Obama: Obamacare needs more enrollments to spread the risk around

In an interview with radio show host Steve Harvey, President Obama encouraged more Americans to sign up for Obamacare so that the program could succeed.

“The more people sign up, the more folks are part of the overall pool that spreads risk around, because you never know if you are getting sick, but, you know, when you’re with a bunch of people, that means, you know, any single illness in that group, you know, the risk is spread out among everybody, the costs are spread out,” he said during an interview aired on the Steve Harvey Morning show Thursday morning.