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Website thats not healthcare.gov, you can sign up for health inch insurance? >> it is legal and its endorsed. were contracted with the federal government to do so. we have been working on this integration a little more than a year now and just launched it last night. >> you can go on and you can shop around and how do you get the tax secret? >> were integrated with the federal data hub so its actually the data hub that determines the tax credit and determines that to us through our technology. t...

Signed a wbe commitment with them, started building more integrated technology and started enrolling consumers last night. >> are you doing what cgi federal t contractor was supposed to do originally? >> a little bit different. the federal government does have a front on their site healthcare.g healthcare.gov. for us we built it ourselves. we have been in the health care technology -- the new piece was plugging into the federal data hub, determining the subsidy correctly and passing the informat...

Is this legal, you can go on a website thats not healthcare.g healthcare.gov, you can sign up for health inch insurance? >> it is legal and its endorsed. were contracted with the federal government to do so. we have been working on this integration a little more than a year now and just launched it last night. >> you can go on and you can shop around and how do you get the tax secret? >> were integrated with the federal data hub so its actually the data hub that determines the tax credit and det...

What do you make of that statement that they think its going to get worse before it gets better? >> the statement is very true, martha. because what oracle and google and this tech surge have been called in to fix is only going to be the user experience in terms of helping them log in. but once you lock in, theres got to be integration between cgi, the company building the web site, the data hub, between federal and state systems to check eligibility information, and then the web sites, the insu...

Addressed. i would like to stress that it was a warning to me and by july it was clear to me that your department is being less than transparent about whether the changes would be ready by october the first, as a result i introduced the exchange sunset act of 2013 and my bill wouldve sunset at the exchanges of the the individual mandate the beneficiaries could not enroll starting october 1, a promise. in august, the hhs office of inspector general identified privacy and security vulnerabilities ...

Several weeks, peter, has the security concerns that have been brought up by lawmakers, have those been addressed with the website? >> yes. she says the data hub that verifies the identity was fully tested ahead of time and is secure. when it comes to the exchanges, she said consumers can trust them but that the testing is ongoing. >> any system that is as large is inherently risky. we continue to monitor the system and have had no serious issues. security testing never ends. it will never end a...

Benefit exchanges reporting the federal data hub that peoples monthly income but the federal data hub was expecting annual income. lets suppose that you were to enter in $2,500 a month. the federal computers thought that you were making $2,500 a year. and so your tax credit was wildly miscalculated. >> no you are going to get sticker shot and not get the subsidy you thought in the beginning. with the web site fixed? easy rich in the switch and they put in your annual income and not your monthly ...

Theyre stopping down that part tonight. how important is that functionality connecting to the stuff that goes back so many decades? >> well, anyone who is subsidy eligible, lower income person, is completely dependent on that working. thats got to work. i can imagine how complex it is. were dealing with a lot of legacy systems here. systems that go way, way back. and were really trying to connect them to this very modern today technology. going to be a difficult thing to do. but if anything must...

Number of appointments because of issues related to the federal data hub. christine? >> the federal data hub. >> same old story. >> issues. thank you so much for that intriguing look inside connecticut. thanks, zain. coming up, still confused about obama care? >> well, madam secretary, while youre from kansas, were not in kansas anymore. >> i was in the third grade there, and i thought i saw you on a tricyle. >> ever used a coupon? >> yes. >> of course you are. why bumper-sticker politics does...

Obamacare website. according to an hhs inspector generals report that was released in june, qssi was accused of lax data security controls on a separate data hub unrelated to healthcare.gov, possibly endangering the personal information of more than six million medicare recipients by allowing workers to potentially steal information or introduce malware, using usb devices. all this goes to the concerns about the security of this whole system. you saw congressman mike rogers very fired up about t...