it was march 23, 2010, that the president signed the a.c.a. into law, the second en rollment period begins tomorrow, runs from november 15 through february 15 of next year. this morning on the "washington journal," we're going to look at at fordable care act, who signed up, the cost, how it's working, and your input is necessary for our conversation this morning. now, we've divided the phone lines a little bit differently. you can see up there, if you have enrolled in the affordable care act, if you're one of the seven million to 10 million people who have been included in the new insurance roll, 202-585-3880. we want to hear your opinion of how it went, what you think of it, the coverage, the cost, etc. you get your insurance through your employer, 202-585-3881 is the number for you. if you have another type of insurance, this also includes medicare and senior care, 202-585-3882 is the number for you. and finally, we want to hear from the uninsured. why are you uninsured? what's the reason? and have you thought about signing up for the a.c.a.?

first i've been around the a.c.a. for a year and i get a great subsidary in new york and i'm happy with it. just had a couple of comments. peter, you read from the "wall street journal" about how many people lack a basic understanding of how they can reenroll. then you roll that clip of mitch mcconnell saying people hate it. how can people hate it if for example they don't even know they can change their policy, like that. that level of ignorance, half of them really say they hate it. my second point it seems like a psychology. i was a school teacher and i resented to have to get insurance, i always had to be a school teacher and do something i didn't really like. now i can do what i want to do and not be tied to my employer for my health insurance. host: how much do you pay a much? caller: yeah, i pay around $100 a month for my premium and receive a subsidary of little over $200 a month. and i have a bronze plan. host: are you employed? do you have a full time job? caller: i'm self employed. host: ok. caller: and yeah

first i've been around the a.c.a. for a year and i get a great subsidary in new york and i'm happy with it. just had a couple of comments. peter, you read from the "wall street journal" about how many people lack a basic understanding of how they can reenroll. then you roll that clip of mitch mcconnell saying people hate it. how can people hate it if for example they don't even know they can change their policy, like that. that level of ignorance, half of them really say they hate it. my second point it seems like a psychology. i was a school teacher and i resented to have to get insurance, i always had to be a school teacher and do something i didn't really like. now i can do what i want to do and not be tied to my employer for my health insurance. host: how much do you pay a much? caller: yeah, i pay around $100 a month for my premium and receive a subsidary of little over $200 a month. and i have a bronze plan. host: are you employed? do you have a full time job? caller: i'm self employed. host: ok. caller: and yeah

is that the a.c.a., is that other reasons, we can debate that. but it seems that a lot of the goals of the bill are being met. >> you run a hospital system with seven different hospitals. and what is it, 3,500 beds? >> 3,500 beds. >> so how is it impacting how you run things at mount sinai in particular? >> well, hospitals are under a great deal of pressure. we in new york don't see an influx of medicaid patients because it's a fairly generous medicaid state to begin with, and we don't see a whole lot of people who have joined the exchanges who previously didn't have insurance. what we're seeing is the decrease in revenues that have been associated with so many aspects of policies for the center for medicare services and for the aca. so what we see is shrinking margins and increased pressure on the hospitals. >> you know, that was something that originally the hospitals were going to have to take the hit early on. once everybody got conk, it was supposed to be better things. i know that hasn't necessarily been the case with mount sinai. has that b

we had a similar dynamic in 2010 which but the a.c.a. in a whole where you had republicans advertising against the a.c.a. aggressively in that election. democrats for the most part were not advertising in favor of it. we are not in an election year, so i suspect you will not see the same traffic you would in an even-numbered year. we will have to watch that carefully. >> if someone was a lot of money steps up to do an advertising campaign, you would object? >> i don't think i can offer an opinion on that either way. >> we are going to go to cheryl bolan. >> you talked about the white house hoping republicans don't take their ball and go home with it. is there a strategy or plan to reach out to rebuild relationships, to chart a course for governing for the next two years? what is that? >> yes. we are going to be looking for partners, republican partners in leadership and in the caucuses themselves. i think the lunch we had right after the election was a first step in that. a lot of coverage was about the back and forth on immigration. the

at this pace, the question can the a.c.a. reach it's goat of 25 million people by 2017. one of the main sticking points for congressional republicans and even some of the most lip real democrat is something called the medical device tax. the tariff was designed to help fund the care act, with an estimated $30 billion out ten years. a number of law uh makers are moving to repeal the tax. >> the bottom line is this device tax is so poorly conceived it kills jobs, it is stifling life saving and life enharassing invasion. and both republicans and democrats agree on this. >> recently cup bidding covered video capture one of the chief authorsism plying the administration capitalized on naive voters. >> lack of transparency huge advantage, and basically call the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically that was really critical to get it to pass? the white house moved swiftly to denounce comments. the fact is the process associated with implements of the affordable care act has been extraordinarily transparent. then last week, another obstacle, the supreme court

they took the plan under the a.c.a. and he got care and said it was good and that to him made the difference. was supposeda.c.a. to do and has helped 8 million to 11 million people who before. get insurance let's not lose track of what the original intention of the a.c.a. was. do we need to fix things? of course, we to. business exemptions. help small businesses out struggling under the burden and aspects not formulated correctly and we need to fix and iron out the details. out the baby with the bath water and we can't turn backwards.f of time >> thank you. >> dr. trammell. undocumented immigrant students, these efforts had been known as the dream act. it would repeal federal policies that discourage states from offering these students post secondary education benefits and provide legal permanent status. do you support these efforts? to legal a's the status of undocumented immigrant students through the dream act? >> i do. i met students going to virginia tech and other schools in our state. they are in medical school. t

it was march 23, 2010, that the president signed the a.c.a. into law, the second en rollment period begins tomorrow, runs from november 15 through february 15 of next year. this morning on the "washington journal," we're going to look at at fordable care act, who signed up, the cost, how it's working, and your input is necessary for our conversation this morning. now, we've divided the phone lines a little bit differently. you can see u

we didn't have that financial burden thanks to the a.c.a. thanks to a combination of good insurance and the affordable care act, i was the recipient of a very nice double electric breast pump. i think became the first employee of to utilize the a.c.a. provisions for nursing mothers. i had the opportunity to take a better job." she goes on. the question again, mr. president, is why -- why do they want -- why do a punch of politicians who have good insurance paid for by taxpayers, why do they want to take the benefit away from the 25-year-old young man -- young 25-year-old man who now has insurance on his parents' plan before he goes out and finishes school? why do they want to take away the insurance that a family now has so when their daughter has an ear ache they can actually go to a family doctor instead -- that will be paid for because of the insurance rather than d to n insurancemergency room? why the politics of repealing obamacare, of repealing the affordable care act and taking these benefits away from so many americans? 500,000 in ohi

because of the a.c.a. and her parents' insurance, she was able to get great coverage. she went out to go look for a job but wasn't able to find one that offered health care insurance, and she went on to medicaid before she could sign up for health care insurance herself. her tumor reappeared, but even despite this latest setback, her doctors still believed that they could extract the tumor and the prognosis for kara is good, but she has health care. she has had continuous health care because of the affordable care act, because of medicaid being expanded throughout the states. kara says that i know for sure that i wouldn't have made it this far in life without health care. it's incredibly essential to have it. you never know what's going to happen to you. don't take your health for granted. kara from gramby has health insurance because of the affordable care act, has had it continuously because of the affordable care act. but differences are being made all over the country. i'll tell you just one more story and that's one from the middle section of the state, from ohio.