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The total number. you said pretty -- a high irpercentage than most people have report. what about the number of people signed up who previously had insurance and not new people being covered? >> unfortunately, most states dont ask that so we dont have a good number so far of it. what we do have is the gallup poll, the last few months, begun asking people are you insured or not and we have seen a steady drop over four months now to under 16% to over 18%. it does seem to be having an impact on the...

News yesterday. dr. zeke emanuel is joining us and cancer doctor and best selling author david agus out with a new book, "a short guide to a long life." talk about the book coming up. first, do you believe the 6 billion number and how significant is it? >> the best website is aca sign up.net. the guy is a web developer in mitchell and has been the most accurate person so far. his prediction today is 6.78 million and its in that range. and about 82, 83% of those people have paid for their premi...

>> of course, and thats exactly while the administration is trying to punt everything into 2015 and 2016. >> zeke emanuel was on another network this morning, and started off talking about, he was obviously one of the architects, if thought the primary architect of okbamacare talking about where this was heading and where this was going. this was the conversation. >> notice with this big surge that david was pointing out before we came on, no problem with the website. its actually working. so th...

Administration are putting out today are true and accurate, give them the benefit of the doubt, the rosiest possible scenario, and there are many reasons not to do that given the recent track record of numbers coming out, you have to ask yourself to what end. what good have we done? we still havent had the back end of the website fully built. we had millions kicked off their own plans involuntarily, many others who were not able to see the doctors they preferred. millions thrown out of medicare,...

Glitches. wendell goler has that part of the story tonight. four years after the president signed the affordable care act, the final day for enrollment arrived with computer problems reminiscent of the websites rollout last fall. a bug took hours longer to fix than the scheduled early morning maintenance window. a last-day crush of people trying to enroll overloaded the website in the afternoon. and another glitch on the white house countdown clock told people they had another two weeks left t...

>> people get on the website, they dont know what their subsidies are going to be, whether theyre going to get a subsidy, whether they can afford the insurance. they dont even know whether their doctor is going to be on the plan right now. >> on the eve of obamacares open enrollment season, president obama touted maryland, where democratic governor martin omalley presides over one of the bluest states in the nation as a likely success story. >> going to be smoother in places like maryland where ...

But its not working at a level that i would call acceptable for when november comes around. >> and the state will have until november, the beginning of the next enrollment period, to complete the switch-out for the connecticut system. the website was also experiencing major problems today. in the meantime, congressman harris says the inspector general of the department of health and human services has at his request launched an investigation into how things went so wrong in the state. >> thank y...

The cost, meaning about 4 million get financial help. the kaiser foundation, however, found that 17 million are eligible for assistance, meaning the vast majority just isnt buying. >> thats really remarkable because if youre getting the subsidies, getting money to sign up, why are we only getting 15% to 25% of people to sign up. >> they tout how much interest consumers are showing, saying almost 80 million have visited the website and 20 million have called in. even so, only a little more than 5...