failure, from the endless website problems, doctor shortages, millions of cancelled health care plans all over the country. i think it is safe to say that obamacare has brought the american health care system to a tipping point. after all the votes have been added, health care reform becomes law in america. it is healthcare.gov, the website is designed to be pretty consumer friendly. i keep getting this error page, it won t let me progress past verifying personal information. they can t get on either. the health insurance is good. the prices are good. i have been as clear as i could be under the reform i have proposed. if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. centers for medicaid and medicare services estimated obamacare would collectively reduce the number of people-sponsored health care coverage by 14 million. people who like their policies are losing them and
snow we might see in the next 24 hours. make it stop. another fox news alert for you. there are new questions about whether it was possible president obama did not know about the problems before the launch? there is documents that showed health and human service kathleen sebelius had meetings with the president 18 times and in many of those meetings, the health care law was on the agenda. stephen diamond is the washington times and political editor. hello. they met 18 times and kathleen sebelius said they never talked about the obama website problems, what does that tell us? i can t wait for the tell off memiors after the administration is over and we ll find out who was saying what, when. it was the opportunity for
are the employers will hire new people add we saw after the recession, people were laid employees off and they decided they could be more efficient without the employees. this is no way to know. the timing for the white house is pretty bad. they just get to the point where people were not talking about the website problems and enrollment numbers were up and now they have a new problem. i want to pick up on something else there was an interesting report that the administration is considering the idea of extending, remember back in october when millions of people lost their individual health insurance policies putting the lie to the president s comment, if you like your policy, you can keep your policy. and the president says okay can you keep it for another year and now there is a story the president is considering to extend that for three more years. what i don t understand, the whole point was supposed to be
obamacare and a third didn t sign up because they were faced with those technical difficulties. i wanted to know if you had any take a on how the insurance companies are how they are reacting as some of them were hoping to get new customers. a great point, arthel, and a big problem with the program is insurance companies were they came along with the idea of doing this. they went along with obamacare under the understanding as you point out that a they would get a lot more new customers. with the website problems that are being fixed as well as with the with a lot of the unintended consequences of mandating health care for these people is the fact that are you getting some of the least profitable people signing up, meaning the older and the sicker people who need insurance and they are not getting the most profitable
great day, everybody, i m jenna lee. the white house extended another obama care deadline. this one concerns folks with preexisting conditions. wendell goler live at the white house with who are on this. wendell, can you explain more about this latest accommodation? reporter: the preexisting condition insurance plan was supposed to be a bridge for people s medical conditions that kept them from getting insurance or getting it affordably before the insurance companies had to cover everybody starting a couple weeks ago. there are still less than 30,000 people on the plan. at one point it was 135,000 people. a spokeswoman said hhs decided to extend it through march, quote, to insure that pcip enrollees do not experience a lapse in coverage because many are currently receiving regular treatments for such diseases as cancer, diabetes and hard disease. hhs already extended the plan through january because of the website problems and republicans say the latest extension is another sign that