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Invade this consumer information, but once they discover there is malware they ought to notify right away, not some time in the future over the christmas period when maybe they hope that consumers will continue buying without the discouragement of notification but the point is consumers need to be protected and there needs to be an industry-wide standard which is why, again, i believe this requirement in my bill is so important, providing consumers information. our retailing industry is behind e...

Budget deal to act as well. the pressure will be upon them. >> with regard to the recent problems with target shoppers, youve been out front on this after the early reports there. what can the federal government do to make sure the consumer information is secure when they hit the stores? >> well, this is why ive asked the federal trade commission, number one, to tell us what specifically their investigation has revealed so far as it relates to target. and, two, do they need greater legal authori...

Be able to know just exactly how much target is to blame for this, but that is what four state attorneys general want to find out, massachusetts, new york, connecticut and south dakota, they are now demanding answers from target. what they want to find out is when did the company find out about the breach, and did it then take appropriate steps to protect consumer information? were there proper safeguards in place to prevent the breach, and what steps are being taken to address the breach and th...

And error rates and, no, there has not been a need to deploy the queueing system at this point. >> reporter: with the surge of about 375,000 users logging on monday, errors and response times increased, so carney explained consumers were placed in the queue and told to come back at a better time. >> are there other lines? the goal is obviously to enroll more people, right? >> absolutely. >> so if theyre still waiting -- >> ed, i would want you to the fact that more people are visiting the site a...

Political scorecard for president obama and started thinking of it as a service. theres a limited amount of time that the uninsured have to sign up for obama care. they are not being given very good information. i must say the press is severely at fault here. i looked at a bunch of newspapers the other day and i found that "the new york times" has published the url for the new york exchange exactly twice, both before october 1st. "the washington post" had published it four times, also before oct...

Eligibility notices display properly to consumers at the completion of the application process. consumers can now view and compare plans without registering for an account. this functionality was not working well in the days leading up to october 1 so we opted to prioritize. one of our high priorities was insuring consumer information was transmitted to issuers. our team has worked with issuers to resolve outstanding issues now consumer information will be sent to issuers after they even rolled ...

Centers was to reduce the from us station that individuals having. thats what he said. in the meantime, were, you know, busting rocks every day to fix the web sites so that its up and running at a standard thats acceptable for the vast majority of americans by the end of the month. >> these come from meetings of the center for consumer information and insurance oversight. the center still has not release ed how many have actually enrolled. theres a note that at that time they were receiving abou...

Well, cnn has obtained notes from one week ago from the obama administrations self-labeled war room, where officials focus on implementing the law and their concern is that once the healthcare.gov website glitches are worked out, some consumers will go online and be disappointed with high prices and limited choice. according to the notes from october 28th, quote, mike described a general concern of p.m. or project management, quote, getting to the point where the website is functioning properly ...

To help people get coverage, theyre hugely important. >> gentleladys time expired. mr. olsen. >> i thank the chair around welcome, madam secretary. >> i like o open with a quote from american icon, hold up a poster. it says, if user is having a problem, its our problem. im glad to hear that you embrace this philosophy during your testimony today, maam. obamacare was signed into law 1256 days ago. since then there has been user problems after user problem after user problem. regarding healthcare....

Either defend her or this program this week? >> well, going to be awfully hard. i think her best defense is to try to keep the focus on were trying going to try to get this problem solved. look, this morning "the wall street journal" had a piece, there were three groups of people, the people at office of consumer information and insurance oversight, a new office at h-hs planning the website. people at center for medicaid and medicare services, cms, 40 miles away from baltimore, they were plannin...