Hello, I'm John Donvan, moderator of Intelligent Squared U.S.

Join us online at IQ2US.org to vote on the motion and keep the debate going.

Sometimes a glitch is just a glitch.

Your computer program locks up, you close it down again, you open it up again,

and you move on because it was just a glitch.

So the President's Health Insurance Program, the Affordable Care Act, launches fall 2013

with some problems, problems with the software, problems with deadlines, problems with public expectations.

So what are those? Are those just glitches?

Or are we, as some have argued, actually looking at the blue screen of death for Obamacare?

Well, that sounds like a debate, so let's have it.

Or no to this statement. Obamacare is now beyond rescue.

A debate from Intelligent Squared U.S. I'm John Donvan.

We are at the Kaufman Music Center in New York, and we have four superbly qualified debaters, two teams of two,

who will take opposite sides on this motion. Obamacare is now beyond rescue.

As always, our debate goes in three rounds, and then the audience votes to choose a winner, and only one side wins.

Let's meet the team arguing for that motion.

First, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome Dr. Scott Gottlieb.

Scott, you have been a practicing physician.

You are a former FDA deputy commissioner.

You have said that Obamacare is looking more and more like Medicaid, which is an interesting comment

because during the Bush administration, you are actually a senior adviser to the Medicaid program.

So what we're trying to understand is when you say that Obamacare is looking more like Medicaid,

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