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Where 43% of public school students had access to in-person learning. huge difference. big trends. ultimately the solution is school choice. thats the way were going to get ahead of this in the years to come. its a way to take back our schools, take back our country. >> its fascinating. many schools were suffering from enrollment problems. now they are in the opposite situation. they have kids of all different faiths. theyre very diverse schools and theyre effective for much less money than is g...

Their coverage, but they think they have coverage, so they need to figure it out and get back to the people and have them reenroll by december 23rd. is that going to happen? >> this is a state of the art, high-tech system. first you may have to mail in your application because the website doesnt work. then your insurer is going to check every application by hand, and then you still have to place a phone call to find out if everything accurate happened in the conversation. its far short of what a...

Im curious, when you hear that the federal system may have enrollment problems, as many as a third of the people who have signed up may not actually have been enrolled, what do you think about that? >> well, what i think about mostly is how things are working for connecticut. and what can i tell you is that we have done extensive testing of our system going back to the summer. we did -- we froze the code in september to make sure that it could be going to production well and errors could be fixe...

Want. >> i think there are ten states that have done the exchanges. and yours is one of them. im curious, when you hear that the federal system may have enrollment problems, a third of the people who signed up may not actually be enrolled, what do you think about that? >> well, what i think mostly is how things are working for connecticut. weve done extensive testing of our system going back to the summer. we froze the code in september to make sure it could go into production well and errors co...

Good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight the numbers for obama care are in and theyre a bit scary. 106, 185 people enrolled in obama care during its first month. only 25% of them through healthcare.gov. the overall number that is needed for obama care to work is 7 million by the end of march. dana bash is in washington for us tonight. dana, i guess the facts are the facts in this case. these numbers are pretty terrible. >> reporter: they are. theres no way to sugar coat it, er...

Concept. we have disagreements about the means used to get to those ends which is why i voted against the affordable care act. it seems every day were hearing of something new going wrong. im many concerned the long-term enrollment problems could be market problems. my students are losing confidence. the way to restore their trust is to delay the penalties till were sure the system is going to work. its not fair to penalize consumers. we also need to take the time to make sure fits and starts wo...

And all of a sudden -- >> it was two and a half years when the government came up with a deal. >> its been three years to roll this out and its been an unmitigated disaster. to compare the minor problems, and they were minor -- >> i think the comparisons are absolutely out there. >> the thing to put out on the table is to say, look, if republicans -- and we just heard from governor kasich -- is opposed to health care, as if this isnt the law of the land, its going to be a disaster. we all know i...

Mechanisms that compensate insurers, a lot of cost will get transferred to taxpayers and thats a problem for the federal budget but may not be a problem for the insurance market. as long as the system is working right for 2015, the insurers will say we had an unusual circumstance where we ended up with a lot of sick people and now cross our fingers, it is working in 2015 and we expect more signups. they may not push the rates up so much. the insurers have a lot of reasons to want it to work. the...

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