texas congressman michael burgess is back with us. all right, congressman, you questioned secretary sebelius at a house hearing this week and it got quite heated. were you satisfied with the answers you got from her? no, absolutely not. i mean, here s the problem and you try to get her to answer a straightforward question and she s very good at not responding in a responsive way. the fundamental unit of a business transaction is where you pull out the money, you put the cash on the dash. you cannot do that with their website in purchasing insurance. i know because i have been trying to purchase my individual insurance since the 1st of october. i m still not through the process yet. and i can just imagine what poor people are going through all over the country who are losing their current insurance and are trying to do the right thing to replace it but the system is so broken and so flawed, no one can take your money. how is that going to work? congressman, one of the
texas congressman michael burgess is back with us. all right, congressman, you questioned secretary sebelius at a house hearing this week and it got quite heated. were you satisfied with the answers you got from her? no, absolutely not. i mean, here s the problem and you try to get her to answer a straightforward question and she s very good at not responding in a responsive way. the fundamental unit of a business transaction is where you pull out the money, you put the cash on the dash. you cannot do that with their website in purchasing insurance. i know because i have been trying to purchase my individual insurance since the 1st of october. i m still not through the process yet. and i can just imagine what poor people are going through all over the country who are losing their current insurance and are trying to do the right thing to replace it but the system is so broken and so flawed, no one can take your money. how is that going to work? congressman, one of the problems is, w
architecture of this site. the fundamental problem that itl take a lot longer to fix than a few hours over the weekend. bill: do you think it is acceptable when jay carney says we will update you on a monthly basis as to the number of people who are signing up? and ultimately who are enrolling in this program. 326 people and rolled? i think it would have been better if they had said that before this rollout we will not give you figures on day one or two or five, he will wait for a month and we will give you the figures like we do unemployment or other economic indicators, but they did not do that. now they re coming out and having troubles. the bigger issue is once they figure out a technical problem, which i am sure they will do, you move up the question of sticker shock when people can get on the website to the then discover purchasing insurance is a lot more expensive than they thought it was going to be?
contraception as well as the fact that there are some people on religious ground object to the very notion of purchasing insurance. they want be able to pay for their medical care as you go. i should add there is also another challenge to the implementation of this very set of provisions in the form of the contraception mandate against hhs regulations. there is interesting interplay between the two challenges. liberty university and challenge to hhs mandate which as you know, jenna, actually does require contraception coverage. jenna: i don t know if i know as much as you. you know a lot about law. you basically walked us through some of the complications of really challenging this health care law which leads to this question, david. do you think this is going to have, this particular case, will have any significant implications for the health care law that goes into effect fully in 2014? by itself, probably not. but it is part of a continuing set of challenges including the one i me
things about purchasing insurance across the state line, you know, allowing people to get on high-risk pools within their own states. my daughter is within one of those plans and is paying $350 a month. this can be done at a state level, and we did not need to spend a trillion dollars of the taxpayers money to do it at a federal level. jenna: great to have your perspective as a politician and doctor, so we look forward to talking to you again. jenna, thank you very much. my pleasure. we, the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america. jon: you re going to be seeing a