start of the affordable care act, there are concerns that a number of enrollees still haven t gotten their insurance cards or prescription drug cards. some insurers are giving people until the end of the month to pay the first premiums. some drug stores are using enrollment forms as proof of coverage. the senator says it s in the billions of dollars being spent. we ve asked specific questions of the department about its spending, about how it s paying for things, where the money is coming from, what the success has been, what the testing of the website has been, how things are changing and the answers that i ve received took seven weeks to get any answer but it s like putting a check in the box without providing any real information. senator moran complains the department of health and human services is basically making its own spending decisions on
obamacare, though administration officials fear republicans in congress would simply defund the affordable care act if they were given that authority and senator moran doesn t believe that obamacare can be fixed. jon: thank you. the botched obamacare rollout is taking a stole on the president, damaging his credibility and sinking his approval numbers. with his second term agenda seemingly stalled, is there a plan for turning things around? gerald writes in the wall street journal today, president barack obama exits 2013 in the weakest political position of his presidency and now faces a basic strategic choice. does does he try to recover by working with republicans or confronting them heading into next year s elections? mark, what do you think about the premise there? do you believe that this is the weak point for president obama