by medicare administrator marilyn tavenner says the security control assessment was not completed days before the launch which, quote, constitutes a risk that must be accepted and mitigated. mike rogers saysvel attempts at hacking have been successful and called for much more comprehensive testing. >> yes or no, has an end-to-end security test on healthcare.gov went live? yes or no? >> i will find out exactly what testing they're doing. >> reporter: some democrats suggested while the rollout has been rough, the law is helping. >> the affordable care act is working. it has been improving the health security of millions of americans for the past three years. >> reporter: one female lawmaker mocked an obama care provision that would include maternity coverage for men. >> to the best of your knowledge, has a man ever delivered a baby? >> you know, ladies, time has expired. >> reporter: and another said obama care is taking away personal choice. >> some people like to drive a ford, not a ferrari, and some

to question the medicare chief, marilyn tavenner. she's expected to say the website is getting better and added capacity by doubling the number of servers. but the website crashed again yesterday and is now offline every night from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m. at an organized -- at an organizing for action event last night, president obama made an election day analogy. >> i have run my last political campaign. but i'll tell you what, i've got one more campaign in me. the campaign to make sure that this law works for every single person in america. >> let me bring in our company. liz sidoti is the national politics editor, alex burns, senior political editor for politico. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> we're going to keep our eye on this live hearing today, and it's also election day. liz, the president said himself this is going to be his last campaign, selling the health care law. how's he doing so far? >> well, i think he's having incredible difficulty in doing that. i mean his message was fairly strong heading into this as he pivot

we're keeping our ear to the testimony by marilyn tavenner and will have much more for you coming up.eantime a key question not on today's ballot this election day. will voting get even more difficult with voter i.d. laws going into effect? in 2012 people stood in line for hours trying to cast their ballots. in some states closing hours had to be extended. and right now all eyes are on wisconsin, where a federal trial is under way. the first trial to challenge strict voter i.d. requirements since the supreme court struck down part of the law in june. lorraine miller is the first female president and ceo of the naacp. good to see you, good morning. >> good morning. >> 34 states have now passed some sort of voter i.d. law, which i think probably is surprising to a lot of people. the justice department is suing both texas and north carolina over their laws. i know that you have not been involved, the naacp has not been involved in these lawsuits, but where do you put this on the priority list? >> very high. civic engagement is a major, major event for us and we have encouraged our units,

marilyn tavenner is sitting alone at that table. we'll go in and out of this and monitor the headlines. and where we have gone last week in terms of progress. martha: we'll be look at the questioning here and we'll be taking you back and forth to mayor continue tavenner who is on the hot seat as a white house memo surfaced that shows a healthcare advisor warned the administration three years ago that the rollout would be a mess. david cutler writes to a white house economic adviser. he wrote this -- he wrote this to the economic adviser, larry somers. i do not believe the relevant members of the administration understand the president's vision or have the capability to carry it out. here we are. we are going to be talking in a second to bob beblg, the former democratic campaign manager and cohost of the five and he joins me now. this an interesting memo from david cutler. one of the things that stands out to me is we are starting to see the scramble process and see people involved in this saying just for the record i raised a red fl

things are expected to get heated on capitol hill as marilyn tavenner is back trying to explain what went wrong during the rollout of the obama care website. while she admits there were big problems at first, things are now improving. >> we are now able to process nearly 17,000 registrants her hour or five per second with almost no errors. we've updated the sight several times since september 1, improving the experience. >> we'll have more coming up but first we start with election day in virginia. luke russert is there for us where terry mcauliffe cast his vote early this morning. luke, do you get the sense that virginians are aware that all eyes are on them today as well as seeing that that state could go blue in decades? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, thomas. what you see here behind me is a slow but steady stream of voters coming through. from ones i've spoken to, they say they know the whole eyes of the country are on them because of the amount of tv advertisements they have been inundated with for many years about the governor's race, lieutenant governor's race, among other thi

ready, i think at the same time we must recognize there should have been public objection to marilyn tavenner signing that document for a website that clearly was not ready for prime time. additionally today we're hearing from a distinguished panel of witnesses. i recognize some of the witnesses, particularly mr. park, are busy elsewhere trying to get this site operational. but since we have been in the neighborhood of six weeks since the launch, i trust hundreds, or if necessary thousands of the right people have most of their marching orders. in fact, it is time for congress on any committee of jurisdiction to look over the shoulder of the administration, to ask both what went wrong and today not just ask do you promise on november 30th to make it right but will you, in fact, commit to the changes in law that would ensure this doesn't happen again. i don't hold this committee hearing today to sell i.t. reform. this committee has already done its job to sell i.t. reform. however, it is essential that you understand that when mr. cummings and i make public billions of dollars worth of failed

