they go along to account for the chaos and mess which they themselves have created. as you pointed out they extended deadline. essentially they are telling insurance companies, get out there and cover people who may or may not have valid coverage. one more quick point, bill. they re strongly encouraging insurers to treat out of network doctors as if they re in network. bill: my gosh. this is like an amoeba, stuart. it keeps on bouncing around and moving around. takes a different ship every day. what will the companies do? can they say no to this request? very difficult to say no to a government which strongly insist that is you do this. the insurance companies are in a real pickle here. they know that come early january, awful lot of people will think they have got coverage but they don t have coverage. the administration wants to make sure theyly do have coverage. so it is forcing insurance companies to pay up. whether they can legally do that or not, i don t know. i m not a lawyer
huge risk for them and the taxpayer, and this ain t no movie. what s happening right now in is the president going on a full frontal person r. assault to say we have turn this thing around, it s getting better in what do you say? the president wants to make clear it s more than a web site, and i would say he s right. it s more than a web site. what a lot of people are realizing is that the premiums they re facing and the deductibles they re facing are so high that this insurance doesn t make sense for them. you know, chris, i always argued, people getting caught up in the web site and i found it to be a technical disaster but that s not the problem. opposite you log on and good once you log on and go through the one size fits all you say, this doesn t cut it for me eye. not disputing the number of americans who are for whom this might be a good deal even though we re seeing very few take advantage of that for a variety of reasons about for millions more who conclude it s not an
lost policies as a result of this law, they thought, the administration thought they had a ready made market because they made a conscious decision to terminate the insurance policies of millions of american. they can t build the internet site and the desperate customers can t get through the door to buy obama care. it is a real pickle. you can t just play five on five. the pressure is there from the republicans and if the pressure comes from democrats, what comes of that? the republicans have to have a plan of some kind. the republicans think that obama care is going to be bad. it is shaping up to be bad and the millions of americans who lost coverage would tend to
he has spent eight million dollars. so he s in a real pickle here. yeah. quickly, super pac released an ad. how big of a liability is that for the democrats do you think in the midterms? i think that remains to be seen. we re going to see what happens over the next five to six months. i know they will and find out they are getting good deals and affordable prices as they are in kentucky right now. i think the affect will be minimal. if we don t get the federal exchange problems corrected, it could be a serious problem. in kentucky we have a successful rollout. almost 40,000 people now enrolled in health care. 300,000 have started the
and russia about the morality or efficacy or legitimacy of our foreign policy is bizarre but that is a system that liberals have been championing for a very, very long time including barack obama and the double-standards here are, you know, are just so daunting for the president, given what he had said about, you know, foreign policy when he was a candidate. that he is now going back on all of it and he is in a real pickle. alisyn: well, that is exactly right. so why would the president act unilaterally? just politically speaking, politically speaking, given his position in the past and given what he stands for, he says, why not then, you know, at least make the effort and go through the security council, even though everyone knows that russia and china wouldn t be on board? doesn t politically speaking he have to do that? i don t think he has to because liberals and antiwar movement will not be as tough on barack obama as they were on george w. bush. look, behind every double-standa