understands how it works. we ve had millions of waivers. the individual mandate is basically been eroded. they re not five people in the country can tell you what is left of obamacare. people don t trust this administration to be honest about obamacare. jenna: well that is swirling. let me ask you about that because you say they don t trust this administration. they will lie to you. jenna: your colleague senator barrasso says the white house is fixing the books. totally they are. jenna: do you have any facts to back that up? number one, tell me how many people who signed up for obamacare has paid? it is not numbers of people who sign up, it is how many people signed up and paid their premiums. how many people signed up for obamacare that was previously uninsured? the goal of obamacare was to give uninsured insurance coverage. one in four fall into that category. most people lost their coverage, had to change their doctor to go into obamacare. that is not what was promised. what
the same the washington post article talking about the premiums. president said we were going to lower health care costs by an average of $2,500 a person. the same the washington post article, if i can squeeze it in there, has that front page piece that says rising premiums and fines may test the law s future. the president didn t talk about rising premiums. why is that not getting coverage? he said that the $2,500, if your health care costs would fall by a third. from $7,500 to $5500. that was six years ago. this same article in the washington post says everybody knows that the insurance companies came in with low ball prices to get people in and will be raising their prices immediately thereafter. cleveland clinic said yesterday that the whole plan is obviously they re going to cost way more. there s a reason why the american people are rejecting this. they re not. we disa degree fundamentally. they re not rejecting it.
from the administration. they say the mix of young and old enrollees is good but they re not specific what that is. 80% of the people paid their premiums though the administration is not releasing precise numbers on that either. wyoming republican senator john barosso is skeptical. i think they re cooking the books on this. people want to know the answer as to that. once all this is said and done what kind of insurance will those people actually have? will they be able to keep the doctor they want? how much more will it cost them. reporter: centers for medicare & medicaid services which administers the website said it wasn t a surge in volume over the weekend that caused problems. but with time running out traffic went up tomillion users a day. the software managers found a bug during regular maintenance time and took longer than anticipated to fix it but that was not only problem. for a while the website told people they had another 16 days to enroll. that was wrong.
anchor of special report from washington. the problem apparently is that the democrats have to go out and say, yeah, we brought you obamacare. we accomplished it. we built this thing. we want you to love it and we want you to reelect us because of it. yeah. it s a challenge and clearly, some democrats are choosing different ways to deal with that, especially red state democrats, republican leaning states that they re fighting for re-election efforts. some are running way from obamacare in specific ads that they ve run. others are saying and using the phrase that it is very popular now on capitol hill. mend it, don t end it. and focussing on the republicans efforts to repeal it sometimes in the house. real issue is the numbers and if the premiums for everyone go up because of the equation not working out exactly the way the administration wanted it to with young people, the percentage not
being as high. if the premiums are recalculated before november, it makes it that much tougher for the democrats running on obamacare. jon: they asked whether health care was the burning issue in america now. this whole thing was sort of hoisted upon people who weren t necessarily all that interested in getting the entire health care system torn apart. some are saying their campaign ads say we don t want to go back to the bad old days when this could happen or that could happen. i m not sure the people are going to be thinking they were such bad ole days. clearly there were problems and both sides of the aisle acknowledge that reform had to happen one way or the other. the reform that was put through only on democratic votes did not do a lot of things that many,