used a debit card watch your checking account. you know it can be hard because sometimes you might not know exactly what s showing up. you can ask a question. you can call the bank and make sureful something isn t clear what you bought because we re shopping so much we might forget what we bought. that s the best safeguard, just being very careful. going forward, i personal liam thinking twice about using my certainly i m not using my debit card at a gas station anymore. those are wide open so they can put devices on them and read all the numbers. atm machines too. maybe cash is the best way to go. jayne o donnell, thanks so much. president obama is in hawaii right now for the holidays. before leaving washington he held his final news conference of the year. he addressed several key issues including the difficult roll out of the obamacare website. despite all the problems despite the website problems despite the messaging problems, despite all that, it s working.
better consumer protections, the ability to keep their kids on their insurance plan until they re 26. $1,000 or $500 discounts on prescription drugs for seniors on medicare. so 85% of the population, whether they know it or not over the last three years, have benefitted from a whole set of the provisions of the lieu. by the way, if it were to be repealed, you would be taking away all of those benefits from folks who already are enjoying them. you had this subportion of the population, 15%, who either don t have health insurance or are buying it on the individual market. that s still millions of people. and what we re doing is creating a marketplace where they can buy insurance and we can provide them with tax credits to help them afford it. the basic structure of that law is working. despite all the problems. despite the website problems,
country and him. i firmly believe that 2014 can be a break-through year for porter: still he acknowledged health care is dogging him and he hinted at the possibility of changes to his team or more tweaks to the law. there are a whole bunch of thinks that things that we ve been taking a look at and i m going to be making appropriate adjustments once we get through this year and we ve gotten through the initial surge of people who have been signing up. reporter: in what may be a telling metaphor. health care.gov was down shortly before the speech. he claims 2 million people have now signed up for private insurance and medicaid. the basic structure of the law is working, despite all of the problems and the website problems, despite the messaging problems, despite all of that, it is working. reporter: except even though more positive numbers still put the administration shind their other behind their original
martha: i m sure they would disagree with you. they look at it and say the website is starting to turn around. once people get to know what s in the healthcare bill they will like it. let s take a look at a couple more of these numbers. i want to get your thoughts on that. who do you trust to do a better job with the economy? 45% say the gop and congress. 41% say president obama. that will have democrats very nervous. there was a poll question asked about whether the website problems are an under case of broader problems with obamacare and 55% suggested their indication of bigger problems with obamacare. you have of 0% responding saying they want the individual mandate
choices. it requires universal coverage. and that s the dilemma for many congressional republicans now. can they transition to respecting the law of the land, even as they argue for change at the ballot box? it s the difference between offering policy criticism and offering cover to people who don t want to follow the law. that criticism hasn t helped republicans much, because bad press about obama care has a half life of about ten days. so the website problems were front painful news for a while. but now the site is working better. i looked. the new york times put thatten a-21 today and like clockwork when this happens, republicans will switch to another thing to criticize. first it was the website. didn t work. consumer report have you ever noticed consumer report to recommend you not to go to a website? they recommended americans not to go to the website, because the fear of having fraud. what we re seeing here is a pattern of broken promises from the administration. or a