in the country? well you know what is interesting, at the time we were getting the press on it s pretty hard, can you fix the technology? and of course people looked to some of us who have been involved with technology before. and the thing that i noticed, the thing that i believed in, i think one of our moments was saying to the public, the truth. as we understood, it which was the following, we have a shortage. and actually, we got nurses sending me emails and notes, saying for the first time they felt things were going to be okay when they simply heard us say the truth. we have a shortage. and look, if amazon.com had did not have any of the books that you wanted to buy, you think that it was a lousy website. so, it wasn t a website problem. it was that we were left with a shortage and wait to fix the shortage. once we fixed the shortage, we actually built tools, text lines, other things, for young people. because we anticipated that the challenge was not going to be
of the books you wanted to buy you would think it was a lousy website. it wasn t a website problem. it was that we were left with a shortage and we had to fix it. once we fixed the shortage we actually built tools, text lines, and other things for young people because we anticipated that the challenge wasn t going to be getting people to appointments. the challenge was going to be getting the next set of people to whom they weren t willing to go through all of the trouble to actually get to the system. that s where we started focusing our technology efforts. you were steered to the health care system when you were sitting there with her and trying to figure out how to pay those crushing bills, you helped them pay those bills he incurred on the way to his death, a physician who when he got that diagnosis only had five months to live. such a personal and tight and emotional connection to the gravity and to the grueling
know, a technical website problem at the beginning of the roll-out with 7.5 million people now signed up for health insurance, in my view one weighs much more heavily than the other, but that s not to discount the short-term political problem and real pain that the website roll-out caused, and i went back and took a look at the congressional ballot. you asked people if the election were today, would you vote for congress for a democrat or a republican, and you can see in october -ing the government shutdown democrats were way up, and essentially when that ended and people started to focus on the problems with the website, democrats numbers fell off a cliff and they are only now starting to sort of stabilize and really recover so looking forward to 2014 how much did that botched website problem at the beginning of the roll-out impact the whole landscape for
authority was silent and then we have this. it goes to the reporter who covered the port authority since 2011 for continuing to push and ticking with the story. if it is a democrat or republican, i am hearing a lot of chatter, what about the various obama scandals and the press interest was not that much of a national story until the e-mails made it somebody and christie, by holding the entertaining two hour extravaganza provided a lost visuals to replay again and again and again, but is it fair to say 9 i.r.s. scandal should is gotten more coverage? the press love as scandal. the love of scandal is greater than any sort of ideological division. brit hit it in terms of why: people can understand the waiting in traffic thing, they can understand the i.r.s. thing and the website problem but to take benghazi, that is complicated and it is harder for
the beginning of december, then the port authority chair was silent and then we have this and goes to sean boberg who covered the port authority for sticking with the story and continuing to push. you mentioned if it s a democrat or republican, i hear chatter what about the various obama scandals and somehow the press is interested in this story which wasn t that much of a national story until the e-mails this week made it explode and christie himself let let s face it by holding that entertaining two-hour extravaganza provided a lot of visuals for television to replay when it and again and again. is it fair to say the irs scandal should have gotten more coverage? the press loves a scandal and the love of scandals even greater than ideological division there brit hit it exactly right in terms of why. people can understand the whole waiting in traffic thing. they could understand the irs thing. they could understand the website problem but take something like benghazi, that s