compete for one another for people s business for the first time. and sanjay, she talks about focusing on the product, not on this mishap, if you will. it does lead you to wonder if the mission will get lost in how they put out a garbled message at this point. there have been calls now to delay part of the law, that requirement to buy health insurance, until they can get this website straightened out. do you get any sense that that will actually happen? that they will kind of finally acknowledge it s bad enough, they need to put a delay on this? she dodged that question, sort of, kate. it s interesting. i asked her that same thing and phrased it like this, saying, look, this individual mandate, this requirement that people purchase health care insurance, can you penalize them for not doing so if it s been so cumbersome to sign up using healthcare.gov? she said now is not the time to be talking about that. i don t know, kate, if that means it may come up again in the future or if
affordable product, and that the product is there. insurance companies have to compete for one another for people s business for the first time. janice baker who was with the president yesterday was the first person to sign up from delaware. took her a few days she said. she said she was frustrated a few days. the great news for janice she ll have coverage on day one. as will somebody like janice who signs up on december 15th have coverage day one. so we re going to keep focusing to make the web site work better. but millions of janices all over this country are going to save money. she s saving $150 a month. she has a lower deductible. and she is thrilled with the notion that now as a small business owner she doesn t have to worry that she s going to be priced out of the insurance market. i m anxious to see how many more janices there are out there. looking forward to those numbers. thank you, madam secretary. great to be with you. much more now on the political dimension of
i think that what we need to do is see the enrollment figures at the end of march of 2014. that s when open enrollment ends, and what i know from what we re seeing in not only states that are run by the federal website but states around the country is that the interest is huge. that people are eager to have this affordable product and that the product is there. insurance companies have to compete for one another for people s business for the first time. janice baker who was with the president yesterday was the first person to sign up from delaware. took her a few days she said. she said she was frustrate add few days. the great news for janice is she ll have coverage on day one, as will somebody like janice who signs up on december 15th, have coverage day one. we ll focus to keep the website working better but millions of janices around this country will save money. she s saving $150 a month.
now, if we could deal with these problems of ex-.ation and discrimination and prejudice, if we could get investment into teaching and countries like nigeria and india which are capable of affording it, and if we can get some of the trouble spots and get education there reorganized so that we can deliver it, i think we could make a huge impact on this figure. look, this is a shame on the world. it s a shame that you make a promise in 2000, and now there are more children out of school in africa than there were last year. and you ve got no chance of meeting this goal unless we take urgent action. and today the secretary-general and all the u.n. organizations, business for the first time, faith groups for the first time are coming together in this coalition to do something about it. you know, i cannot defend a situation where my kid is able to go to school. we spend maybe $100,000 on the education of a kid in the western world. and you know what we spend in africa? $400. that s all we spe