O’Reilly: I want to get some things on the record, so, let’s begin with health care. October 1 it rolls out. Immediately there are problems with the computers. When did you know there were going to problems with those computers?
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Obama: Well, I think we all anticipated there would be glitches because anytime you got technology, a new program rolling out, there are going to be some glitches. I don’t think I anticipated, or anybody anticipated, the degree of the problems with the website.
O’Reilly: So, you just didn’t know when it rolled out that this was going to be a problem?
Obama: Well, I don’ think, as I said, I don’t think anybody anticipated the degree of problems that you’d had on Healthcare.gov. The good news is that right away we decided how are we going to fix it, and it got fixed. Within a month and a half it was up and running and now it’s working the way it’s supposed to and we’ve signed up 3 million people.
O’Reilly: I don’t know about that because last week there was an Associated Press poll — people who actually went to the website — and only 8 percent of them feel that it’s working well, working well.
Why didn’t you fire Sebelius, the secretary in charge of this because, I mean, she had to know, after all those years and all that money, that it wasn’t going to work?
Obama: You know, my main priority right now is making sure that it delivers for the American people. And, what we ended up doing is we got 3 million people signed up so far — we’re about a month behind where we anticipated we wanted to be — we’ve got over 6 million people signed up for Medicaid. We’ve got 3 million young people under the age of 26 who are signed up on their parents’ plan and so, what we’re constantly figuring out is, how do we continue to improve it, how do we make sure that the folks who don’t have health insurance get health insurance and those who are underinsured are able to get better health insurance.
O’Reilly: I’m sure that the intent is noble but I’m a taxpayer, and I’m paying Kathleen Sebelius’ salary and she screwed up, and you’re not holding her accountable.
Obama: Well, I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable but, what we’re mid-stream, Bill, we want to make sure that our main focus is ‘How do we make this thing work so that people are able to sign up?’ and that’s what we’ve done.
O’Reilly: Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over “If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance”?
Obama: Oh, Bill, you’ve got a long list of my mistakes in my presidency …
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