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>> good morning, doug. >> good morning. the timing of this announcement raised some eyebrows because the administration dropped this obamacare bombshell the day before thanksgiving when it was less likely to create attention. it is causing more problems for small businesses many are struggling to comply. they will not be able to access the governments web care site as they promised. instead they have to rely on brokers or insurance companies. small businesses continue to be low on the priority l...

>> reporter: with time running out on his promise to repair the healthcare.gov website and with problems persisting, the thanksgiving holiday was welcomed. aides say the big push to have a lot of people try to enroll the first week of december has been put on hold. one official said, quote, we want to see how traffic is the first week before we suggest people do campaign efforts to drive traffic. critics saw another failure. >> the website theyre saying can handle 50,000 users concurrently, whic...

Leadership granted authority to begin operations on september 27th and this memo gave temporary authority to operate for six months and listed a number of strategies to mitigate risks including regular testing. authority was granted. a process was put in place, as you expect with a website like this to make sure security standards are met. consumers can trust their information is protected by stringent security standards. >> was the president made aware of the memo and concerns four days before ...

On a mammoth wave to set a new record. that wave is believed to be over 100 feet. back to "hardball." ♪ officials at the center for medicare and medicaid services who are charged with implementing the exchange has added and i quote, due to a compressed time frame, the system wasnt tested enough. and frankly, three years should have been enough and had the administration provided more forthcoming answers and shared in a transparent manner the reality of the challenges it was encountering in t...

With it. people needed time to shop, to look, to understand their choices, and five to six years later, the law is working well. were actually feeling a little lonely up here in massachusetts these days since for the five years after it passed, it seemed like the "wall street journal" and the conservative media had to have at least one big article a week telling everybody how bad it was and since the election a year ago, we feel a little bit like the maytag repairman now because its very clear i...

Hundreds, more than 100,000, i think 200,000 perhaps small businesses across the country have already taken advantage of 35% tax credit as they provide insurance to their employees. >> reporter: every step in the implementation process has seen delays and setbacks countered kevin cole man of national federation of independent business. were not surprised by this one. with the latest glitch for small business exchanges the case for delay for individual mandate alongside the employer mandate gross...

Magazine. shane, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> lets first talk about the security breach. basically, vaiving the minnesota obama care exchange, and a very secure -- supposedly secure e-mail sent to an independent insurance agency, including social security numbers and lots of private information of some citizens. this guy was very honest. this insurance agent. he said, whoa, this e-mail clearly is not meant for me. what had happened had he not been so honest? what could he have done w...

I think it loops into the larger questions over how, just how messy this implementation process is going to be. and i think this is going to connect quite directly to public opinion on obama care because if we see more stories about potential data breaches, government employees or government databases not being as secure as they need to be, with folks information as this enrollment process continues, that has a direct negative political impact. and i think thats just one of the larger issues of ...

Members in congress on both parties looking at the potential to delay some of this implementation process. >> wait a minute, you didnt hear my question. i asked you if there are any safeguards currently in place regarding the implementation of obama care you can champion? >> from my perspective, no. and i would suggest that thats something that absolutely needs to be looked at by both parties in congress and i think they will look at it. >> okay, a lot to be reviewed between now and october 1st....

Hard on this to try to get as many people ready for enrollment in october when open enrollment begins. the success or failure depends on that. republicans, 37 votes, ready to repeal it, im sure youll see more. more than that, youll see them trying to hold up the implementation process wherever they can, funding issues, what not. the real problem here is that congress cant do anything on obama care. nothing is going to pass. usually with major legislation like this, you see modifications. you see...