and the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius said yes. she said yes, they're basically right. the only offset is they'll put a lot of subsidies and tax credits into which will cauost us more money. secretary sebelius signed on to this. i'm not making it up. >> i'm not disagreeing with you. i want to go back pre-obama care and preeveryone's hair being on fire including mine. find me a time when a health insurance company has not increased premiums in the last 30 years. regulated by the states, and every single time what happens? they go to the state insurance commissioner and they say i want to increase premiums and they always rubber-stamp and say yes. someone explain to me since obama care has not kicked in why everyone is blaming obama for health insurance premiums going up. actuaries are nothing, but doomsday sayers. >> hold it, my dad's a -- >> let me point out -- let me point out, kathleen sebelius says that the subsidies will mean it's affordable. subsidized isn't the same as affordable. if food costs doubled food stamps would not b

. >> we will ask kathleen sebelius about that and she joins us later. campbell brown will be here and "the washington post" ezra klein. up next the top stories in the politico playbook. first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. >>> no good news and another snowstorm moving across the country. most likely sunday into monday. let me show you the stark contrast between this start of spring and last year. last year at this point the blue on the map and the purple show you where the snow was. no snow pretty much east of the ms river and through the midwest. only 20% of the country this time last year was covered in know. look at the map currently. 30% of the lower 48 covered by snow and we have snow pack from maine tlhrough the great lakes and upstate and wisconsin and minnesota. the winds coming down from canada over the snow, it just doesn't have a chance to moderate and warm up. look how cold it was yesterday. high temperatures in the 20s in the great lakes. we should be almost near mid-40s to near 50 this time of the year. this morning is very col

. >> the revelation of the week was that kathleen sebelius, health secretary told americans that actually health care law may increase people's health care premiums and costs, wow, what a revelation. >> imagine that. >> something we've been saying for four years on the page and by the way, the people really get shafted according to miss sebelius are people under the age of 30. when you've got employers dropping plans, when you've got costs out of control. this is not get the cost curve down. maybe it's time to repeal this law once and for all. >> paul: james. >> hit out to the u.s. supreme court which this week announced it will take a case on racial preferences at the university of michigan. a federal appeals court says that voters can't repeal preferences because their purpose it to help minorities. but ten years ago, the supreme court said that these preferences were constitutional only because their purpose was to promote a diverse student body. the justice got it wrong and now is a chance to get it right. >> paul: dan. >> this is a one of the solemn times of the year. a hit to the pe

it is now my honor to turn this over to my good friend, kathleen sebelius. please give her a round of applause. [applause] >> i want to thank sap -- thank secretary duncan, the principals and teachers and the amazing kids who we have seen so far at rolling terrace elementary. it is a truly great example of kids learning each and every day and learning lots of things that are going to make the moral leaders. i even talked to a young man here who has his eye on the maryland state house, so i have to warn governor mallee -- governor o'malley that he has got some competition. i am in grandmother, and i have a six-month-old grandson, so early childhood education, which has always been important to me, has taken on a brand new meaning, because i am seen the world through the eyes of george each and every day. secretary duncan has already mentioned that we have had some great partners and champions in the united states congress from here in maryland, but i want to particularly singled out congressman steny hoyer, who has not only been a long term great leader, but

it was approximately a month ago that secretary kathleen sebelius said the u.s. department of health and human services announced the creation of this new federal agency, and that is the administration for community living. and in her words, she said "for too long, too many americans have faced the a possible choice between moving to an institution or living at home without the long-term services and support they need." so this new administration for community living will be to helping people with disabilities, as well as seniors, to live a productive, satisfying lives. now, as you may be aware, the aging and disability population has been recognized actually at the local and state levels for quite some time now. so the mechanisms for providing support that facility community living have been really brought together into local and state agencies such as the san francisco departments the of aging and adult services that serves those populations since the year 2000. yet, at the federal level, policy developments from a community outreach, and program implementation

