and i just want to suggest that this was developed in anticipation of the, what we call obamacare aca. and if you read our 100-plus page, you will summarize what we have to do locally and you won't have to read aca, which is 3,000 pages. and that will take 10 years to develop. and if you put a little money behind it, even though we did it without any money, we will do systematic planning in our community and establish true competency in setting priorities for our health care for everyone. so, i thank you for the time, for the invitation, and for all of our contributions. i hope you all can vote for it next time. thank you. >> thank you very much. and just the one last word i would say is that besides the incredible people that are here, i also want to acknowledge the incredible work of hillary ronan who is in the audience who has been, you know, really piloting this effort for -- from the very beginning and we could not be here today without her tremendous leadership [speaker not understood]. so, thank you, hillary, as well. so, thank you very much. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor

aca. there you see disapprove 56%. approve 39%. how likely are you to enroll in insurance through obamacare? a exchange likely 20% unlikely 47%. 50/5028%. we're back with the panel. david, where is this now on the hill? where are are republicans? where are democrats? where is this relaunch. >> i think had when you an administration this deep into a national policy and you are the midst of another pr offensive and improving the messaging, it means you have a durable political problem. and so for democrats, they're optimistic and by the fact that the web site is doing better. we'll know shortly over the next couple weeks, i think whether the back end is doing as well as the front end. that makes them feel good. for republicans who never liked the law and see a lot of problems with it they see nothing but problems coming down the pike. and, because of that, they don't think that this web site, in fixing it, is going to make things any better and, in fact, they feel like it's going to help them make their case against the law and you can expect to see more oversight hearings and you can expect to

aca, obamacare. it will cost is $1400 next year. we can keep the plan until the end of next year, but we will have to pick a new one. we do not need the extra coverage for maternity, vision, or dental, but we will be forced to pay for. then he continued. these changes are absurd. most people in this country who are content with what they had are now paying for what obama is trying to do for a very field. he closed his letter by asking me to work two or peel obamacare. work to repeal obamacare. every american should note that we are not going to give up this fight. no matter how much the other side tries to distract the country's attention, we will not be fooled. we know that you will not be either. wereolks that each of us sent here to represent, not the government, should be the ones choosing plants that make more sense for their families. what our colleagues honor other side -- our colleagues on the other side referred to as junk, that is because it is beyond offensive to the people we represent. lot of ivory tower thinking that g

i want to start with you on the news about the aca, obamacare. we've got two days to go before health care coverage kicks in on january the 1st. obviously with these new numbers we see that interest has picked up for certain americans. your state's former governor, howard dean, says that he thinks it's going to be a success, but the number of young and healthy people, they just haven't gotten on board yet and they are what's needed to float the boat. do you think it's too soon to worry about that group not paying attention? >> well, i think we've got to worry, but i think we also have to understand that at a time when we have 48 million people in this country without any health insurance and even more people with high deductibles and co-payments, the affordable care act in my view, thomas, is a modest step forward. even if it had been implemented perfectly would still leave us very far behind almost every other major country on earth in terms of universal coverage. and by the way, in terms of the cost of health care. we are spending today almost

there is no obamacare doctor. the aca isn't even a government health plan.get care. so let's look at those rising numbers again. here are all the federal enrollees. you see in blue. then people getting covered from participating state exchanges. and then all the new medicaid coverage, now 1.2 million people total headed for coverage. it doesn't matter whether they go through door number one or door number two or whether they use a website or the telephone or a local navigator guide. what matters to them, and to a lot of us who care about the uninsured crisis in our country, is that they get covered. this is progress. but it's not like everyone knows these facts. and sometimes it feels like there is more coverage of the website than coverage of, well, yeah, health coverage. that's partly because of washington, and it's partly because of the media. and it's partly because, look, broken website is an easy store to tell. the aca is not. it's complicated, because it amends and regulates an industry that was already complicated. the u.s. doesn't do government sing

that's eroded to a virtual dead heat, largely due to her support for the aca, obamacare.ame out in favor of gay marriage this year, which can also be seen as a risky move, especially in a southern state that voted for mitt romney. and republicans need six seats to take control of the senate. hagan's vulnerability makes her a prime gop target. joining me is john davis, editor of the john davis political report. john, it's good to have you here. republicans certainly very serious about taking control of the senate in 2014. as you mentioned in your report, the conservative group americans for prosperity, it's already busy in north carolina running attack ads against senator hagan and targeting a very important voting block in the state, women. i want to play a portion of that ad. take a look. >> women are the driving force of the new economy. they balance the family checkbook. they start businesses, create jobs. but kay hagan just doesn't get it. instead of listening to north carolina, hagan continues to push for obamacare. >> so with still ten months to go, in your estimati

