to health in a hand basket. nation, as you know, i, stephen colbert [ laughter ] have never cared for our president. the guy is so arrogant i ll bet he talks about himself in the third person. [ laughter ] we can scare them away by reminding them that last year s web site rollout was a little bump bumpy. remember the original healthcare.gov web site? i think that s where disney got the idea for frozen. now, the new web site works and most young people can get covered for less than a hundred bucks. but how he did a pretty good job there. some good writers behind that one. thanks so much for joining me today. i m poppy harlow in for carol costello. @this hour with berman and michaela starts right now.
health reasons. four years and seven days since president obama signed the affordable care act into law. there are 6 million more people with stories like those americans who have signed up for insurance through the affordable care act exchanges ahead of tomorrow night s deadline, proving we ve come a long way from glitches and snags in a very rocky website rollout. just this month, 70,000 people enrolled every day. and in a final weekend push, supporters held more than 500 grassroots events across the country. now, how did republicans mark this final month of sign-ups? you guessed it, with a 54th vote to dismantle the law, proving that the right strategy for the 2014 midterms will still consist of dismantling or repealing a law that s given millions of americans access to health care. with increasing numbers of voters sharing their stories of coverage, it s time for democrats to go on offense on the affordable care act. it s time to own it.
insurance. jonathan, it strikes me this is exactly the way we talked about or they talked about how they expected the process to work, right. there would be more of a crush towards the end as we got closer to the deadline. that is bearing itself out. we ve now moved away from, you know, the debacle of the initial website rollout. if you take a look, there s a kizer poll that shows americans are pretty sick and tired of this conversation about the affordable care act debate. i think they think there s other issues. i don t disagree with them on that. so is it time to shift the conversation about the affordable care act? i think there is time. look, it s going to be in the news. it s going to be part of politics. all over the country, you know, we have groups like americans for prosperity that are pouring tons of money into these ads about people saying, you know, bad things about obamacare. but here on the other hand, we have these stories like the ones you had at the beginning of y
going forward. is that going to be credible, particularly in some of the red states? arizona went for mitt romney. it is not a conservative it is not state. is that going to fly? here is the problem. they have been using this ad vividly puts out the strategy. they have been using an element of this for several months now. it kind of misses the point. what americans are most frustrated about the website rollout was a problem. their concern is over the fact that they are losing their doctors and their prices have gone up monumentally. they lost their health care. none of the ads or the defense in anyway answers the problems. let s go and take a look at the republican response from the republican congressional campaign committee. their ad response. she blew the whistle on the disasterous health care website. timeout. anne kirk patrick refused to criticize obama s website for weeks. hardly blowing the whistle. and just days ago kirk patrick
strongly about that on so many different levels. will he succeed, will he get the support of the majority of new yorkers? well, he certainly won with a huge majority here. he seems to have the mandate. let s see. i think everyone wants to see whether he will be able to put this into action. whether he will, in fact, be successful. absolutely. well, thank you all for joining us. it really is interesting to sort of take a step back and realize that there hasn t been a democratic mayor in new york city which everybody this of as a bastion of liberalism in two decades. we ll see what happens in the coming years. happy new year to all of you. now we re going to turn nationally to the web site rollout that was a mess. now obamacare faces another major test. new health insurance coverage kicks in today. we ll take a look what s at stake and why some groups get a delay in providing birth control coverage. is just torture on my hair. well you gotta use head & shoulders for men. it s all you