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Health plan went online. Mike viqueira at the white house, i feel like we need a drum roll here. Reporter the white house has spent the last couple of weeks furiously trying to lower expectations, and now we understand why, the numbers are anemic. They play hide the ball here, and that is how Many Americans have been able to sign up. 16,185 americans have enrolled in healthcare. 26,000, note that 106,000. And it appears through website a third of the people who have signed up signed up in california. They run their own website that is not the healthcare. Gov website, it is bad news all around. John boehner calling on the administration and congress to scrap the entire healthcare law because of a calamity, and democrats are getting very nervous about this. There are democratic cosponsors in the house and senate to bills that would allow people to keep the plans they had. Almost 4 Million People its estimated had lost their plans because they were deemed unworthy. They did not meet the s
Legislative achievement. The numbers are not good. Mike viqueira joins us from the white house, mike, you were telling us that the numbers were likely to be bad. How bad is it . Its worse than it was yesterday. It seems to be less than that. If youre counting the people who were trying to enroll through that healthcare. Gov website. Only 26,794 people, well call it 27,000, were able to register through those states. There were 36 states who declined to do this themselves. Theyre relying on the federal government to get them enrolled. All told, the rest of the states, had now who have their own website, the total is 106,185. When you consider the fact that ththe congressional budget offie project the number that would be enrolled in the first month, theyre certainly falling short, and there is more trouble on the horizon. Do you remember the president assigned a Technology Czar to straighten this whole thing out. They said the website would be up and running by the end of the month. The
Evaluate job applicants. [ theme ] good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. A glimmer of hope for survivors of typhoon haiyan. Philippines Officials Say all major roads damaged by the storm are passable. Its welcome news to relief and rescue workers who have been struggling to deliver aid since last weekend. Theres a sense of urgency to get supplies out fast as conditions are worsening across the battered country. In village after village families are begging for basic necessities some standing on the side of roads with signs saying, please help us, turning pleas for help into looting for food, water and medicine. Here is where the worst damage is in the central philippines the devastation stretches from leyte, to tacloban, and palay. Also to cebu. We have the littest on the latest so many suffering after typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines. We can survive without the houses. We can sleep anywhere. We need food. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the storm are
Welcome to al jazeera america. We are following a developing story out of washington state. Earlier tonight Union Members called for a no vote to protest boeings push to end a pension plan and decrease health care costs. Workers would have received a signing bonus of 10,000 if they had approved. Boeing says it needs the deal to assemble the new planes in washington state. Figures show sign ups through the federal website have fallen short of targets. Fewer than 20,000 americans bought policies through healthcare. Gov in the first month it went on line. Congress wants to know what went wrong. Lisa stark has more. Over 106,000 signed up for health care under the healthcare. Gov. Only a quarter, fewer than 27,000 used the federal change. House Speaker John Boehner called the law a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. The administration faced tough questions from republicans about the bungled roll out. This was a monumental mistake to two live and effectively explode on the launch pad.