>> from the marilyn tavenner is to have the system and deliver a system on october 1. >> she had been in on these briefings from mckinsey that said the research problems. she was in at least two of them i believe. and this was at hhs headquarters on a -- able for. and also at the eisenhower executive office building on april 6. she was briefed on these problems but she said moving forward on october 1 and you as a man in charge of making sure this works, she didn't tell you? that those problems existed. is that what you're saying today? >> i can't comment on that. >> either she told you osha didn't. i'm just curious spent i don't think she told in the context of a breaking. i think we have status babies all the time which we talked about ways to mitigate and -- >> so you met with her frequent over those months but she never brought up any of these concerns are? >> not in the mckinsey report, no. i think we talked about issues and priorities for october 1. >> i see. well, i have no further questions. so, mr. chuck, i appreciate you spending so much time with us today. we are going to t

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>> i believe our administration marilyn tavenner and other folks.i primarily take direction from marilyn tavenner. >> i will say in summing up we are concerned at multiple levels. but if you review this cms document, which i didn't see until this morning, it doesn't take but ten minutes to go through and look at it. it is absolutely clear that this start-up of the website wasn't going to work well, if at all, on october 1st. it says that in here. i yield back. >> chair recognizes mr. dingle for five minutes. >> thank you for the recognition and holding this hearing. we are six months into the six weeks of imp lementing the website. the website has improved, but there is more work to do. affordable care act is had law of the land and we share the goal to make it a functioning website. it is important to remember we can never eliminate the risks when building a large i.t. system. i would urge to take steps to make it work because this is the l largest under taking. is cms responsible for developing the hub and the enrollment tools for the federal faci

senate when senator tim scott your senator asked marilyn tavenner about your problem. >> first of all senator scott we have reached out to mr. doing several times we will find him and follow up on his question. >> i'm happy to give you his phone numbers. >> i think we have them, thank you, though. >> he doesn't think so, actually because no one has called him. [ laughter ] >> we have a disagreement there. >> yes, ma'am. >> all right. well now she says that they tried to reach out to you. we didn't have any problems finding you and apparently tim scott hasn't. you have heard from h.h.s. ms. tavenner or anyone her office? [broken audio] >> i finally got a phone call from them at about 3:50 this afternoon and miraculously it appears that they have finally granted my request and taken all of my information and my account off of the web site as of about 5 minutes ago. >> it's too bad that it took a senate hearing to actually have to be able to -- so you could reach h.h.s. just think of all the people that don't have the advantage of having senator tim scott point it out to ms. tavenner. wh

listen to marilyn tavenner construct what is at the very least ahn alternative universe. >> we have a system that's working. we're going to improve the speed of that system. >> excuse me. >> yes? >> you're saying the system right now is working? >> i'm saying it's working. it's just not working at the speed that we want and at the success rate that we want. and those are the things we're working on. >> congressman trey gowdy, member of the house oversight judiciary committees. he chairs the immigration and border security subcommittee. congressman, great to have you with us. let's start with, if we may, obama care. this president lied. his administration lied. and persisted over a period of more than three years in maintaining the fiction that people could keep their insurance plans if they chose. your reaction? >> well, i hate it for my fellow citizens, but there were lots of voices warning that what he was saying was just not going to be a true or a lie or mendacious or whatever synonym you want to use. and that's not the only mischaracterization. your premiums are going to be highe

tomorrow first, marilyn tavenner and wednesday, kathleen sebelius. anne-marie. >> thank you. >>> this morning, the trial of egyptian mohamed morsi was adjourned because of violence insightment. they released this video it shows morsi in detention at a secret location. morsi hasn't been seen in public in four months. the trial location was changed at the last minute to try and avoid the mass rallies planned by morsi's brotherhood muslim supporters. if convicted, morsi could face the death penalty. >>> and houston texans head coach gary kubiak is said to be in stable condition after a frightening incident on the field during last night's football game against the indianapolis colts. the 52-year-old coach collapsed. and was taken to the hospital in front of thousands of spectators. jericka duncan is here with more. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. texans team officials say kubiak did not suffer a heart attack but say he was light-headed and dizzy when he collapsed. kubiak is the second nfl coach in as many days to be hospitalized after a medic