for a lot of public, the affordable care act is this thing with a name, aca or obamacare and they arelly interacting with it directly. the president's comments through a white house official were important because he said i'm doing this for solidarity but i'm like roughly 85% that has employer based care, meaning, i don't actually directly use this and most of the people don't. i'm not saying they don't have a right to an opinion. a lot of people vote on teacher and school issues even if your kids don't go to the school. i'm suggesting that we will as this law kicks in this coming year, move away from a period where this is all political symbolism of the wording of obama care and into its performance. i've been arguing, even if the numbers are lower than we wanted to bend the cost curve, to be factual, they are, we still are going towards a space where we have over 1 million people who now have health care who wouldn't otherwise. as the cancellation works itself out, the net gain is more people covered, which is what we've been fighting for on the left for decades. >> and obamacare is

we know that they know about the aca, obamacare, but they're split on whether it will be good or badccording to hartford financial services, 42% of these business owners per day the changes will cut into ours. 8% will haltgh future hiring. let's start with the survey in that report because it sounds like the aca is that for the small business office, but can he see their something good about for them as well? >> good morning, scarlet. this was our third survey of small businesses and i think what is important about the hartford survey is we think it is the largest of its type in the u.s.. i think small business owners are confused, first of all. they don't understand it and that was very clear. many of the smallest as mrs. to whom it doesn't apply thought it noted, half of the small businesses and entrepreneurs don't think it is a good ring and about half will take tough actions. reduce jobs, not our people or reduce hours. what is interesting about this survey is the scars of the last financial recession are still very fresh, very fresh attitude keywords it came out of the survey ar

obamacare. before the aca was put into place. to somehow suggest that it is because of the obamacare that these issues are happening is to fail to recognize the history of the problems in the health-care care system to begin with. >> religion among yield? >> no. >> the jonas time is expired. recognize them children from tennessee. >> i would be happy to yield a minute to finish a thought. >> i was only going to say that i wasn't here 19 97 when they scored a big savings based on the theoretical reduction in the cost of doing business. you want here. it is something i agree with the gentleman. we need to realize that simply paying doctors less and then reneging on agreeing to pay them less from the real cost savings to not occur because we never legislated or did anything to help drive down the cost of delivery, is in fact a very good point. i agree with the gentleman that that fundamental change which was scored before your night got here, is not about just paying doctors more, because we did say we're going to find ways to be mor

when you look at what obamacare is going to do overi'm you have to imagine that those will work themselves. >> this not all about the acado you remember in the 1990s where managed care. what happened? there was a consumer backlash and provider backlash and those insurance companies loosened up, opened up and there was direct access again. a lot of insurance companies today they're nervous. they're nervous how much money they're going to make on this deal, the mix of patients we have. maybe they should have a tight, network. maybe we should pray a little bit less. may we should deal with the cost issue that way. that means some consumers are going to be find when that their doc is not in the insurance plan that you want. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> how to pay your bills on type, and how you can still mess up your credit score. >> fault lines investigates... fracking >> shale gas development could actually double the economic growth rates in the province. >> this is our land for thousands of years... >> do you drink money? you must have a lot of money to drink... >> as tensions rise, and protes

i would like to find out how we can file a claim against the people that did the obamacare and the aca. this has been the biggest scam that i've ever seen in government ever do on the american people. host: are you talking specifically the problems with the website and the monday that has been paid to contractors? -- the money that has been paid to contractors? caller: oh, exactly, and the bait and switch that obama has done to the market people. host: colleen matzzie, i will let you jump in. guest: the statue does allow you to address knowing submission of false and fraudulent claims to the united states, and certainly in the context of an information technology program that agency seeks to procure and if not , there are claims submitted for payment, that can be the classic example of the false claims act that you could pursue. we don't have enough information -- i don't have enough information to judge whether or not this would be appropriate case involving the website. context, that is the kind of case that could easily walk in our door. if there is somebody in one of these companie

