we could just call it hhs wellness. the programs are interesting and relevant and i think people will participate. the band is not a necessary component for success, but it does boost recognition and makes it more identifiable and ties it altogether, all the different aspect of the program. we are going to have a fragmented program where they are pulling components, maybe they are getting something from blue shield and kaiser and something in-house that we are funding. putting it inside the umbrella is a way of roupding -- rounding it up and having people understand it's part of this one unified recognition. stay strong and live long is what city employees have which is we are working harder to get to a place where we can enjoy a retirement. you get people that have a long tenure an that's the thing that keeps them motivated. i'm going to have a retirement. if you reach your retirement age in poor emotional or physical health because of the life habits that you have you really haven't gained much. you've worked all of t

hhs. >>> well, it didn't take long, just days to find the "late night" successor to david letterman.acy spoke with the man who made the choice, president and ceo, leslie moonves. >> he'd be the greatest replacement for david letterman we could ever find. we got our guy. >> this man has influenced every host who came after him and even a few who came before him. he's that good. >> reporter: leslie moonves says hiring stephen colbert was a no-brainer. >> now i'm seeing and feeling kind of a wistful tone to my hate mail. >> reporter: but he called david letterman just to make sure. >> and when i called dave to ask for his blessing, he said exactly the same thing. he said, i can't think of anybody even a close second. >> reporter: he also said you wanted another guy with glasses. i read that the. >> that was great. it was very funny. but, you know, stephen idolizes david. they had a great conversation. and dave was unbelievably supportive of the decision. >> reporter: "late night" debuted my first year in college. i learned more from watching dave than i did from going to my classes. >>

but faced with the law that remains deeply unpopular with american people, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius seemed a little -- wellurself. >> now, that is going to still continue to be a tough sell but we'll see how that plays out over the coming months. all right, secretary kathleen sebelius, thank you so much for being with us this morning. i think we probably lost sound here or something. >> well, i can hear you, but thank you for having me. >> you're welcome. >> fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt spotted another issue today. this involves a political -- i can hear you -- >> there is some rotor wash, it is not coming in for me. not a great day for -- >> come through again, bob? >> all right, the sign-ups they say are way, way up. pushing towards you know, where they wanted them to be. they still wouldn't tell us how much of those involve uninsured or insured people, who are uninsured prior to obamacare. they wouldn't tell us how many people paid and so on. but i want to ask you about california because some people are raising a stink about obamacare and voter registration. >> well, there is one in

introduced her today, he touted her managerial skills, a message.sending the last hhs secretary could manage very well one will do a better job. >> how much is a black -- how much of a black mark is this on kathleen sebelius? will she always and forever be fighting this debacle? >> if there were any justice in the world, her reputation would be like michael brown, the fema chairman under george w. bush, but the fact that she did not leave in the middle of ms, she is going out under a high point, who knows? she may wind up as a health-care .obbyist >> what does this mean now having a new head of healthcare.gov? what does it mean for the future of health care, do you think? >> the administration told them they could turn over a new leaf, so they've had a lot of turbulence. the insurance industry has delayed major aspects of the law, allowed people to keep their old friends. this is an opportunity for them to reset, but a new face at the .op of hhs we are coming into the first real implementation year. >> right. they hit -- what? 7 million? the complaint has been not everyone is actually in the program.

>> well, she brings in the management experience that hhs is going to need. they were able to repair the website, but there is a lot of hurdles that remain, you know, and the second year of enrollment starts in november, but it is coming much more quickly than it sounds, and you know, they need to get insurers on board, and make sure that the insurers remain in place to sell the insurance, and make sewer that the website is fixed and fix the problems on the backend of the site where the consumers' application actually goes to the insurance company, so they need that management experience that the president was touting today that sylvia burwell showed at omb. >> and let me bring in kristen welker at the white house, and we watched the atmosphere there, and definitely, i don't know, people in d.c. like to call it victory laps and spiking the football, but nevertheless, we know that kathleen sebelius' comments certainly indicate at least today that she is in a hi higher note than we watched in some of the contentious hearings when she was grilled and a number of

