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That the president signed up for an individual bronze plan. he didn t do the signup himself. a staff membered signed him up. the white house citing the complicated nature of the president s case. what people need to understand about how the website works, one of core functions is to confirm your identity. the way they confirm an individual s identity you submit your personal information and they check that personal information against a variety of government databases. the president s personal information is not held on a variety of government databases. for perfectly understandable reasons. the president has a rather unique case. reporter: the president gets his health coverage through the military so this signup was a symbolic show of support for the exchanges. the president s monthly premium will be less than $400. despite the change in the deadlines, health officials say monday was a record day for healthcare.gov with a million visitors to the site by the afternoon, in addition ....
Out everywhere. liberals can t just put it to the side. conservatives, it does house a little portion of our lives. we re willing during the holidays to push it to the side. except for the war on christmas. that s different. when you go to the site that they link to which is health care for the holidays it s so condescending. he walks you through like you re children. make sure you think about your budget. make sure your pack your social security number. it s so insulting. i can t believe that no one looked at that and thought people would look and say stop insulting me. if i want to sign up, i think i can figure it out as long as your website works. in fl there s a video on that site. part of it is this kid going home for the holidays and his parents call and say we can t wait for you to get here. we have something we want to ....
Because it was bad at the beginning. it s the media don t usually cover good news stories. but you re seeing a lot of stories now that are saying, hey, wait a minute. after all this thing is working. and after all the terrible predictions, this looks a lot better than people expected. well, i think it s a hey, wait a minute moment when you have a united states senate who has been banging away on obama care and the president for everything he has done. ron johnson from wisconsin, who says, well now it s time to start talking about transitioning. what kind of transitioning is he talking about? preexisting conditions, competition in the marketplace. state exchanges. now he s saying the state exchanges aren t that bad. this is the hole in their boat that is eventually going to sink what they re all talking about. now, i ve spoken with a number of democrats who feel like they have really been beaten up because of the law s rollout. how do they recover from that? i say it s simple. i say ....
bob, the president hasn t taken any of the republican ideas because he doesn t want them. this is about blaming somebody. but the bottom line is i guess they have no wi-fi in the white house, he still hasn t signed up. he has to wait until the website works. somebody better be under that computer with things that go like this he will not be doing it live. it will be a still shot. all right. directly ahead, a couple of outrageous stories. this will 11-year-old was told by government officials that she can t sell mistletoe to raise if you saids for her braces. instead she s advised to beg for money. and a houston school district apologizes after an administrator tells girls to stop dressing like hos. so did she cross the line. all that and more coming up on the five. hos, bob, hobags. everyone s a kid at christmastime ....
To work. you have to get the younger, healthier people into the system to pay for the other folks. so far, there are suggestions that a lot of young people are not signing up just yet. what does he need to do to convince them? one problem is they think they re young and invincible. they ll never get sick and need this kind of thing. that s one thing. he is clearly making sure this website works. it s no secret that younger people do most of their shop, most of their life online at this point. if there is word that there is a government website they need to use is not working, that s something he has to address. president obama is coming be in nur preer from republicans and democrats to fire members of his administration in the wake of that botched healthcare.gov rollout. do you that i is going to happen? this is a president that doesn t like to fire people. he nudges them out. if anyone is under the gun, it is folks at the health and human services. they have a few more weeks t ....