your plan you can keep it. the truth is, obama care was a house built upon sand. republicans said it was for years. and now, and now that the sand is melting away from underneath this thing, it s amazing how many times we have to hear, why don t you help fix it? we told you this was flawed. it s beginning to fail and there are still 40 million people without insurance. you know what s funny, we re adding to those roms. let s not will, i mean, first of all, let s not i live in a fantasy land. you talk about republicans warning about obama care. no doubt they ve been unified in opposition. but let s not forget this was a republican plan. it was going back to the republican alternative to hillary care and implemented by mitt romney. the idea behind it was there
rollout. but the people losing their plans, they knew that was going to happen. it was by design. the plan was that they would like the plans on obama care so much that fold forget that the statement to be true that if you like it, you can keep it. do you believe that, john? no. what happened was the law got changed. the devil being in the details, especially when lobbyist start writing let melation, things have a magical way of disappearing. there is a second term people asking whether this obama is katrina. the parallel doesn t really work. but the idea that his credibility is completely shot over what is a screwed up rollout of the signature plan, doesn t really hold water. what matters is how he pifettes the facts on the ground. it s necessary politically, it s
reason the president is asking insurance companies to reinstate consumer s health plans is to calm democrats worried about voter backlash. how do you describe the atmosphere? strongly focused, constructive, but clearly dissatisfied with the current state of the program. reporter: republicans were eager to highlight the president s falling poll numbers especially on the issue of trust. promise after promise from this administration has turned out to be not true, so when it comes to this health care law, the white house doesn t have much credibility. reporter: and some democrats in the toughest re-election battles worry about that, too, especially since the president s plan only asks insurance companies to restore canceled health policies and doesn t require it, like legislation would. we want to make sure it s clear to the american people and to alaskans the 4,000 alaskans that have had cancellation notices that they can keep the plan. reporter: still at the behest of the wh
a bill that would gut obama care. this is a live look from the house floor. the president is moving forward with his plan. he s going to meet with insurance executives later this afternoon. but let s talk about what s happening in the house right now. dana bash is watching it for us from capitol hill. good morning. reporter: good morning. house republican have had this plan in the works for about a week. that s precisely why the white house scrambled to get the president out there yesterday with a plan of his own in order to try to stop democratic defections on this vote. what the republican bill does, according to republicans, is just says if you like your plan you can keep it. but democrats say it does a whole lot more and undercuts obama care. it does violence to the bill in other ways, that idea that it was helping consumers was sort
sort of adverse selection issue there that could drive premiums up. overall health care costs have been rising and they ll continue to rise and this kind of whole mess around the rollout of obama care is just a reminder that these premiums could rise. i m sure at the white house they will be discussing this with insurers if you reinstate the policies, will they come at the old price tag or new price tag. some of the insurance regulators are saying no we can t do this anyway. you heard california we can t do this. not everyone will get their old policy back. to further complicate things, some people who had their policies canceled have already found insurance. 5 million people it pertains to but it s complicated. we re talking about a small percentage of the american population, talking about those people without insurance or had a substandard plan or maybe they had a plan that didn t meet the obama care regulations. we re talking about 12 million people, for the vast majority of