pen, i can take executive actions. with a phone, i can rally folks from around the country to help grow the economy and restore opportunity. one of the other things you re likely to hear about is health care. the hhs report of some 3 million people have enrolled, less than half the number the white house was hoping to get to by the end of march. we don t know if they re new health care recipients. since he can t pass up a chance to speak to a captive audience, we expect the president to do a marketing pitch to get people to sign up for health care. we don t expect him to spend a lot of time on foreign policy, outside of asking for patience when it comes to both the timetable in the afghan withdrawal and figuring out whether to leave a residual force, and more importantly, looking for patience from congress when it comes to new sanctioning on iran, as the six-month pre pre-preliminary deal gets implemented.
flocking there. florida s tourism is valued at more than $90 billion and they will see a 3% spike over last year. temperatures feeling warm enough to play in the ocean. but during the christmas and new years holiday particular down here in south florida the place is packed. especially around miami. more than 3 million travelers are landing here and many more are driving. 90 million are driving for time away from it all as we fade out 2013. the best marketing pitch is right here in your weather map. blue, cold and frigid but in florida, the only state in a warm orange color with temperatures in the 70s and 80s.
obamacare. steny hoyer expressed regret for the marketing pitch if you like your health care, you ll be able to keep it. he told reporters, quote: i don t think the message was wrong, but it was not precise enough. a georgia house democrat told health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius he s concerned short-term enrollment problems could become long-term insurance market issues. we also need to take time to make sure additional fits and starts won t cause larger problems. right now i m less concerned about who s to blame and more concerned about what went wrong and how to fix it and how we re going to assure that it doesn t happen again. reporter: white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough and key administration officials went to capitol hill to allow senate democrats to vent. he heard democrats have lost confidence, obamacare is not working well, and senate allies are anxious. meanwhile, republican leaders are emphasizing that washington democrats have resisted attempt
that secret if the justice department has its way. basically, u.s. tax authorities have been trying to pull a veil of secrecy back on these accounts. the swiss cabinet last week came up with a proposal that helps the u.s. follow the money trail, so some banks can provide information to the u.s. on potential clients who have transferred money elsewhere just as the u.s. was trying to crack down on tax evaders so the likes of some of the banks expected to participate in exchange toll escape criminal prosecution. this is a bit of a compromise by the swiss parliament. another story going around are the wars in the telecommunications arena. sprint trying to maintain its market share against the likes of verizon and at&t. its come up with a new marketing pitch to offer unlimited talk, text, and data.
make ends meet is through payday loans, and payday lenders operate with varied levels of freedom in as many as 36 u.s. states action lending to a total of 5.5% of adults in the country over the past five years, according to a pew survey. that adds up to about 12 million americans going to a storefront center or online to borrow an average of $375 per loan, which might sound like a reasonable way to get the cash to covered emergency expenses, until you factor in the more than $520 on average spent on interests for those same loans. that same pew survey shows that 69% of those who take out a payday loan for the first time are doing so for recurring expenses like rent, food and utilities. the average borrowers using eight loans per year, eight. lasting 18 days each. the marketing pitch from these