the insurers have kept premiums down for a while. >> to be precise the audio tape of kathleen sebelius, she was speaking on the record, not off the record or on background or anything like that. >> no. >> this was an on-the-record briefing. >> yes. >> thanks very much. >>> up next drama at the u.s. supreme court as the chief justice john roberts challenges the president of the federal defense of marriage act. >>> she's been out of office now for several years. she's out of a job at fox news. but sarah palin has a new message for those who think she is out of the political game. her new video and a lot more coming up right here in "the situation room." [ man ] i got this citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. we'll leave that there. you got a weather balloon, with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. go. ♪ keep on going in this direction. take this bridge over here. there it is! [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] earn points with the citi thankyou card and redeem them for just about an

buy the president saying oh yeah this is finally kathleen sebelius had to come out and say yes actually you know what this is going to be a lot more than your sorry you're really going to try and ride that horse of you know we're not going to fix this because we shouldn't have to because it should have oh no i don't think no i think first of all. you need to you need to keep the market in tact you if you push down artificially rad why we're presented is fix this small glitch obamacare is going to cause a small number of people that pay a little bit more in health and i must be missing something but what is what is the small fix that you're proposing would be to reduce compensate for how they're paying for you know to move to their ways are you going to say well we're never going to agree on that because i'm just trying to say we're already you know you're saying there should be a debate about it there's not even a debate. that while there will be a debate it would know there are there one john boehner says you know we're not going to discuss this idea we will continue this war. you know

chuck hagel has health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius flanked the president.ir agencies are two of the hardest hit by the $85 billion rolling off of the chopping block. >> obama: it is an area of deep concern. i think everybody knows where i stand on this issue. we're going to try to minimize the impact on american families but it's not the right way for us to go about deficit reduction. >> he told his cabinet he'll keep reaching out to republicans for some support. house republicans countered with a spending bill that would keep the government open through the end of the 2013 fiscal year. the $982 billion deal would give pentagon leeway to absorb the sequester cuts and let republicans say they have the military's back. depending on the reaction from democrats it could be a way to award the march 27th deadline. march 27th is yet another deadline. does the booms day clock ever stop ticking in washington? well it looks like president obama's newest cabinet nominees might energize en enenvironmentalist enenvironmentalists, today he gamed gina mccarthy. she makes

again, this is just -- it's charles who is arguing about this, who is writing to kathleen sebelius wantingrticular form. he says it's asked after the medicaid specific questions and again on the review and sign portion. after the applicants learn of eligibility status of the insurance policies and invited to file a complaint of discrimination and seems too think there's a message telegraphed to people i suppose how they should register to vote? >> well, i think it's implied if you're signing up for barack obama's signature piece of legislation, which i'm glad we're now admitting leslie is a form of welfare, that's the grandest new entitlement program. >> i didn't say that. >> well, it's certainly implicit in everything that's being said here. and it is, i mean, i don't care whether there was a republican in between. this is a democrat effort to target their audience to sign them up. now, if we're signing people up, registering people to vote that sign up for the military, that are buying firearms and do the things that pro-american people do, then you have to offset the registration of the

. >> neil: i know you're going to be meeting with kathleen sebelius, you're going to fine a middle groundhe changes where you have some flexibility and the growing roll of the federal government with medicaid. but what are you going to do? as far as the -- the law is here. is it just about a kinder and nicer way of accepting how much pennsylvania has to take on or what? >> we had a number of questions and in recent months or so, hhs has been answering our questions but they raise other questions and other concerns. so we're going to discuss some of the reforms we're exploring for pennsylvania's programs. and to see how that will work in according to hhs, whether they're going to accept what we want to do. what i know right now is that expansion is not sustainable for pennsylvania without the reforms. we're looking at adding 800,000 new children and adults into a program, and the cost under the aca would accumulate to over $4.1 billion over this next eight years. what i want to do is to be able to provide to pennsylvanians affordable, quality, health care. but there's key words, affordable

