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Thats when everything has to be working to satisfy the original mandate. the point is its still early. in terms of where it stands, we have to separate the shopping function of the website from the coverage function. what they have been working on is getting the shopping function working. people have a lot of good options and its going to be really impossible to compare then without the website working. however, once they shop over the web, theres no reason why they cant enroll on the phone. now...

Elections. lets get one thing clear. there are tens of millions of americans who need health care. not just for themselves or family members but for the american economy. the rise in health care cost drastically hurt the american economy. this hasnt helped that need as well as the need of insurance? rising costs are killing people. and for some of them, literally. the problem is, obama care and the affordable care act has done just that. we have seen people that their premiums sky rock eted unde...

The website working. >> cms, the governments stake holder, how many people do they have working on it? or what do you theyre doing in order to try to get this deadline met by november 30, thats just coming up in five days? >> its coming up pretty soon, and there are a few hundred people at this point working on it. among the people working on it are the employees of cgi who had been working on it this summer. to this day, not all the computer code that cgi is writing is working perfectly when it...

As i understand it, the negotiations of whether theres going to be more thats owed hasnt taken place. theyre working more on getting the website working. >> cms, the governments stake holder, how many people do they have working on it? or what do you theyre doing in order to try to get this deadline met by november 30, thats just coming up in five days? >> its coming up pretty soon, and there are a few hundred people at this point working on it. among the people working on it are the employees o...

Obama, same thing. zoomed up in election. down to 40% or 50%. >> i think its a really poor political comparison. if youre talking about management of a crisis after the fact, maybe there are some comparisons. >> isnt that what journalists are trying to say with these comparisons as opposed to comparing the death and destruction of a horrible hurricane to the admittedly terrible rollout of a health care program. >> well, if thats what they were going to say, the way you said it, it would have bee...

Obama, same thing. zoomed up in election. down to 40% or 50%. >> i think its a really poor political comparison. if youre talking about of a cre fact, maybe there are some comparisons. >> isnt that what journalists are trying to say with these comparisons as opposed to comparing the death and destruction of a horrible hurricane to the admittedly terrible rollout of a health care program. >> well, if thats what they were going to say, the way you said it, it would have been perfect. the problem, ...

Deadline? it seems to me, this isnt a cut and dry thing whether the website is quote unquote working or not on that date. both sides will see what they want when november 30th comes around. >> i think youre exactly right. i dont expect the white house to have a press conference that says, 77% of the users can use the website. if its 93, they probably will. if its 77, i dont think they will. i wouldnt focus as much -- the key thing is, there will be a ramp up in terms of number of people to sign ...

Time their policies came new and when they had a serious medical problem they went bankrupt. nobody wants to go back to that kind of future. democrats will support this. it will be awfully important for the administration to get that website working, to iron out some of the other problems, to work with insurers to make sure that people who have policies or had policies that they want to keep are able to keep those policies. but i dont think any democrats want to go back to the situation we had b...

Anxious to see that. jonathan gruber, the president said this last week in his interview, with chuck todd here on next. that he was looking at some kind of fix to the law. this was before bill clinton made the same kind of suggestion. but, democrats in the house have no idea what that its. what would you suggest to the president and the democrats as a fix for this. >> i would first of all, say there is no easy fix. because this isnt a huge problem. we are talking about a small slice of americans...

Also said that she supports hillary clinton. >> i want to ask you about a couple of other things that are in the news now. start with health care. were expecting official numbers from the administration this week, but the "wall street journal" is reporting that less than 50,000 people have enrolled. are you concerned that this poor rollout is going to have longer term effects? >> well, i think theres no question all of us acknowledge, including the president, that the rollout has been horrible. ...