and so the president chose si sylvia burwell for the hhs post, but even in her previous post she was unanimously confirmed. >> well, remember that the senate changed the rules last year to have 55 to confirm, and i believe they will use this process, because obama has said that 7.5 million people have health insurance, and it is a good story. and the republicans will have people whose insurance went up in the process, and who lost insurance, and it is less of burwell being confirmed, and the republicans highlighting anything wrong with obama care in the process. >> well, you have heard tim scott reference obamacare and the numbers and conwoman marcia blackwell also brought it up on "face the nation." >> burwell is an interesting choice, and many of us and a growing consensus, i believe, that they know that they have a math problem with obamacare, and the numbers are not going to work out so that the program is going to be actuarially sound, and they have to have somebody to kind of spin the numbers, and in is something with burwell coming from the omb, i think that they are expecting her to do it for them. >> and

hhs. this firm can now modify it's own policy that is commendable with commissioner fraser and i'm look at the rfq as well. >> okay. very good. did i have public comment on this item? i did. item no. 14. city clerk: item 14. discussion item report on network health plan issues if any? >> any network people out there? seeing none, no. okay. any public comment on this item? item no. 15. >> city clerk: item 15. discussion item, opportunity to place items or future agendas. >> there slaen might have some when he comes back. i noticed that our governance rules needs updating and it won't be possible during this period. but the board evaluation hadn't been done since 2012 and there are other issues on the governance rules looked at and updated and best practices. we'll to have look at a consulting firm in the past we had cortex. and there is board training has been lacking, i think. so are there any other items for future agendas on this one? >> president, would the request be for hhs to prepare a report and budget to support the board in reviewing board policies? >> yes. definitely. like we had before. that wa

confirm that kathleen sebelius is resigning as hhs secretary and ed henry writes in right now that we're also confirming that the omb director sylvia matthews burr wellominated to replace her. so, again, kathleen sebelius out as hs secretary. sylvia matthews-burrwell currently the umb director will be nominated by the obama administration to replace her at hhs. >> we will see what happens with that. i think it's too strong to call kathleen sebelius a victim of obamacare, but she certainly is a casualty of it. she does have talents. she was a politician, daughter of a politician. also an ideologueideologue. obviously not a super capable manager and was given a job for which she was inadequate. she was not the architect of obamacare. obama was and nancy pelosi, they got it through. but she had to implement it, and that is her legacy. that will absolutely define her for all time. i don't know what this resignation is really about. it's really hard to know what these resignations are really ever about. but you've got to think there's bitterness on her part. she came in as this popular person. will she ever disentangle the name kathleen sebelius from the

an example of that, i guess, hhs has already undertaken on its to extend those to manufacturers as well. >> well, senator, i would say that dr. wakefield to his head of her son and did the umbrella agency over the 340 is very much engaged in making sure that the program operates in on more stringent fashion to a year to the rules. there are artists, as you say, already under way images and a couple of briefings for me, and she looks toward to working with congress to make sure that we are not allocating funds inappropriately and that the pro grams and entitled to receive the discounts are the ones, and fried, receiving discounts. that landscape is being reviewed right now. i can tell you specifically about manufacturers, but i would be glad to follow up and come back to you on that. the opportunity to make sure that we're following rules. a highly important program. >> really quickly, cms 96 greuel regarding inflation reimbursement and critical excess hospitals. can you comment on that? there are a lot of positions that we deal with. a lot of critical access hospitals to don't think it'

until it went ka boom and say well, i think the person in charge was the chief operating officer of the cmm, which is the subagency that does medication medicaid under hhss so removed from him. >> exactly. you know what, seems sill tee say he should be on the phone each day but in this case he probably should have. this is his legacy. the aca is this president's legacy. if he wanted it to be rolled out right he and his team should have been more on top of it. now to say sebelius presided over this botched rollout that's convenient for him. i think she did a terrific job under difficult circumstances, given a good chance to leave at the victorious signing up of 7.5 million people. so it works the optics work pretty well. >> what beth said rings so true with what i heard about the white house operation, john, that they don't -- you look at meet the press and sunday shows, why don't they have the secretary this or that, they have dan pfeiffer or somebody for valerie jarrett. and you know what the answer i get is, they don't trust those people to get the message out. they don't have a clear line of talk even with them. what is the problem of cabinet governm

