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If you tried to sign on before and need to sign on after the deadline passes what will you notice right away. >> the feel and functionality will be be different. how you navigate the site will be different. and mostly it's going to be mostly behind the scenes of a lot of things that have changed. if you look from the imposed deadline of october 1st, obviously the web site didn't function appropriately. what they are trying to do now is get it stable so the individuals can can go on the web site so sign up for healthcare benefits or go to the state exchanges or whatever they need to do to sign ...

Reskin it, which means it may have different colors. but if you tried signing on before, what will you notice right away? >> the look and feel will be a little different. how you navigate the site will be a little different. mostly it's going to be mostly behind the scenes oh of a lot of things that have changed. if you look at the deadline of october 1, the website didn't function appropriately. they're trying to get it stable to individuals can go on the website to sign up for health care benefits or go to the state exchanges. >> how realistic was this november 30th deadline? >> about as opt...

I'm curious if you're nervous in what you're anticipating for the healthcare.gov website tomorrow. >> actually, i'm optimistic. one thing i think was corrected is that it was probably never a good idea to have the expectations be so high to begin with. this is such a massive change and i'm certainly hopeful that the website will be working much better tomorrow. you know, in california, of course, we have our own website and things are going pretty well in california. so there's a lot of successes and obviously a lot of challenges around the country. >> a lot of state exchanges are doing very w...

Folks and things went very smoothly. one of the sad things about the rollout has been the 36 governors that have refused to participate. so if there were more state exchanges, i think things would have been much better. then, my republican colleagues who spent hundreds and millions of dollars in a disinformation campaign has created all kinds of confusion. you even have people in california who thought that they needed to sign up on the federal website and didn't realize that cover california was actually health care reform. i think there has been a lot at play that has made a rollout much mor...

With the failure stories and promoting them quite a bit. now, you know, the 20% of people, that's a whole lot of n anecdotes that are going to be amplified and used as evidence that, well, you know, perhaps 80% of users are going to have a good experience. 20% won't. and those can often have, you know, very real world effects. these are not just stories to be told in the media. >> so there is the federal signing up. there's also the state exchanges. elahe, some of those numbers we were just showing looked pretty good. what does that tell you? >> so pby and large, the states that have chosen to...