legislation. meanwhile, what s interesting is we heard they were going to have a tech surge. who do they call in? this fellow who was called in to help with cash for clunkers. he works for o.m.b. he will be the face of the tech surge. the great thing about this guy is and i love this this is a guy who got started at bain and company. in other words, the company that was excoriated during the campaign that mitt romney is being called to bail out the president s signature achievement. he was said to actually improve the debt and deal with the money situation since 2009 in this administration. so i have an idea. why don t we call him. just call mitt romney. every time paul ryan s committee and now the energy secretary, energy committee in the house asked to get information about this to see how it was going to follow up on the software and see how it was going to be implemented
trying to reach out to folks around the country to explain the it, raises a lot of questions who knew what and when, not just secretary sebelius, when was the president informed of some of the glitches, you who extensive it was and jay carney was pressed. millions and millions of dollars have been spent already in terms of getting the website ready and rollout. there are is tech surge bringing in new experts how much more money does this cost? take a listen to jay carney. hundreds of millions of dollars laid out and disclosed. what is your new estimate? couple things. one budget is housed at hhs i would refer you to them including expenses related to the website. two, it is important to note, although it is rarely noted, certainly in someplaces that the affordable care act as it is implemented, as measured bit non-partisan congressional budget office as well as others will reduce our deficits, in the first 10 years and then
of every person who tried to get on the week before failed. and that the website apparently was built to handle 50,000 or 60,000 people at a time but it broke down when there were just 200 people on-line. jay carney was there in the briefing room yesterday and reporters kind of woken up. they realized wait a minute, we ve been sold a bill of goods because we were told this thing would work. jay carney was there taking questions but really had few answers. you re referring to h.h.s. for information. is it your expectation they will answer those questions? the website that is of considerable focus understandably is run by h.h.s. and c.m.s. they have a team in place that s working on it. they have brought in individuals as part of this tech surge to help them deal with problems on the
problems here. and the determination to go forward with it gives you a sense f hof how well aware they were of the fragile it is. i think it has gone 90% down from what it was initially, people they most wanted were young people, young people barely want to handle things by text. e-mail is long form letters for people like you and me, never mind going to the website and dealing with hours and hours and days of problems, so what they have now, brit, is a situation where they re not getting the very people they most want and they launched too early, and now kathleen sebelius says now they brought in the a team of people to fix this. now. and we don t know, megyn, whether the tech surge can be effective. all of it remains to be seen. we need to be aware of this.
so that s one of the reasons, sanjay, we have announced this tech surge and bringing in new eyes and ears. jeff zines, a colleague and friend of mine from this administration is coming in as a management consultant to the administrator of cms to make sure we look at the whole management system. we want to make sure that we have the best and the brightest in terms of tech folks. we have gathered them together and asked the contractors to bring their a team to the table, have asked the presidential innovation fellows to add some strength. because we just want to make sure we get all the right answers and do what is needed to be done as quickly as possible to open up the doors of this marketplace. jeff zines brings a ceo background. what about tech people? we hear the best and the brightest. are there people or companies that we re going to recognize? can you give us some names? right now we ve asked all of our contractors to look at their teams on the ground and bring in