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Because the pushback from the white house will be no, no, no, this is all you, zeke. this is obama. whatever is wrong with the aca is on you. what s your counter? well, the president has been in office almost a full year. he has created a huge amount of havoc in the insurance markets. as i mentioned, getting rid of the mandate, not paying cost sharing subsidies, making decisions at the last minute. so it s hard for insurance companies to place products. not doing a lot of basic things that would have shored up the exchanges like having a risk corridor or reinsurance products for the companies in the insurance market. all of those actually undermine insurance companies s willingness to participate. there s a lot of comments that the federal government is not a ....
Insurance market are because they repealed portions of the affordable care act through appropriations process that made it very, very unsustnable for insurance companies to participate. they do own all of the problems with the health care system right now. if they worked with us to try to correct some of those, replacing or retaining the risk corridor, the payments i m talking about and giving certainty to the insurance companies, we would not have the problems. they deserve to be held accountable for the problems right now. have you heard from the senate colleagues, friends about what they feel their job is now and is it true that the estimation could be a month before the senate votes on their version of the bill of what the house passed. i bet every dime i m going to win today at the kentucky derby that they don t vote on anything ....
President bush. what do you say to the big insurance companies who watched it play out and said we have to pull out. we can t afford it the way it s set up? where they right to do that? was it a business move or was it amoural, as some people have said? no, each one of them has a different reason. united never was in this game. did not like this game. aetna told you, mike wrote that, if you don t approve our merger, we re going to pull out of the exchanges. it was a kind of blackmail arrangement. and we have to remember, the republicans took away some of the protections for the insurers entering a new market, and that made it much harder for them. this wasn t natural. this happened because of particular laws in washington, when marco rubio pulled out the risk corridor. you didn t think it was a rational business decision. too many old sick people, not enough young healthy people. there was some rational ....
Participate in the marketplaces. this is not a government plan. this is actually an insurance company plan. they re selling private plans in the private market. and having more competition. and there are several ways that they have suggested to do that. one of them is the risk corridor. so i think there s some real improvements that can be made. but at the end of the day, we have the lowest level of uninsured americans ever seen in our history. we have 20 million people with new coverage. and i am very hopeful that as congress really talks to their constituents, looks at these americans, we re talking about taking away health benefits from parents who have kids who have had cancer or individuals who run their own small businesses who, for the first time, have affordable health care. and taking that benefit away could really undermine a lot of economic and health security that people rely on. kathleen sebelius, former ....