Span3 out a coverage deal on cspan3. Democrats, dial 202 5853880, republicans 202 5853881, and independents, all others 202 5853882. Also, send us a tweet cspanwj, or jointly cumbers comers asian on facebook. Com cspan, or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. It isntolson says president obamas fault that these companies have offered substandard plants designed to be revoked. Clinton has been a good social club soldier, but he should recognize that he is wrong here. Sheryl says they are moving toward total Government Health care that is what they have wanted all along. Says the on affordable obama act is collapsing more and more everyday. You know when feinstein jumps ship, the holding is thinking. I love it. Deb says paving the way for hillary, goes with whatever that centers at the time. We want to get your thoughts this morning. What do you make a president clinton saying to president obama you need to keep your promise on Peoples Insurance coverage . While we wait for your phone calls to come in, Jennifer Haberkorn is politicos health care reporter. She is on the phone. With president clinton making its comments to an online magazine. What you make of it . What does this do to the houseboat this week for the republicans keep your plan act . Guest the white house certainly did not appreciate, i am sure, president clinton saying his comments yesterday. I mean, this is the white house he is the guy who was supposed to make health care more accessible, and understandable to the public, and now he says president obama needs to consider changing a piece of it. Republicans are already jumping on this and saying president clinton has jumped ship on obamacare. It is just going to further the republicans talking point when they discuss on the house floor this week. Host the white house said yesterday we agree with president clinton, but what can they do to help out those people that have lost their current plan . Guest the reality is theres not much they can do at this point without dramatically changing the law. The white house could allow thate to stay on plans existed in 2013, but the insurers that i spoke with said it would be very hard and practicality to resurrect this plan that has already been canceled. Insurers have started to break down plant that do not comply with the aca, and to bring those back at this point would be pretty difficult. If the white house were to come out with an or the optionr bill that is being considered this week that would allow insurers the option of keeping their lands in existence, it sounds like and practicality that would have little effect. Host is that is what the Health Legislation would do . Explain what that bill says . Would give the option of keeping the plan in 2013 that they had been selling in 2013 and 2014 that they had been selling in 2013. It would be entirely up to insurers whether they would want to keep that plan, and in the customer would have that option. If they were to stay on a plan, they would not be eligible for the tax subsidies in the Affordable Care act that are going to be available to customers and 2014. Legislation in the senate per acre to senator dianne feinstein, as one of our reviewers commented on facebook, has legislation. What would that legislation do . Guest that is similar but it would require insurers to keep plans that were active in 2013 into 2014. Insurers are a bit more worried because they feel like they dont want the federal government ordering them to keep plans in existence. The landrieu bill would require is selling a plan in 2013 to heat the plan available to existing customers as long as the insurer has not gone out of business entirely in individual market. Host was Senate Majority leader harry reid let that come to the floor . Guest at this point, there is no reason to think that. The majority leader has every interest in strengthening the Affordable Care act, and for this to come to the floor, i could just see the republican voting for it as well as democrats such as senator landrieu. Already senator hagan and senator mansion from West Virginia has signed on. Manchin from West Virginia has signed on. Host are democrats excited to go for that . Many e are expecting i should not say many, at least as many that voted for repeal the individual mandate. To 40 democrats. One thing to watch out for is what the white house comes out with, an administrative fix. Fix for looking for a the healthy folks that have lost their coverage but are not have subsidies. The white house were to come out with an option before the house vote, that would give democrats a way of saying they are trying to address the problem without voting for the upton bill. Host what is the vote expected in the house . Guest friday, right before Congress Leaves Town for the week. Host the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee also kicks off a series of hearings today looking at the rollout of the Affordable Care act. What is expected to happen at todays hearing . Guest this is expected to be a pretty intense hearing. Chairman issa has subpoenaed todd park, the chief Technology Officer and one of the masterminds behind healthcare. Gov. The administration said initially that part would be available to testify this week and that his testimony should be postponed until early december so that he could continue working on healthcare. Gov. That is nota said acceptable and issued a subpoena. Park is expected to come to the hill and testified. Also, henry chow, one of the people that was named an earlier hearings on capitol hill as one of the big decisionmakers on healthcare. Gov. He will be there as well. I spent most of the focus to be on those two. Host all right, jennifer have