hhs. this is president's nominee, sylvia bu burwell. >> that was four, five good minutes with libby casey. thank you. >>> wells east texas, is called home for the people who live in wells, say the church is a cult. heidi zhou-castro had a rare opportunity to sit down with both sides. >> if that was the case why do you go around preaching you're going to hell? >> a test of faith in wells, texas. never before has religion provoked more passion on this bible belt town of 8 00. >> how do you know what's in my heart? >> these men were with the church of wells, fundamentalists who came to wells when their rv broke down. >> we believe god sent us to wells to reach this community of people. >> what the church believes is that a true believer must join them and renounce ties with the outside world. this includes shunning one's own family. katherine grove's family has desperately tried to reunite with her earnings since last year. her family spoke with al jazeera. >> any religion that fears the loving arms of a mother and outside communication with the world is slavery. >> grove's parents say she was a bright and ambiti

well. here is what he said. martha: more on the president's next pick for hhs secretary, her name is sylvia mathews burwell, she is currently the director of the omb, the office of management and budget. she was confirmed for her current post by a senate vote of 96-0. she oversaw preparation for the government's annual budget. she served in numerous positions during the clinton administration. gregg: that announcement coming at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. what will the sebelius resignation mean in november. does it give democrats some political leeway here? martha: she has to be exhausted. when you look at what she has been through. as was pointed out by tucker carlson. she didn't engineer this program but she was tasked with clearing it out. by all reviews the rollout was a disaster. gregg: she has her mani' critics, she could have been more attentive or directive and she wasn't so her name will forever be associated this. martha: the former governor of kansas. gregg: at least 10 people killed in a horrible accident when a bus slammed into a fedex truck. >> we leave 12 miles south of willow. >> there was a bunch

university, and tim is well known for writing on a daily basis blogs in the health affairs website, explaining the incredible details of the latest incomprehensible regulations that hhs puts out. ideally, we will not get that deep into it today, but who knows. then mark pauly is a professor at the wharton school of the university of pennsylvania. mark is well known to aei audiences and has written many papers for us, and we are looking forward to what he has to say. with that, let's start with jim. >> good morning. this is a great time to take a snapshot at what is going on with the health care law. i think i would agree with some of the commentators i've read recently, some of whom are strong supporters of the law, that it is going to take much longer than the three months we have been into this to really understand full implications of this. it is going to be a two- or three-year process to figure out whether it has changed the insurance landscape in a positive or negative way. we are early into this debate judgments. we work at a think tank and we do conferences, and we will do it anyway. i read -- i apologize for the small type. there is too much to cover in this

it is not well less a bad law.or boehner and some republicans insist they got the better ofy democrats on this by allowing hh businesses to offer high deductible plans that could be purchased by individuals with health saving accounts, it is ao win-win-win, i'm not so sure. my rule of thumb, when harry reid is happy about something, w am not, i know republicans areh trying to make the best of a bad situation, and a bad law, butha this makes killing that law that much harder, and distinction from democrats that much hardere they are hoping games help run-up huge wins later. don't count on it.re i have said it so many times, if your only thing is about killing obamacare, and latest thing youa do is keeping obamacare alive,es you republicans are already dead, did this fix just put republicans in an even biggerisf fix? to former congressman, allen west, and thief economist, ret steven moore who no less than we ted cruz, seen sucking up to,rec say that staoeu that -- all rige you know tez cruz ted cruz one f maverick renegades in the party would he go for this? g fo >> probably not, what i agreeee with you on dea

well, exactly. so now congress has this unique opportunity because you have the person whose supposed to administer obamacare, the secretary of hhsk over september of 2013, right? she hasn't been there for when the lie of the year was told, she wasn't in this role. >> it started under peter and continued under jack lew and continued under her in september of 2013 she went -- the president went out and said a different version of it but basically saying if you have your health care you don't have to do anything. you're fine. if you're in the individual market, you don't have to do anything. he said this while she was director. when he got caught with that being lie. he told another, he said i was talking about individual market people, that's just 5%. i was talking about people with employer based care but as you and i have discussed many times before, there are tens of millions of people with employer based care who will also lose their health plans. >> that has yet to drop so she will be questioned about that. interesting. these confirmation hearings may have more focus on obamacare and these stories than they anticipated. mark,

