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To be proud of or to crow about. >> it is true it may be at least until the end of the month if you listen to zeke emanuel, until we get pretty hard numbers, and there are certain numbers that state exchanges are not reporting. having said that, gallop has been following this pretty closely, and they saw in the fourth quarter of 2013 that 17.1% of americans rr uninsured. by early this year it was 15.9%, so the numbers are uninsured are definitely coming down. do you dispute those numbers? >> wel...

So many grilled tastes and textures. and all the nutrition i need. go on. no really. top notch. (laughing) there it is - there ya go. new american grill from kibbles n bits... go together like... food n family. six million and counting, thats the number of americans who have signed up for health insurance through federal and state exchanges. according to the latest figures. below the original goal of seven million but surpassing the revised six million goal following the laws disastrous rollou...

On thursday, the white house announced that over 6 million people had signed up for health insurance using the federal and state exchanges. exceeding the administrations revised target with just three days left until the march 31st open-enrollment deadline. the number of people seeking insurance has surged in recent days with more than 1.5 million visits to healthcare.gov on wednesday alone. and coming up, democratic senator heidi highcamp on challenges in her country. who was governor the l...

Million people visiting healthcare.gov every day so far this week. but the right is attacking right down to the wire. today "the new york times" reports the state of health care under the national law depends almost entirely on where a person lives. some state exchanges are great. others have major problems. but even worse is the sabotage weve seen from the right. take what has happened in texas. according to the times in texas, political opposition to president obamas health law is so strong th...

So, the bottom line is, this is typical, and anyone who has some knowledge of government initiatives, knows that it was unrealistic at best to say it wouldnt be. >> thats exactly right. the government, democrats, not known for bargain hunting. this president said the bill would cost $900 million over ten years and now close door 2.6 trillion -- closer to 2.6 trillion. 684 million for advertising, almost 700 million for the web site. what about some state exchanges? maryland, 261 million for thei...

Jon: im jon scott. the administration says more than six million americans have signed up through the federal and state exchanges. still unclear though how many of those signing up previously had health insurance. whether the figures include young people and whether theyve actually paid for it. doug mckelway live at the white house with more. doug, obviously, good news for the administration, but it comes as a key group of democratic leaders is breaking ranks with the white house over fixing the...

Lot of talk about the federal exchanges and glitches but theres also the story of state exchanges and places like kentucky where the state exchange worked but other places in the country -- blue state, massachusetts, rhode island -- well, rhode island has a good story, massachusetts doesnt. massachusetts has 93.5% below the rate of enrollment it was projected to be at in september. given that, pro-publica analyzes that one of the reasons these state exchanges have not gotten fixed is because sta...

Death of mick jaggers girlfriend. he says quote i am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend who end her life in this tragic daway. we spent many years together i will never forget her. an autopsy has been done but the results havent been released. >> guess what? healthcare.gov crashed again. it went down for 30 minutes yesterday. health and human services blaming it on human error. new this morning some doctors and administrators are complaining that patients have access to ...

>> reporter: were talking about the people who signed up for these new health care exchanges maybe on health care.gov, maybe through their state exchanges. insurers who have participated in it say that their costs are rising so much as a result of the botched roll out last fall all of the problems with healthercare.gov all the delays and adjustments we hear from the administration have had a direct impact none surers bottom line and so they say that the only way they can recoup those costs is by...

Jenna: one of the many issues plaguing obamacare today is sticker shock. some people stunned by how many premiums cost in both the federal and state exchanges. the president in that much publicized funny or die video says this. >> the truth is that they can get coverage, all for what it costs you to pay your cell phone bill. jenna: well "the daily caller" took a closer look at the price of plans and found the lowest tier of coverage on the washington, d.c. exchange, the so-called bronze plan, co...