the new enrollees in the health care exchanges, but getting that many people to sign up, well, i don t think that s so easy. right now the young people are laughing at obama care. yeah, laughing that doesn t help. laughing at the amateur.com web site the federal government put together. web site many of them may think they could create themselves and actually have it work. that s not all. many young are snickering at saturday night live spoof at h.h.s. secretary sebelius healthcare.gov. if any young person happened to miss the parody of sebelius. he or she can log and watch it right now again and again and again. the video has gone viral. you know who fuels that. young people. that proves they are watching that and a laughing. of course, if young people stop laughing we need them to get serious and do obama care math. they are going to figure out out the obvious it is cheaper for the young to pay the irs mandate penalty than to buy healthcare insurance. now, i m not trying to be a we
the new enrollees in the health care exchanges, but getting that many people to sign up, well, i don t think that s so easy. right now the young people are laughing at obama care. yeah, laughing that doesn t help. laughing at the amateur.com web site the federal government put together. web site many of them may think they could create themselves and actually have it work. that s not all. many young are snickering at saturday night live spoof at h.h.s. secretary sebelius healthcare.gov. if any young person happened to miss the parody of sebelius. he or she can log and watch it right now again and again and again. the video has gone viral. you know who fuels that. young people. that proves they are watching that and a laughing. of course, if young people stop laughing we need them to get serious and do obama care math. they are going to figure out out the obvious it is cheaper for the young to pay the irs mandate penalty than to buy healthcare insurance. now, i m not trying to be a
benjy, politico has a big headline up right now. democrats united front cracks. comparing democratic unity to a fad that s gone the way of the macarena. there s a handful of democratic senators now in favor of delaying the mandate penalty or extending the open enrollment deadline, but many of these critical senators, many of them, if not all, are up for re-election in red states. are we looking at just good politics here or are some of these red state dems, are they legitimately concerned and legitimately have gripes? this is a case where good politics and good policy kind of intersect because it s mostly, as you said, these red state democrats or democrats who face competitive re-elections, but it s not entirely them. for example, dianne feinstein of california is calling for an extension of the open enrollment. she is the farthest thing from an endangered red state democrat. because they know it s just simple reality. if these sites and other means
that the younger folks won t apply. i wanted to ask you, what is wrong with the solution proposed by senator jean sha heene, that we extend the open enrollment period one month, two months so those young people have a chance more to enroll once it is working properly. let s look at the plan it was supposed to solve. the reason we have the open enrollment people so people won t stay out of the market and buy insurance when they get sick. yes, you could have a car wreck, but if you get cancer or so forth, it might make financial sense to buy it after you get sick. the other issue with the mandate under the law says you have to have insurance for more than nine months out of the year in order to escape the mandate penalty and open enrollment is fine for mem who managed to get
insurance and when it comes around to 2015 when they have to or end of 2014 when they have to enroll for 2015, do they go back and decide to buy it again or say i m going to pay the mandate penalty, not be in this insurance pool. then you end with the death spiral that people are worried about. i understand that media and politics are both about saying something is amazing or horrible. i want to put the ball game into a tiny bit of context. 40% of the uninsured shall california, texas, new york and florida. what happens in those states will define most of what happens here. but ultimately i go back to one of the most profound things that ari ever said on television, he said, i don t know and people never on television say i don t know. but it was an unnoble question. and we re in the first inning of this ball game and we can t possibly draw any conclusion.