as david was pointing out to me before we came on, no problem with the website. it s actually working and so that is, i think, another real surprise that they really have the website working mechanically in terms of server capacity and all of that. of the 6 million is the group populated with enough healthy people to make this work? is this the right kind of person who signed up for it? you pointed out health cay people is what we are worried about. the real issue it seems to be enough. probably in the high 27%, 28% but that is more than enough to get us there and to keep the rates sufficiently stable and that is really what you care about. mark, we go to your question. point out the obamacare website was down as of midnight. oh, really? yes, as the deadline arrives. yesterday, i logged on at 10:00 p.m.! you got there early. it s down. one issue you didn t address
the total number. you said pretty a high irpercentage than most people have report. what about the number of people signed up who previously had insurance and not new people being covered? unfortunately, most states don t ask that so we don t have a good number so far of it. what we do have is the gallup poll, the last few months, begun asking people are you insured or not and we have seen a steady drop over four months now to under 16% to over 18%. it does seem to be having an impact on the uninsured rate. i mean, i think the important point is that we really are able to have a website and actually we now are beginning to know the characteristics of a good one. i was up in connecticut last week. the guy who runs it, a former executive. he has a big board and where are they having problems so they can address it and what is the total
news yesterday. dr. zeke emanuel is joining us and cancer doctor and best selling author david agus out with a new book, a short guide to a long life. talk about the book coming up. first, do you believe the 6 billion number and how significant is it? the best website is aca sign up.net. the guy is a web developer in mitchell and has been the most accurate person so far. his prediction today is 6.78 million and it s in that range. and about 82, 83% of those people have paid for their premium and you can be sure the insurance companies will chase those other 18%, 19% carefully because they want to make money on. it s going to be good and surprising given everything else, two months of terrible website. i think the administration can be comfortable. plus notice with this big surge.
of course, and that s exactly while the administration is trying to punt everything into 2015 and 2016. zeke emanuel was on another network this morning, and started off talking about, he was obviously one of the architects, if thought the primary architect of okbamacare talking about where this was heading and where this was going. this was the conversation. notice with this big surge that david was pointing out before we came on, no problem with the website. it s actually working. so that s a, i think, another real surprise, that they have the website working mechanically in terms of server capacity and all that. we should point out the obamacare website was down as of midnight. really? as the deadline arrives. yesterday, i logged on at 10:00 p.m. it was down most of the morning from 3:00 a.m. to midday, the website healthcare.gov, a screen grab. the system isn t available at
administration are putting out today are true and accurate, give them the benefit of the doubt, the rosiest possible scenario, and there are many reasons not to do that given the recent track record of numbers coming out, you have to ask yourself to what end. what good have we done? we still haven t had the back end of the website fully built. we had millions kicked off their own plans involuntarily, many others who were not able to see the doctors they preferred. millions thrown out of medicare, who may or may not have been eligible before, but we don t know if they re newly eligible or not. medicaid, i m sorry, not medicare, being a system that may or may not provide actual medical benefits to people. there are studies that disagree with that. you have seniors scrambling to pay more for medicare advantage. you have businesses reworking their entire work week in order to comply and to avoid fines. i think all of that, given what we have seen at the end of this enrollment period or nea