uninsured already. that s already happened. and you ve got some republican governors like governor cakasic of ohio who put politics aside and expanding medicaid to cover millions of people. unfortunately there are others so locked into the politics of this thing they won t lift a finger to help their people and that s leaving millions of americans uninsured unnecessarily. that s a shame. because if they put as much energy into making this law work as they do in attacking the law, americans would be better off. americans would be better off. so, that s the affordable care
created a new marketplace for quality, private insurance plans for the 15% or so of americans who don t have health care and for the 5% of americans who have to buy it on their own and they re not part of a group, which means they don t get as good a deal, and this new marketplace was built on the massachusetts model. it allows these americans who have been locked out, be to get a better deal from insurers. they re pooling their purchasing power as one big group and insurers want their business which means they give them a better deal and they compete for that business. and as a result, insurers in the marketplace, they can t use your medical history to charge you more. if you ve been sick, you finally have the same chance to buy quality affordable health care as everybody else. a lot of people will qualify for new tax credits under this law that will bring down costs even
good? these are things that we have to think about. i think our founding fathers would be horrified if th back and they saw a situation where the government says to individual citizens, you have to do this. you have to use your money and you have to autodo this. this is certainly not, you know, what was intended in a free state. he did to his credit he said we have fundamental differences. you know, he, obviously, believes in big government taking care of problems. there are a lot of americans who actually believe in individualism who believe in responsibility. it doesn t mean those people don t care about anybody else. you know. in fact, you know, america has a history of being the most generous nation in the world. and the richest people here who were criticized by the europeans instead of hoarding money, you know, built the infrastructure that allowed us to develop the most powerful middle class in the world. they built universities, they built foundations, they built the infrastruc
americans get coverage, as some republican governors have shown themselves to be, we would make a lot of progress. i m not asking them to agree with me on everything. but if they d work with us like mitt romney did, working with democrats in massachusetts, or like ted kennedy often did with republicans in congress, including on the prescription drug bill, we d be a lot further along. so the point is, we may have political disagreements, we do, deep ones, i mean some cases we ve got fundamentally different visions about where we should take the country, but the people who elect us deserve, they shouldn t pay the price for those disagreements. mo americans don t see things through a political or ideological lens. this debate has never been about right or left. it s been about the helplessness that a parent feels when she
healthcare.gov will be the easiest way to shop for and buy the easiest plans. you will see them next to each other and compare prices and see what kind of coverage it provides, but look, there s no denying it. right now, the website is too slow, too many people have gotten stuck and i am not happy about it. and neither are a lot of americans who need health care and they re trying to figure out how they can sign up as quickly as possible. so there s no excuse for it. and i take full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed asap. we are working overtime to improve it every day. every day. and more people are successfully buying these new plans on-line