Numbers are woefully short and far below their lowered expectations. 106,000 have enrolled in Health Care Plans in the state and federal exchanges through the first month of obamacare. One fifth of what the officials had projected before the launch of Health Care Dog of and the opening of exchanges accounted for only 27,000 of successful in moments, 80,000 of them originated in staterun insurance exchanges and secretary Kathleen Sibelius revealed below numbers and then open herself and the administration up to ridicule consistent with what ssachusetts, a state of only 6. 5 million residents, experienced an initial rollout of romney care. Not revealing the number of people that paid for the plan and she did not explain why the Obama Administration will withhold those numbers from the public until december 15. The numbers are consistent with the numbers that massachusetts reported and that we feel are the most accurate by the 15th of december and we will be able to tell you how many peop
Numbers are woefully short and far below their lowered expectations. 106,000 have eolled in Health Care Plans in the state and federal exchanges through the first month obamacare. One fifth of what the officials had projected before the launch of Health Care Dog of and the opening of exchanges accnted for only 27,000 of successful in moments, 80,000 of them originated in staterun insurance exchanges and secretary Kathleen Sibelius revealed below numbers and then open herself and the administration up to ridicule consistent with what maschuses, a state of only 6. 5 million residents, experienced an initial rollout of romney care. Not revealing the number of people that paid for the plan and she did not explain why the Obama Administration will withhold those numbers from the public until december 15. The numbers are consistent with the numbers that massachusetts reported and that we feel are the most accurate by the 15th of december and we will be able to tell you how many people have p
Marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. Throughout the weekend we bring you a few interviews and tours from the tvs recent visit to andy reid, pa. At 4 45 eastern, a look at the smartest kids in the world with amanda ripley. At 11 00 p. M. Dumbing down accords how politics keep the smartest judges off the bench tomorrow at 5 00 eastern, we bring you a collection of programs about the Federal Reserve chairman and at 6 45 from the recent southern festival of books linda barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. Visit booktv. Org for this weekends television schedule. Dr. James swanson is latest book is a history of the kennedy assassination for young adults is next on booktv. I am here to welcome you to this session of the southern festival of books and introduce you to our author for this evenings session. As you know our writer for this session is James Swanson who is the Edgar Award Winning author of the New York Times bestseller ma
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
At least in my own experience, that you cannot rely on the bureaucracys to do this kind of work. I mean, theyre good people, theyre dedicated but very frankly theyre not the ones that really have the capabilities to in fact get this done. So, i would drive this out of the white house, i would have an ongoing task force, id have one person in charge of it and i would meet every day to make sure that theyre getting this straight. Because i think the president s trust on this program is really going to be dependent on his ability to fix it and they have said they want to fix it by the end of november. But i think thats going to be tough. These are complicated processes and youve got to make sure very sure that you are in fact fixing it. Schieffer you think they should just shut the whole thing down and start over is that what is going to have to be done . I think they ought to be able to try and fix the systems. I mean frankly they have done it before it started, they should have gotten i