takeover of health care. even as democrats abandoned liberal priorities like the public option, the ugly debate raged on. the law improbable survived a series of near-death experiences until democrats finally pushed through a bill by a whisker in march 2010 and the president signed the affordable care act into law. that was three and a half years ago. the fight didn t end when the bill became a law. it has survived 40 republicans attempt to appeal it, a challenge by the u.s. support and today with the u.s. government should down in an ill-fated last gas effort for republicans to stop it, the obama care exchanges are open for business. i don t want to sound political but i voted for this and it makes me proud to know my vote counted. if you listen to republicans, obama is going to be terrible for your doctor, because now everyone will have insurance and their pay will be lower. the real story next. hell o? [ friend ] hey can you be ready in about 1 hour?
of weeks ago apple rolled out a new mobile operating system. and within days they found a glitch. so they fixed it. i don t remember anybody suggesting apple should stop selling iphones or ipads or threatening to shut down the company if they did. the obama administration never shied away from the fact that there would be glitches with the roll out of the obama care exchanges. but some members failed to realize that the glitches are caused by the high numbers of people applying for insurance. here in new york, they received over 2 million calls in the first 90 minutes. joining me is dr. patel. she worked with the obama administration. as a health care provider and someone who worked on the law, day one there were a lot of
joining me is dr. patel. she worked with the obama administration. as a health care provider and someone who worked on the law, day one there were a lot of glitches, this wasn t just the fox news propaganda machine, web sites were down. how do you think things went? i think it went very well. people know there were options. even though there were technical glitches, like the president said, we re fixing them, we re working on it and no matter what you can always get ahold of someone, even by the good old american land line. do you worry about this threshold action where you need to get people to do it and the first time you do it, if you go
nagger in my family. what this results in as people hear more about this law, i had a patient today who didn t have insurance. she s 32. so in the young range. and she just said when can i sign up and when can i actually get an appointment to see a doctor? so i think that s what s going to matter. the proof of the pudding is in the eating and the proof of it is in seeing a doctor. there is this jimmy kimmel bit where he s asking people and the amount of confusion is very evident. you ve done town halls for people who are uninsured. right. what are the questions people have and what is going to crack that? the most common question i got today was you re telling me i m going to get health care starting when? they want to know when can they see a doctor, will it cover prescriptions, will this give them visits to the emergency room, the doctor, the hospital.
medicare into law 20 years later, it was the efforts of harry truman he credited with making it possible. in the early 1970s, senator ted kennedy worked behind the scenes with president richard nixon to find a compromise national health care plan. nixon was facing the usual opposition from the usual suspects and kennedy dreamed of a single payor system. but compromise seemed within reach. the purpose of this program is simply this i want america to have the finest health care in the world. but on the very day in 1974 that nixon sent a message to congress proposing a comprehensive national health insurance plan, the house of representatives voted to investigate him over the watergate scandal. the kennedy/nixon talks ended, the nixon presidency ended and the issue of national health care didn t come to the forefront for another two decades. nothing is more important