recorded Jennifer Haberkorn with politico, thank you so much. Guest thank you, greta. Host whether or not democrats vote in his house legislation depends on what the white house announces, if there is an administrative fix. This tweet senior Congressional Democrats tell me friday is a de facto deadline for white house fix on dropped plans. If no white house solution, lots of white lots of house ds will vote for gop legislation. Reported this yesterday the number two for house democrats, steny hoyer, not closed to voting for upton obamacare. Just minutes before the White House Landing house gop bill aimed at residents rock obamas at president Barack Obamas if you like it you can keep his statement, he was open to propose changes to the Affordable Care act. Now we turn to all of you. Would you make of president bill clintons comments yesterday in an interview saying that the president should keep his promise . Mark, a republican, south carolina, hi. Caller how are you all this morning . Andnybody falls for this trade here, in other words, were just going to try to hold electionshalf of the in 2014. You have 12 democrats up for ction, and all 12 of them they are all going to say oak am a this is such a bad thing because they are up for reelection. Oh, this is a tibet thing because they are up for reelection. They are only going to try to do something until 2013. After that, things will be back to normal. Mirrorsjust smoke and by the president and theyre trying to get billy boy to come out and help them. That is all it is. It is ridiculous. That the house and the senate are going to Work Together isnt that something . Democratsicans, the are finally going to work with a against. That is just amazing that it is such a good idea. Believe or not morons. Mark. All right, dan is next. Caller jimmy carter was right about one thing. He said that our whole political system is broken. Absolutely broken. When you look at the republicans about keeping their word, look, george bush promised us there were weapons of mass destruction against iraq, and we went there and there were not. And we got all those guys killed. You think there should be a ruckus about that . No. ,here is a ruckus about obama he is trying to give Everybody Health care, and because it is not working exactly like they know, and setu these republican congressman saying were are going to give the president cant, every move president a the hand, every move they throw a monkeywrench. Just like jimmy carter said, our political system is broken and the main reason is because you have a bunch of spoiled brats in congress who were willing to chop a hole in the bottom of the boat of america because they cannot get what they want. They want all of us to drown. You know what, that is socio patent behavior. Do whatever it is you got to do to get whatever it is he wants, and disregard everybody else. What is the matter with these people you go people . Host what do you make about clinton and the comment you made yesterday . Linton was wrong. The democrats need thick skin. Obama is doing something he is going to go down as one of the greatest president s in america after all this crap blows over. He wants to give the American People health care. And what are the republicans doing . They are throwing a monkeywrench in at every step. Not care about the American People they care about corporations who give them the big money to get reelected. That is what this is all about it is about money. Right, dan, we will be talking about a specific way on washington journal in our last hour about Campaign Cash, whether more Campaign Cash buys you more votes as part of our spotlight on magazines series. Lets listen to what the former president had to say in his own words when he sat down with a web magazine for an interview yesterday. [video clip] for young people, mostly, but not all young who are in the individual market who are above four percent of the poverty level, they are the ones who are the promise if you like what you got, you can keep it. Another young man this week who has a family, two children, but in the individual marketplace, his policy was canceled, and one was substituted for it that doubled his premium. Coverage,m the same he said yeah, and i said but are your copays and adoptable the and deductibles the same . And he said no, much lower. He said in the years i use, what i might actually save money, but we are all young and healthy, so i personally believe it would take a change in the law. The president should honor the commitment the federal government made those people. Host that was president clinton sat down to interview with a web magazine. By the way, the music that came in at the end was put in there by the website. , couple of tweets here for you Steve Harrison says first, president clinton is correct, second, it will not affect the 2014 or 2016 elections as some have speculated. Boaters forget. Forget. This voters there is this tweet from edwin i agree, he should also find the entrance cubbies for canceling the insurance policies. John from tennessee, independent, what do you think . Caller what the president promises one thing, but people have a tendency to promise something and it cant follow through because of a small, little, fine print. My comment is more about the Affordable Care act and why they are not going after the manufacturers that make medical and charge 100 times more than the costs to make them to the hospitals and the patients. If i did Something Like that, i would be arrested for price gouging. Why are we not going after these manufacturers for the same thing , and by bringing the price down of these devices and medication, one at that lower the cost of insurance and the