Insurance website. Website Developers Tell the Associated Press they saw red flags for months and complained to each other about unrealistic deadlines. Well, now congress is looking into the issue. A cbs news poll found that 51 of americans disapprove of the Health Care Law and only 12 of americans think the signup for Health Insurance changes is going well. Tara mergener is in washington. Tara, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. As major problems persist with this website, the white house has hired a former budget official and trusted adviser to lead the project. On capitol hill the administration faces tough questions about what happened. Highranking health and Human Services officials will brief congress this morning on the problems with healthcare. Gov. The website was supposed to make it easy to shop for Health Insurance, but it has been slow and unresponsive. We need to get to the bottom of it. Congressman mike rogers says he and his colleagues have tough questions for Obama
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
Good afternoon to you on this monday afternoon. We begin as washington shakes off its post shutdown days. And turns its focus on to the troubled rollout that spurred all that republican ire in the first place. A little website known as healthcare. Gov. And today in the white house rose garden, the president voud to deal with the technological flaws that have made signing up so difficult for so many americans. There is no shoeiugarcoatin. The website is too slow, people have been getting stuck during the application process. Nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website isnt working as well as it should. Which means its going to get fixed. The president said a tech surge is already at work, 24 7 to address the website issues. But while the kinks are being ironed out, he urged people to sign up by phone or in person. And offered a reminder, that online glitches cannot be allowed to overshadow the monumental benefit of the law for millions of americans. We did not wage this lon
Troubled rollout of the Governments Health Care Insurance website. Website Developers Tell the Associated Press they saw red flags for months and complained to each other about unrealistic deadlines. Well, now congress is looking into the issue. A cbs news poll found that 51 of americans disapprove of the Health Care Law and only 12 of americans think the signup for Health Insurance changes is going well. Tara mergener is in washington. Tara, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. As major problems persist with this website, the white house has hired a former budget official and trusted adviser to lead the project. On capitol hill the administration faces tough questions about what happened. Highranking health and Human Services officials will brief congress this morning on the problems with healthcare. Gov. The website was supposed to make it easy to shop for Health Insurance, but it has been slow and unresponsive. We need to get to the bottom of it. Congressman mike rogers says he an
Reporter the School District says it is closing the middle school for a week while the investigation gets under way. The yours trulies of the shooter and three other victims are not being released yet. An emergency evacuation is going on after officials start smelling gas. Bge crews are on the scene investigating and they have turned the gas off in that school. Officials have determined that the gas is leaking from a pipe. Theres no word whether the school will reopen tomorrow. Many americans who tried to enroll via the programs website have not been able to. Tara mergener reports from the white house. President obama walked into the rose garden with janice baker who says shes the first woman in delaware to enroll for obama care. Like many other people out there, it was frustrating to sign up for the plan. Reporter but only a half million have successfully applied. And the white house wont say how many people have actually been able to select a Health Insurance plan. Nobody is madder t