And for those of us who have been working on expanding Health Care Access and awareness for year, we know weve reached an incredibly important milestone. Thanks to the exceptional work of the people in this room, more than 14 million americans and counting have received Health Coverage through the marketplace,head cade, and chip. Medicaid, etplace, and chip. Give yourselves a round of applause. Despite an unexpectly rocky start, you all made history by powering through some negative news cycles and keeping your eye on the ball. You stayed focused on educating consumers because they were hungry for the facts about how the law could benefit them and their familiesful you connected consumers with free, inperson help from persons in their communities. You made sure they knew about the opportunities for Financial Assistance, which finally made Health Insurance a reality for millions who couldnt afford it in the past and you stood ready to handle the surge in signups as the deadline approach
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Span, coveragec at 9 00 eastern of the results beginning at 9 00 eastern with your tweets and comments and phone calls and the results from virginia and new jersey as well. Up until then, we will bring you an election preview from national review. They spoke about it today and looked at the house and senate races from 2014. They begin discussions with the governors races in new jersey and virginia. Welcome to the National Reviews preview of the 2014 election and the discussion of the 2013 elections in virginia and new jersey. I am bob costa. We are here with a great panel to talk about the outlook of national politics. I am glad and appreciative to have a great panel with us today. Some of the top analysts in the country, to go over the key races and themes that will be animating our discussions in the coming months. Starting from the left, we have john fund. He is a Senior Editor at the american spectator. He was known for working for decades at the wall street journal. Great to have
Its off the agenda. Look at the Government Shutdown as an example of how quickly that is just in the rearview mirror. O how will obamacare figure in 2014 . None of us have any idea. Right now its a technical problem, if they fix the website and people are signed up by january, it may not be an issue. No, its a structural problem. Let me finish. We have statewide elections, in virginia, theyre deciding the fate of obamacare in virginia. Medicaid expansion. Thats the big state issue. So if you think of obamacares impact in virginia, its the proobamacare argument is carrying the day. In new jersey, i dont remember chris isaak tee talking about Obama Chris Christie talking about obamacare much. The two big statewide elections or ba ma cair has either been not an issue or the proobamacare side has won. How it plays out next year, i have no idea. Depends on how well they get the exchange fixed. One other point. The exchanges, the people affected by obamacare, the people who are experiencing
This comes as nsa leaker Edward Snowden says he is willing to assist brazil in its investigations of u. S. Spying in exchange for asylum, in an open letter to a brazilian newspaper, he wrote, i have expressed my willingness to assist wherever appropriate and lawful but unfortunately, the United States government has worked very hard to limit my ability to was no doubt one of the top topics of discussion today for the pl can vallee in the west wing today, in the roosevelt room, meeting with the president that was at the top of their agenda. We saw them briefly, they afforded a photo of p then they got down to brass tacks. They talked about is going to take over the management of healthcare. Gov that has been run. The former her going to lead that effort now heading to the new year. When will the white house release the information from that review of the until next year. Mike, appreciate it. And travel to the country, at least 25 people have been killed in fighting between army factions