Underwritten or excluded whatever medical condition they had in the first place. So these were typically oneyear contracts. If they use the plan because they got sick nor a car descent or a victim of Domestic Violence, sometimes they would be thrown off the plans or rates would go up . Yes. I think thats important to note, madam secretary. And im intrigued as well that my understanding is that last month hhs conducted an analysis that found that nearly six out of tun uninhere issed americans will pay 100 a month. Theyll have a plan if that is their choice. And that number would be even ier, would be better if more states chose the option of using federal funds to expand medicaid to cover the low income population . Thats just a marketplace snapshot. Those are people that will be in the marketplace. Madam secretary, i dont think i heard anyone from the other side of the aisle today, my republican colleagues, ask you how can Congress Work with you and support you in fixing this website a
Scenes, and helping them out policywise. What does the house want to do ultimately, because they separated the farm bill from the food stamp bill, and tackle them separately. The houseot know what is going to do, because we have a very factionalized house of representatives. They say keep the food stamps and the farm bill separate raid separate. A lot of the institutions on capitol hill see themselves as them again the world. Against the world. Trying tosswoman is be a good soldier, and the democrats are trying to get a bill through, but they know that the snap program is very important. If they had for different figured out how to bridge these gaps, we would have progress. The house and Senate Conferees are trying to negotiate some sort of deal on what they call on the ground common ground. Does the farm bill get thrown in that . Could be part of the budget agreement, and that is a good and bad thing for the senate committee. It is good because it is part of the bill, but then they lo
They dont have employerprovided coverage, cant stay on their parents plan, or otherwise ineligible in some other way. But that means youre likely to hit less than onequarter of this october estimate of 194,620. How many people did you estimate would enroll between november 15th and december 15th, which were two weeks off from that period . I dont have that in front of me. Ill be happy to get you that information. If you could get that to the committee, id certainly appreciate that. Given the backend systems arent working and insurers have resorted to manually enrolling people one by one, i just think the system doesnt, literally, have the Human Resource capacity to manually enroll the numbers that are being projected here. I assume that many people are holding off, are the young and healthy. So the risk pools in these exchanges are not going to align with the projections. So i think not only are we going to miss the 7 million enrollee targeted, it appears were going to miss the demogra
Diagnosis, you are 60 more likely to live five years and beyond if you have insurance than if you dont. I think thats a pretty powerful statement for why we need Affordable Health care for all of our citizens. Well, thank you. The republicans have not been able to defund or repeal it, but they have denied requested funding, theyve raised arguments about death panels and socialized medicine, and theyve worked to intimidate groups that could help the implementation effort. Theres a spreading of misinformation about the cost of coverage. We hear some of that today, and to actively dissuade the uninsured from seeking coverage. So madam secretary, how are these tactics impacted your ability to implement the Affordable Care act . Well, i dont think theres any question that a lot of people need a lot of information. I think its one of the reasons we had millions visit the site, try to visit the site. Its why i am so frustrated and disappointed that the site is not fully functional and why im
And no protection at all, that was astonishing to me. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. United healthcare online at uhc. Com. The william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff members of Congress Took fresh aim at the new Health Care Law today. The house ways and Means Committee called in the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services, who accepted responsibility for some of the problems with the Health Care Web site. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. To the millions of