Health care. In the coming weeks, we are going to get it working as smoothly as its supposed to. Weve got people working overtime 24 7 to boost capacity and address these problems every single day. So heres the plan. The white house has enlisted the help of jeffrey zients. The Washington Post describes him as one of the president s goto guys when he wants programs to go smoother. Private contractor Quality Software systems responsible for two components of the website is assigned to lead the fix. Most issues are expected to be repaired by the end of november. Open enrollment has been extended till march 31st. Heres how republicans responded today. Over the months leading up to the october 1st launch, Top Administration officials and lead contractors appeared before this committee. Looked us in the eye and they assured us repeatedly that everything was on track. Except that it wasnt. As we now know all too well. Texas senator ted cruz is again saying the Government Shutdown over obama c
Scare everybody. You have no privacy. That is a system that failed. Look at how bad obama care is. It all appears part of a republican strategy. First it was go pass the law, repeal the law. Delay the law. Now they use the hearings to pick it apart. This thing may not be ready. You have no privacy. We want a delay until we get it right. The beginning of problems. Weeks of glitches, errors, failures. Or Medicare Part d. Any time Washington Pass is a new law some times transition period can be interesting. A lot of republicans on the committee were also on the committee with the Medicare Part d rollout. We are just Getting Started here. President obama is trying to get back on course. We should pass Immigration Reform. The Immigration Reform push. Good for our economy. We should do it this year. Is there a chance, something anything scud happen before the end of this year. That does not actually get d. The shut down was run beautifully. This is washington after all. I just leave this is
And Iowa Republicans are kind of at war with themselves right now. The states republican governor is now talking nationally about how he is leading an effort inside the Republican Party in iowa to try to reclaim the party from the social conservatives who have taken over in iowa and who especially have dominated the states president ial states like Mike Huckabee and santorum are now winning not just straw polls of conservative activists in iowa, but theyre winning the Iowa Republican caucuses. Sort of. Maybe. Since 2012 the tea party guys have is taken over. Its gotten hard to tell who has won recently because that has occurred simultaneously with the caucus collapsing on the republican side. Recently, since 2012, the tea party guys have taken over the official leadership of the state party in iowa. That has meant the Iowa Republicans have not been able to do the stuff you need to do to be a major party like fund raising. Weve taken over the state party, fund raising has fallen by doub
It has more memory. Not enough memory that you just billed one two months ago, but more. Ipad is the most fastest, vivid way to not log onto the obama care website yet. Okay. Good morning, its wednesday, october 23rd. Welcome to morning joe. I suggest he stays right there on the shot of new york city. What a beautiful city. That is a great shocht robert, do you have your jacket on . I dont want to know. Im going to look away. Bill was wearing bermuda shorts not even 30 seconds. Its like snl. Just go back stage. A little different. Next set. Im just glad its okay. With us on set, we have watchingor catty kay looking fabulous. Fully dressed. Former white house dressed for a while. Former White House Press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs t. Conversation goes off the rails already. Are you ready for the news . Please, god, dont touk u talk about the red sox. Let me do this just once. You mean the newspaper. You should see somebody do the montage of you interrupting me. Its hil
These glitches, people are signing up. They are registering. Were interested in providing this very valuable commodity to americans who so clearly want to buy Affordable Health insurance. To be clear many staterun exchanges are doing fine. So far california has processed 95,000 applications. In new york over 150,000 people have signed up. Washington state enrolled 35,000 americans and expansion of med kate cade, which will provide health care to millions of poor and uninsured americans continues, even in red states like kentucky and swing states like ohio. A reminder for progress i was who may be in a panic watching the glitchy, which is to say dreadful rollout. Obama cares problems dont discredit liberalism. Believe it or not, the existence of great websites is sort of incidental to the operation of a social interest system. Joining me howard fineman, anchor of bbc world news America Katty Kay and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and nbc news analyst former pennsylvania gov