it when the administration was working on it. i understand you didn't work with him very closely. i do want to have you take a listen and get you to respond. this is how he explained taxing high-end cadillac health insurance plans and doing a little oakie doek. >> we tax the insurance companies. they tax us. it's a very clever exploitation of the lack of economic understanding.

lack of transparency is a huge politicale ed advantage. basically, that was really critical to getting the thing to pass. what does this do? this bill takes what i call the spaghetti approach. which is takes a bunch of ideas that might work and throws them against the wall and we see what will stick. >> he is playing into every fear that many had about this bill, it's not transparent, that there are things in it that people don't know. this can't help a credibility gap. >> i have to start with how fundamentally i disagree with his comments about the bill and about the american people. since i've been at the department, one of the things i focused on is transparency, making sure all our numbers come out whether good or bad. the law is based on the issues of transparency and belief in the american people and choices in the marketplace. this past week, since we have had window shopping on, over a million people have come to the

site and done window shopping. they are comparing based on premiums. they are comparing based on deductibles. when you give the american people to choices, they will do that. from the issue of the consumer to the fact that we have put out information so that people can see what providers are receiving from pharmaceuticals. >> he said spaghetti at the wall. he said that with -- it was the week the healthcare law passed. is that what this bill is, to see what works and what doesn't? >> this law is a piece of legislation that's about three things. and these are things that have bye pa bipartisan agreement. affordability, access and quality. that's what the american people want. and there's bipartisan agreement. the bill has different pieces. you touched on many of them -- people know about them, whether closing the medicare doughnut hole. there are 8 million american seniors that benefitted from that $11 billion. there are so many parts of this

law that target those three things. >> is he welcomed back as a consultant? >> certainly right now in terms of the work that we're doing at hhs, we're doing our work and focusing on what we are doing and our modelling. >> he's not welcome back? >> with regard to mr. gruber and his comments, i think i've been clear. that's something we disagree with. >> thanks for coming on "meet the press." >> thank you. now joining me since the affordable care act was implemented, 23 states have ned. what does it matter? let m let me show you an example. arkansas saw their uninsured rate decrease. in louisiana, the rate was

reduced by less. let's go to the number. look at arkansas your neighbor to the north. i i know you don't want to talk about arkansas considered what happened last night with lsu. expanding medicaid, would you have more people off the uninsured rolls. >> democrats and republicans both want to represent the vulnerable, want to help people get healthcare. medicaid is not the right way. the problem with expanding medicaid and obamacare is that it chooses a top down closed approach where the government is running your healthcare. medicaid is a program with bad healthcare programs. they showed there was no improve with physical outcomes. it was designed to take care of the disabled, vulnerable children. it was never designed to be there for able bodied adults. the affordable care act, the

president is doubling down on a failedpproach to providing healthcare. >> why aren't you -- here is the thing. it would cost your state nothing. you may -- you have your own fiscal problems with the deficit issue. would you have more money from the federal government. they are paying for it. it's not going to cost state money. why not do it until the -- while the law is active in. >> that's a great -- i'm glad you asked that. one of the things i love is when democrats say this is free money. this is not free money. every dollar we don't spend on medicaid is another dollar we don't have to borrow from china. this is the reason we have nearly $18 trillion in debt. lou lou t louisiana taxpayers are federal taxpayers. we have to stop acting like all of of this money is free money. secondly, when you look at the best way to help folks, it's to decrease the cost of healthcare. i propose a plan to replace obamacare. if the president were serious, why not give states more flexibility?

>> but he has. look at indiana -- why is john kasich wrong? they did get the federal government to approve a different plan. why not negotiate with the government and do something that you want to do? >> if we were to expand medicaid it would cost my taxpayers $1.8 billion over ten years. we would have to get more than one person out of private insurance. i know this president likes to define success as more people depending on government. would have to take over 200,000 people out of private insurance and put them into medicaid. >> 200,000 people not insured at all. >> i'm saying for every uninsured, you take more than another person out of private insurance. in louisiana in particular, we inherited a public hospital system. we had ten state operated hospitals through the private sector. we have improved healthcare access and outcomes for one example. it used to take ten days to get a prescription filled.

