healthcare.gov came under fire for not having the window shopping option when it first launched. a key component widely available on many other web shopping sites. chief white house correspondent ed henry live now with the story. ed, have the new updates to the healthcare.gov website improved the user experience? reporter: gretchen, that s certainly the hope here at the white house. they figure if you can get that website working full time, you can get people have been a more user friendly experience, they won t get upset. they won t go away. they ll actually try to stay and enroll. but as you know, the case republicans have been trying to make is that even if the website is fixed, once you get on there and try to enroll, you may get some sticker shock. which republican ron johnson is talking about today, although a democrat, ezekiel emanuel, one of the architects of the law insists the more people learn about the benefits, the more they ll like it. take a listen. in wisconsin, a y
$2,400 per year. that s because of obama care. no one has launched a big pr campaign to get these people signed up because of the problems with the federal website. we are about to launch a big pr campaign. and that, i think, is going to persuade a lot of people. now, as part of that pr campaign, as mr. emanuel calls it, today the white house is trying to tout the fact that medicaid is being expanded all around the country to get millions of people who don t have insurance right now covered. of course, that means taxpayers kicking in the money to cover these folks. the question is going to be whether or not the math adds up in the end. whether you can get enough young, healthy people to sign up for the law in order to help pay for all these millions of folks coming in who did not have insurance before, gretchen. that s a catch. as well white house officials are launching a campaign, they did last week, to sell the benefits of obama care to the american public. but what s the new
that once you get it expanded, it s going to mean a lot more people being covered. but republicans are saying it s not just a cost issue. it s the question of when you look at these enrollment numbers, is it because people are actually signing up and paying into the system, or is it folks just getting medicaid? is that beefing up the numbers and sort of distorting the picture? gretchen? all right. ed henry live for us at the white house. thanks so much. good to see you. more trouble for obama care now with the word the federal health exchange is now determining that some people with salaries as high as $80,000 a year, $80,000, are eligible for medicaid when clearly they are not. here s why that s a problem. it leaves them with little chance to get the subdy dized insurance they are actually entitled to by the december 23rd enrollment deadline. these people are left in insurance limbo while they wait for the error to be corrected. now to a fox news alert. because the senate just
president said over and over again to an american public that took that promise based on its plain english meaning and understood, internalized what that would mean for them. the white house is saying not so fast. we ve heard about these 5.5 million people who ve had insurance plans canceled. now when you re talking about losing the doctors that you like, we re talking about millions. millions of people who might experience that. and quite frankly, would not be able to afford to shell out the kind of dough that we might be talking about here. not to mention that s right. there was actually a maybe another lie in that statement, in that little clip of that interview as well. because emanuel also said this. no one guaranteed you that your premium wouldn t increase. premiums have been going up. well, i distinctly remember the president saying that your premiums would not increase. in fact, that his health care plan would save money. that s exactly right. that s another thing