date, we had regular meetings with not only a team at cms, but administrators involved. i was made aware that we were testing. as we found problems, we were fixing those problems. i think there is a cgi report at mid-august identifying some problems. and between august and october, that became the pump list for cgi to fix those problems. that's why you test. >> now, in the "washington post" on october 21st, there was an article that said about a month before the exchange opened a testing group of ten insurers urged agency officials not to launch the site because it was riddled with problems. were you aware in september that insurers recommend a delay in the launch of the exchange? >> i was not aware that they recommended the delay. i know everyone was concerned that there were risks and likely to be problems with the brand new integrated insurance system.