hhs? i'm sure absolutely, any president would want that but i think the big problem facing this law right now as we documented so well over last few years is general management concerns. getting trains to run on time. and it appears the president thinks this is someone who can do that. jenna: michael to, ed's point, sheer she was approved, burwell to one a fourth of the economy in her current position and if approved to take the next position she will run a sixth of the economy. is this about financials and does that mean she will be approved because we have our priorities straight because it is about the bottom line? i have only 30 seconds here. >> hard to say what the priority is from the white house. i do want to point out while she was confirmed unanimously for the omb job i think you will see senate republican as real fight in these confirm a nation hearings not necessarily sylvia burwell but obamacare. that is tough vote for mark pryor or mary landrieu, kay hagen, democrats up for re-election to sort of vote for a nominee directly from the white house, to head up the department of that is running obamacare. tha

well, yeah. >> these are powerful message hh s.ound? >> yeah. rebel's core message is to love your selfie, so although that's basically what we base our organization off of, it was definitely a challenge to fit all of what we wanted to say in 15 seconds. >> what's it like for teenagers these days? these are great messages. messages of empowerment. but is that the way it really is at school? do you feel like teens do support each other? those differences are accepted and trumpeted? >> honestly, it depends on the people you surround yourself with. if you surround yourself with positive energy, you're going to receive positivity. so whenever you post a picture or say things on a social media site, then that positive energy will come to you through their messages, and for example, at girls inc., i'm surrounded by so many other good people, like the volunteers, they're very positive. and that has made me to the person i am today. >> melanie, do you think social media is good for this kind of thing, and this conversation and feeling good

tim actually is well known for writing virtually on a daily basis blogs in the health affairs website, explaining the incredible details of the latest incomprehensible regulations that hhs puts out. ideally we won't get that deep into it today, but who knows. and then mark pauly is a professor at the wharton school at the university of pennsylvania. mark is well known to aei audiences and has written many papers for us and looking forward to what he has to say. so with that let's start. >> good morning. this is a great time to sort of take a snapshot at what's going on with the health care law. i think i would agree though with some of the commentators i've read recently, some of whom are very strong supporters of the law that it's going to take much longer than the three months we been into this to really understand full implications of this. probably be a two or three-year process before you can really figure out whether it's change the interest landscape in a way that's positive or negative, at a cost structure of the country and positive or negative ways. we are very early into this to make judgments, but we work at a think tank and we do cover decided to go. we are

well. >> i'm humbled, honored and excited. >> reporter: looking to take the reins from embattled hhs secretary sebelius and earning the president'ss a proven manager who's demonstrated her ability to build great teams, forge strong relationships and deliver excellent results at the highest levels. >> reporter: so who is the woman behind the new face of health care? born in the small town of hinton, west virginia, burwell earned degrees from harvard and oxford where she was a rhode scholar. she's no stranger to washington, d.c. the 48-year-old served in the clinton administration for eight years. as obama's omb director, burwell has overseen tense budget negotiations and helped manage last year's government shutdown. >> she has good relations with the republicans on the hill. that said, you could put mother teresa in as secretary of hhs and it would not change republican's attitude towards obamacare. >> reporter: using her confirmation hearing to take fresh aim at obamacare in this midterm election year. eric cantor tweeting, sebelius had an impossible task, nobody could make obamacare work. president from republican senator john

so in the president budget, the feeling of hhs is to keep this for a period of years and years and their 8 million americans involved and the budget is. >> well, senator and we would look forward to working with you on what the future looks like and it has not really been something that we haven't rolled and we haven't had children who are gaining benefits ever before that should've been signed up because they just weren't. because states are now taking down some of the blockades and barriers and states are making it far easier for people and i would really be happy, and if the president just mentioned it. it is just odd to me with these commitments that he just simply hasn't mentioned it at all. >> i will share that. >> thank you. and obviously this is most important for west virginia. and it is capped at what anyone sticking up for that. west virginia spent $400,000 worry temple reason. we have an awful lot of coal miners in all a lot of cool more coal miners before. so it's huge. and there are various ways with the standards as well. with what you can't treat or cure but you can prevent it only by having a clean area and we're the only sta

