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governor beshear, governor kasich, a lot more to discuss on this as time goes on. i appreciate both your time this morning. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> after president obama signed the affordable care act into law in 2010, he often repeated this statement. >> if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. no one will be able to take that away from you. it hasn't happened yet, it won't happen in the future. >> well, that turns out that it may not, in fact, be the case. hundreds of thousands of americans are receiving notices that their plans are being canceled because of the guidelines set by the health care law. in florida, for instance, the oldest and largest health care plan provider, florida blue, the state's blue cross and blue shield company, confirmed it is cutting 300,000 policies. joining me now from london is florida blue ceo pat geraghty. mr. geraghty, thank you for being here. why are you cutting these people from their insurance? >> well, david, we're not cutting people. we're actually transitioning people. what we've been d

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joining me now is kentucky governor steve beshear. governor of a red state, a democrat of a red state. we haven't heard any numbers coming out from the federal government about enrollment nationwide. we know there have been a lot of glitches in the federal exchange system so explain what kentucky has done differently. your system is called connect. explain how you've been able to make it work. >> thomas, we worked on it for a long time. we did a lot of planning. we took every planning grant that the federal government offered. we got ready, pulled all of our folks together, coordinated it well and it's working. as you've mentioned, we've had 225,000 people as of 9:00 this morning swarming all over that website. we're signing people up about 1,000 a day to get affordable health care. so it's working in kentucky. >> all right, so you talk about it working because of the preparation that went into it. you basically pushed through to make sure that this happened, against republican roadblocks that were happening in your state. we know a l

among his guests governor john kasich and steve beshear. >>> overseas a protest for women's right to drive in a country where they are not allowed to do so. it happened in saudi arabia as a group of women took a bold step. they got behind the wheel. our report tonight from anna bell roberts. >> reporter: aziza al yusef left home in her car as she does every day. this time it's different. she's in the driver's seat. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: my choice is to drive my car. why should i be deprived of that? the college lecturer got her permit two years ago abroad. in saudi arabia driving permits here are only handed out to men. women are forced to employ drivers or rely on close male relatives. the campaign women to drive was trending on twitter. >> we ask every woman who has a driving license and is able to drive to go out. >> reporter: a few uploaded clips of their actions. activists say their message is being heard. >> it is a basic human right. there is absolutely no reason in the world that we cannot drive. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: this man disagre

we are with that state governor, steve beshear. thank you for joining us. your response to the number of people who have signed up for exchanges in your state, or for health insurance in your state. guest: yesterday or the day before yesterday was probably the most exciting day of my governorship. it just keeps getting better. we are having tremendous response. there is a lot of excitement. 8e have had something like 11 different visitors to the website and viewed over 1.8 million pages. i think there is 3500 people are now signed up. we have 10,000 or 12,000 that are going through the application process. it is growing and snowballing. it is getting better every minute. host: your states on employment rate is about 8.4%. for those who sign up for the exchanges, how do you make it affordable for them and how does he continue to be affordable? guest: but we did in kentucky is ,000ave addressed all 640 kentuckians. 308,000 will qualify for the expanded medicaid program. the other people are going to be able to get affordable health insurance on the exchange.

governor steve beshear, who is a democrat, is like a man possessed with helping more people get coveredhe thinks it's the right thing to do. keep in miami-dade, mind, did i not win in kentucky. but there are a lot of uninsured people in kentucky. and they're signing up. oregon has covered 10% of its uninsured citizens already because of the affordable care act. 10% of the uninsured have already been covered. arkansas. i didn't win that state either. covered almost 14% of its uninsured already. that's already happened. and you've got some republican governors like governor casich of ohio who have put politics aside. and they're expanding medicaid through this law to cover millions of people. unfortunately, there are others that are so locked into the politics of this thing, they won't lift a finger to help their own people. and that's leaving millions of americans uninsured, unnecessarily. that's a shame. because if they put as much energy into making this law work as they do in attacking the law -- americans would be better off. americans would be better off. so that's the affordable ca

governor steve beshear who is a democrat is like a man possessed with helping more people get coveredhe thinks it's the right thing to do. keep in mind i did not win in kentucky. but there are a lot of uninsured people in kentucky and they're signing up. oregon has covered 10% of its uninsured citizens already because of the affordable care agent. 10% of its uninsured have already gotten covered. arkansas, i didn't win that state either, covered almost 14% of its uninsured already. that's already happened. you've got some republican governors like governor rakasic of ohio who have put politics aside. others are so locked into the politics of this thing thatfing their own people and that's leaving millions uninsured unnecessarily. that's a shame. because if they put as much energy into making this law work as they do in attacking the law, americans would be better off. americans would be better off. so that's the affordable care act. better protections for americans with insurance, a new marketplace for americans without insurance, new tax credits to help folks afford it, more choice,

