the numbers about early returns of who is signing up with obama care are terrible. that s just how it is, they re very low. the real question is how are you going to handle not getting to critical mass which is the key to making this affordable obama care, the affordable care act, that s the affordable piece, is this pool of coverage. what do you do if you don t get the numbers you need? first of all we are going to get the numbers we need. we believe we re going to get the numbers we need. we have a six-month open enrollment period for that reason. the numbers cited in the reports are from notes and by definition, when you have a website that isn t functioning, you re going to have problems and we ve owned up to that repeatedly. nobody is more upset than my boss, the president of the united states, with the fact that the website hasn t been working well. that s why he s made sure that we have really smart people, extra eyes, extra brains on this problem working 24 hours a day to i
so we are not getting that reliable data. i don t know it is kind of convenient that the system not functioning is that the administration doesn t have to give us the numbers because the system isn t functioning. it is interesting that question is so hard for the administration and for secretary sebelius and for the administrator of cms yesterday. they can t get accurate data of the number of people enrolled but in two weeks they will have accurate data. listen, someone knows how many people have enrolled and the reason we don t is because the numbers are probably pretty bad. at the end of the month, the system is supposed to be fixed. i want to move onto something else. it was interesting. when the secretary was asked
outside group, americans for progressive action established by a winemaker, john jordan. outspent massachusetts gop. on top of the financial advantage congressman markey was able to roll out a host of names. president obama, former president clinton and over the weekend vice president biden who mocked gomez s promise to serve as a new kind of republican. these guys are not just conservative. they are anti-government. they don t want the place to function. they think we re better off if it isn t functioning. turnout is expected to be light. in fact, officials predict half a million less than the turnout in the 2010 election between martha coakley and scott brown. brown himself campaigned for gomez last night trying to remind voters of the last time they knocked off a democratic
the government officials thought there was going to be a deal and they better hold off. the real uncertainty i think is what the markets will do. we look like a country that isn t in control of its own destiny, because we re acting that way right now. if you re an investor, whether you re in some part of the united states or you re in some other part of the world, do you really want to buy american securities? do you want to invest in a country whose government isn t functioning? i don t think so. we could get a big market reaction, drop in the stock market. that might scare people. how quickly do you but it would also be a bad thing. in itself, it would contribute to the possibility of having
go into effect. those come in gradually and they could come in more gradually if the government officials thought there was going to be a deal and they better hold off. the real uncertainty i think is what the markets will do. we look like a country that isn t in control of its own destiny, because we re abilitying that way right now. if you re an investor, whether you re in some part of the united states or you re in some other part of the world, do you really want to buy american securities? do you want to invest in a country whose government isn t functioning? i don t think so. we could get a big market reaction, drop in the stock market. that might scare people. how quickly do you but it would also be a bad thing. in itself, it would contribute to the possibility of having another recession. how quickly do you think we ll feel tremors from the debt ceiling now that the treasury is