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If you tried to sign on before and need to sign on after the deadline passes what will you notice right away. >> the feel and functionality will be be different. how you navigate the site will be different. and mostly its going to be mostly behind the scenes of a lot of things that have changed. if you look from the imposed deadline of october 1st, obviously the web site didnt function appropriately. what they are trying to do now is get it stable so the individuals can can go on the web site so...

Reskin it, which means it may have different colors. but if you tried signing on before, what will you notice right away? >> the look and feel will be a little different. how you navigate the site will be a little different. mostly its going to be mostly behind the scenes oh of a lot of things that have changed. if you look at the deadline of october 1, the website didnt function appropriately. theyre trying to get it stable to individuals can go on the website to sign up for health care benefit...

Im curious if youre nervous in what youre anticipating for the healthcare.gov website tomorrow. >> actually, im optimistic. one thing i think was corrected is that it was probably never a good idea to have the expectations be so high to begin with. this is such a massive change and im certainly hopeful that the website will be working much better tomorrow. you know, in california, of course, we have our own website and things are going pretty well in california. so theres a lot of successes and ...

Folks and things went very smoothly. one of the sad things about the rollout has been the 36 governors that have refused to participate. so if there were more state exchanges, i think things would have been much better. then, my republican colleagues who spent hundreds and millions of dollars in a disinformation campaign has created all kinds of confusion. you even have people in california who thought that they needed to sign up on the federal website and didnt realize that cover california was...

With the failure stories and promoting them quite a bit. now, you know, the 20% of people, thats a whole lot of n anecdotes that are going to be amplified and used as evidence that, well, you know, perhaps 80% of users are going to have a good experience. 20% wont. and those can often have, you know, very real world effects. these are not just stories to be told in the media. >> so there is the federal signing up. theres also the state exchanges. elahe, some of those numbers we were just showing...

For some reason, they had a big mess-up, that it just didnt work out for them, they didnt get their act together in time, the federal government could run the exchange. they thought at the time they would do this with one, two, three, maybe four or five exchanges. theyre doing more than 30. >> thats amazing. >> so, the one thing thats going on here is they werent all that well prepared. it shouldnt be working, not let them off the hook if it wasnt working, but it was to be the case that you had ...

Work out for them, they didnt get their act together in time, the federal government could run the exchange. they thought at the time they would do this with one, two, three, maybe four or five exchanges. theyre doing more than 30. >> thats amazing. >> so, the one thing thats going on here is they werent all that well prepared. it shouldnt be working, not let them off the hook if it wasnt working, but it was to be the case that you had 48 state exchanges and then 2 or 3 more because youve also g...

Eporter: dean says he understands there must be control of kohs but says rate setting has a 40-year track record of failure. jenna? jenna: more on this story as we get it, mike. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon: well, the president saying at a fundraiser last night that the healthcare.gov web site is, quote, starting to work pretty well now, and insurance companies are now ready to make a big push to get folks to sign up on state exchanges. they want to show that obamacare is not just abou...

For some reason, they had a big mess-up, that it just didnt work out for them, they didnt get their act together in time, the federal government could run the exchange. they thought at the time they would do this with one, two, three, maybe four or five exchanges. theyre doing more than 30. >> thats amazing. >> so, the one thing thats going on here is they werent all that well prepared. it shouldnt be working, not let them off the hook if it wasnt working, but it was to be the case that you had ...

How republicans in the house would like to keep those punchlines coming, cnn has obtained, john, the house republican playbook, "because of obama care i lost my insurance." we just obtained this in the last hour, it was first reported by a roll call in the "new york times" but if you flip through it, john, it gives examples and samples to house republican lawmakers of talking points, social media, sample op-eds, you name it, in the battle against obama care. >> im sure that book is not in the wh...