this thing is going to be a positive for democrats starting right today. >> zeke emanuel, there is that problem, though, that not all of the beneficiaries, not all of those millions of people we just talked about actually know that they are beneficiaries of the affordable care act. plenty of these 24-year-olds, for example, who are on their parents' health insurance policies because the affordable care act don't know who gets political credit for that. many people enrolled in the medicaid section under the affordable care act aren't sure who gets credit for that. >> but that's an age-old problem about american government which is we do give these very important benefits to people and make them think that it's not the government coming there to help them. and i would emphasize one other point, lawrence, i might take a slight issue which, at the end of april, early may, we're going to get rates from the insurance companies about what the premiums are going to be for the next open enrollment period, and that is going to be a very crucial time. they've been having some words that there are

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good to see you, good morning. >> good morning. >> so big shout out there from zeke emanuel, and, obviously, other states are looking at what connecticut has done. can you kind of summarize what you're doing that maybe other states haven't picked up on? >> well, i feel we're in no position to, you know, judge any other states. everyone's working hard to make this work and it's highly, highly complex, but i think a couple things worked for us. one, we tried to simplify the enrollment process as much as possible. two is we standardized plan designs to make it easier for folks to compare plans, and, three, we had a fairly effective marketing outreach campaign that focused on real connecticut residents saving money. >> part is the marketing, and we were just talking about that with the president and his surrogates, and, obviously, you have to have the technical side down. >> you do. the technical side is the basics, and, frankly, the technical side is what people assume. when you go to an atm, no one expects that to either shut down or partially work, so you have to do everything you can to mak

zeke emanuel, former white house health policy adviser. and a good -- >> soon to be irrelevant. >> hopefully. if all goes well. thank you very much, zeke. nice to see you. >> take care. >> thanks a lot. >>> all right. and i quote, "i could claw his eyes out." that was something that i did not think had been publicly released last week, but it turns out it had. not only did i think i want to claw his eyes out, i want to pour gasoline in his eye sockets and light them on fire. this is a new form of political insult and threat that i did not even know new jersey was capable of, but they are. stay with us. that story's coming up. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first d

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if you talk to folks like zeke emanuel who is an architect for this law.igger than the expansion of coverage. it's health care reform. not just covering the uninsured. but by the nature of having to prove its success, the obama white house has to come out and say it's working. we've covered x number of people. and that drives folks like zeke emanuel crazy. they say it's about reform. and as long as it's seen as an expansion in coverage and not reform, the polling numbers are not going to be that good for democrats on this. >> speaking of zeke emanuel, we should invite the mayor of chicago to wrigley field. >> yes, we should. >> we've got ernie banks, mr. cub right? >> rahm. >> and gayle sayers. we've got everybody. this is a chicago thing. i'm going to call rahm after the show. it'd be great to have him here. >> i'm going to move on to jeb bush. in "the new york times" today, talking about a report they have that he may be facing a bit more of a challenge if he decides to run for president. "the new york times" says the former governor of florida had an un

health insurance program from a wholesale to a retail level or, as my colleague zeke emanuel suggests, that it's going to wipe out group insurance for all but 20% of the largest firms. i think it's going to be a much smaller deal, and i will try to offer the reasons why. so this is, i guess, basically what i just said, but as a professor, you always have to write down what you're planning to say so the students don't come up afterwards and ask you what did you say? [laughter] so here's what i'm going to say and will say. so i'll show you the numbers in a minute. i think they're striking. a fraction of the u.s. population directly affected by the, what i regard as the core parts of the aca, the subsidy and insurance reform parts, is actually quite small. slovenly journalists can always write millions of americans are affected, or if they want to be cautious, tens of thousands of americans are affected which is certainly true, but relative to the number who are not directly affected, that number is quite small. i'm not going to talk about medicare. i think the parts of the aca that deal

zeke emmanuel, which, of course, we'll book him on the show. he made a prediction about health care that is is certainly raising some eyebrows. >> yeah, it is. obviously, the brother of rahm emanuelare going to drop all their health care plans by the year 2025. >> what? >> and he obviously is taking some heat from that. but what he is saying is, hold on, i'm not saying that companies are going to ditch it to sort of, you know, screw over the american worker. his whole goal is that the exchanges now that we have through aka will get good enough that we may not need some of the employer-sponsored plans. so he's in that you're the boss blog in the new york times, people raising their ire at zeke, and he's saying think about why i'm saying it, not take the headline and put on twitter and everybody get upset. >> so most americans prefer to have that as an option, as well. >> if we see the exchanges, quality go up and cost go down, that's what he's arguing. i don't know if you watched "60 minutes" last night. they talked about this rv that goes around in southwestern virginia and delivers health care. god bless the nurses that were doing it. >> that's right. >> but heartbreaking to wac