but they are really low, and the president, he s also sinking, but his disapproval is about 49-50% which is pretty high for him. his total job approval s about 43, 44, 45%. the danger for the president here, jon, is that he has much more to lose. because the congress is starting from such a low point, really on both sides they don t have much to lose in this government shutdown. the president does. and that s why i think, you know, when republicans actually show some backbone, then you start to get a change in the media narrative, you get a change in the news cycle, and you actually get the president and the democrats now starting to move. it may be imperceptible, but they re starting to move. jon: and curious, in this new fox poll the president gets his best ratings on health care, 45% approve of the job he s doing on health care, 51% disapprove, and those are his best ratings. and those are his best numbers, exactly. they yoosed to be on foreign policy, but after the syrian debacle
doughnut hole? announcer? how does the doughnut hole work? is that what you re asking? that s what i m asking. let me put it in graphic terms. you know your friend charlie smith? right. yes. working out well. charlie smith takes three medications it will cost him about $1,200 in the coming year, charlie is switching to a medicare prescription drug plan that has a low premium and offers a deductible and no drug coverage in the doughnut hole. charlie will pay a deductible of $310 on his prescription medicine and then he will pay 25% of the remaining $8930 which equals $223. his total estimated out of pocket expenses annually $310 plus $223 equals $533 plus the premiums. then when you hit the coverage, you have to pay everything and then when you get to coverage limit, you re writing the check and all of a sudden, the answer will come in,
the last eight years we ve had under obama for sure. that we concur on. i think we need someone with proven executive leadership to make that taste to the american people. i totally agree. i worry about the future of this country for our kids and grand kids and america not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of vladimir putin. that exchange last night absolutely startled me. now in the course of one week, you compared marco rubio to barack obama which is probably like the greatest insult any republican could make about another and then the french workweek and maybe you should resign. i didn t expect that. where is all this coming from? i just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. what we have in washington is total gridlock. look, marco is a gifted politician. he needs to be able to do his job. he s going to be a great candidate for sure. he s a united states senator. he ought to show up.
the last eight years we ve had under obama for sure. that we concur on. i think we need someone with proven executive leadership to make that taste to the american people. i totally agree. i worry about the future of this country for our kids and grand kids and america not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of vladimir putin. that exchange last night absolutely startled me. now in the course of one week, you compared marco rubio to barack obama which is probably like the greatest insult any republican could make about another and then the french workweek and maybe you should resign. i didn t expect that. where is all this coming from? i just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. what we have in washington is total gridlock. look, marco is a gifted politician. he needs to be able to do his job. he s going to be a great candidate for sure. he s a united states senator. he ought to show up. we have huge national security