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So this was kind of the moving target. so, yes, it took a lot of time on the policy side, on the market side, and there was a team in place with other people, outside experts coming in, kicking the tires, regular reports, regular dashboards on the tech side, but clearly the estimate that it was ready to go october 1st was just flat out wrong. did the white house oversell it? i don t think they did. i think what we said from the outset was, you know, this was fixing a very broken market where individuals really were on their own. if you were healthy and wealthy, you could get coverage. if you weren t, you were pretty much on your own if you didn t work for the right company. so that was fixed. we have millions of people, not only in the private marketplace, but millions more in expanded medicaid, which is going on around the country with republicans and democratic governors, and then there are a ....
Minutes. he places the word here throughout it all the time. dedicated here that we re here dedicated, those who died here. it s tough for any of us to internalize. as we watched these boys do it, we said if they can do it all of us ought to be able to do if and if you go to learn the address.org you will see all the living presidents reciting it, david gregory, and many people in our media culture, bill o reilly and also rachel maddow. nancy pelosi and marco rubio. lincoln is a great place to start to have a civil discourse. you have to remember the context. this was four months after a battle that was the most blood soaked military experience the country had had. ever, yeah. and it s still the greatest battle ever fought on american style. 56,000 casualties, 185,000 soldiers involved. he comes to the now quiet battlefield to add a few appropriate remarks after edward everett s speech and nails it home and this is the operating system that still is our ....
For meet the press, harry smith. harry, thank you so much. doris kearns goodwin, we talk about patriots day and we re about to have it again and experience this event again one year later. for all the talk of resilience, there are a lot of wounds that don t heal, especially when you have to go back and relive them. yeah. there s something, i m sure, people are going to feel with the flashbacks, as was said, and yet i think going back to remember what it was like then and what it s like now, it s a really important thing. you have to learn from history, and there was resilience that took place during this period of time. the hardest thing i think about that day was they struck us at what is so special a holiday in boston. other holidays, mergemorial day july 4th, we run around and get scattered. everybody goes to that sacred place. whether you go to the red sox game. we go to the minute men and then to the red sox game. it s a special moment to have ....
That violated and yet somehow we came together as a city in part because of all these people who are here in the end. right. senator? doris is right. patriots day celebrates our liberty, our freedom. it is what the terrorists hate about us. it is the sense that everyone is equal. it is a sense that every religion is equal in the treatment which we give to it, and so this was a special place, a special day, and they knew that. it s the equivalent of for us kind of our most sacred day and there s a million people who come together on that day to watch the marathon. it is our common day of celebration, and they knew what they were doing. they knew exactly the impact that it would have upon us. and, in fact, they evoked just the opposite response. they had people standing up and responding and sacrificing and the resilience is ultimately what people are going to remember about that day. and among those responders, the guy sitting to your right, this little fellow here, joe ....
Team and setting this process up, trying to make sure we had competitive markets in every state around the country. and as you remember, you know, we didn t really know until about six months out how much states would actually run their own sites. who would be on their own. so this was kind of the moving target. so, yes, it took a lot of time on the policy side, on the market side, and there was a team in place with other people, outside experts coming in, kicking the tires, regular reports, regular dashboards on the tech side, but clearly the estimate that it was ready to go october 1st was just flat out wrong. did the white house oversell it? i don t think they did. i think what we said from the outset was, you know, this was fixing a very broken market where individuals really were on their own. if you were healthy and wealthy, ....