zeke emanuel, author of "reinventing american health care how affordable care act will improve our tearlae complex, unjust, expensive, error prone system." doctor, thank you for being here. i think that is a pretty unambiguous title about how you feel about things. where do you think we stand right now? four years after passage of the aca, we are in a very good spot. the exchange is about to end. the first open enrollment, projections are by end of monday, we will have 6.5 million people enrolled, just off what was projected originally, and that is pretty good, considering for two months, the federal exchange didn't work in there. some state exchanges that still aren't working. we have got, ak sthael grectual improvements in quality. hardly trumpeted. declines in hospital infection. decline in errors like early c sections that aren't for medical reasons. so, the, you know, quality has been improving. and then, cost has been flat for the last three years. matter of fact, people on medicare, medicaid have not seen real increases in their premiums. and so, i think we are in a very good spo

i want to make one point on what zeke said about the insurance industry. i suggest that all of the black helicopter crowd and people doubting numbers and all of that stuff should talk to the insurance industry because they seem to be bearing out the numbers that the government is reporting. so if -- >> if they don't believe the government, maybe they'll believe private industry. >> let me raise one thing that emphasizes what david -- what you said, alex, which is, remember, we got health care reform in february 2010, in no small measure, because wellpoint raised its rates 39%. >> yep. >> in one year. that is why health care reform has come, because it was unpredictable in the past, people got thrown off insurance plans. it's four years since passage. we forget how bad it was. people want certainty and the exchange provides them that certainty. god forbid something happens at their employment. god forbid their employer decides to cancel coverage. they have a way of getting health insurance at a reasonable price. that is very valuable to people. and i think

zeke emanuel is the former white house adviser on health care, also the author of a new book with an illuminating title, "reinventing the american health care." dr. emanuel, thank you so much for being here. i think that's a pretty unambiguous title about how you feel about things. where do you think we stand right now? >> well, i think four years after passage of the aca, we're actually in a very good spot. the exchange is about to end its first open enrollment, the projections are by the end of monday we'll have about 6.5 million people enrolled, which is just off what was projected originally, and that's pretty good, considering for two months the federal exchange didn't work in there. some state exchanges still aren't working. we've got actually great improvements in quality that have hardly been prump etted at all. declines in hospital infection, decline in other errors like early c-sections that aren't for medical reasons, so the, you know, quality has been improving and then cost has been flat for the last three years. as a matter of fact, people on medicare and medicaid have

zeke emanuel is talking death manuals. willie, what is going on?> i don't think i said triple. >> i'm one for trippling. jeffrey hedged. could be a good idea. he doesn't want to go too far. >> i'm sorry, i'm just very moderate, bill. >> that's right. >> jeffrey goldberg, thanks so much. >> thanks, jeffrey. >> good conversation. >>> coming up next on "morning joe," senator john mccain joins us live. later, the zen of russell simmons. he is here to explain the surprising secret behind his success. you're watching "morning joe." we will be right back. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>> welcome back to "morning joe." john kerry has just landed in kiev. obviously, the secretary of

that's why the nickname zeke just like his pa.>>> wheel we hear music, ear worms, just to classify, twitter. ear worms. >> ear worms. >> yesterday till 4:00 p.m. all the way to the evening. >> something tells me you got a lot of tweets about that. >> ear worm. >> let's get right to the surprise twist in the oscar pistorius trial. pistorius expected to begin his testimony this morning, but the judge delaying the trial for more than a week. abc's matt gutman is there in south africa with the latest. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. that's right. we'll have to wait ten more days to hear oscar pistorius tell his version of events that night. now, in this country it's customary for the defendant to take the stand first in his defense. now, we expected that, what we didn't expect is for the judge's assistant to suddenly fall ill and for such a long postponement. it was supposed to be the day the blade runner walks into court and on to the witness stand. instead, yet another delay. a surprise announcement from the ju