now you can get it done in ten minu minutes. we reformed our program. over 80% of our -- my point is, there are better ways to provide healthcare to the eventuvulnera. it's not for the government to run healthcare. the answer is not to expand a failed program, a one size fits all like medicaid. >> you think it's a total failure? >> i think when it was targeted for the disabled, for children, in louisiana we cover over 95% of our children have coverage. i think it could be improved with more flexibility. this wasn't a conservative study. the harvard study showed when you expanded medicaid, there was no improvement in physical healthcare. giving them a doctor without giving them access to doctors, hospitals, doesn't improve anything. >> on immigration, if the president goes through with the executive action, do you think republicans should use the power of shutting down the government to stop him from doing it? >> i don't think the president should shut down the government

to try to break the constitution. the reality is -- >> you think the president would shut down the government? you do want republicans to fight him on this? >> i don't think the president should shut down the government. >> you are twisting my question. >> let's step back -- >> you want that show down? >> the president said i want to break the law. he said i'm going to wait until after the election. i know it's not going to be p p popular. we had an election. he said his policies were on the ballot. he lost in red states, purple states, blue states. the people rejected his policies. now he is saying, i'm going to break the law. talk about arrogance. where was this president said elections have consequences, we are talking about how can the congress force the president to follow the law? i would expect democrats who may agree with him on substance to say the right way to do this is to follow the constitution, follow the law. we shouldn't shut down the government. but republicans should do everything they can to force the president to follow the law.

let's secure the border. the president shouldn't shut down the government. >> i want to ask you about presidential ambitions. majority in louisiana disapprove of your job. why is that a launching pad? >> i don't care about poll numbers. i never have. i was elected in louisiana to make generational changes. look at what we have done in louisiana. now we have cut our state budget 26%, cut the number of state employees 34%. we have the best private sector economy in a generation. our economy has grown twice as fast as the national economy. more people working than ever before at a higher income than ever before. we transformed the charity house. that's the third wheel in louisiana politics. state wide school choice. if i were to run -- i haven't made that decision. if i were to run for president, it's because i believe in our country the american dream is at jeopardy. this president has defined the american dream as more dependence on the government. we need to restore the american dream. it's more about opportunity and

growth and not redistribution. >> one part of your record -- you have nearly a $1 billion hole in your budget. your deficit has grown. you did a big tax cut at the beginning of your term as governor. revenues haven't followed. >> that's not true, chuck. the billion dollars is the assume we grow. our budget has balanced every year. i have had eight credit upgrades in the ratings. we have balanced our budget every year without running deficits, without raising taxes. >> you have to. >> we need to do that in d.c. as well. we have made tough choices, unlike d.c. we cut spending $9 billion. i'm not talking about cutting growth. we cut our budget by $9 billion. we have balanced our budget. we have done it by growing the private sector. we have more than 80,000 jobs, more than $50 billion in private investment coming into our state. we are -- our economy is doing so well, when i was elected, our

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things to do. he can be bold or compromise. this week it became clear the president has opted to favor the latter approach. he may believe the best form of a defense is a good offense. >> without any republican support on anything, then it's going to be hard to get things done. >> that was four years ago. this is now. >> there will be actions i take they don't like. >> in 2010, president obama realizing he would be facing voters in two years walked away with a pledge to build consensus. the effort failed. a grand bargain on taxes broke down. clashes paved the way for a government shutdown. this time around, the president is learning a different lesson from defeat. with time running out to secure a legacy, this week the president put his fists up, telling supporters, let's go. >> i'm laying out a plan to keep the internet free and open.

>> the president pushed the fcc to issue the strongest possible rules for internet service providers, saying the internet should be regulated like a public utility so broadband companies can't charge for better access. republican senator ted cruz called it obamacare for the internet. on tuesday, mr. obama announced a climate deal with china designed to cut carbon emissions from both countries. >> for first time, we got china to make a commitment to constrain its green house gases. why would anybody be against that? >> republicans were. >> i had naively hoped the president would look at the results of the election and decide to come to this political center. but the early signs are not good. >> as early as next week, the president will give republicans another target when he acts alone to extend protections to as much as 5 million undocumented immigrants. >> we're going to fight the president tooth and nail.

