Responsibility and liability in this entire issue. Have you met with them and with the Engineering Team that was responsible for this switch . I have not met with the specific Engineering Team that is responsible, but i am speaking to leadership and those individuals are being interviewed as part of the investigation. Now, going back, did you say that this was a defective part when you talked about it earlier . We have learned when we knew when the recall decision was made and we later went back and looked at the chronology, theres points that suggest, and thats why were doing the investigation. Okay. All right. Now, i think that youre going to hear from more than one of us about not having a new part number assigned. Who made that decision . Was that strictly a delphi decision or did that come into the gm supply chain for that decision to be made as to how that part number would be coded . At a general level, General Motors is responsible for General Motors parts numbers but, again, t
insurance isn t an issue. i won t be refused care. i hope to send a followup letter in a few months saying i m free and clear of this disease, but until then, i know i will be fighting just as you have been fighting for my life as a working american citizen. and after her first wellness visit under her new insurance plan, marla maureen from fort collins, colorado, shared with me what it meant to her. after using my new insurance for the first time, you probably heard my sigh of relief from the white house. i felt like a human being again. i felt that i had value. that s what the affordable care act, or obamacare, is all about. making sure that all of us, and all of fellow citizens, can
count on the security of health care when with get sick. that the work and dignity of every person is acknowledged and affirmed. the newly insured, like marla, deserve that dignity. working americans like jeanie deserve that economic security. women, the sick, survivors, they deserve fair treatment in our healthcare system. all of which makes the constant politics around this law so troubling. like every major piece of legislation, from social security to medicare, the law is not perfect. we have had to make adjustments along the way. and the implementation, especially with the web site, has had its share of problems. well know something about that.
the affordable care act started looking up. remember, though, that we cover the overall number but we cover lots of other numbers, and here s where we go the extra mile that some of our colleague does not. not just though total number who enrolled. but how many of them actually paid, and for that matter how many are actually new. in other words, didn t have health care and now they do. so, that means how many are net new enrollees. finally, how many are young. indicate rog kate robbers keeping track rogers keeping track. we re at 7,041,000. this is past the seven million number that they wanted to hit, but of course we don t know how many people have paid. so let s start there kathleen sebelius testified that the government had no idea how many people had paid their first month s premium. and that s how the insurance industry defines enrollment. we re still waiting to fine out and centers for medicare and medicare services and the department of health and human services