we are going to judge this and mike leavitt, the former secretary of hhs pointed out , thewhen medicare part b prescription drug rollout, they had problems and the warehouse was concerned. it will be whether a not -- eight months from now people are covered, whether they feel it is working and they feel it is a good deal and the kids are covered and pre-existing conditions are covered, that will be the test, does it work? thet the hearings we heard flower companies do not close down and fail to fill orders on valentine's day or amazon at christmas. in fairness to the administration, they miscalculated and the world miscalculated the number of states run by republican governors who would refuse to participate. dirty for. -- 34. >> 36. >> they cannot pick it up because they are different states with 10 insurance providers and some have only two. it is extremely confiscated. >> we have to give it time to see if it works. there is expert opinion that says even if it does work it is flawed. it does not do enough about cost control which is a big problem as we go forward. we have to figure ou

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more about the president's health care law with mike leavitt who served as secretary of health and human services under president george w. bush. and the closure of national parks because of the government shutdown. our guest is the head of the national parks conservation association. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span2. coming up next, social security disability fraud and then the hearing of john beal, accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the epa. later, iran in the nuclear program. tuesday look at the humanitarian situation in syria. senator bob casey who cosponsored legislation to provide assistance to the syrian people speak at an event hosted by the national press club. see it live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. the heads of african affairs for the state and defense department testified tuesday on capitol hill about the situation in somalia. it is live starting at 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> during the booktv coverage during this year's national book festival, david nassau spoke about joseph kennedy. >> whether churchill was teasing them or was so d

fact, i think just yesterday, on msnbc, the former governor of utah, the republican governor, mike leavittas the secretary of health and human services when we did the rollout of medicare part d eight years ago. he talked quite frankly about the problems they had with that rollout. there were enormous headaches involved in that, but we don't remember those because what we look at now is the big picture. medicare part d is a terrific program and has helped so many people. that's what we need to be doing with the rollout of the aca. we need to be letting history be the judge and let's look back on it eight years from now and i think everybody's going to be pretty happy. >> with a little bit of perspective from time. if secretary sebelius were testifying before your committee this week, what would you ask her? >> well, a lot of what i do on that committee, you know, the people on that committee in the majority, the way they conduct those hearings, it's quite deranged actually. they don't allow witnessed to answer the questions. they just pontificate. they make grandstanding into an art form.

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mike viqueira at the white house for us, and joining us from washington, david merritt. the managing director of leavitt partners, and what were your thoughts, your take aways from the president's speech. >> yes, the president is a wonderful speaker, obviously. i find it curious one of his main points was to basically dump on the 14 million americans who had purchased individual policies. >> what was the dumping on part of that? >> well, the plans that are being canceled now are plans that individuals bought with their own money in the individual market. they shopped around and put down their own money to buy these plans. now the president is basically saying they were buying substandard plans so he was critiquing their shopping. >> was he critiquing what was available at the time? >> certainly. they were insurance policies that they could choose from in any given state. i find it curious that he would find that line of attack when at this point as mike pointed out you have millions of americans who have had policies canceled which is ten times as many people who have signed up for new coverage through