hhs, a cabinet member, it's the actual culture of this administration that has been a failure. and look, the affordable care act is the holy grail of the president's legacy, which is a failure. >> wellrichard, angela minces no words there. she says it's a failure. a lot of people, including the president, now saying it's going to be a success. they have bumped and bruised and battered, but now they can move forward. what do you say? listen, the road to heaven was not paved with gold. it was paved with some pebbles and stones. and i think, yes, the rollout has been not as good as he wanted it to be. >> wait a minute, richard, if we're going to go to heaven, we can talk about is obamacare the sin of omission or co mission? >> woo! woo! >> i think obamacare is a very, very good deed. 9.5 million folks are now getting health care coverage. where i do agree with angela is, i think we need bipartisanship to come up with a fix. because no law is perfect. and when you form the whole entire health care system, you're not going to create perfection. >> i don't mean to interrupt, but that goes right to the point angela was talking about earlier, everyone has to drop the partisan politics. and

how well prepped do you think she will be for that and how significant is it for democrats that she comes out relatively unscathed? >> i think it's very important. looking at this hhsecretary from the years ahead, whether it's sylvia matthews burwell, the next time a republican is going to be president, because of this health care law, the hhs secretary is now no longer a mid-level tier person. it is up on the level of being secretary of state, defense secretary, where you need the best and the brightest. not only as far as management skills but also political chops too, because this isn't going away. again, while democrats have some good news to tout in the cbo report, they're not out of the woods yet. we don't know what the premiums will be like for 2015, we don't know what the demographic mix will be in the exchanges, but democrats have had a very good last couple of weeks on the health care law. >> that's a very good point. you're in charge of such a large number of the gdp and have a lot of political opposition. mark murray, thanks for joining us. >>> time for the first number in today's data bank. three. that's the number of chances left to see the spectacula

hhs because it is incredibly politicized. >> and dafna, will the republicans try to block this or use it as a forum to keep the whole critique of obamacare going in a much more public way? >> well, they can't block it. but they will do exactly that, use it as a forum, and use anything as a forum, including any race in the midterms, but this mornbling we were talk about seeing the new campaign ad out for mark begich who is running in alaska and very pro obamacare ad. it is very impressive ad, and i think that there are going to be candidates who are going to buck that trend, and run on the obamacare, and the support of it and win. >> and we mentioned the poll though showing that 84% say that the obama carecare is an important factor in determining the midterm vote, and that not just a strong majority of the republicans, but 52% of democrats, amanda. i wonder if there is a kind of practical matter here, a lot of criticism of kathleen sebelius and not just for the rollout, but that she did not reach out, and no strong relationships to hand off to b ushgtsurwell, and she mend some of the fences or given the overall political climate, it won't change? >> well, it is a fresh start, b

so isn't hhs saying there, quite specifically, these, in our view, are not within this subset of particularly significant requirements as to which there must be immediate compliance? >> well, the question would be whether there's a compelling interest in compliance with these requirements. and i'd like to make two points in response to your honor's question. first, with respect to the issue of delay, which i think, mr. chief justice, your question raised, and my friend on the other side has put a lot of weight on, i'd refer the court to the ada. i don't think anybody would doubt that the americans with disabilities act advances interest of the highest order. but when congress enacted that, it put a two-year delay on the applicability of the discrimination provision. >> well, isn't that because you're talking about building ramps and things like that? >> no. no, your honor. there's an even longer delay with respect to those kinds of provisions, but it's just a basic prohibition of discrimination two-year delay, and no one would doubt there's a compelling interest here. and with title vii. my friends on the other side have said, well, this different because there's so many

