medications to keep her alive she had uncontrolled seizures $1,000 a month. we couldn t shift her to another insurance policy because she had a pre-existing condition. right. and i thought i had great insurance, and it was great as long as we were all healthy. so, i m glad you raise that, because it seems to me when we re talking about, there s the first wave of coverage, which is about the website, and i think basically, the website was not working, and that was the problem there. the second wave of coverage is deeper and it s more about this, the cancellation letters. and to me it strikes me, there s two issues here. there s the issue on the merits, which is, there are changes happening to this market that was a very broken market for some of the reasons you re saying, testifying to personally, right? very broken market. i also participated in this very broken market at times in my life. those changes on the policy merits are different than the other critique you re hearing
$1,000 a month. we couldn t shift her to another insurance policy because she had a pre-existing condition. right. and i thought i had great insurance, and it was great as long as we were all healthy. so, i m glad you raise that, because it seems to me when we re talking about, there s the first wave of coverage, which is about the website, and i think basically, the website was not working, and that was the problem there. the second wave of coverage is deeper and it s more about this, the cancellation letters. and to me it strikes me, there s two issues here. there s the issue on the merits, which is, there are changes happening to this market that was a very broken market for some of the reasons you re saying, testifying to personally, right? very broken market. i also participated in this very broken market at times in my life. those changes on the policy merits are different than the other critique you re hearing from conservatives, and like you hear from mitt romney this wee
we couldn t shift her to another insurance policy because she had a pre-existing condition. right. and i thought i had great insurance, and it was great as long as we were all healthy. so, i m glad you raise that, because it seems to me when we re talking about, there s the first wave of coverage, which is about the website, and i think basically, the website was not working, and that was the problem there. the second wave of coverage is deeper and it s more about this, the cancellation letters. and to me it strikes me, there s two issues here. there s the issue on the merits, which is, there are changes happening to this market that was a very broken market for some of the reasons you re saying, testifying to personally, right? very broken market. i also participated in this very broken market at times in my life. those changes on the policy merits are different than the other critique you re hearing from conservatives, and like you hear from mitt romney this weekend, that it s
i think in the first if you will, medical device tax. and then on the, in some other way after that, some negotiations over how to delay or replace sequestration for a couple of years. there is nothing in the world more perfect than the narrative arc of the ending on the conclusion of a medical device repeal. not what liberals wants, not what the white house wants, not what the american people are clambering for. the only thing we re saying is that it is a farley nonimagining concession. on the other hand, policy merits is not the worst thing. it s 2. million a year. i think as you think, there s not a pressing reason to be reducing the debt dramatically right now. they re going to off set it and the question is, if they choose an off set that is better or
but it made sense politically why they would do it. but the court basically gave them an out essentially for them to go back and double down does not make any sense to me when they had an out. and you know, particularly just ironically this is probably not the week that you want to make your friends on the left angry because you re going to need some people because you ve got three other scandals, actual scandals that you need to be dealing with. jonathan, emily basel wrote in slate last month about this she said every time a president sets himself against solid science, he naks easier for the next administration to do the same. crying wolf about child safety on this is especially bad in the realm of teen sex, where adult fears can block all kinds of sensible education and birth control efforts. what do you make of that? i think she s right. it s wrong on the policy merits, it seems wrong politically. i think the people that are worried about offending are not part of their natur