. >> zeke emanuel was on another network this morning, and started off talking about, he was obviouslyone of the architects, if thought the primary architect of okbamacare talking about where this was heading and where this was going. this was the conversation. >> notice with this big surge that david was pointing out before we came on, no problem with the website. it's actually working. so that's a, i think, another real surprise, that they have the website working mechanically in terms of server capacity and all that. >> we should point out the obamacare website was down as of midnight. >> really? >> as the deadline arrives. >> yesterday, i logged on at 10:00 p.m. >> it was down most of the morning from 3:00 a.m. to midday, the website healthcare.gov, a screen grab. the system isn't available at the moment wrr. it's kind of ironic. it started this way, and the official deadline today is coming to an end this way. >> obviously that's embarrassing for zeke emanuel, but what i thought was interesting is it was another real surprise. even the guy who is sort of the architect of obamacare

and that is the big problem. >> so, zeke, if we're going to talk about the politics here and how thisis beneficial, the flip side is today just a few minutes ago, we talked about house republicans passing their 50th effort to repeal or replace parts of the affordable care act. and one has to wonder, does this not give them more fuel -- does it not add fuel to the fire? the gop in general can say it's so broken that the white house is delaying parts of it. >> well, that has been a repeated comment. but i would say last night i happened to be on bill o'reilly's show, and just before we got ones when the cameras weren't rolling, he said i don't want to talk about obamacare. it's here to say. i want to talk about how physicians are going to interact with it because i think they're not happy about it. so i do think that there is somewhat of this recognition that we can have a campaign, we could have all the heated rhetoric about it, but the fact is the affordable care act is here to stay and we can have lots of show boats, but it's being implemented. i actually think it's having a positive

zeke joins us now. we're thrilled to have him. good morning to you, zeke. >> nice to be here.>> lots of questions from this book and in the news. let's start with the news and i want to get to some of the issues in the book, very provocative views about what the future will look like. on the merits of where we are today, given we just had this announcement yesterday, at least parts of obamacare will be delayed again through 2016. >> i think it's a minor part. this is private insurance plans. people who have been on them continuously can hold them for a couple of more years. it affects, according to the rand think tank less than 500,000 people in america. i just don't think this is a major part of the bill. we get wound up in a few very important stories and some people who find that they can't afford new insurance or don't have -- haven't explored the exchange. >> let's talk about that transformation. one of the predictions you make in this book is the end of employer-sponsored health insurance. you say that could happen by 2025. fewer than 20% of workers in the private sector

zeke emanuel spells it out. and the first lady arrives in beijing on a diplomatic mission, so why no press coverage? have you checked your stocks? what a great way to end the week. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: angela merkel, who would have thought, responding to the situation this the ukraine as vladimir putin officially signs a bill annexing crimea. merkel urges the u.s. to frack. she says europe will buy that shale gas if we go get it and if we allow it to be exported. remember, please, russia controls a great deal of the energy that europe uses to heat their homes. he's got europe over the proverbial barrel unless america jumps in. sandra smith is here. >> yes. stuart: so if we -- >> hello. you have an opportunity. stuart: yes, from angela merkel of all people, any european. >> that's why everyone's saying, hello, president obama, this is an enormous opportunity to become energy independent, become exporters of oil. here's the opportunity. if we were to speed up the process, we could prob

zeke emanual is securing the end of health insurance as we know it thanks to obamacare.his is the quote from an odd that in the new republic and i am quoting directly, insurance companies as they are now will be going away. indeed they are already evolving. insurance companies will continue to provide services to employers can compete against each other -- all right. here is the story. right now you have got patients that you and i in the middle is the insurance company and you have doctors and hospitals, the insurance companies are the middle guys. bets in look-alike is with us, authority on obamacare and i need you to explain this. hold on, i have got to repeat this. you have patients, you and i, in the middle, insurance companies and here you have doctors. ziti manual says this middle bunch are going away. is the right? >> there is at trend in that direction even without obamacare. accountable care organizations, hospitals and doctors who band together and make a business and accept a flat rate to take care of each patient. even go to big business and say we will host

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let's bring in "time" political reporter zeke miller at cpac and in national harbor, maryland.ight. so is there a way in which to look in the crystal ball? are you getting a sense from people there as we draw upon this straw poll? you know who might be the favorites? >> well, it's not so much a race for number one right now. that is going to be kentucky senator rand paul who won last year. it's really a race for second or multiple different races between the different branches of the republican party right now who will be sort of the elite establishment candidate who will be the lead social conservative candidate. all these different little signs, but number one is pretty much pre-determined to be rand paul. >> newt gingrich. what were the rumblings in the room? you can't be the party of no. you have to say grow some things. any sentiment that was audible? from the crowd? >> reporter: not -- nothing in the sense of, you know, a little bit of applause here and there. that's really a message we've heard over and over again during this three-day conference. rick perry saying they