cost of medical care in the country . That is all i have to say. Thank you. Host john, the Affordable Care act did include a tax on medical device manufacturers. Do you think that was the wrong way to go . Caller yes, i do, because a tax, all they do is raise the price of their products to cover the tax. For example, there was a hip implant that cost 350 dollars to make, yet it cost 15,000 for the hospital to buy. That is a huge increase in price. I think that is wrong on the part of the manufacturer to put it to the people like that. Host all right. And other health care news, front page of the Washington Times has the headline that the web and the website has a healthy deal with obamacare. The consumer site spoke kindly about the law and in return got millions under the law. The web in the received webmd which millions of americans read for health news, stood to earn millions of dollars from federal contracts to teach doctors about obamacare. Host and then the New York Times has a lengthy piece in their paper this morning about state insurance exchanges, and they are having technical problems as well. The article says this held thatly the data checks hub that checks host so more on the healthcare exchanges on the stateside as well. No fastusa today fix for insurance cancellations. Host president clinton tells president obama keep your pledge on insurance plans. Mike, what do you think, republican caller . Caller good morning. I kind of wondered if dan is a sociopath, the guy who called earlier. But anyways, i blame the press basically letting nancy pelosi pass a law without anybody getting to look at it. We dont really have a Health Care Law we have a tax law. That is what it is. Truth, i did not mind going bankrupt over health care, but you cannot go bankrupt with the irs. That if the problem with them, you know. And if somebody wants to give me some the, actually, i have to wanted first. It is not a gift if you do not want it. I mean, i do not want to drink poison, but people are handing out poison. What is going on . Maryland,right, val, democratic caller. Caller good morning, suzanne. Firsttime caller. Good morning, cspan. It amazes me when when people call saying ok, i do not mind filing bankruptcy for medical reasons well, who pays for the bankruptcy once he writes off all of his bad debt . And the other part is, i wish that cspan would ask people whether or not they have medicaid, medicare, whether or not or if they dont have insurance at all. Everybody gets sick or everybody has an accident one way or the other. Who pays that . One last comment, when i went to the hospital i am sorry, you are breaking up, i have got to let you go. But we are doing here on the washington journal a partnership with Kaiser Health news taking a look at the Affordable Care act, and we have divided our lines just that way, over the time of our partnership, whether you are insured or not insured to talk about the Affordable Care act. Rufus and adrian, michigan, independent caller. Caller hi, how are you . Host good morning. Caller thank you for the opportunity to speak about the Affordable Care act and president clintons comments. I agree with president clinton regarding changes that need to be made to the Affordable Health care. The reason i agree with him is aat what has happened is that legislation was passed, which is the aca, and was made uniform when wehe United States have each individual state with its own insurance structure. We really do not have a medical Delivery System. What we have is an insurance Delivery System that ensures medical care. Uniformly trying to change things across the u. S. , it creates a lot of hardship. I know people need insurance coverage, and that is a pluggable, but to unilaterally pplaudable, but to unilaterally put a law in effect without considering what the impact would be for each state and each citizen is problematic. All right, rufus. According to a new poll, president obama has taken a hit over the Affordable Care act. 39 . Pproval rating now at 54 of those surveyed say they disapprove of the job president obama is doing. When it comes to the Affordable Care act take a look at the numbers. 19 of those surveyed say the quality of care they and their families receive will improve, 40 say it will get worse, and 33 say it will not have an effect on their health care. 46 say that president obama knowingly deceive them with her statement that if you like your plan you can keep it. President obama taking a hit over the Affordable Care act with honesty and trustworthiness. But congress not doing much better. Here is a new gallup poll that shows the Approval Rating sinks to a record low of just 9 heard a 2013 average now at 14 . Congress, approval of 90 . Christine, 9 . Christine in pittsburgh, you are on the air. One must call. Ok, let you move on. Rosetta, democratic caller. Hi, you are on the air. Caller good morning. I am a firsttime caller, and i am from danville, illinois. I certainly disagree with president clinton. He has sided with the president for a long time, and what he did yesterday is him a you know, not even common sense. He needs to help them fight for this aca coverage. I disagree with him. Host why do you think he did it, rosetta . Caller i have no idea. It just does not make any sense. Host doesnt help caller the people really need this aca. The reason why i think that the president is on the right track, the Insurance Companies have built up a lot of junk insurance, in a lot of years they cut off, they get rid of insurance and bring back others. The president is trying to make this better for the people. Host all right. On president clintons motivation, the Washington Times writes this host by the way, jame