health and welfare was always part of the state's purview but once again with obamacare is and i can't call it that now. it's the aca now, obviously health care is now essentially better lives. so, this would have been hoover's concern, how much of government control and this was roosevelt's big thing. we need more regulation or economic regimentation. if you look at areas of our lives and areas of state and local policy taken over by the fed that really is a serious problem. the last issue we take up that we think is very much a then and now comparison is constitutionalism. in this part of the book, we founded our research to great speeches. one given by herbert hoover on constitution day in 1935 in one given by franklin roosevelt on constitution day in 1937 so two years apart. it's just a classic comparison and contrast. roosevelt begins his speech by pointing out that the constitution opens with the expression, we the people. and he said so, this reminds us that the constitution is a peep olds document. it's not a lawyer's document, to people's document. it was done by the people and for the people and what that

but once again, with obamacare -- although i can't call it that now, what is it, aca. and obviously health care has been fertilized. this -- federalized. this is roosevelt's big thing. we need more regulation. they need economic regimentation. and i have to say if you look at areas of our lives and areas of state and local policy being taken over, that is a serious problem. the last issue that we think is very much of then and now comparison is the constitutionalism. in this part of the book we found great speeches one given by herbert hoover on the constitution in 1935 and one given by franklin roosevelt on the constitution of 1937 surtout years apart. it's just a classic compare and contrast. roosevelt begins by pointing out that the constitution opens with the expression we the people. he said this reminds us the constitution is the people's document. it's not a lawyer's document it is a people's document done by the people and for the people and what that means is according to roosevelt when the constitution gets a little antiquated a little out of date getting thi

for a while, he wanted it to be called obamacare, and then he wanted it to be called aca and then it ike. you have seen people become even more outspoken on this on the sunday shows last week we heard from robert gibs you remember his former press secretary saying this has been the worst year of his presidency. but it seems like there is really no denying it. >> a lot of this is due to the affordable care act, better known as obamacare. as a result of that the president himself said the messaging hasn't been right. touting very viable. this past sunday sending out email getting people to sign up. people sign up and it still isn't ready what does this mean for us? it's merry christmas now, happy new year. now, here we are, facing a new year where the obamacare taxes are set to hit, guess whose tax bill? yours. >> a lot of this by design, are fees and taxes come down the road from us. not during obama's presidency. these are things that are going to be coming down later. and they add on each year. there are new fees and taxes that are coming up in 2014. get ready. one of them is a 2% ta

aca would have already covered. but when i got my renewal, it was a big shock. we had an increase of 35%. my broker told me that because of obamacareg into effect as of january 1, the insurance companies were readjusting to cover all of the mandates that were going to be covered under the aca as well as there is taxes like 4.2% of taxes built into that for renewals before the end of the year. approximately 20 of my employees on the plan have chosen to get insurance elsewhere with wive's plans or insurance themselves with ther those 20 folks i was paying $150,000 a year it's now 2 oo3,000 with the renewal. >> what kind of impact does that have on your business? >> in small businesses we handle it in at least one of three ways, one we absorb the cost, two, we actually have to change our margin or maybe three we don't hire that employee that we need. we have to deal with what we have. either way, in any of those scenarios the consumer ends up paying for it. >> your costs are going up significantly, how concerned are you that it might cut into your business and your ability to provide that comfort to people? >> we're very concerned. >>

obamacare. that's their words that it would sink the aca and threaten its survival. in fact however it does not universally acknowledged the purpose of ensuring access to health insurance for all the millions of americans who cannot afford it. to the contrary, mr. cannon and his colleagues have a few isolated words in the context and ignore the rest of this huge statute. but if you look at the entire statute, the whole text not just the isolated phrases mean the purpose of the statute and all americans who are eligible for the benefits to enable them to afford insurance will be able to have them whether or not they reside in the federal exchange or state exchange. one quick thing and that is mr. cannon and his friends soon realized that the reading of the text didn't make sense so they came up with an even more head scratching claim and that is the sponsors intentionally and purposely designed it to achieve this self immolation and mr. cannon just referred to that argument. so what this means, it means that the aca sponsors actually intended not only to stiff the ver

