Or 500 discount on Prescription Drugs for seniors on medicare. 85 of the population, whether they know it or not, over the last three years have benefited from a whole set of the provisions of the law. Either way, if it were to be you prove the old to be repealed, you would be taking away all those benefits from folks who already are enjoying them. Thehave this sub portion of population, 15 , who either do not have Health Insurance or are buying it on the individual market. That is still millions of people. What we are doing is creating a marketplace where they can buy insurance and we can provide them tax credits to help them afford it. The basic structure of that law is working, despite all the problems, despite the website problems, the messaging problems despite all that, it is working. Again, you do not have to take my word for it. We have got a couple Million People who are going to have Health Insurance just in the first three months, the spite the fact that the first month and
You know, its been analyzed both ways, al, and i hope what it is, is a first step toward further collaboration, because our countrys in trouble. You know, we have a fiscal crisis looming. We still have an economy thats too weak, and we need to Work Together to solve these problems. So i like to view it as a very small step, a baby step in the right direction. It did reduce the deficit a little bit. T did it without raising taxes. It kept us from going into a Government Shutdown in january, but also in september of next year. And finally, it put the United States congress back on track to do appropriations bills. Let me get to some of the things you want to do in just a minute, but, first of all, when you get back, staring you right in the face within a month or so is the debt ceiling. Yep. Democrats say clean debt ceiling, we dont want to rattle Financial Markets. You have said that this is a chance to get more serious. Absolutely. What do you want to put on the debt ceiling . Whats th
How about i separate out the iran question from the Health Care Question . On the health or question that care question, i have answered several times, the bottom line is that we are going to continue to work every single day to make sure that implementation of the Health Care Law and the website and all elements of it, including the grandfather clause work better every civil day. As i said in Previous Press conferences, were going to make mistakes, and were going to have problems, but my intentions have been clear throughout. I just want to help as many people as possible feel secure, and make sure that they do not go broke. Were going to keep on doing that. On iran, there is the possibility of a resolution to a problem that has been a challenge for American National security for over a decade. That is getting iran and in a very viable fashion to not pursue a nuclear weapon. We had the first halt, and in some cases some rollback of Irans Nuclear capabilities, the first time that we ha
Having a specific commitment. Scientific these negotiation, we are discussing very broadly for all sectors. And andrement what is being done. It is not close. It is just the reason we expect to work. And within each of the sectors, these issues are looking into. We will see how far it is possible to go under each of these issues and each of those sectors. I think thats important to ear in mind. I have a question. The commission this week released a draft regulation on restricting products from cloned animals, and im just can you tell us to what extent that issue will find its way into the trade agreement, into the trade negotiations, and can you elaborate on some of the food safety issues this week . All the specific proposal of the commission has a note that, no, its not an usual we are discussing during these negotiations. Of course we are always ready to listen to questions, comments about our initiative. On food safety, i think that there were good discussions between the two teams
Its raising questions about whether she will be ready for the 2014 winter olympics. Today is saturday, december 21st, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning, im lester holt. Im Natalie Morales. Im procrastinating a little bit longer. People who are organized and have travel plans now they are facing this whole Weather Threat thing. That is right. That is our top story. The weather is set to wreak havoc across much of the states today. 68 million in the storms path. 13 states under flood watches or warnings and in the south, there is a very strong possibility of several december tornadoes. Yes, thats very rare. But it could happen at some point today. Absolutely. The weather system, everyone is watching it very closely this morning to make sure their Holiday Travels go safely but its affecting some people out there and its affecting some people