so year after year americans were routinely exposed to financial ruin or denied coverage due to minor pre-existing conditions or dropped from coverage altogether even if they paid their premiums on time. that s one of the reasons we pursued this reform in the first place x. that s why i will not accept proposals that are just another brazen attempt to undermine or repeal the overall law and drag us back into a broken system. we will continue to make the case even to folks who choose to keep tear own plans that their own plans that they should shop around in the new marketplace because there s a good chance they ll be able to buy better insurance at lower costs. so we re going to do everything we can to help the americans who have received these cancellation notices, but i also want everybody to remember there are still 40 million americans who don t have health insurance at all. i m not going to walk away from 40 million people who have the chance to get health insurance for the firs
my intention not to deliver on that commitment and that promise. we put a grandfather clause into the law. but it was insufficient. keep in mind that the individual market accounts for 5% of the population. so when i said you can keep your health care, you know i m looking at folks who government employer-based health care, folks who have got medicare, medicaid and that accounts for the vast majority of americans, and then for people who don t have health insurance at all, obviously that didn t apply. my commitment to them was you re able to get affordable health care for the first time. you have an individual market that accounts for about 5% of the population and our work assumption was, my work assumption was, that the majority of those folks would find better policies at lower costs or the same costs in the
plus, the house homeland security panel is grilling the tsa chief on a program costing taxpayers a whole lot of money. we have a lot going on today. we re glad you re with us. we ll be on top of it all and bring you news as it happens. jon: right now, to our top story. we re awaiting a statement from president obama on the botched rollout of obamacare. we don t expect him to say that it was botched but i never know. the cancellation of millions of health care policies as well is something he is expected to address. fox news has learned the president will announce a plan to let those americans keep their insurance plans if they have them. more on that as we get it. right now lawmakers on capitol hill are still trying to get to the bottom of the failed health carrollout as another house panel gets set to consider new legislation. good morning to you. it is a very busy morning. i m jon scott. jenna: i m jenna lee. jon, you bring up a great point. what would the president say about the act
already people who have plans that predate the affordable care act can keep those plans if they haven t changed. that was already in the law. that s what s called a grandfather clause that was included in the law. today we re going to extend that principle both to people whose plans have changed since the law took effect and to people who bought plans since the law took effect. so state insurance commissioners still have the power to decide what plans can and can t be sole in their states. but the bottom line is insurers can extend current plans that would otherwise be cancelled into 2014 and americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to reenroll in the same kind of plan. we re also requiring insurers to extend current plans to inform their customers about two things. one, that protections what protections these renewed plans don t include. number two, that the marketplace offers new options with better
the scars of one s past or even a divided nation. and talk about nelson mandela and how it makes a difficult decision to take the high road, it s a high idea and little people can t do that. it s a little idea. small petty people cannot do that. to forgive and victimize them and have any right to seek vengeance and have the preponderance of the evidence and the majority of people supporting them. and he took the wiser road home. and to let it go from the long-term betterment of south africa. he says he s concerned about the soul of america and acknowledges how a tough economy and government and politics caused many americans to become more angry and less for giving these days. and he challenges everyone from the white house to even your house to focus on practicing real brotherly love. look at dr. king or countless others of that ilk who have done extraordinary feats because they conserve their energy for the highest