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6.4 million people signing up for obamacare this year, an increase of 400,000 new enrollees over the same period a year ago. reports of obamacare s deaths have been exaggerated. this is something that withstood two supreme court challenges and presidential elections and a strategy fromç republicans to sabotage it. reporter: the five states with the most people signing up during the latest enrollment period were from florida, texas, north carolina, georgia and pennsylvania. ironically, all of them were carried in the election by president-elect trump. mr. trump made it clear what he thinks of the affordable care act. at points calling it flawed, expensive and saddled with triple digit rate hikes in some states. if we don t act, the damage will be irreversible. we re going to act. that s why we re going to repeal and replace obamacare. we have no choice. ....
What it means to the average consumer? reporter: it could have a dramatic impact on interest rates on the markets when they open monday obviously this is why it is such a big deal. no united states president has soon a downgrade like this on his watch. it has seen a gown grade like this on his watch. it has been downgraded fromó= aaa to aa+. we just got reaction from the obama administration. saying, a judgment flawed by a two trillion dollar error speaks for itself. what this official was referring to was behind the scenes negotiations over the last two hours between the obama treasury department and standard & poor s. this afternoon we are told by senior government official standard & poor s said to the administration, we are going to downgrade u.s. debt and gave them background information. the administration quickly read that and they say the administration does, they found a math error. which basically ....