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Enrollment process and move at a more responsible way, moving forward so that we have an opportunity to come back in the next legislative session next year and better mold this program for several reasons. >> but thats a bit of a change from where the position was initially. you were one of the people that voted against this expansion to begin with. when the impasse over this bill started, the demand, all the reporting suggests the demand coming from your caucus was actually to get rid of the pr...

Thats happened in the nation in 50 years. but the shopping website, we squibbed the kickoff but we are making it better. >> do you need -- i know youve been offered federal help to kind of take over the website to correct the remaining problems. is that something -- help youll accept? >> thats something weve looked at since june. in the article today they talked about, oh, the problems were there and the state people considered going to the federal website. the problem is there was no assurance ...

Obama administration to delay some of the laws most important provisions and to extend some deadlines has caused uncertainty among insurers and confusion among consumers. peter alexander is traveling with the president. hes in hawaii now. so peter, is the white house at least acknowledging that maybe some of these changes could be confusing and causing uncertainty for the consumer? >> reporter: i think pretty simply again on friday during will his fill press conference of the year, we saw the pr...

Of his top economic advisors in the new year. thats going to be delayed about a month until the end of january. but he has committed to being in place for the first half of next year so it really just goes to show you that even though some improvements have been made to the website, there is still a long way to go. its still a work in progress. thats why he is going to be coming in to try to shepherd this to success through really an important period because the enrollment process for these exch...

Many of them with a political agenda. >> all right. well, i assume some people really do need help and might need the navigators. >> sure. >> some of them, not everybody. the interesting thing is if the web site were intuitive. if the web site were done really plainly and correctly, people wouldnt need that extra help. we wouldnt have to go out and hire navigators to help them to navigate a bum web site. >> and i grant you that there is a you title to having people navigate the awkward enrollmen...

Flushed down the toilet, most in the pocket of community agengro most with a political agenda. >> if the website were intuitive. if the website were done really plainly and correctly, people wouldnt need that extra help and we wouldnt have to hire navigators to help them navigate a bum website. >> i grant you theres a utility to having people navigate the awkward enrollment process. but, again, is it worth hundreds of millions of dollars given to community centers and other community groups. the...

People and done some additional beta testing which is part of what has happened frankly in the early months of the launch to identify what problems we had. >> the government released the numbers today and they show that more than 360,000 people have signed up for private coverage under obama care as of last month, thats more than three times the total from october. its also fewer than the 1.2 it million people the administration originally predicted by enroll by the end of november. at any rate,...

>> thats putting a lot in. that was the president on offense very much so today after weeks of dealing with negative headlines over the websites problems. the president now spends the rest of the month, were told, touting the benefits of the new health care law. urging americans to get in and enroll. the numbers so far this week have been encouraging. a million people visited the website just yesterday. and the error rate was fairly low. according to "the washington post," the website processed ...

However, fox news peter doocy captured in image of the site yesterday, a major error screen after he tried the very first step in the enrollment process. what does all of that say? senior editor and washington columnist for "fortune" and a fox news contributor. we have obamacare 2.0, if you will. the president is trying a major relaunch of his signature achievement. can it work? >> well, its very funny, jon, another week, another relaunch, another marketing campaign. weve seen this movie before,...

Some thing theyve actually signed up when they really havent. what do millions of people do now if theyve actually lost their insurance? spokesman for the group americas health insurance plans, good to see you, robert. >> thanks for having me on. >> you released a statement today which said in part you were concerned about the back end issues for insurance companies. what do you mean by that? >> so the enrollment process has to be working from end to end before coverage can begin. so in addition...