president obama s staff signeded him up for a plan. his $400 a month plan is simply symbolic. the military provides his care. he felt strongly that he wanted to show support for the marketplaces and the millions of americans who shopped on those marketplaces. the overall pace of enrollment so far since october 1st more than 1 million americans have selected new health insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces. reporter: enrollment is far shortly of the 3.3 million the government expected by this time. and with visits to healthcare.gov hitting more than 2.2 million over the past three days, you can bet officials can be closely watching the numbers again today. carol? all right. athena jones reporting live for us this morning. thank you so much. i just got an update about santa. that s not santa. that s edward snowden. a santa of a different kind, if you will. the real santa is over south
monday. joining the crowd, president obama, whose staff signed him up over the weekend. in a move that was entirely symbolic, since he uses military doctors. the president sounded a positive note friday about the overall pace of enrollment so far. since october 1st, more than one million americans have selected new health insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces. reporter: while the president said more than half a million people signed up through healthcare.gov in the first three weeks of december alone, enrollment is still far short of the 3.3 million the government expected by this time. meanwhile, members of the president s own party continue their push to delay until 2015 fines for people who don t buy insurance by the end of march. the end of the day, if it s so much more expensive than what we anticipated and that the coverage is not as good as what we ve had, you ve got a complete meltdown at that time. so this transitional year gives you a chance to adju
of december alone, more than half a million people have signed up for health insurance vee kra the federal web site, healthcare.gov. that s a lot faster pace in the role that we ve seen in previous months. in november, it was 300 thousand or so. he also said that since october 1st, one in a million people have signed up through the federal and state marketplaces. so noo s a little bit of an updated number. we won t get official numbers until january. all right, athena jones, thank you so much. this will be the first christmas at the vatican for the pope. the pope is also sending christmas presents to the under-privileged with a rather personal touch. here s erin mcglaughin. pope francis has a lot going on. on saturday, he delivered a
businesses looking to invest in america. through all of the challenges we ve had and all of the challenges that we ve been working on diligently in dealing with both the aca and the website these past couple of months, more than half a million americans enrolled through healthcare.gov in the first three weeks of december alone. in california, for example, the state operating its own marketplace, more than 15,000 americans are enrolling every single day. and in the federal website, tens of thousands are enrolling every single day. since october 1st, more than one million americans have selected new health insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces. all tolled, millions of americans despite the problems with the website are now poised to be covered by quality affordable health insurance come new year s day. this holiday season there are mothers and fathers and
paychecks for middle-class families and bigger savings for businesses looking to invest and hire here in america. and for all the challenges we ve had, and all the challenges that we have been working on diligently in dealing with both the aca and the website the past couple months, more than half a million americans have enrolled through healthcare.gov in the first three weeks of december alone. in california, for example, the state operating its own marketplace, more than 15,000 americans are enrolling every single day. and in the federal website, tens of thousands are enrolling every single day. since october 1st, more than 1 million americans have selected new health insurance plans through the federal and state marketplaces. so all told, millions of americans, despite the problems with the website, are now poised to be covered by quality affordable health insurance come new year s day. now, this holiday season, there