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. >> it is true it may be at least until the end of the month if you listen to zeke emanuel, until we get pretty hard numbers, and there are certain numbers that state exchanges are not reporting. having said that, gallop has been following this pretty closely, and they saw in the fourth quarter of 2013 that 17.1% of americans rr uninsured. by early this year it was 15.9%, so the numbers are uninsured are definitely coming down. do you dispute those numbers? >> well, i think what we there again have to do is look at what you find in those numbers, and i would direct you to the 2012 kaiser report that said 33% of all physicians are not seeing new medicare enrollees. now, if we have a lot of medicaid enrollees, they are not expanding their medicaid population and their patient base. >> you didn't offer that in tennessee, correct? so those are people -- >> let me finish my thought here, then we'll talk about tennessee. >> okay. >> what we are doing, if we are giving an insurance card to those individuals who do not have access to the doctor, basically, it's a false promise, because you s

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. >> mine was a story by zeke miller in "time" magazine.america's elections should be bankrupt by america's most powerful interests," that's exactly what the president is doing now as they realize they have to catch with the republicans in the super pac game. i won't use the term hypocrisy, but i will say evolving has been very interesting to watch over this presidential cycle and election cycle to see how the democrats get behind this idea of super pacs. >> there are those who would argue the president has tried and talked about changing the rules and could not successfully do so. so if you can't change the rules, don't you really just -- aren't you forced to play by those rules to compete? >> i don't buy it. back in 2008 when he had an opportunity to join john mccain in not accepting public donations and to publicly fund his campaign, he didn't. he took the big money, he followed hollywood and followed wall street. the reality is that is the completion of that circle. i appreciate your point but it's lost on the facts that the president h

. >> i think it's that willing and eager point that's important zeke. of things by our system. he doesn't think like us. how much does that complicate? how does the president -- the you' european sanctions are weaker than the u.s. putin doesn't have a lot to be afraid of does he? >> it's harder for them. at the same time, a lot of holdings are in the russian economy, surrounding president putin, state controlled industries. the white house say they have capability. will they pull that out remains to be scene. the difficulty here is we've known for this a month and a half. it's clear what each stage in the game is. the white house knows. it's been the same off ramp. he hasn't taken it in the last month. >> it doesn't address what vladimir putin wants which is power. there's no incentive to take it off ramp when he's in the headlines of every major newspaper. his approval rating has gone up. they're not playing with the same kind of tools here. >> the president is taking hits from his critics. that is some ways predictable. remember mitt romney had a scor

. >> you got zeke emanuel on your show and he says surprising things about whether -- you know, how long employer plans are going to be around. >> by 2025 he doesn't think they will be essentially. >> we'll watch that and your interview. >> me, too. >>> make sure to join us monday. "squawk on the street" is next. ♪ it feels good ♪ yeah ♪ it feels good >>> good friday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer, david faber at the new york stock exchange. busy friday morning shaping up. three ipos capping a busy week for new issues as you know. blackberry earnings, more news about a potential iphone 6 launch date. futures are higher at the moment. ten years a shade below 27. personal income and spending was in line although they were jitters in europe. and the roadmap begins with blackberry reporting a narrower-than-expected loss and we'll talk to ceo john chen about it first on cnbc. >>> cbs outdoor america's ipo capping off what has been a big week for offerings. cbs' ceo les moonves and jeremy male will join us on a first on cnbc. >>> and walmart su

. >> 1998 -- >> should point out that was jonathan zeke leg the documentarian, who strongly spores and. it doesn't seem it is. it is. >> even she admitted it >> care that he doesn't have his pension. and to throw that in, as if added to the fact that a jury, by the way, convicted him, he doesn't get his pension. >> and you listen to what john ziegler, as he ticks off all the charges, by the way, so, make it sound like everybody else is wrong and you're right. >> or lying. to suggest that they are lying and conspired for money. >> and to suggest that the victims are being subjected to manipulation. i mean, come on. i mean? this is -- that's the oldest, you know, excuse i've ever heard. >> blame the victim. >> blame the victim. and here again, you have to think about the lives that have been affected and impacted. >> yeah. >> before you get caught up in dottie sandusky's tears and her explanation of her husband, the man she knew would never do that just go read through some of the indictment, read the testimony in the courtroom on which he was convicted of something like 45 counts. >> it