. >> reporter: cms administrator marilyn tavenner faced congress for a second time as cbs news found new privacy concerns with healthcare.gov. an analysis showed a final security test was never performed before the site went online. cms knew about potential problems but tavenner signed documents accepting that risk. >> when consumers fill out the online application, they can trust that the information they are providing is protected by stringent security standards. >> reporter: republicans want the site down and this is one more reason why the president obama's healthcare law needs to be delayed. >> the new promise is, if you want healthcare, go find it on a website that the administration says won't be working properly until the end of november. that's an unwelcome christmas presents. >> reporter: south carolina attorney and his wife registered on the website but the couple's eligible letters containing private information were sent to a man in north carolina. >> it's just a system that, you know, we have been continually told cast secure and now i found out it's not secured. >> on

this september 27th memo signed by medicare administrator marilyn tavenner says the security control assessment was not completed days before the launch which, quote, constitutes a risk that must be accepted and mitigated. mike rogers says low-level attempts at hacking have been successful and called for much more comprehensive testing. >> yes or no, has an end-to-end security test on healthcare.gov went live? yes or no? >> i will find out exactly what testing they're doing. >> reporter: some democrats suggested while the rollout has been rough, the law is helping. >> the affordable care act is working. it has been improving the health security of millions of americans for the past three years. >> reporter: one female lawmaker mocked an obama care provision that would include maternity coverage for men. >> to the best of your knowledge, has a man ever delivered a baby? >> you know, ladies, time has expired. >> reporter: and another said obama care is taking away personal choice. >> some people like to drive a ford, not a ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red solo cup, n

yesterday, medicare administrator marilyn tavenner admited to a senate committee only a few consumers could create accounts in the first days the site went live. we have now resolved that issue. users can successfully create an account and go through the enrollment process. we are able now to process nearly 17,000 registrants per hour or five per second with almost no errors. well, i'm going to be blunt, because i really want this to be a success, and my job is to pinpoint solutions, not finger point, looking at a retro way. i think it is very confusing. senator barbara mikulski of maryland--says 73,000 people in her district are losing their health insurance because their policies don't meet the standards set by the affordable care act and will need to shop for insurance on the website. kentucky is on the sucess stories. with more than 1,000 residents signing up each day since october 1st on the state's site "kynect." there are hints that the justice department is close to a deal to allow a merger between american and u.s. airways after all. the doj wants the two airliners to give up

. >> do you know who briefed marilyn tavenner on the security risk? do you know who sat down with her? >> it was our chief information officer and chief information security officer. >> two other questions. is there a way to track what personal information any employees can see we're working on this? we have a lot of contractors involved in this and all of the contractors who they even are. is there a way to track? there's personally identifiable information and is there something in place that tracks what people can see as far as personally identifiable information. >> if you call the center -- >> i'm talking about people working on the back end. >> the gentleman's time is expired. you can finish the question. >> in certain cases yes, like if you're in a testing environment. a very few people touch a production environment. they wouldn't even have access to that live data. sometimes when we use testing data, you want to see the results so you do have developers having access to that information. it's not live people's data. >> i thank the gentleman f

head of c.m.s., marilyn tavenner, wouldn't disclose the figures, when dave camp asked earlier this week. >> how do you not know how many people have enrolled? >> chairman camp, we will have those numbers available mid- november. >> reporter: health and human services today told us it's in no position to confirm or discuss enrollment figures because it doesn't have any. a spokesman suggested enrollment was expected to start slowly and skyrocket as the deadline approaches. >> pelley: thank you sharyl. 17 states and the district of columbia are running their own health insurance exchanges. and many of those are of appear to be working well. ben tracy found one in washington state. >> i think the important thing about washington state is that we have demonstrated the fundamental integrity and benefits of health care reform. >> reporter: washington governor jay inslee is feeling confident. in the month since his state opened its health care exchange, 49,000 people have enrolled, another 92,000 have started an application. the bar for success right now is fairly low. but washington state is g

and just yesterday, marilyn tavenner told us she doesn't have numbers. i'm sorry, but if you spend $600 million on your signature legislation and you have internal numbers and you're not willing to give external numbers, what you're doing is the kind of propaganda that this administration has done since day one. 4.7 million unique views. that is what they put out. they seem to get that number but couldn't get the number of enrollments when it was less than a thousand as the days rolled on. jenna: congressman -- >> the truth we don't know if the enrollments actually occurred. it could have been insiders playing test games. jenna: we're glad you're spending part of your birthday with us by the way. that is nice way to spend a party and your birthday this way. tell you what supporters of health care law say about this they point to the state of massachusetts, there's the model. the state of massachusetts during the first month signed up barely over 100 people. this is the same thing. what is your reaction to that? is it the same thing? is it just a slow rol