obamacare will help them. that number rises to 33% among uninsured americans. 32% of people with insurance believe the aca willctually hurt them. 37% of those without insurance believe it will have a negative impact on them. >>> olympic observers are calling it a deliberate snub to the russian government. president obama will not attend the winter olympics in sochi. he's named two openly gay athletes to the u.s. delegation including billie jean king, a clear signal of america's disagreement with russia's anti- gay policies. >> one of the things i'm really looking forward to is maybe some gay and lesbian athletes bringing home the gold or silver or bronze. >> former homeland security secretary janet napolitano will lead the u.s. delegation. ice hockey medalist kaitlin kahou who is also openly gay will be part of the group. >>> wusa9 first alert weather. >> we got a little snow this morning? >> southern player flair did last night about 11:00, 12 -- maryland did last night about 11:00, 12:00, a little upper level system that rolled through. now we're looking at a seasonably cold night and then a sea change in te

obamacare. we're not at that stage yet. so -- and health care is co complicated and the aca, but necessity s also complicated.o people are looking at it through the lens of who do i agree with more generally, and what am i nervous about. am i nervous about government takeover, am i nervous about not getting health care that's not going to be good enough for me. what's the lens that people are using? and that's why you see obamacare generally never really having strong support. yet all the components of obamacare being very popular. and that's going to continue to be true. now that we're entering a period where people actually have the coverage, they're going to be evaluating it based on what the coverage is like for them. their own personal experience. and then we're going to have a completely different situation. and the website rollout obviously should have gone better. that will be a distant memory down the road. and polls, very recent polls show that people think down the road people are going to be better off, the country is going to be better off as a result of obamacare. >> angela, what do you make of

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obamacare can't get worse for business people planning, right? that can't -- if this unravels even worse, is that uncertainty? or do we have the uncertainty already from acan you're a low-wage, high-head count business, obamacare's pretty scary, right? when i was running a business, we had 100,000 people in the program. i ran the medical care program. we spent a lot of money on that program. about 60,000 people had medical care in the program. and when you start changing things like that where the cost structure changes, you have to get it some place else in the business. retailers are planning right now for 2015, they were planning for 2014, how am i going to deal with this? am i going to change the plans, cost some place else? get rid of my plan? they're going to have to go through all those analysis. that'll be a pretty tough planning year for most of retail, merely because they have to figure it out. the costs are going to be higher for almost anybody with low-wage, high-end count groups. and that's retailing, restaurants, anybody that does the service industry. >> so that will continue to be a head wind. but i'm trying to think -- we're not going to

obamacare. live to capitol hill after this. >> people have been told their health plan doesn't necessarily match the aca compliant plans, theyandfathered plant and a number of individuals have reenlisted and enrolled in plans so losing coverage and being notified the plan they have doesn't exist anymore are two different things. [ bagpipes and drums playing over ] [ music transitions to rock ] make it happen with the all-new fidelity active trader pro. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades when you open an account. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's why n york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. stuart: bank of america sales, buy, it is up 3.5%. a couple of downgrades on oracle, down it goes 3%. the latest numbers are in just over 364,000 people signed up for health care plan under

obamacare rollout. and mr. obama said this was his biggest mistake. i have news for the president. this is the biggest mistake america has made passing this acaith the slimmest of majority forcing it down the american people's throats. and i think it will affect people bigtime in 2014. >> so some of the bipartisan groups have estimated when the employer mandate kicks in, around november of next year insurers are supposed to tell people orb or employers are supposed to tell people they will lose their insurance. the estimates are that 80 million or 90 million people will be thrown off their insurance. do you think that is an accurate number? >> yeah, i do. and i'll tell you why. i think it is a conservative number of the i think the insurance companies are dealing with the law and they are making the rules as they go. how can the insurance agencies continue to change on a dime, eric? it is like a oil tanker. >> i think you just hit on something so important. today we found out president obama said we will give you another day. last week he said hold on, we are not going to hold you and we're going to allow you some wavers if your income doesn'

. >> obamacare hitting home for one family in the heartland the story is a tough choice they now face just ahead. >> there has never been good information out there about the acaout what it is, about what it does. now that it is really coming to bear is something far worse than many of us anticipated. >> he had to resign after a vicious attack on a conservative woem ks sarah palin. the folks at the media research center did a little checking. when rush limbaugh made a derogatory comment to san trau fluck on the subject of birth control the mainstream media covered it only two times in two weeks after the comment was made. martin brash shir said she was slave enpun nirnment. how many covered that. brent brazel. he performed the study. well, it's not hard to count. zero. none whatsoever. if is so bad you don't want to say what it was. i will tell the audience image the most disgusting thing imaginable that's what he said should be done to sarah palin. it was hundredfold more serious tlan rush limb paw has ever said about any one in 30 years on his radio store. yet nothing, crickets about martin bashir? >> nobody covered it. >> at all. they didn't cover it. but t

