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So far what weve seen is the absolute opposite of what youre suggesting. >> have you enrolled if the plan? >> i have employer-sponsored insurance. i would not be eligible for the plan. >> from the federal government? is that what you mean? >> yes. >> so youre not participating in obamacare? >> im participating in employer-sponsored insurance which -- >> government -- >> 85% of the country does. >> so you have government insurance. so youre not -- have you gone on the site and tried to enroll or ...

In markets. so far what weve seen is the absolute opposite of what youre suggesting. >> have you enrolled in the plan? >> i have employer-sponsored insurance. i would not be eligible for the plan. >> from the federal government, is what that you mean? >> yes. >> so youre not participating in obama care? >> im participating in employer-sponsored insurance, which 85% of the country does. >> so you have government insurance so youre not -- have you gone on the site and tried to enroll or tried to s...

Weve seen 25% new issuers in markets. so far what were seeing is the opposite of what youre suggesting. >> have you enrolled in the plan? >> i have employer sponsored insurance. i would not be eligible for the plan. >> from the federal government? >> yes. >> so youre not participating in obama care? >> im participating in the employer sponsored. >> so you have government insurance. so youre not -- have you gone on the site and tried to enroll or tried to shop for plans? >> i havent gone on to sh...

>> chairman kemp, we will have those numbers available in mid-term. >> but is your staff updating you on those? are you getting those on a periodic basis? i realize youre not prepared to give this to the committee, even though this is a government program and were trying to do oversight here and were trying to understand what the problems are. do you have some idea of what those problems might be in terms of the numbers? >> im not quite sure what youre asking me. >> well, youve said that 700,000...

>> but is your staff updating you on those? are you getting those on a periodic basis? i realize youre not prepared to give this to the committee even though this is a government program and were trying to do oversight here and were trying to understand what the problems are, but do you have some idea of what those problems might be? in terms of the numbers? >> im not quite sure what youre asking me. >> well, youve said that 700,000 people have completed the application process, so clearly youre...

The request and visits to the website. that was corrected very quickly. in the last 3 1/2 weeks we have had more than 300,000 visitors to the site. about 260,000 people have actually initiated the application process. 50,000 people already who have actually been enrolled for new coverage. people that never had coverage. and -- more importantly, i think this than that, we have 400 businesses that have signed up for coverage. thats another few thousand employees but whats really, i think, critical...

Democratic senators are now calling for extension of open enrollment date for obama care past the end of next march. senator dianne feinstein of california and kay hagan of north carolina and others joined new hampshire senator jeanne shahe shaheen, leading the effort to help people that dont have health insurance more time to get it. >> thanks. even if the health care website is fixed in a matter of weeks, has the political damage been done? cnn political editor paul steinhauser has a look at s...

There are no solid leads. christie, mig until. >> thats ana cabrera in boulder, colorado, thanks. on to the obama care website which may be sick but tech experts say they have the prescription to fix it. >> the white house says the site should be running smooth ply by the end of next month, a couple months too late for some people. heres paul steinhouser. good morning, paul. >> reporter: when it comes to the new health care exchanges even president obama admits the rollout of the website has b...

West, their application process could be much faster just because of the vagaries of our patchwork system. its not uniform at all. so people in, say, new york, miami, los angeles, the wait times are longer. theres tremendous backlog, all sorts of hoops. yet if you happen to be in salt lake city or seattle, its much easier. the system is incoherent and inconsistent just geographically if nothing else. >> i want to then just ask to follow up on that, so is our immigration process too hard in the w...

Vicks nyquil -- powerful nighttime 6-symptom cold & flu relief. ♪ ♪ >> we never, ever do anything nice and easy. tina. finally, of course, it is friday, tgif, everybody. this week began with the president apologizing, of course, for the whole health care website mess. >> and unfortunately thats how it ended, as well. heres our "friday rewind." >> theres no sugar coating it. the website is too slow. people have been getting stuck during the application process and i think its fair to say that...