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president elcoming barack obama. president obama: hello. hello. hello. [applause] >> good morning. president obama: great to be here and thank you so much for all the good reporting you guys have been doing on this important issue. >> thank you. >> we'll get started. there was an expectation that was shared among many of your staff, many congressional democrats as the aft rolls out and delivers benefits to millions of people that it would become more popular and safe from repeal or substantial reform and it appears that isn't quite true. what do you think you got wrong and why didn't the health care law become more popular? president obama: let's back up and say from the start there's a reason why for 100 years, no president could get expansion of health care coverage beyond the work that had been done for medicare and medicaid targeting primarily seniors. and the reason was that this is hard. the health care system is big. it is very personal. families, i think recognize the need for health insurance, but it's not something that they think about except when things go wrong, when y

please join me in welcoming president barack obama. president obama: hello. hello. thank you. [applause] president obama: thank you. sarah kliff: hi. president obama: good morning. it is great to be here, and thank you so much for all the good reporting you guys have been doing on this important issue. ezra klein: well thank you. ,sarah kliff: so we'll get started. there was an expectation that was shared among many of your staff, many congressional congressional democrats that as the affordable care act goes out, it would become more popular. it would be safe for appeal -- from repeal or substantial reform and it appears that isn't quite true. what do you think that theory got wrong? why did the health care law not become more popular? president obama: well let's back , up and say from the start there's a reason why for 100 years, no president could get expansion of health care coverage beyond the work that had been done for medicare and medicaid targeting primarily seniors. and the reason was that this is hard. the health care system is big. it is very personal. families, i