>> it's like waving a red flag in front of bull. >> the president may have said i hear you, but it's just the opposite. >> republican leaders hoping to prevent a government shutdown and avoid upsetting conservatives are considering the courts. >> i would advise rather than devote time trying to constrain my lawful actions as the chief executive of the u.s. government in charge of enforcing our immigration laws that they spend some time passing a bill. >> now instead of worrying about shoring up red state incumbents, he is working on firing up base democrats who stayed home on election day. contributing to the lowest overall midterm turnout in more than seven decades. that may mean picking a fight with members of his own party. democrat soul searching revives a rift between moderates and progressives. the first skirmish, a senate vote next week on the keystone

pipeline. >> i would like to vote on keystone now. >> understand what this project is. it's providing the ability of canada to pump their oil, send it through our land down to the gulf where it will be sold everywhere else. it doesn't have an impact on u.s. gas prices. >> well, the panel is here. i want to start with keystone. chris, the president, is he going to veto it? is that a death knell? >> this time around, it's veto. but it's going to come back again and again. it will be negotiated. >> is it a mistake to veto it? >> he may feel he has to do it for his environmental supporters. it's not going to stop it. it's going to happen. it will happen. it will happen now or next year or the year after. the country wants jobs. energy is a primary concern of the american people. look where the elector rion -- working class white, hillary clinton will want, they will be for jobs. he said there's nothing in it

for us. there are jobs in it. that's the way the american people look at it. not energy, jobs. >> are you surprised at this more energized president obama? >> i'm not. i think it's interesting though, because somebody clearly didn't tell him that his party got whipped. >> it wasn't close. >> so it's really interesting seeing how he has come out. he is clearly shooting for the fences. he is thinking about his legacy. he wants to get things done. i think that's why you are going to see him doing much more things on the international stage where he has more ability. i think he's -- for all of the nice talk that you heard the day after election about trying to get along, that's not going to happen. i think we're in for two years of complete gridlock. >> what should republicans do if the president wants to basically still enact his agenda and not let the midterms interrupt that? >> just on keystone pipeline, perhaps the president will veto this. on what basis would he do so?

the american people support it by wide majorities. what we are doing today is actually worse for global greenhouse gas emissions than the keystone pipeline would be. it would create jobs despite his bizarre statement that it wouldn't. finally -- >> there are mixed studies on this. >> 2 1/2 years of a process, that's purposeful foot dragging or incompetence. the american people know that. i think what the republicans should do is soberly and systematically pass bills that make sense, that have bipartisan support. keystone pipeline is one of them. they should pass it. if he jumps in and does the executive action on immigration, i think republicans should not be goaded in -- >> showdown? >> showdown, because it only helps obama and hurts the american people. what they should do is systematically and soberly pass bills to solve a problem and they should point out to

hispanics all over this nation that this president has taken advantage of them. he sunk comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. he did nothing to push forward immigration reform when he had the senate, the house and the white house. he said he couldn't do anything and then he delayed his action for the elections. unbelievable cynicism. >> it does appear as if the president is looking at different democratic groups and going to the base. >> your point that this is the beginning of a feud between the two factions -- >> you think there is? >> i think it's correct. it's more valuable for mary landrieu to be against him and have him veto the pipeline for her to actually be able to deliver it. here where he -- >> you think it's better politics for her? >> it certainly is. in a state where her -- >> if she can't get something she wants to get done, that's good for her? >> she's not going to be able to convince voters she's not another vote for the president. this is the constant problem

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the democratic party's prospects for 2016 are all about who shows up to vote. one reason president obam did so wll in 2012 was due to minority and youth turnout. in fact, let's look at 2012. 72% of that vote was white. 13% black. 10% hispanic. 19% was between the ages of 18 and 29. now, here is what we know. whites voted for romney by

nearly 20 points. if you look at everybody else, blacks, hispanics, asians, the president won that share of the vote 80% to 19%. let's look at what happened last tuesday. no tu turnout was low. the percentage of white voters was up. black and hispanic numbers dropped. most significantly, that 18-29 vote, dropped down to 13% of those who voted. guess what that did. it helped produce the gop wave that w saw. here are two states where a turnout that looks like 2012 likely would have changed the outcome of the election. colorado and north carolina. in colorado, cory gardner beat mark udall by 42,000 votes. look at this. between 2012 and 2014, the youth turnout in colorado, mostly democratic voters, dropped from 20% of the electoral to 14%. the youth turnout had held

steady, probably would have produced enough votes to put udall over the top. let's look at another example, north carolina. thom tillis beat kay hagan. had the african-american turnout by the same as it was in 2012, senator hagan would have won. it would have produced 56,000 more votes. it would have led to a differentodifferent outcome. many have argued you need someone like obama at the top of the ballot to get the turnout that favors democrats. if that is true, then democrats could have a problem. obama will not be at the top of the ticket. the long-term shift in demographics in the united states probably will help the democratic party in the next presidential election when turnout will be higher. experts expect the white vote to be about 69% and that alone

