eating dark chocolate, a doctor will be joining us to explain all of that. jenna: startling new admissions on obamacare made by the administration. healthcare.gov new contract revealing major concerns of the site and a tight timetable. more on this story. hello, jenna. while expressing boundless confidence in the health care law, new documents show officials privately feared part of the website is so flawed it could bankrupt insurance companies and cripple obamacare if self. speak out we have to wait a month after month. obamacare telling us everything was fine, there was no problem and turn on a dime and fire their contractor. justify a no bid contract after firing cgi is the lead contractor. they released documents with a
to distance themselves from the president? i think the strategic choice, difficult choice for a lot of these democrats in difficult states. red states especially. and i tell you as you see democrats starting to run away from the president, it puts him in a much more difficult spot and weakens his hand. i think that s what you re going to see as this election year rolls around. but joy reid, what they re saying in those spots is we re fighting for your right to not have catastrophic coverage. to have a bare minimum, something that doesn t comply with federal law. and if you show up in the e.r., you become that burden to society that the affordable care act was designed in part to take care of. and it ll take about 20 minutes for a decent reporter in one of those states to find out if a, those people saying they lost insurance is a real person or b, if they found another policy. which means their insurance i m not in politics anymore, but all mary landrieu has to do is say in m
the coverage they already have will be able to keep their current plan. this is a very accurate description of this bill. but now louisianians are finding out that they lied. i was shocked when i got the notice that my health care policy was canceled. kay hagen told us if you like your insurance plans and your doctors, you could keep them. it s the lie of the year. you can keep your insurance if you like it. and senator shaheen kept telling it. truth is thousands have already had their insurance canceled. isn t that advocacy for the right to be underinsured and does that run contrary to a sort of bedrock republican principle which is individualism, take care of yourself, don t show up at the e.r. and become a burden to society? well, i think it also says that there s an issue for conservative democrats and democrats in difficult elections. are they going to keep with the president and keep defending obamacare or are they going to run against obamacare and trying
know, sure, everybody is concerned about privacy. but first of all, since they don t have violations of anyone s privacy it seems a little desperate. i think what you just heard more importantly from john feehery was an answer to your question. is this about the election or health care reform? it s about the election. it s 100% about not agreeing on one thing. not a bunch of things but one thing. that the affordable care act is the law. if republicans agreed on that, then maybe they d have an interest in fixing the law. but they don t agree on that. to your point about the location, americans for prosperity, political arm of the conservative billionaire koch brothers, is going local now. they re launching a multi-million dollar ad in north carolina, louisiana, and new hampshire. and the goal is to continue to exploit the president s misstep when he said that if americans like their insurance plans they could keep them. here are a couple of excerpts. they re from the ads. those indi
false. this is also about the president and i think that is what the election is going to be about. this is day three for me being insured through insurance that i procured for healthcare.gov. i m worried about my privacy. i had to hand over a number of personal details about my wife and me as well as our children. is eric cantor onto something when he proposes this today? i mean, i would say you know, sure, everybody is concerned about privacy. but first of all, since they don t have violations of anyone s privacy it seems a little desperate. i think what you just heard more importantly from john feehery was an answer to your question. is this about the election or health care reform? it s about the election. it s about not agreeing on one thing. that the affordable care act is the law. if republicans agreed on that, then maybe they d have an interest in fixing the law. to your point about the location, americans for prosperity, political arm of the koch brothers, is going loc