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Should help raise money from large and small donors. as for democrats, yesterday the administration released februarys health care enrollment number, which fell 25% short of its target, with the march 31st deadline fast approaching, 4.2 million people have now signed up for insurance on the federal and state exchanges. and there were 943,000 sign-ups in february. but that is still lower than the two previous months. florida 13 may now prestage a democratic disaster in november, but it does mean ...

Great that vote? could you have envisioned these problems? >> well, any kind of maximum legislation that is large in its implications is going to face some challenges. theres no doubt about it. now do we all wish that this had gone more smoothly? the answer is obvious, yes. the states wish it would have for -- wherever there are state exchanges, the federal exchange, we wish that would have been better. those are all obvious thoughts we have today across the country. but what i can tell you is t...

Was fixed. >> at the moment that everyone discovered what a disaster it was and the white house came out saying partly its because so many people are trying to enroll that we cant handle all of this volume, privately, the debate they were having whether it could be saved at all or whether they were going to have to start over, just scrap the whole thing and there was about a week in the middle of october where that was the debate. in the end, it was a bunch of outside tech wizards, many from sil...

Thats a hell of a start for people. >> reporter: quite a difference from the confident predictions last fall before the rollout from health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> i think it looks like 7 million people have signed up by the end of march 2014. >> reporter: the non-partisan congressional budget office stuck with those numbers until just recently when it lowered it from 7 million to 6 million but the vice president is the first to mention a number as low as 5 million, su...

Barrasso has said how many people have paid. doesnt count until youve paid but second only 27% are in the 18 to 34 group which means adverse selection by age is still under way and they wanted about 40 to make that fly. second, 55% are women. women have higher recourse to the health care system. so thats another form of adverse selection, in addition to the youth adverse selection, and, fourth, most of these people who have signed up, a clear large majority are in the 36 states that have not est...

Understand that we dont have the right to remain silent. >> congressman, i want to switch topics on you to health care because the president mentioned health care as a part of his opportunity agenda in a speech on is wnz. the health and human services department says through february 1st over 3 million americans have signed up for health care through the federal and state exchanges. i predicted on this program back in december that it would be 5 million would be signing up by march 31st. it seem...

One tried this in the federal government and ecommerce site and the result it is utter chaos and billions of wasted taxpayer dollars. >> two states, minnesota and oregon. 450 million spent on those two state exchanges. they are not working. they are described as almost comical. who will be held responsible for the state exchange. >> the only people held accountable in all of this alisyn is the american taxpayers. no one is being fired at cm s and we had the director of the exchange in oregon res...

Its bad. >> so personal information includes financial. >> well, there is portions of that. they are adding the credit card functionality soon. first name, last name, email address, social security number as well as the integration into the irs and dhs which contains all of your tax information and financial information as well as what dhs has on you. basically whole online profile can be accessed through the data hub. >> and your health insurance. >> health insurance isnt actually on the web si...

Only. only 14 states have those. jim ingle tells us it turns out things may even be worse in some of the states than in the federal system. >> vicky is the face of the breakdown in state exchanges. in her case, maryland. >> to me, its very personal. and its very frustrating because the system has failed me. >> vicky, who is self-employed, started trying to sign up in early october. she eventually went to an official navigator for howard county, which signed her up, gave her a confirmation number...

Goes after even people who pay for their own abortions on the exchanges, on the state exchanges. but to make things worse, it goes after the district of columbia in a special way. and then denies and then the chairman trent franks of arizona denies me the right to speak to that provision. >> chairwoman, were going to hear from trent franks in a moment. it being an all male congressional panel, the idea flgts war on women, i imagine thats another issue that you had real concerns about. >> i do. i...