hhs that allowed this website to move forward. we know they're going to continue overhauling it before the next enrollment season begins. the problems were so deep, they feel they can do well by making significant changes. theydministration hopes can fix it. we will see if that is true. on the idea of health care costs, this bill is the law now. it was passed in order to address access problems. what they desired was to make health care coverage accessible to as many people as possible at as low a cost as possible. values -- i think the idea of cost is something that lawmakers will have to continue in the future. the health care system is expensive. there are certain parts of the toordable care act that seek begin to address the cost question. we are likely to see federal health officials published at a about doctors who receive reimbursements from medicare, the specifics they bill, and how much money they receive. we receive data about how much hospitals charge for procedures. this is part of an effort to increase chance -- transparency. it will also give data to researchers who can see where waste, fraud, and abuse is occurring a little bit better than the government doe

well with republicans on capitol hill. she is a veteran of the clinton administration. she worked at the treasury department. as far as drag health care -- direct health care hhsssues, she has no backbone and glaground in that. this is a noncontroversial pick, but that does not mean this will not be a rocky public -- a rocky confirmation process. as far as nominating someone who is not controversial burwell was a very good pick. host: we have talked about the potency of the argument of the health-care law. with kathleen sibelius stepping down, sylvia matthews are well coming in, what does that say? guest: there's a chance or the democrats could turn the page. they have had a lot of bad news over the last six months. the biggest one was the debacle as sibelius herself called it of the rollout of the website. the problem is that this law is unpopular. it hasn't been able to jumpstart . democrats have been saying for years, just wait, just wait, it will get popular. we have not seen that. not you have the good news for the white house certainly. when president obama went out on the rose garden and trumpeted the fact that over 7 million people were enrolled, kathl

hhs that allowed this website to move forward. we know they're going to continue overhauling it before the next enrollment season begins. the problems were so deep, they feel they can do welly making significant changes. theydministration hopes can fix it. we will see if that is true. on the idea of health care costs, this bill is the law now. it was passed in order to address access problems. what they desired was to make health care coverage accessible to as many people as possible at as low a cost as possible. values -- i think the idea of cost is something that lawmakers will have to continue in the future. the health care system is expensive. there are certain parts of the toordable care act that seek begin to address the cost question. we are likely to see federal health officials published at a about doctors who receive reimbursements from medicare, the specifics they bill, and how much money they receive. we receive data about how much hospitals charge for procedures. this is part of an effort to increase chance -- transparency. it will also give data to researchers who can see where waste, fraud, and abuse is occurring a little bit better than the government does.

hhs in a white house that was not engaged. and through an awful lot of authority to her, she and her department did not seem to be ready at all, did they? >> well healthcare.gov launched or failed to launch and people couldn't sign up for insurance. that was a debacle and that will certainly be, you know, near the top of sort of wrap-up stories that are written about her tenure. but this is a -- this is a great time for her to step away. they've reached their numbers. the program is working now. i guess ezra writes that its future is assured and it's here to stay. in fact, it was always here to stay i think, much earlier when we learned that it wasn't going to collapse in some sort of death spiral. so, it was going to be here to stay. but it's looking much better now. and i think it will be a much better record now. >> well, you know, mika, whether this bill stays in its current form or is changed 1,000 times over, which i do believe it is going to be amended so much over the next five to ten years, that it may be unrecognizable at the end. look at the changes that the president himself has unilaterally made. a lot of that will depend on the el

well, matt, it's going to be interesting. later this morning, the president will make it official confirming that he has accepted the resignation of kathleen sebelius, hhs secretary, and he'll be replacing her with his budget director sylvia burwell. of course, sebelius, after five years on the job, it's been the end of what's been a rocky tenure. >> 400,000 additional americans have signed up, and we expect that number to continue to grow. >> reporter: that was kathleen sebelius on capitol hill thursday, giving her a chance to turn in her resignation on a high note. while sebelius says she was not pushed out and that she's leaving on her own terms, there have been hints for months that her job could be in jeopardy after the rocky rollout of healthcare.gov. in our interview back in november, while the president praised sebelius for the insurance product, he did question some of her management decisions. >> i think she'd be the first to admit that if we had to do it all over again, that there would have been a whole lot more questions that were asked in terms of how this thing is working. >> reporter: after that rollout, she became a regular target for c