julie rovner? guest: on the question of seeing nurses rather than doctors, this is one of the ways the health system is working to bring down the costs of health care. there are lots of different kinds of nurses. there are less trained and more trained nurses, advanced practice nurses, nurse practitioners. it has been shown through a series of academic studies that they do a very good job doing a lot of general primary care. a lot of doctors work hand-in-hand with nurse practitioners. a lot of nurse practitioners work on their own. the idea of sort of making the health care system more efficient is that everyone works up to the limits of their license. they do that highest level they are trained to do. nurse practitioners are seeing people who have primary care needs, and then they send others to the doctor. the idea is that everybody is practicing the most efficiently. it is supposed to be the future of health care. it is just now starting up. seeing nurses is not necessarily substandard care. in

julie rovner is a senior correspondent with kaiser health news. julie, i have a question that might be difficult to answer precisely, but is the affordable care act working? guest: of course, it depends who you ask. if you use metrics by the congressional budget office, how many people be expected to sign up for medicaid and for the exchanges, then, yes, it is. the numbers right now, as of today, the numbers are hard to parse because we're halfway through the sign up for 2015 coverage. the last numbers that the administration reported were about 6.5 million people in the federal exchange, those 37 states. those include people who were automatically reenrolled who did not come to the exchange and put in new information. they were automatically reenrolled in their existing plan or one similar to it. i think there is a little under 2 million new people so far, and that is for coverage that starts january 1. more people can sign up until february 15. for people who have forgotten the penalties for not having insurance in 2015 go up a considerable amoun

julie rovner is a senior correspondent with kaiser health news. e, i have a question that might be difficult to answer precisely, but is the affordable care act working? guest: of course, it depends who you ask. if you use metrics by the congressional budget office, how many people be expected to sign up for medicaid and for the exchanges, then, yes, it is. right now, as of today, the numbers are hard to parse because we're halfway through the sign up for 2015 coverage. the last numbers that the administration reported were about 6.5 million people in the federal exchange those 37 states. those include people who were automatically reenrolled who did not come to the exchange and put in new information. they were automatically reenrolled in their existing plan or one similar to it. i think there is a little under 2 million new people so far, and that is for coverage that starts january 1. more people can sign up until february 15. and the penalties for not having insurance in 2015 go up a considerable amount to $300.5 or 2% of your income, whichever

our guests are julie rovner and margot sanger-katz of the "new york times" the upshot.e'll also take your calls on the healthcare law. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 eastern. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. tomorrow night on c-span, a special presentation remembering public figures passed away in 2014. beginning with former senate majority leader howard baker. we'll show you a 2007 interview we had with historian richard norton spigot which looked at senator baker's career in congress and as chief of staff to ronald reagan. >> i guess in february of 1981 the first serious challenge i had as the new majority leader, the first republican leader, that the first challenge i had was when we had to vote on a debt limit increase. and assume how that would all go. okay? then as i began to count heads howard green came to me and said i don't believe you're going to win this. i got a bunch of the freshman senators together in my office around the conference table and we talked and carried on and it was clear that i hadn't convinced anybo

i guess are julie rovner and margot sanger_katz. ♪ host: good morning, everybody.e your headlines. center michael graham from new york will now resign after pleading guilty to tax evasion. meanwhile, louisiana republican congressmen acknowledged monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white supremacist leaders in 2002 while serving as a state representative. more on the stories in the papers today. but

julie rovner and margot senger cats -- margot sanger-katz you can join the conversation on facebook ander. tomorrow night, a special presentation remembering public figures that passed away in 2014 beginning with former senate majority leader howard baker. we will show you the interview he had with the historian smith. >> when i was first selected majority leader, i first went on the floor that day in the first thing i did was go to bob byrd and i said bob, i will never know the rule and precedent the way that you do but i will make you a deal. i will never surprise you if you won't surprise me. >> he said let me think about it. he came back later and said ok, and we never did. i think that tradition has carried on. i think dole adopted that point of view as well and it is a good position even if i did first advocated -- advocate it. the rules say there is plenty room for disagreement and controversy and to do so within the framework of the organization without sneaking up on your adversary. >> howard baker was 88 years old when he died in june of this year. >> the c-span's cities to he

tomorrow julie rovner discusses the health care law and what changes are coming to coverage in 2015.hen we take your phone calls and comments about your experiences with health care coverage, plus facebook comments and tweets. "washington journal" live tuesday at 7:00 eastern tuesday on c-span. "q&a" is 10 years old. today, dan reed about the terror attacks in mumbai in 2008 where more than 175 people were killed and 300 wounded. he tells the story using security camera video, and interviews with survivors. 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. tonight, the first of three nights looking back at public figures who died in 2014. at 8:00, the funeral service for beenn bradlee. part of the speakers at the funeral was carl bernstein. >> on september 20 3, 1972 about 9:00 p.m., i reached john mitchell the former attorney general and campaign manager iphone about east -- by phone about a story we were wanted. he said he controlled a secret fun for undercover operations for watergate. mitchell was quite upset. responding jesus, several times as i read in the story. he then proceeded to threaten an im