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Jon: i'm jon scott. the administration says more than six million americans have signed up through the federal and state exchanges. still unclear though how many of those signing up previously had health insurance. whether the figures include young people and whether they've actually paid for it. doug mckelway live at the white house with more. doug, obviously, good news for the administration, but it comes as a key group of democratic leaders is breaking ranks with the white house over fixing the law. >> reporter: that's right, jon. just three days to go this the march 31st deadline until the...

Lot of talk about the federal exchanges and glitches but there's also the story of state exchanges and places like kentucky where the state exchange worked but other places in the country -- blue state, massachusetts, rhode island -- well, rhode island has a good story, massachusetts doesn't. massachusetts has 93.5% below the rate of enrollment it was projected to be at in september. given that, pro-publica analyzes that one of the reasons these state exchanges have not gotten fixed is because state officials basically said, hey, we know this thing isn't going to work but it's the guys that bu...

Death of mick jagger's girlfriend. he says quote i am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend who end her life in this tragic daway. we spent many years together i will never forget her. an autopsy has been done but the results haven't been released. >> guess what? healthcare.gov crashed again. it went down for 30 minutes yesterday. health and human services blaming it on human error. new this morning some doctors and administrators are complaining that patients have access to only four of 19 nationally recognized comprehensive cancer centers on state exchanges. vice pres...

>> reporter: we're talking about the people who signed up for these new health care exchanges maybe on health care.gov, maybe through their state exchanges. insurers who have participated in it say that their costs are rising so much as a result of the botched roll out last fall all of the problems with healthercare.gov all the delays and adjustments we hear from the administration have had a direct impact none surers bottom line and so they say that the only way they can recoup those costs is by raising premiums on people who might be sick, might be getting coverage for the first time but tha...

Jenna: one of the many issues plaguing obamacare today is sticker shock. some people stunned by how many premiums cost in both the federal and state exchanges. the president in that much publicized funny or die video says this. >> the truth is that they can get coverage, all for what it costs you to pay your cell phone bill. jenna: well "the daily caller" took a closer look at the price of plans and found the lowest tier of coverage on the washington, d.c. exchange, the so-called bronze plan, covers 60% of the medical costs and runs $124 a month. still 70% higher than the average cell phone bi...