. >> gary cohen, the head administrator in charge of implementing the new health care law, testified before a house oversight panel on wednesday. mr. cohen testified that the house insurance exchanges will be ready to begin enrollment on october 1st with full implementation of the health care law on january 1st. in this hearing is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. i convene this hearing on the subcommittee on oversight and investigation to examine the department of health and human service's management of the affordable care act as we approach the january 1, 2014, deadline for full implementation. mr. gary cohen, director of the center for consumer information and oversight or cciio is here to testify on behalf of hhs. good morning. cciio is responsible for implementing the ppaca, he knows they certainly have their work cut out for them. at beginning of the next year, full implementation will finally take place, and on that day americans have been promised the ability to purchase health insurance plans through new exchanges. the american people have been

she jus just a huge thing with goldman sachs this week and gary cohen in new york around all bunch of initiatives for women entrepreneurs. i think it's easy to do the stories on arianna. the real story on arianna from issues that are committed job of being a tremendous businessperson. i think, i mean, that's the best story about her i think spanky was answering e-mails from her as we walked in. >> back to patch for a moment. what makes the ideal our most successful for patch count? if i'm understanding correctly, you're looking at all the account you currently have. some of them may lose touch. will what makes the ideal most successful patch town? what ingredients you need to have? >> there is 59 variables we look at when we consider patch towns. so it's everything from the tax information, school information, how good the schools are. there's a whole suite of things about how engaged the community is in general. so we look at about 59 variables. what we did is up front rank all the towns in the united states. started with all the towns and rank them. what we are focused on i would sa

that's why gary cohen said, i'm not sure we're going to need a contingency program but we won't know until we get there. i will submit there is going to be a need for a contingency plan. the sooner that the agencies admit that to the appropriate committees and the house and senate, the sooner they can begin to work on a solution for a problem. because, mr. speaker, let's face it. january 1 of 2014, there's going to be an emergency room, there's going to be an operating room, there's going to be a delivery room where a patient and doctor are going to come into contact with each other and they don't need the uncertainty of what this legislation has dealt them. so, i thank the speaker for the time this evening. i see the gentleman from iowa is here. mr. speaker, is it appropriate for me to yield back or yield to the gentleman? i will then yield back the time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013,

i am pleased we have at this hearing today again gary cohen here in december and certain incident questionbeing addressed today. the center for consumer information and insurance oversight has made huge progress in implementing the affordable care act. success doesn't change the opinions of my colleagues on the republican side of the aisle. it makes them even more determined to the person and they can criticize. today on the house floor, we are going to vote on the bill that they produce because under the affordable care act we have a high risk pool for people with preexisting conditions who are waiting until january to buy health insurance without being discriminated against, without being charged more money because of preexisting conditions. we have spent $5 billion on a program to help people with preexisting conditions to be in a high-risk pool. we ran out of money. republicans still finding them out of money for everything the government does because they support the idea sequestration happening and we running out of money and all sorts of places for the government has an obligation.

tory birch, and gary cohen, and it was fantastic. there's a graduate there who has a carpet business that she started. she's going to be on the show a little bit later. and we're going to talk about the way that they infused the tools that women need to start their own business. and it was so cool to be -- i think it was our fourth one. >> yeah. it was really cool. and it's always whenever i see these things, i'm reminded of my parents, small business owners. you know, when you're a small business owner, you know, you live it 24 hours a day, and seeing these women coming up with an idea and living it. we'll just say it, they get advice from some of the greatest minds in american business. yeah, so, anyway, can't wait to talk about that. we have a lot of things to talk about here. i saw this on the "new york times." this is interesting, mark haleprin, japan is shifting further away from pacifism. does this mean we can stop paying for their national defense? >> well, that certainly would be part of it if they made a change. look, a lot

and gary cohen testifies on capitol hill about implementing the health care law. and c-span 3 that hearing that we just showed you. she will be testifying. all these events starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the c-span networks. from this morning's washington journal, the impact of sequestration on budget cuts and f.a.a. staffing. no host: we are back with congressmen rick larsen. we will talk about furloughs and what is happening with flight delays. this is a headline in the newspaper this morning. the front page of "the washington times" has this eadline. that may have you respond to what senator mitch mcconnell had to say yesterday. he was on the floor of talking bout this. >> i would argue that political motives, thousands of people were stuck on tarmac over the last few days. the mismanagement is a source of bipartisan frustration. our goal should not be to score political points on the backs of weary travelers but to fix the problem. the obama administration knew about the sequester for onths. there were three days notice to implement the furloughs that are no

one with gary cohen, head administrator implementing the new health care law. he's testifying now before the house, energy, and commerce committee on oversight, talking about the agency's progress on building health insurance exchanges in states and whether the agency is ready with enrollment in the exchanges. begins october 1. the hearing started about 40 minutes ago. live coverage here on c-span. >> when you need it even though you pay for it. >> that's correct. >> thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. now recognize mr. scalise for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. appreciate you having this hearing. thank you, mr. cohen, for coming. yesterday was in my district before i flew back here to d.c. and there was a panel on the health care law that was held at a local hospital in my district. and i was one of the people that was speaking on that panel. and there were a number of people in the health care industry, people that have insurance. it just seemed to be an underlying theme that continued to go through that room that nobody is ready for th