program. bertha coombs bringing us the details. >> secretary of the health department kathleen sebelius in a conference call with reporters saying americans will have until december 31st to pay for their coverage beginning on january 1st. they're requiring insurers to accept payment until new year's eve. they're also encouraging insurers to also take other measures and be more flexible. like perhaps just take partial payment or also perhaps accept payments that come in after the 31st and have that coverage go back retroactively to january 1st. clearly now with the website problems working and the website itself working, they want to make sure that people who sign up by december 23rd at midnight will have coverage starting on january 1st. although in a fact sheet released, they also said if it appears that people still have trouble signing up by december 23rd, they may very well extend that deadline. they're clearly, kelly, trying to make sure that they have the