now, just yesterday, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius total reporters, quote, these folks will be moving into a fully insured product for the first time so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market. now she tells us? maybe it took her this long to actually read the bill to find out what's in it. what's interesting about the revelation, it directly contradicts what the president has been telling you for years. watch this. >> we will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2500 per family. and we'll do it by taking the following five steps to lower costs throughout our health care system. that's why i met with representatives of insurance and drug companies, doctors and hospitals, and labor unions who are pledging to do their part to reduce health care costs. >> add it all up and the plan i'm proposing will cost around 900 billion dollars over ten years. >> our cost cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current senate bill which reduces most people he's premiums and brings down our deficit by up to 1 trillion dollars over the

>> they are appointed by the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, but i have aheavy role in making a recommendation, and i do so generally by organizing a search committee of the best and brightest people in that field to try to identify the perfect person, have them go through all of that vetting, and then have them make a recommendation to the secretary. it is not easy. we cannot pay them probably more than a quarter. you can barely squeeze up to $300,000. very few of our directors are at that level. they get paid three or four times that. >> why did you depicted to do the human genoa project? >> i have wondered that -- why did you get picked for the human genome project? >> i have wondered that. it started in 1990, and the first person was james watson, of watson and crick. i was at the university of michigan. i had been hunting for genes that cause diseases, including for a disease called neurofibromatosis. but i was not expecting to get a call to come to nih and lead that effort, and i initially said no because it did not seem like something i was ready to

the hhs secretary kathleen sebelius saying there may be a higher cost associated with getting insurance. is that what we heard in the beginning? or is the obama administration singing a different tune? >> theyville to admit the reality. the president said if the obamacare was passed, premiums would go down $2500 for the average family by the end of 2010. that's what the president said -- >> did it happen? >> no! the average premium for a family of four was $13,375 a year before the affordable care act passed. the year it passed trose to an average of $13,770, $200-some-odd dollars more. then $15,073. then the following year, 2012, it's $15,745. so we have seen pretty consistent increase. we have a delta approaching $5,000 between the difference of what the president said it would be and where it actually is at this point. >> why did that happen? >> the law encouraged -- the law includes a lot of mandates and requirements for -- for insurance providers. these policies have to have a burch of stuff in there that heretofore were not included. for example, there is a limit on lifetime expen

would you like to register to vote and he thinks it's fishy and he sends a letter to cat tli kathleen sebelius. >> he asks her to reply by april 8th. and in this city we send letters around and no one responds. we're in easter passover so maybe in a couple of weeks. >> greta: is this peculiar or routine? you do voter registration when you apply for food stamps or-- >> is there anything pe kul peculiar about this? >> we want to do our best to do good oversight of the application as the drafts are made, obviously, the final version isn't out yet and they want to have an impact on how it looks in the end. no, i don't think there's anything fishy here. since the '90s, if you're applying for medicare, for food stamps like you said, there's always an opportunity to register to vote because we decided in this law in the '90s, it's important for americans to have the opportunity all the time. and so, i think that that's what we're seeing here. >> greta: i can see we should talk a second about this questionnaire. in order to see whether you apply. the 61 pages, something, i don't know how you feel abou

. >> coming up, health and human services kathleen sebelius, with a reality check on where the law stands today. >>> and new jersey's tough-talking governor faces a tough crowd of his own, a class full of kindergartners. >> i'm a third grader at the elementary school. you've done a great job here in new jersey and i was wondering if you were thinking about running for president. >> softening him up with the compliment and then hit him with the hard-hitting question, love it good day i'm chris slizcilli in washington. andrea mitchell is traveling with the president in jordan where syriand a the peace process remain the key topics. >> hi, chris, in jordan president obama comes to see king abdullah and reassure a king surrounded by the arab spring, by uprisings on all fronts and most importantly by the widening civil war next door in syria with the refugee crisis. refugees coming across the border to jordan. the u.s. will probably offer some more help on that front. and other problems as well, the increasing fear that the asat regime could duly use chemical weapons against its own people. op

