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but there is a lot going on in d.c. bring us up to speed on all of it. reporter: there certainly is. the white house is trying to down play this latest tweet, they said if you are in queue online at healthcare.gov today and trying to enroll, you get an extra day into christmas eve, meaning if you try to start the enrollment process tomorrow, you re not going to get in in time to get insurance on january 1st. they say it is just a tweak to let the people who are online today and there is a surge of traffic because people wait until the last minute and other people legitimately tried to go on a week ago or a month ago and couldn t get on. but republican frank upton said this is another last-minute change by the administration saying, while the holiday surprises have become commonplace, the latest extension is another dispointment for the most
0 their current insurance. so let s talk about this for a second. so we have the employer mandate that was delayed a year. that s right. and then some portions of the individual mandate being delayed another year. what is left of obamacare. that is why i think the taxpayer bailout is looking increasingly likely. when you delay the mandates, that was supposed to raise the money. it was only a couple of clears years ago when congress passed this, they said it would save money for the health insurance program aand the congressional budget office said this would save taxpayers money. anybody who believes that right now hasn t been paying attention to what has been happening in the last several weeks. we ll leave it right there. thanks very much. merry christmas. tonight was supposed to be the deadline but folks have until tomorrow to sign up. and ed henry with the latest. they are delaying it by one day but there is a lot going on in d.c. bring us up to speed on all of it.