obamacare rated 700 million in for medicare including 300 billion for medicare advantage alone to pay for the aca. 2250 positions were terminated from medicare in connecticut alone. most of the orthopedic surgeons in dayton ohio dropped. in florida, 250 physicians from one medical center dropped. in january mr. chairman i'm sure we will discover thousands if not tens of thousands of people to their dismay that they thought they signed up for the aca but because of the glitch in health care.gov did not. mr. chairman the web site itself is in question. a web site at that as the most personal intimate questions is not have the proper security protocols to ensure the personal medical data of our citizens that are safe and secure. obamacare created a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats called the independent human advisory board to the power power to control attempts at treatment seniors received through medicare and according to dr. jason fullman and mr. -- or dr. david rats are this unelected body will have the unprecedented ability to single-handedly change the allocation of health care resurgence sh

aca is the law of the land. some of us have signed onto a house resolution that we believe that obamacare has yet to be the law of the land because it violates the constitution. we do not talk about that a lot. because theicant origination clause was vital to the constitution coming in to existence. negotiationritical that took place that allow the constitution to exist. it requires that all bills for raising revenue originate in the house. cato, has written an excellent piece. i asked that this be put in the record and i would like you to address it. ifatottom line is that the u.s. senate can take an unrelated piece of legislation and strike everything but the number. and, if they can take the senate health care bill, replace it in its entirety -- if they didn't take any bill and do that, i would suggest to you that, especially after the supreme court labeled obamacare a tax officially, if it can be done this way, i would suggest to you that the origination clause is a dead letter and there is no purpose for it to be in the constitution. if it is all right, mr. cannon, i address my question to you. can you illum

obamacare rated 700 billion from medicare including 300 million from medicare advantage alone to pay for the aca. physicians were terminated in connecticut, most of the orthopedic surgeons in dayton, ohio, dropped. in florida 250 positions from one medical center dropped. in january, mr. chairman, i'm sure we'll discover thousands if not tens of thousands of people to their dismay that they signed -- that they thought they signed up for the aca but because of a glitch this healthcare.gov did not. mr. chairman, the web site itself is in question, a web site that asks the most personal, intimate questions does not have the proper security protocols to insure the personal medical data of our citizens tar safe and secure. obamacare created a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats called the independent payment advisory board who have the power to control the types of treatment seniors receive through medicare. and according to dr. jason fuldman and dr. david ratser in, this unelected body-the unprecedented ability to single handedly change the allocation of health care resources should medicare spending

obamacare policies. an architect of the signature achievements as if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor if you can pay more. and "the new york times" says there is reason to praise the acahe plans problems are simply because of bad pr. we are covering the coverage and we will have it for you eight minutes from now on the show "happening now." check this out, this story will get your attention. the fbi has the capability to hijack their computer web camera without you ever knowing it. privacy advocates say that they are extremely intrusive. our guest is with me now in studio. lance, how are you doing? >> could. >> we are telling people how to protect themselves. the fbi was looking for a bad guy. >> yes, this is a guy who may have been involved in bomb threats and they are going to make a request to access this guys webcam and this now rare and virus. but the question is whether or not they actually got the okay to do so. this is a record of it. they have a similarly back in april and i think he was denied. the shocking part is that the fbi figured this out and something bad a lot of security experts did not think was possible to turn on your webcam without turning on th

however, the aca and the problematic rollout for obamacare, does that possibility do you think stillng could happen. but, there basically is a zero chance that democrats will win the house. a lot would have to go wrong for republicans. they'd really have to blow it traditionally, the president's party loses seats in the sixth year of his administration. remember 2006, so a lot would have to happen for democrats to have a realistic path. and because of redistricting, there are fewer and fewer competitive seats even on the table that democrats could win if they had good candidates and the environment was favorable. >> i think the redistricting issue is a more a realistic one than a steady as she goes approach for the republican party. because there is a long time between now and november. chris, as we look for some changes to happen in the new year we know that before leaving for the holiday recess we had speaker john boehner seeming to highlight what would be a major theme for 2014 for the gop, and i want to remind everybody what they can expect. take a look. >> we spent you know the