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Signed up for healthcare coverage nationally under president barack obama's healthcare reform law during october, the first month of the rollout. that's compared to 494,620 who were projected. it is no surprise that the number is lower much the white house said today that it would be. largely they are blaming this on the h everybody knows hasn't worked very well. and here is that figure. the figure includes 26,794 people who signed up for private health insurance plans through the technology challenged federal marketplace that serves 36 american states. so, but 27,000 on the average people hav...

By halloween 494,620 so one fifth of of the projections. in a moment we'll hear live from kathleen sebelius as she has a phone call conference with reporters across the country john bussey will join us for the dollars and cents of all of this. talk about what it means going forward. one fifth of the projections, specifically the number more than 100,000 people.

Less than one-quarter of this october estimate of 494,620. how many people did you estimate would enroll between november 15th and december 15th, which we're two weeks off from that period? >> i don't have that in front of me. i'll be happy to get you that information. >> if you could get that to the committee, i'd certainly appreciate that. but given that the back-end systems aren't working and insurers have resorted to manually enrolling people one by o one, i just think the system doesn't literally have the human resource capacity to manually enroll the numbers that are being projected here...

494,620. how many people did you estimate would enroll between november 15th and december 15th, which we're two weeks off from that period? >> i don't have that in front of me. i'll be happy to get you that information. >> if you could get that to the committee, i'd certainly appreciate that. but i think given that the back end systems aren't working and insurers have resorted to manually enrolling people one by one, i just think the system doesn't literally have the human resource capacity to manually enroll the numbers that are being projected here. i assume that many people are holding off,...

>> the memo estimated that 494,620 people would sign up for health insurance under the program by october 31. we're obviously very near that date. have you met that estimate? >> we will not have those numbers available until mid november. >> so do you not know? do you not have any idea how many people have enrolled or -- >> folks are still in the process of enrolling in the state based exchanges and the federal exchanges and we will have those numbers available mid november. jenna: the message for all his colleagues about how to move forward on the issue of obamacare. >> we have to come togeth...