美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-26

 A woman in charge of rolling out health care reform answers for critics. Some of whom want her to resign. This is CNN exclusive¹. Let's get started.

 

By next spring, every American is supposed to have health insurance. Most will get it through their employers, many through Medicaid. Millions will buy coverage² on their own. In states like California, New York, Kentucky and 11 others, they have set up their own marketplaces, so people can shop for it and those Web sites are doing all right. In 36 other sates, though, people have to use the federal site: healthcare. gov and it is ungodly mess. New polling⁴ bears this out. CBS news asks this: how is the sing up going? 12% say it's going well, just 12%. Nearly half say it's not. And even though, you can sign up by phone, not just online. Trouble with a website is reflecting badly on the health care act itself. In a new ABC news Washington post poll³, 55% says problems with the website are a sign of broader problems. Now, remember, this is President Obama signature accomplishment⁵. He battled to pass it. He fought to defend it. He campaigned to preserve it and he with stood a government shutdown aimed at destroying it. Today, the White House promised that they're calling a technology surge⁶ to fix it. Health and human service secretary, Kathline Sebilius, today named a management trouble shooter to head up this efforts. Critics, though, said she is the problem, accusing her of bunging with the roll out and not having answers to some very basic accountability questions. Tonight, she speaks to those critics.  It's a 360 exclusive and here's part one.

 

1 exclusive   

adj.不包括的，不算在内的，独有的，独享的

参考例句：

• The hotel charges 6 pounds a day,exclusive of meals.这家旅馆一天收六英镑，不包括饭钱。
• This bathroom is for the President's exclusive use.这间浴室是总统专用的。

2 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

3 poll   

n.民意测验，民意调查，选举投票

参考例句：

• The result of the poll won't be known until midnight.选举结果要到午夜才能揭晓。
• They expected a heavy poll.他们期望会有很高的投票数。

4 polling   

n.投票

参考例句：

• a week before polling day 投票日前一周（的那天）
• You can cast your vote at the local polling station. 你可以在当地的投票站投票。

5 accomplishment   

n.完成，成就，（pl.）造诣，技能

参考例句：

• The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
• Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标，钱是至关重要的。

6 surge   

n.汹涌，澎湃；vi.汹涌，强烈感到，飞涨；vt.放开，松手

参考例句：

• The surge travelled southwards along the coast.浪涛沿着海岸向南涌去。
• It failed to stimulate a surge of investment in industry.这没有能刺激工业投资的激增。