supporters say look, the plans these people have aren t great and too basic and a lot of these people will get better plans. flip side of that is it may end up costing them more if they don t qualify for subsides, these new plans cost them more. that s exactly right that is what the white house is trying to say in the pitch right now is that yes, there are millions of people out there disrupted in all of this but in the end, unlike the preobama care era where they might be out of luck, in the new obama care era, at least they can go online conceivably if the website is working, buy insurance and have coverage. yes, while the benefits may be better and while there might be more coverage, they will cost more and anderson, i talked to an insurance industry representative that said that sthounlt have come as a surprise but something they knew is coming because these high detuckble plans that a lot of americans had were not going to work in the obama care era. they are out the winwindow
was a document at a point in time that identified issues, and we worked to address those issues and all issues identified. so i think they re playing up the fact that this was a report that was issued to the government early in september and they had several weeks to try to work with those things that needed to be fixed. the implication was they did the best they could. and they said work on them and it wasn t their fault it wasn t fixed, i suppose. joe johns, thank you very much. now i want to bring in the former white house press secretary. bill, you just heard joe johns reporting that the obama administration knew in accept that the webb wasn t ready to go live. people seeing what really happened and the scale of the problems thus far, ask fairly, how could they have ignored that? i don t think anyone is ignoring any of the problems happening. but what is happening is thousands upon thousands of people are successfully going
about paying more may actually be getting more. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with breaking news. we have new information about a confidential report. the obama care website had problems, a warning to the administration shortly before the launch that apparently that warning was ignored. we have team coverage of the obama care under fire right now. what are you learning? well, in newly obtained documents, we re now getting a fuller picture of how much the government new or should have known about problems with the healthcare.gov website on the same day that a mea culpa was issued. they were warned that the obama care website wasn t ready to go live. cgi issued this confidential
give him plausibility deniability on a whole variety of issues. but if kathleen sebelius knew, the secretary of hhs, if she knew, and if the people at the white house also knew, i would find it hard to believe that she wouldn t share it with some people at the white house in key positions. the president should be asking the question and may well be asking the question, why wasn t i told? because once he s told, maybe he can get things done. we ll see what she says tomorrow morning when she testifies before this committee. that s right. our special coverage will begin at 8:55 in the morning. just ahead, the third ranking, james clyburn, i m going to ask him about the serious problems about the website. you see james clyburn right there. our special under fire continues through the
she is among those who will testify this wick on capitol hill as congress investigates. the website will be fully functional by the end of november. could be serious tongue lashing going on when she appears before congress this week. steve sen steve centanni, thanks etch have. the woman in charge of the obamacare health care exchange website is expected to testify in front of a house committee on tuesday. her name is marilyn taviner and she is expected to face tough questions about why the website wasn t ready to go by the october 1st deadline even though she testified just weeks before the launch that it was on track. now republican lawmakers want to know if the white house made any decisions that may have stalled the system. joining me now is jaime weinstein who is the senior editor for the daily caller. morning, jaime. good morning to you. let s talk about the kind of questions that taviner