mar marjorie, kentucky governor, steve beshear, offered historical perspective about implementing the take a listen to what he had to say. >> you know, the last time we did a major transformational change in health care in america, was back in 1965. i think it was. when they passed medicare. well, history shows us that it took two or three years to work through all of the bumps in the road and all of the kinks to get it up and running and making sure that everybody joined up. so this is going to work and everyone just needs to chill out a little bit. >> okay, marjorie, let's look at some of the numbers coming in from the states. 150,000 people in new york use the state's website to get coverage. over 35,000 in washington got health insurance the same way. and in kentucky, the state's democratic governor says they're signing up 1,000 people a day. so this is about more than just a website, isn't it? >> absolutely. we're talking about now millions of americans can go get the health care they need, that may not be provided by their employer, or they may not have a job, and they need some

family services talked about her states health care exchange. 8:45 a.m., kentucky governor steve beshear discussing his support of health care law. 915, a preview of the debt ceiling debate with phil mattingly from bloomberg news. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] host: it was at the white house john president obama told boehner that he was open to discussion but only if the house passes a clean spending bill and visited that limit. house speaker john boehner said they will continue on their efforts to pass narrow bills to open smaller portions of government vomit abandoning the effort to delay the full implementation of the affordable care act. we want to get your reaction to what has been going on

i don't know if you've had a chance to interview governor beshear before.e's been pounding the pavement about getting people signed up for the affordable care act and he had more strong words than that even for senators paul and mcconnell. >> the two senators from his state of kentucky. sanjay, thanks very much. we learn something from you reporting every single time you're here. thank you. tomorrow, by the way, sanjay will head to baltimore, maryland, and go inside an affordable care act call center and hear the questions americans are asking about insurance coverage and cost. tomorrow here in the "newsroom." deciding which agencies are essential, republicans offer an alternative, proposing to fund one agency at a time. but is that really the best plan of attack. >> i'll ask the florida republican congressman mario diaz-balart about that and the president' invitation on this, come over to the white house. let's talk. pepcid® presents: the burns family bbq. guys, you took tums® a couple hours ago. why keep taking it if you know your heartburn keeps coming b

and here's a democratic governor, steve beshear, on that. >> let me just give a piece of unsolicited advice to the critics and, honestly, to the news media. take a deep breath. you know, this system is going to work. the only thing that really isn't working right now on the federal level is the website. i'll guarantee you that whether it's a week from now, a month from now, two months from now, they'll get it up and they'll get it working. people will be signing up. >> so that democratic governor has a lot of confidence in this getting done. are we making really too much of this entire process as having such difficulty out of the gate? >> well, i think it depends on how long this goes on. i think jonathan said that. if this goes on for a couple of weeks, no one will remember it in two years. if this stretches out and goes on and on and on, they're going to start running into dead loin probl -- deadline problems and this is the public face for a lot of young people that they need to sign up for insurance. so if young people keep on going on this website and it's not working, it's goin

. >> steven beshear thursday criticized members of congress for opposing the house -- health care law. he also spoke about the techies effort to implement the law. coverage begins in january. this is 50 minutes. >> thank you very much. we have a great crowd here today. i see most of you were for the federal government. you needed something to do. i want to thank bruce and the national journal for inviting me to speak on this for him on this very timely and important topic. say thank you to be presenting sponsors, both of whom have kentucky connections. haveld wil lue connect anywhere. the connection we have with the american medical association is special. is dr. ardis holden. a kentucky. the great doctor there. we are very proud of him that she is with the american medical association this year. >> i am here today to talk about how and why kentucky both proudly and aggressively is leading the nation in implementing the affordable care act. know what you're thinking. states red states kentucky seems like an odd choice to be embracing an closely identified. how is it they were one of t

governor steve beshear, thank you so much. [applause] >> on c-span2 today, the senate foreign relations committee examines iran's nuclear program. live at 10:30 eastern, the u.s. senate returns for more work on the budget negotiations and the government shutdown. >> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our web site, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> undersecretary of state wendy sherman said that the obama administration would support additional pressure on iran if it does not reduce its nuclear program. it also called on congress not to pass new sanctions against iran until after the meetings with iranian officials on october 15th in geneva. her remarks came during the senate foreign relations committee hearing on iran's nuclear program. this is two hours, 45 minutes. >> g

. >> governor steve beshear, thank you for the perspective.day" and let us know how it's going. thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> a little bit of a heads up, one of the things that will be on the table when the parties come back people, extending the deadline. >>> here are your headlines. u.s. secretary of state kerry and france's foreign minister met over a report that the nsa carried out extensive surveillance on french soil, including scooping up to 70 million digital communications in a single month. just the latest diplomatic squirmish ignited by nsa leaker edward snowden. >>> federal prosecutors say the california security guard accused of plotting to becoming an al qaeda operative had been enlisted to train fighters. he was arrested trying to leave the country. agents say he was carrying a forged passport and a large amount of foreign currency. >>> the state's police chief in florida saying they led to the escape of convicted murders charles walker and joseph jenki jenkins. florida prison officials now have to check with judges to make