number one, when did you find out about the potential security risk to users of the website? sir, i would say that the august luminary report identified that there were risks and gao had identified that there was a risk in every system that goes live and we take those risks very seriously. sumac okay, by august you knew. so who briefed you that the launch went forward as planned? again, senator to anyone? security was discussed as part of the overall regulations. but no one, i would say no one suggested that the risks outweigh the importance of moving forward, including our independent evaluator who made the recommendations as is
get sick. these reforms are already in effect. and what we need to do is to give people the chance to buy the insurance that we promised that will be available to them. and final question to you, congressman. according to keiser which obviously as you know is a nonpartisan evaluator of health care, they re saying health plans are spending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who have bought their own coverage. and the main reason apparently is that those policies don t meet the requirements of the affordable care act. so i guess for example that could mean if you have a plan that doesn t provide maternity care, but a lot of people like their plans and they didn t want maternity care. so is what americans have heard from the president over the past four years true? here s what the president s been saying. if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. our approach would preserve the right of americans who have insurance to keep their doctor
i think that they expected the web site would work, and they didn t realize that once they opened it up on october 1 the demand would be so great that it was not able to accommodate it. we ve got a glitch. it needs to be fixed. no question about it. but the law is basically a good law, and people will be able to get affordable health insurance, notwithstanding the fact they ve had pre-existing medical conditions or in the past couldn t afford it. and insurance companies won t be able to put limits on it and take away your policy once you get sick. these reforms are already in effect. and what we need to do is to give people the chance to buy the insurance that we promised that will be available to them. and final question to you, congressman. according to keiser which obviously as you know is a nonpartisan evaluator of health care, they re saying health plans are spending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who have bought their own coverage. and the main reason
we have a glitch. it needs to be fixed. no question about it. but the law is basically a good law and people will be able to get affordable health insurance. not withstanding the fact they had pre-existing medical conditions or in the past couldn t afford it. insurance companies won t be able will be able to put limits on it and take your policy once you get sick. these reforms are are already in effect and what we need to do is to give people the chance to buy the insurance that the promise that will be available to them. sfin final question, according to accuse area, which obviously as you know is a nonpartisan evaluator of health care, they are saying health plans are sending hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters that bought their own coverage. the policies don t meet the requirements of the affordable care act. i guess, for example, that could mean if you have a plan, it doesn t provide maternity care. but a lot of people like their plans an
it s impossible to be too tough on bp. my heart goes out to mr. jones and his family for his loss because we now know that bp was running through all kinds of red lights, warnings that had been going off in the hours and days before this accident occurred. and so i think it s important for the president to force bp to put together a compensation fund. it s important for bp to be told that they won t be making the decisions. it will not be the chief counsel of bp who decides who gets compensated, that an independent evaluator of all the claims will make those decisions and that we will also repeal the death on the high seas act so that families, like mr. jones, can be properly compensated. it s impossible to fully compensate, but to just ensure that bp has to pay for what they did to these families.