fully obama care? well, i continue to support the affordable care act because i think that its goal is an important and laudable goal. to make sure that americans can have health air coverage. if you re a mother with a sick two monday old baby and you don t have health insurance, you re going to take your baby to an emergency room. and you re going to sit there and you should sit there billion until you get your baby covered. i want americans to have health care. obviously, we all understand that there are been problems with the rollout. it s up to the president, his administration, up to state leaders to make this work. isn t there some anchor, some consternation? i mean, nobody expected the rollout to be this bad. well, i m sure that the president s and his administration are frustrated. i mean you. you re doing the work on the ground. i mean from you.
give us the authority in california. but in the meantime, rates are filed and set for 2014. and they shouldn t raise. if you could, i would like for you to look at the bigger picture. with all that s going on and all of the problems surrounding obama care, will this program ever really work? i think it will work. obviously the rollout has had many problems. but whenever you undertake a reform this massive, there are going to be challenges. we auls aul wish it had happened better. in california we re pleased with the rollout. and other states have done well too. so, i m confident that ultimately it will be successful. remember, what this is all about is trying to provide americans with health insurance. tens of millions of americans who don t have health insurance. and whose cost when they do get care gets shifted to the rest of us. it s estimated in california we
extraordinary mea culpa. he admitted he fullbled and didn t know the rollout would be this bad. americans are forgiving but you ve got to wonder if they ll forgive the president any time soon. will they, ana? well look, i think what you saw there was an administration that s been shaken, that s been caught off guard, that s been caught flat footed with a very bad rollout and also i think it s been shaken by particularly the recent numbers showing the lack of trustworthiness and that they ve lost the trust of the american people. that s something that shakes any politician, but tuck larry a president because it affects his ability to do anything, to lead, to get legacy items passed. i think that s what you saw yesterday from the president, him trying to address those issues and acknowledge that that s going on, showing a little humility, and accepting that there have been mistakes made. it s taken a while for them to get there. yes, and on the note that ana
and just trudging on for, like if nothing was happening for almost 40 days before anybody started issuing any apologies. they just tried to cover it up, play shell games. we now have to see a very important date frankly is november 30th date. if by november 30th these glitches that donna calls it, i call it debacle of a rollout, are not fixed, it s going to be a very difficult moment for the white house, because a lot is riding on them getting this fixed by november 30th. you know, i m not worried about november 30th. i m worried about all of those americans who are sick, who are trying to get their health care they desperately need. 40 million, 50 million americans in one of the world s richest countries without access to health care so that they can live productive lives. that s what we should be or worried about, worried about those states not giving poor people an opportunity to get medicaid. that s what we should be worried about. we re worried about somebody s poll numbers, whe
and here in wisconsin i did not seek a delay in the implementation of obama care. what i sought was a decision by a republican governor not to force people onto obama care and have them lose their medicaid because of the implication problems. and yesterday they agreed that that was the proper course to take. you want to expand medicaid to get more people enrolled. the poorest people among us, right? mayor, do you think that the voters will take what the president said to heart, take his apology to heart, will it matter to them? well, obviously the president understands that because of this flawed rollout, that he s got some work to do. and his administration has some work to do. and i think that they are committed. and i think we all have to make sure we don t lose sight of that the goal here is to make sure that americans have health coverage. to me, that s still a good goal