but asked about the rising costs, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius this week saidmoving into a fully insured product for the first time, so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market. now this of course caused some confusion for people who thought that the health care bill would bring lower premiums as we -- as the public had been told that it would keeping costs down for business of course and saving the government money. joining us now is nancy depaul who led the health care reform effort for president obama as director of the white house office of health reform. don't call her health care czar. you're not a czar. >> right. >> but you did head the office and are now a guest scholar at brookings institute. the first question i have is i don't understand what is going on here. why are premiums going up? we were told they would go down. >> we don't know what is going to happen with premiums. insurance companies set the premiums and i think the secretary said this week that it's really speculative to guess what they're going to do. i'll tell

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kathleen sebelius health and soo human services secretary says what congress is allowing them to go intotially blaming the republicans in the house. this is something the president himself did and both of those two officials, miss sebelius and president obama have been contradicted by the white house spokesperson, listen to the president and then jay carney. >> the sequester is not something that i proposed, it's something that congress has proposed. it will not happen. >> what i will concede is that we were looking and the republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build the mechanism to get us out of default, possibly and sequester was one of the ideas put forward, yes, by the president's team. >> megyn: why are they coming out trying to say it's congress. >> sure, it is congress's law, it will be congress. >> megyn: how does a bill become a law again after congress passes it? what happens next? >> right then we get the president. >> megyn: and they all have dirty hands. if you like it, clean hands, i don't know. >> it will be congress that has to reverse this. congress doe

health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius saying customers entering into new plans will see. here is the quote. these folks will be moving into a fully insured product for the first time so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market. however over the past four or five years president obama as repeatedly promised americans that costs would go down. >> we will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2500 per family. add it all up and in the plan i'm proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years. our cost-cutting measures mirror most of the proposals in the current senate bill which reduces most people's premiums and brings down our deficit by up to one trillion dollars over the next decade because we're spending our health care dollars more wisely. when you hear about affordable care act, obamacare, -- [applause] and i, and i don't mind the name because i really do care --. bill: that stretch from 2008 to 2012. in 2013 we welcome virginia republican congressman eric cantor. house majority leader with us in new york. welcome back here to our s

the president's health and human service secretary kathleen sebelius reportedly stated that those whons cold might have to purchase more comprehensive policies under obama care. a new insurance study estimates that insurance companies will pay about 32% more for claims on individual insurance plans because of obama care. california was the 62% increase by 2017. >> the fda says that they will approve a new drug to control multiple sclerosis and adults and hard street forms of the disease. the twice a day capsules offer a new option for multiple sclerosis, a dissipating the disease in which the body will be attacked by his owner system. the fda said they will approve the drug based on two studies that show that patients taking the drug had fewer relapses and patients who took a dummy drug. >> in the past a cancer diagnosis was like a death sentence. thanks to modern medicine there is more reason for hope. right now they're nearly 40 million cancer survivors in the united states and the number is expected to climb to 80 million by 2020 to. that is good news. the bad news, assess some can

i am grateful to my partner kathleen sebelius for her vision. she always puts children first. we worked on issues like the h1n1 virus. the president's plan will allow states to provide high-quality preschool, up to 200% of the poverty line, and will provide incentives for all families who want to send their children to preschool. it would be an investment space that jump starts accessed the preschool and take leading states to the next level. states would use funds from our department to create high- quality state-run preschool programs, administered with local providers. the urgent need for greater access to preschool for low- and moderate-income students is not in dispute. ask any parent or teacher about the gaps in development when children come to kindergarten. we know that on average children from low-income families start and come into kindergarten up to 14 months behind their peers in reading and language skills. it does not have to be that way. no fewer than 30% of 4-year- olds are enrolled in high- quality preschool programs. our theory of expanding high- quality pres

