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To get the a double plus team out there working on it. i hope thats who they assembled. i do think we need to have regular updates. i would say that one other thing which hasnt been mentioned that would reassure me is to make sure we have someone whos actually overseeing the whole process who has good managerial skills, understands the government and government side of things but also understands private insurance and the e-market side of things. getting that kind of executive running the whole ...

Are? are they still being asked that. and why havent they answered? >> this is a question that comes up literally every single day at the white house in the daily briefing, it comes up in other conversations that i have with administration officials every day and every day they tell us we dont have that number yet. well provide the first enrollee number in mid-november. what they are trying to do is being selectively transparent. they are telling us numbers that make the system look good. they s...

Lifted. now, that is not untypical for a lot of folks like jessica who have been struggling without health insurance. thats what the affordable care act is all about. the point is, the essence of the law, the health insurance thats available to people, is working just fine. in some cases, actually, its exceeding expectations. the prices are lower than expected and the choice is greater than we expected. but, the problem has been that the website thats supposed to make it easy to apply for and pu...

Went so far as to use the word disaster, the president did admit during a rose garden ceremony today that there was no need to sugar coat the websites rollout issues. >> the website has been too slow. people have been getting stuck during the application process. and i think its fair to say that nobodys more frustrated by that than i am. >> the president was introduced at the rally by janice baker, a woman from delaware with a pre-existing condition whose insurance rate is lower than it was befo...

Website not so good right now. listen to what the president said. >> theres no sugar coating it. the website has been too slow. people have been getting stuck during the application process. and i think its fair to say that nobodys more frustrated by that than i am and precisely because the product is good, i want the cash registers to work. i want the checkout lines to be smooth. so i want people to be able to get this great product. and theres no excuse for the problems. and its these problems...

[ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. the products is good. but the web site needs some work. that from the president today as he addressed widespread problems with the rollout of the new healthcare law. the president says the most talented technology experts in the nation are now working to fix that web site. >> the problem has been that the web site that is supposed to make it easy to apply for, and purchase the insurance, is not working the way it should for everybody...

>> whats the administration saying about that? >> theyre touting these numbers. those are the two that youre going to hear repeated by the white house. a half a million people who have completed the application process. what youre not hearing is filling in the achly case is your salary, your information, who in your family may need health care coverage. thats not the same as going through the plo says and actually picking a health care plan. the white house still wants to get to about 7 million ...

To fix some of the many glitches. nearly half a million people have gone through the application process. that is different from actually enrolling. that would be the key step. that is the key number to keep an eye on. the obama administration needs to get seven million people enrolled within the first six months or so of the program. people getting error messages and not being allowed to create passwords or log ins. it has been a frustrating process but some have made it through. >> we heard fr...

The online application process. >> yeah, these are the first national numbers we are seeing in terms of how affective obama care is at its rollout. what we are hearing is 500,000 -- almost half a million people right now have signed up and gone through this process, filled out applications for obama care coverage despite the glitches, and there have been plenty of the glitches. the ap is putting the number right at about 496,000, and again administration officials are telling cnn, look, these gl...

Lawful government purpose, the government may monitor, intercept, and search and seize any communications or data transitting or stored on this information system. now, security experts are worried the government may be ill-equipped to deal with identity thieves. >> this sounds like theyre saying we make no warranties. so if you cant protect my goals why should i put it at foert knox. >> the department of health and human services precautions it only appears in the source code not actual terms a...