years come up and all of sudden those polys are no longer available? it s, you can t fix the government-run health care plan called obamacare. this is going to destroy the best health care delivery system in the world. you know, if you go back four or five months ago the congressional budget office said even after this law s in effect for 10 years, 10 years from now, there will still be 30 million americans uninsured. that is not the promise that was made to the american people. it is just not fixable. [inaudible] well, listen, i think we ve been trying to stay focused on
statistics published in the federal register alerted your policy staff, i presume you, the fact that millions of americans would in fact probably fall into the very gap you re trying to administratively fix now? that s one question. second question, you were informed or several people in this building were informed two weeks before the launch of the website it was failing most basic tests internally yet a decision was made to launch the website october 1st. did you make that test? if so, do you regret that? on the website i was not informed directly that the website would not be working, as the way it was supposed to. had i been informed i wouldn t be going out saying, boy, this is going to be great. you know, i m accused of a lot of things but i don t think i m stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on amazon or trav travelocity a week before the website opens if i thought that it wasn t going to work. so clearly we, and i, did not
cost of health care grow at its slowest rate in 50 years. so we re at the opening weeks of the project to build a better health care system for everybody. a system that will offer real financial security and peace of mind to millions of americans. it is a complex process, there are all kinds of challenges. i m sure there will be additional challenges that come up. and it s im honest and straightforward in terms when we come up with a problem with these reforms and these laws that we address them. but we ve got to move forward on it took a hundred years for us to even get to the point where we could start talking about and implementing a law to pick sure everybody got health insurance. to make sure everybody got health insurance. and my pledge to the american people is we re going to solve the problems that are there, we re going to get it right, and the affordable care act is going to work for the american people. so with that, i m going to take
later today i ll be in ohio where governor kasich, republican, expand medicaid under the affordable care act and 275,000 ohioans will be better off because of it. if every governor followed suit another 5.4 million americans could gain access to health care next year. so, bottom line is, in just one month, despite all of the problems that we ve seen with the website, more than 500,000 americans could know the security of health care by january 1st. many for the first time in their lives. and that s life changing and it s significant. that still leaves 1 million americans who successfully made it through the website, now qualified to buy insurance but haven t picked a plan yet. and there s no question that if the website were working as it s supposed to, that number would be much higher of people who have actually enrolled. that s problem number one.
about eight minutes ago. as often happens the president is a bit late. he is going to be talking about the affordable care act. meantime, that health care debacle seems to be taking a toll on the president s approval ratings with the american people. according to the latest fox news poll just 40% of americans approve of his overall job performance, an all-time high number of 55% disapprove of the job he s doing. let s sort through some of this as we way eight the president s remarks with fox news political analyst, angela mcglowan. we understand, angela, president will come out and say, oh, just kidding. if you like your health care plan you really can keep it if those health care companies allow you to stay on the plans they just canceled. clearly he is listening to those democrats running for office in 2014 and maybe listening to the american people and polls like fox news one we just read.