sebelius, she was giving a speech and passionately making the case for the many people being helped by this health care reform law when she all of a sudden said, unfortunately, we re missing a page here. that might be symbolic of the early months of this rollout with kathleen sebelius becoming a symbol of. i think what the event in the rose garden was was a chance by the president to try and turn the page on those miscues and say, look, because of the seven million plus sign-ups for the first enrollment period, this is now a success. listen to the president. she s got bumps, i ve got bumps, bruises. yes, we lost the first quarter of open enrollment period with the problems with healthcare.gov, and they were problems. but under kathleen s leadership, her team at hhs turned the corner, got it fixed, got the job done, and the final score
he said the national attention was a double-edge sword. the spotlight can turn to a searchlight real quick. he mentioned a number of miscues but then focused on the george washington bridge lane reassignment fiasco. he said words to the effect of, this is a mess and now i have to clean it up. he demanded to know from each of them in that room whether they had any prior knowledge or involvement in the lane realignment. he said he was going to hold a press conference later that day to set the record straight. he told them to come forward with the truth that morning to go tell o dowd or charles mckenna, the confessionals are open, he said. but kelly did not come forward. there is only one footnote in that entire account, footnote 81. and since chris christie is quoted here, you assume footnote 81 is going to refer you to the exact entries in the transcript of the chris christie interview where he said these things. here is what footnote 81 is. it s an e-mail telling the staff that there w
the spotlight can turn to a searchlight real quick. he mentioned a number of miscues but then focused on the george washington bridge lane reassignment fiasco. he said words to the effect of, this is a mess and now i have to clean it up. he demanded to know from each of them in that room whether they had any prior knowledge or involvement in the lane realignment. he said he was going to hold a press conference later that day to set the record straight. he told them to come forward with the truth that morning to go tell o dowd or charles mckenna, the confessionals are open, he said. but kelly did not come forward. there is only one footnote in that entire account, footnote 81. and since chris christie is quoted here, you assume footnote 81 is going to refer you to the exact entries in the transcript of the chris christie interview where he said these things. here is what footnote 81 is.
would be able to be insured and not use the emergency room as the primary care. and does the administration know how many people have insurance or do they not know either? they claim they don t know and there is so many miscues about the questions that are from the people signing up. one is private insurance and the other is medicaid. they lowered the bar so low as to who can apply to get medicaid 6 million people joined up. if you are above the middle-class like rand paul. if you have a choice, one thing we do know is that 6.28 million americans lost and 3.3 americans gained insurance policys through obama care and so that is a loss of 3 million. david asbin thank you for
for the president because all of these sort of miscues on other issues as well are sort of piling up and really pulling down his poll ratings at a time when he really needs to have some clout on capitol hill. jim, what do you think of the critical markers going forward? do you see this 7 million, you know, accessing that many people by march. do you think it s likely? i mean, i think it s possible, but i do think, all due respect, we re missing the forest for the trees. even if the website problems are ironed out and you re able to hit a key stroke here and there and get where you re supposed to, we re ultimately going to find out that the ultimate irony of obama care was that it was a series of dramatic compromises to on one hand attempt to increase access but at the same time to basically keep in place the craziness, the costliness of the private marketplace of health care that drives us all nuts. you could go to two different