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and now introducing, aleve pm for a better am. '. and welcome back, a little earlier, i discussed the polytechs of health care with secretary burwell governor jendel. but what has the effect had. i asked my colleague to look at two states, texas and illinois.

they took two different approaches to the law. >> everything is bigger in texas, including the opposition to the affordable care act. >> it is going to be more taxes on all of the texas people. i mean, that's a trap if ever there was one, it seems to me. >> reporter: 1,000 miles away in the land of lincoln and the current president, it is also call called the aca and embraced. >> the aca saved us. >> reporter: one year later two states with different assessments. robert mayfield heads a sizzling business in austin, texas, and he owns a burger joint and six dairy queens employing under 100 people at above minimum wage. >> we pay $10 and we don't do it because we are nice guys, but we do it because we get the best peopl people. >> reporter: mayfield was to expand the business started by his father in 1949 but going over the 100 employee mark means he has to offer health care for

his workers or pay penalties under the mandate. >> these penalties passed by the government don't come out of the air. we have to pay them or we don't pay in business. >> reporter: and if 30 hours is a full time worker as defined by the law, mayfield will have to cut workers or drawback. >> i have people i care about that have worked for me for ten or more years. >> reporter: only 39,000 people signed up for the aca. >> it is characterized as the panacea to the uninsured issues out there, and well, it is not and it never was. >> reporter: state representative john zerwa says he hears from people who pay more for less coverage. and while texas rejected the medicaid expansion, this doctor is open for other ways. >> there is other ways to look

at at how to provide insurance or some program to this 1 million or 1.5 million people for which there is no option right now. >> reporter: in washington, the republican majority wants to repeal the law, and these are fighting words for the people in keith moon's house in chicago. >> the people who want the repeal it, they sit there with insurance, and you go without insurance for two years, and thele the me how you feel. >> reporter: moon's family did after he and joyce lost their job jobs. joyce's pre-existing thyroid condition pushed the price tag for insurance to unaffordable $1,750 a month. >> reporter: as a husband your wife is not getting the attention she needs. >> it was terrible. you felt awful about it. >> reporter: and now with the aca they pay $350 a month and joyce gets the care she needs. >> reporter: one year later, what is the emotional difference? >> you don't have the ov overhanging stress and risk of medical bankruptcy. and to have that burden lifted

from your shoulders, i don't know how to put it in words. >> reporter: in illinois of the 1.2 million eligible more than 700,000 signed up. >> because of the coverage in the affordable care act, a lot of people are more likely to live. families are less likely to go bankrupt. >> reporter: and to entering year two, the affordable care act has not healed the divide it created. for "meet the press" anne thompson. >> and now for a deep dive on the policy, i'm joined by toby cosgrove and she worked with the white house and in the white house to develop obama's health care law and obic roy who is working with with the research institute for forgdz who advised mitt romney on affordable care act, and what are you seeing. roy forbes? >> well, it started out to decrease the cost, and the jury is not in on that yet, and you have to understand that the costs are not about the costs of the individual, but also about

the the costs of the health care across the nation, and it has improved -- >> and you as the head of the cleveland clinic, you would know. >> and you have is seen the costs down? >> yes. with we realize that the pressure is on the health care providers across the country to help make health care more affordable and greater efficiency and we have seen the national quality indicators go up, and access to increase across the country, and so there are the main thing that we are seeing is the jury is not in yet on what we are doing as far as the cost can across the country is in. >> and obic. >> well, the costs are coming up. >> i was going to say that the first year, it is not the doom and the gloom predicted? >> well, the hospital costs and the underlying costs for the people who did buy coverage on their own did go up from year one and more stable in the higher levels, a nd the bigger part of wh