essentially enhancing the window shopping feature at healthcare.gov which was not there when they launched on october 1st. it is much easier to find and to use but republicans don t think an upgraded site is going to change people s minds about the law. the republican plan is freedom of choice, more choices, not less. obamacare narrows your choices. we re for competition, we re for selling insurance across state lines, above all we re for driving premiums down. reporter: and as the administration continues to improve healthcare.gov president obama somewhat ironically is now urging young americans to grow up to become computer programmers. no one s born a computer scientist but with a little hard work and some math and science just about anyone can become one. this week is your chance to give it a shot. and don t let anyone tell you can t. reporter: the president says
leftwing group thataw dozens of employees in multiple states convicted of fraud before and after the 2008 election. so those that were caught in fraudulent activities now involved in this? possibly, the founder of acorn set up a new organization and they re part of the navigator group. here is the other disaster that s coming, greg. the president last month said if you can t get on the website, call the 800 number. people would call that and get a busy signal or message saying go to healthcare.gov which was a circular disaster. here is the thing. the good news is the white house hired 10,000 new telephone operators to take the calls. the bad news is once you give the information about signing up for obama care to a phone operator, guess what, they eventually have to enter that data into the website. it is like going to the bank and the computers are down, you do a paper transaction, it will have to be entered into the computer. here is the problem. 10,000 operators were hired at the
unscheduled outage yesterday, only days before the november 30th deadline that the administration said it would have the web site fixed by. so i think that their strategy is to go into these local communities and hope that smaller papers, local papers will tell individual stories of people being helped by the affordable care act and help kind of fend off this more negative narrative coming from the national press. jon: but it s a little backward, isn t it? or there s a bit of a catch 22 here? they re going to these states to try to get people to sign up for, you know, to sign up on healthcare.gov, and the web site doesn t work very well. that s right. so the administration on the one hand is trying to score political points by eye lighting the republican governors that have chosen not to expand medicaid which is the joint federal and state program for poorer people to get health insurance. but on these exchange decisions, many of these states chose not to create their own marketplace