secretary kathleen sebelius said -- quote -- "being sick will no longer keep you and your family and your employees from being able to get affordable health coverage." what she should have added was that now the president's own health care law will be the thing that keeps people from getting affordable coverage. the law that was passed was the wrong solution and the wrong way to reform our health care in this country. hardworking american families can't afford it, and, mr. president, they deserve better. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from florida. there nelson: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. nelson: mr. president, i, like many of our colleagues, have just flown on our nation's airways going through a fairly crowded airport in florida, coming into a crowded airport here in washington. and in 30 d

the obama administration was quick to dismission the study as speculative but kathleen sebelius did acknowledgese numbers at all? >> i'm not surprised by the state-by-state blip. the fact we have this patch work system in this country increases costs. i have a little bit of a bias because i lived and worked in europe for many years and i had two children under the national health care system in britain. i do think you get the big efficiencies in costs when you have one system that is connected, the technology is the same across a country. i'm not surprised to see that kind of differentiation between the states. i am curious i know the affordable care act stresses preventive care and one of the ways to bend the health cost curve so i'd love to see those numbers and see what the increases are coming from. >> the truth is, we don't know yet how much it it will play out because a lot of it it is implemented yet. >> still ahead from the department of veterans affairs, tommy sowers is here to discuss the backlog many veterans face awaiting their disability benefits. keep it here on "morning joe." ♪ ♪

i don't know what her views are on all of the issues but she needs to channel her inner kathleen sebeliusmagnificent governor. wouldn't it be nice to have more women in the senate? >> absolutely. she will be running in kentucky. is there a risk of rnc of republicans overplaying their hand here? >> oh, arabic. >> they have been very dismissive of ashleyly judd. >> and because she is hollywood and all that. people want to say she is not relevant and not important. i think that is an underestimation they can't risk. they need to look at this seriously. she will put a smart team around her. to mark's point, the dnc and the senate and democratic committee will be there in a major way to support her. this is the test for someone like mcconnoll who has to go up against a woman and stature in her own right and who, i suspect, given what i've seen from her, can go toe-to-toe with the senator and is prepared to take him on. i think the rnc and need to be very careful and smart how they approach this campaign and not cocky and self-assured as they tend to be sometimes. >> howard fineman is reporting

. >> kathleen sebelius and arnie duncan were careful not to get any of the blame. >> didn't this come? >> actually, the idea was designed in such a way and really inserted in the bill by congress because they thought it was such a bad way to run government that it would never happen. >> worried about how the cuts will affect programs for at-risk children, the head of the pta has a message for the politicians. >> i think they need to grow up. act like our children would. talk to one another. maybe they need to come to the playground. >> perhaps they might need fifth grader eric perez. >> you're worried that it might hurt your school? >> it might hurt my school, my education, the teachers. >> it's not just cuts at schools. across washington, reality is setting in for federal workers. >> i know i will get furloughed. i've accepted that. >> the furloughs, as explained in this letter to justice department employees, you will be in a non-pay, non-duty status. back at the school, arnie duncan tried to clarify his own comments about job cuts this week. >> these are teachers getting pink slips

trying to do, i'd like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a letter that the kathleen sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, sent to the honorable dave camp, chairman of the ways and means, explained how the administration views this flexibility, that they might at some point utilize, but basically it is not to weaken the work requirement. it is to support states that have better ideas to improve the results, to get more people to work. and so i ask unanimous consent that that be put in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: the other thing, mr. speaker, i'd say, again, it's ironic that my friends on the other side have kind of chosen to put a little bit of politics into this debate given the fact that a republican governor from a red state, utah, you know, suggested to the administration that he might have a better idea on how his state might get better results of putting more people to work, getting people off assistance. i think that's a good thing. i think what all of us believe, whatever it takes to get more people into the wor