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Individual insurance market and push them to the state exchanges? i had a conversation about that with zeke emmanuel last night. it sounded like he admitted that. listen. >> the affordable care act didnt require any single insurance company to cancel a plan. >> okay. giving you that for purposes of tonight. >> they did it for business reasons. >> the only reason that plans are sending notes to consumers about losing coverage is because of the requirements of the new legislation. >> there you hav...

Sebelius told reporters since october 1, 106,185 people have enrolled. 79,000 enrolled through state exchanges. and about 27,000 enrolled through that federal exchange. that has the had so many problems. that is about 21% of what the obama administration had expected to enroll before the exchanges were open. another 975,407 people have completed applications for insurance but have not yet made the purchase. many of those people are shopping for family plans. and the administration estimates that...

Who will not get covered. these numbers released this week, much worse than health care economists had expected. they had expected more people to be coming through here. when it comes to state exchanges, i can give you those numbers. 71,000 have selected a plan, 26,000 have chosen a plan on the federal site. you have about 3.1 million phone calls to the obama care phone lines. the people calling the phone line are calling. theyre getting information. they are getting signed up in some cases or j...

With no central operational government getting any kind of major massive relief effort underway is almost impossible. we hope to see that change in the coming days. john, diana, back to you. >> thank you. other major story this morning low number of obama care sign ups, just over 100,000 americans have signed up for insurance, far less than the white house projected. with the fallout, heres karen travers in washington. >> reporter: finally, some hard data on health care enrollment and it is lo...

Lost members of their family with no central operational government getting any kind of major massive relief effort underway is almost impossible. we hope to see that change in the coming days. john, diana, back to you. >> thank you. other major story this morning low number of obama care sign ups, just over 100,000 americans have signed up for insurance, far less than the white house projected. with the fallout, heres karen travers in washington. >> reporter: finally, some hard data on health...

Virtual shopping cart without buying. how does this number break down? when it comes to the state exchanges, 79,391 have selected a plan. any good news for the administration in the numbers? well, people are interested, apparently in obama care. healthcare.gov had 26.8 million unique visits. the obama care phone line got over 3.1 million calls. "the washington post" reports that in the first month of romney care, only 123 people signed up, but by the end of the first year, 36,000 total had enrol...

Users have found on healthcare.gov and we see with only 26,794 individuals being enrolled, those numbers affected by the disastrous rollout of this website. were bringing you complete coverage as the administration finally releases these numbers. here with me, our chief political analyst, gloria borger, dana bash, and jim acosta is outside the white house. gloria, lets start with you. what do you make of these numbers? about 27 million visitors to the health care exchanges. and over 100,000 enro...

Data, if it was accurate, the administration would need to enroll 68,000 people perday to meet its year end goal, which cleary it is not going to meet based on this. i do think that the difference that you talked about at the very beginning of this between the state exchanges and the federal exchanges is important. obviously, these state exchanges were the ones that the administration really wanted everybody to go into. that was part of the original law. >> they wanted each state to set up their...

News this hour. the new obama care numbers. administration officials say just over 106,000 people have enrolled since the programs controversial debut on october 1st. thats just 10% of what was projected through the end of november. and most of them signed up through state exchanges. fewer than 27,000 enrolled through the troubled national obama care website. lets go to our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. whats the reaction over there at the white house? >> reporter: well, wolf,...

Perpetrate a denial of service attack against healthcare.gov site that has been unsuccessful. >> reporter: the administrations tech officials did not want to predict how much money it will take to fix a website that has already cost taxpayers $600 million. chief national correspondent jim angle has been following this story from the very beginning. he joins me now. good evening, jim. >> reporter: good evening, bret. >> its been an interesting ride here. these numbers, as we dig down in them, w...