Testify about the issues about the site, even democrats saying that the health and Human Services secretarys testimony is a matter of when, not if. The secretarys view that she doesnt have to testify, doesnt have to answer questions, is too busy for that is unsustainable and she wont be able to sustain it. Ultimately secretary sebelius will testify before congress, you know that. Joining me with a preview of the president s remarks, peter alexander. So, peter, what website changes are in the works and what specifically do we understand that the president is going to give as a reason to why this was so botched on the rollout . Yeah, thomas, i doubt in terms of the latter, i doubt hell lay out exactly what went wrong. Hell probably focus less on the problems and more on the solutions. You noted that tech surge, the health and Human Services putting out that blog statement acknowledging some of the changes that are already taking place right now. Let me show you if i can right now one of
the u.s. district judge, claude helton said i just don t find there s a strong showing of any inequitable treatment or the deprivation of anyone s rights. if these voters that were purged were also registered in another state, is there really a problem? that wouldn t be the problem. the problem is that these kind of purges so close to an election cause confusion and can cause intimidation. so if this were a federal election, this type of purge would be clearly illegal because purging is not allowed within 90 days of any federal election. but this case just shows us how important state voting rights law are, so it s not as clear under state law as it is federal law, but doing this type of list maintenance or purging, which does have some errors in it and does cause confusion is not allowed under principle under federal law and should not be allowed under state law either. you bring up this margin of error. as you look at how this race is rolling out, it s expected to be very close w
0 already exists. this happened overnight. on the front of the healthcare.gov website, you can see it there for yourself, it demonstrates the fact that people can apply online or apply by phone. that s different. the president will certainly make the case that the health care law is about more than just botched, at least at this point, a flawed website, it s about affordable health care. they will point out among other things that 50% more agents are available at call centers to help people that want to apply right now. among the things that critics of health care website and of the health care plan in general will indicate is the fact that the white house still will not say exactly how many people have enrolled to this point. they point to the number 19 million unique visitors to date over the last three weeks but comparatively that s not that big when you compare it to other websites, maybe ranks like 200 or 250th of all the websites that are out there right now. the president will d