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Costs. what are we see? >> reporter: secretary sebelius puts the price tag at about $174 million so far, others put it closer to $300 million, but now numbers on how much it cost to set up the state exchanges, too, and the price is actually very hefty when you start looking at that. to start with, every state out there, except for florida and alaska, received a state planning grant, even if they did not plan to purchase in obama care, just to study how it fits into and affects state government it is. the bottom line, more than 53 million sent to and spent by the states. next, many of states th...

Billion,767,000, a little more than that. bottom line for level 1 establishments, more than 1.25 billion. bottom line for the level 2 establishment grants? well over $2 billion. this is how much of your tax money has gone to helping the states get ready for obama care. >> the white house has pointed out that some of those state exchanges, they are working quite well, suggesting the money was well spent. >> they have said that, and that may be a fair claim. other places are not helping much with their arguments. for example, if you look at

Plan through this website? >> no, sir, we do not have any reliable data around enrollment, which is why we haven't given it to date. >> i understand you have said approximately 700,000 people have applied for coverage via the healthcare.gov and state exchanges. >> they have completed an application. >> right, which is different from enrollment? >> that's correct. >> my question is, are you expecting -- i know you don't have exact numbers yet -- but are you expecting a large number or a small number of enrollments in the first month? what are your thoughts on that? >> our projections prior to l...

I have questions about enrollment concerns that i have. now, i understand that you've said approximately 700,000 people have applied for coverage via the healthcare.gov and state exchanges. is that -- >> they've completed an application. >> right. which is different from enrollment? >> that's correct. >> my question is are you expecting, are you expecting a large number or a small number of enrollments during the first month? what is your thoughts on that? >> well, our projections prior to launch were always that there would be a very small number at the beginning. we watched the massachusetts...

Medical society is indicative of this. 44 percent of the doctors are saying they can only participate with obama care. and only 23 percent of the physicians surveyed in the poll said they will use and work with the state exchanges. and now 44 percent is a more important number because obama care is more than a state exchanges, bill. obama care is employer based insurance how it changes with regulations and individual market outside of the exchanges and every policy that is going to be obama care ordained is going to have a lot of regulations imposed and limiting the number of tests and treatme...