Asked About Poll Showing O’Care Recipients Don’t Like Plans, Sebelius Hits GOP

‘Health care costs are rising at the lowest rate in 50 years’

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CAPEHART: "The big triumph of the affordable care act lies in that number you just mentioned, 22 million people now have health care. A new poll out this week finds people who got insurance through the health care marketplaces are let's satisfied with their plans than people covered by their employer, Medicaid or Medicare. What's your response to that?" 
SEBELIUS: "I've seen that poll. I've also seen other polls that say 70 percent of the people who got marketplace coverage are very satisfied. I don't know what to believe. What I do know is that this is an opportunity for those people who didn't have affordable coverage in the workplace or who are too poor to actually even qualify for workplace help to have health care. It's been talked about by Republicans and Democratic presidents. It's finally the law of the land. Is it the perfect bill? Absolutely not. Does it need to be fixed? You bet. But somebody needs to ask the Republicans who stand up and pledge to repeal where are they going to get difficult dynamic scoring $137 billion that the congressional budget office just said repealed costs up to $500 billion which is the original score. Nobody talks about that. Health care costs are rising at the lowest rate in 50 years. Medicare beneficiaries are taking advantage of that, Medicaid in states across the country are taking advantage. We're seeing not only an expansion of health care, the largest drop of uninsured ever in the history of this country, bs actually the lowest health inflation we've ever had."

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