they hit a milestone with 1 million but can t be content. there is a long way to go for 7 million and the threat of the penalty isn t sufficient. they need to go on offense without pandering and make clear this makes sense. the catastrophic option that is inexpensive is one of the hurdles this legislation faces. young people are key to making this marketplace work. there is a lot of room for improvement. in addition to that, pa trishia, you write about the digital dwight between obamacare and the hispanic population. even when the federal enrollment tools become available in spanish, some state-run exchanges like the one operated by new york state will continue to be english only. some of the states with the highest hispanic populations and highest rate of uninsured of the country opted out of the medicaid expansion offered
consumers will sign up to make the marketplace work. president obama said a million people signed up so far but the administration s goal is seven million by the end of march, 2014. even the president himself who was playing golf during his hawaiian vacation signed up for a health care plan symbolically. the president s staff got him not a gold but a bronze plan. the cheapest one for $400 providing only the minimum coverage. abc news, new york. here s the story of an artist s incredible creativity using the most unlikely of art supplies. the artist is named simon beck. he uses snow. he uses snow up in the french alps. he walks in snow shoes and creates amazing patterns and scenes. look at that! incredible. it takes up to ten hours to finish his designs. he s working at one of the largest ski areas this the alps. so plenty of holiday vacationers are being treated to that work. by the way, we have a website here. simon beck s snow art. it is his facebook page if you
individual policies. it s 5% of the american public but it s millions of people. and my reporting last night on had was that they are looking for some kind of administrative fix because they d rather not go the legislative route. what they might try and do is what happened in california, for example, where the state said, we want insurance companies to extend these policies through the new year. so they may try and do that state by state. what s interesting about that is that you find the administration now on the same side as its former enemy, the insurance companies, because they need the insurance companies to make the fix work and to make the marketplace work. strange bedfellows. that happens sometimes in washington. he had an opportunity to zing them in his interview yesterday, and he did not. he did not. let s talk about something the president said yesterday. we ve all heard of this tidbit that came out of this nut book