Well, today is the day, the deadline to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care act but some people already saying theyve had problems. Many heading to healthcare. Gov receiving a error message, but now everything is back up and running. Libby casey with more. Do we know why the site went down . Reporter the site went down for routine maintenance as it normal by does, but the problem was that it did not go back up as supposed it was to. It was not available at critical hours. The white house said that folks could leave their email and they would be contacted after the website went back up, but its bad timing a in the push fr more people to sign up. People are falling in the coverage gap. They are too to apply for subsidies, but they in states that chose not to expand their medicaid program. Once a month for four months diane brown has come to the free clinic in virginia hoping to get care. This is it for anyone who doesnt have medical insurance. The clinic serves 1700 people bu
Insurance to avoid a penalty, enrollment under the Affordable Care act ends at midnight tonight, and it looks like there are plenty of folks who have waited until the last day. People have been lining up at some of the popup locations where they can get the paperwork started. Thats on top of the people who have been signing up online the last couple of days. David shuster joins us. The Health Care Website received over 4 million visits over the weekend and that doesnt include a very heavy search today. By noon today the call centers designed to help people had registered more than 400,000 calls. It does appear that the program is going to be close or perhaps blow by the initial signup goals. Either way, the health care into state and federal years. Enrollment results, 9. 5 Million People that previously did not have coverage gained coverage. 45 to 48 million haas year to between 35. 5 and. 5 million today. This is 38. 5 million today. Polling by gallup, going into march the percentage
So just eight hours remain to make the dead line to sign up for health care. Enrollment under the Affordable Care act ends at midnight tonight. David shuster joins us to break down the number. Which will ensure the viability of the entire scheme. The healthcare. Gov. Gov received close to 1 million visits this weekend. Going into the weekend, according to state and federal enrollment reports at least 9. 5 Million People who previously did not have insurance had gained coverage. This means the total number of unassureuninsured americans, is reflected in apology by gallup. At the end of 2013, the amount of uninsured americans had risen from 18 . Caring for unassured through hospital or emergency visits somebody has to pay for those costs and that pushes up costs for everybody else. The breakdown of how they did it is revealing. Going into the weekend about 6 million americans had signed up at the marketplace exchanges. About 2 million had had absolutely no insurance whatsoever. 4. 5 mill
And rising water. Plus seismic predictions perfecting an earthquake warning system. But what would it cost . There are now only four hours left to sign up for Health Insurance under the Affordable Care act. By midnight eastern, the white house hopes to have 7 Million People registered. But the website has been struggling again today. Libby casey joins us from capitol hill with more. Its actually healthcare. Gov and it was a chaotic day for that website. It went down for scheduled maintenance around 1 00, that was expected, but it stayed down until 9 00 a. M. Some crucial hours. They were able to get it back up and running at 9 00. And then it went down a second time, john, in the afternoon. The department of health and Human Services and the Obama Administration saying that was because there were so many people trying to jump on at the same time. People deciding to call instead of going online, they got a recorded message saying there was a very long wage because of the surge in demand
International problems. Deadlock over the crisis in ukraine and john kerry tries to find Common Ground with his russian counterpart. They wont be used search dogs today as they are working on the mudslide and they have been given to days off because they say the cold and rain could dell their sense of smell and the death toll is 21 and expected to rise and dry weather is in the forecast after rainfall over the weekend hampered results and we are in arlington and there is discrepancies with the death toll and what do we know now . 25 people notified and relatives notified and that is the number officially as deceased here and we know four additional bodies have been identified at the slide site but has not been removed. That is a bit of confusion along the way, people taking the two different numbers adding them up and going with the number but they are saying right now 21 dead. We will see the sunshine here today in the river valley and a welcome sight as the search and rescue crews go