good friday afternoon to you and yours from the news deck. it s 3:00 in new york city. the face of obamacare s disasterrous web site rollout is gone. the political bickering over the health care law is about to gate reboot in congress. president obama today officially announced the resignation of kathleen sebelius and announced his pick to replace her, his budget chief, sylvia burwell, who now faces confirmation hearings in the senate. secretary sebelius had been obamacare s most visible lightning rod. some republicans called on the president to fire her but he said she stayed on to get the problems fixed, and she did she got the job done. seven and a half million people across the country that have the security of health insurance, most of them for the very fir time, and that s because of the woman standing next to me here today. we re proud of already for that. but for an official who faced so much heat for the web site problem, even today s farewell
first two months. oregon enrollment has improved to almost 7600 but only after the state ditched the web site from paper applications. from the federal marketplace tony trenkle is the only one that helped oversee healthcare.gov. asked why they didn t fire any one the department of human health and services says only pt brought in new management and general contractor since the web site problem emerged. diane macedo, thank you so much. the time now is about 15 minutes to the top of the hour. this man isn t stealing anything. he is giving drivers a gift. why they may not want it. he has become nicer. it may be the first blind date story you have ever heard. a guy goes to meet the lady he met on-line and ends up behind bars. who he was really meeting. let s check in with steve doocy to find out what s coming up.
about the question of cancellations, because as i say, this is not a web site problem. it s a lot of problems that have to be fixed. there has been so much attention to the millions of individual policyholders who have had their policies canceled. let s put this up on the screen. in the first month, for every one person that got insurance, 50 people lost coverage. but it now turns out millions more will lose employer policies. back in 2010, the administration projected about 14 million people who now get health insurance through their jobs will lose that by 2019. other government estimates are even worse. neera, hasn t the president misled all of us about the possibility that we could lose the plans we have? so, first of all, on these, i haven t seen these estimates of 14 million people from employer-based that was from cms. that was a higher coverage. cbo has done projections since then. they are much lower than that. so, i think i think we can really find the facts
because i don t want to live in this train wreck, because they have their self-interest and pocket book at issue. think this can be a powerful fours for change in terms of bringing reforms that change for all of obamacare if washington is living through it kathleen sebelius says, easier said than done, switch did she lie? well, i think there s been so many lies. her just pales in comparison to the president s lies. let s put it on the table. you ve say lies from the president you. don t buy the argument he wasn t into this, wasn t jazz he had to get you think he knew. so the gillibrand thing completely accurate. what due you make of it, we knew all long. those cancelled plans, that is no at glitch, not a web site problem. that s not a mistake. that s the core of the obamacare statute. did you discuss amongst yourselves when you heard the democrats say this won t cost anything, you were warning and
reporter: now, that is the key point that jay carney will likely make when he comes out for the daily briefing. we ve heard it from the president on down in recent days which is that the folks who are getting cancellation letters are going to get insurance. the president says they will get better insurance. of course, the question after that is how much more will that cost? some people may have their costs come down, others may pay more than they were currently paying in the plans that they wanted to keep. jenna: so that s a little bit of what democrats have to say. what about the republicans, ed? reporter: well, the key is you see republicans on capitol hill trying to go beyond, you saw this at is sebelius hearing yesterday, to not just focus on the web site problem, but say, look, they think there are people who are unhappy with how it s working out for them. house republicans like ron johnson of wisconsin basically saying, look, maybe people should be grandfathered in, folks who