yesterday mayor taken -- yesterday marilyn tavenner explained none of the fed saw this coming. >> we anticipated high volume, then we ran into the issue with the establishment of the e-mail accounts. so we had a problem solve for that. those were two things we did not expect. >> reporter: something else are some limited enrollment statistics that show between a handful and a few hundred people at a time signing up. we'll get the full enrollment numbers for all of october next week. bill: november 15 is the target they have been talking about. what do you expect to hear from kathleen sebelius. >> the chairman of the committee is max baucus. he's not up for reelection and he called the healthcare law a train wreck. an increasing number of democrats called for the enrollment deadline to be extended. bill: peter doocy from d.c. here is martha. martha: kathleen sebelius takes the hot seat at the top of the hour. as soon as that hearing gets underway we'll go there live. we'll speak to a top republican on that committee. senator orin hatch -- senator orin hatch is americans are tired of th

marilyn tavenner claimed it had improved. >> we can process 5 per second with almost no errors, we added more capacity and doubled the number of servers to meet demand. lou: despite tavenner's claims, the web site is still not working properly and was down yesterday for an hour and a half, a new report fines that obamacare sticker shot is worse if you liver i live in a red st, premiums for 27 years old road average 28% in rid states compared to 50% increases for blue states that voted for president obama. health policy expert blame the staggering difference on fact that red states have fewer regulations to begin with. and obamacare has more than 10,000 pages of regulations. that explains it all. doesn't it? we're coming right back. >> the administration had to lie to get obamacare passed. and after literally years of misrepresentations, the president is now misrepresenting what he said about misrepresenting. we're joined next by former reagan budget director david stockman on what the obama wear train wreck -- obamacare train wreck may mean to the economy and it's not good. customer erin

>> marilyn tavenner. primarily i take my direction from marilyn. >> my time is expired, at summing up, we are concerned that multiple levels, but if you review this cms document, which i did not see until now, this morning, it does not take me in about 10 minutes to look at it, and it is absolutely clear that the startup of the website was not going to work well if at all on october 1. it was not. and it says that in here. with that, i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. dingell for five minutes. >> for the requisition, i am thanking you for holding this hearing. we are over six months now, into the implementation of the affordable care act. while the website has improved, it is clear there is more work to be done. i'm hopeful the subcommittee will work hard to achieve that goal. the aca is the law of the land, and we hope to make it a functioning website. it is important to remember that we can never fully eliminate the risks when building a large i.t. system. we must take steps to mitigate them. we m

. >>> in the much-awaited obama care enrollment numbers are coming, medicare chief marilyn tavenner overseeinghe plagued website say the figures will be released next week testifying before a senate panel tuesday. she said the end of november is 800,000 signups. >>> and president obama is nearing an all-time low in his approval numbers. according to the latest gallup poll, 39% of americans approve of the job that he's doing. the majority, 53%, disapprove. the president's lowest rating was 38%, and that was in 2011. problems with the obama care rollout are likely to blame for these plunging numbers. >> as for obama care, chris christie has some advice for the president, speaking exclusively with cnn's jake tapper aboard his campaign bus. the new jersey governor offered a suggestion to the president about backtracking on a promise that americans who like their health insurance would be able to keep it. >> here's what my suggestion would be to him, don't be so cute. and when you make a mistake, admit it. now, listen, if it was a mistake in 2009, if he was mistaken in 2009, 2010 on his understandi

park, who is the chief technology officer, had sat down with several people, including maril marilyn tavenner. and one of the things that was conveyed was this fear about hc.gov being unavailable. he said it was likely that todd would come back one day before the rollout, and he wrote, i think we should have a more comprehensive answer. that e-mail you saw, there was another e-mail suggesting they do something with the page when people had trouble logging on to come up with a better way of saying you can't get on so that the media didn't jump on it with hyperbole to make it seem like things were worse. the president last week suggested it was a surprise these major problems and that if he had known about this before the october 1 rollout, he said i'm not stupid, i wouldn't have gone forward. this raises more questions about why they did go forward despite these concerns. a top official told me, look, before the rollout, they warned there might be glitches, and they also take some heart inside the white house that part of what these officials were worried about was high, heavy traffic on the w

marilyn tavenner who runs c.m.s., they were there. they heard. of the things mackenzie said was if your website is not working, the call centers can't get the stuff into the system. we found that out the hard way. they also said there is no single person in charge. this is a giant bureaucracy. you need a project manager. but the federal government said we can handle it. they couldn't. meanwhile it gets even worse. according to -- so that was that. they knew. they knew going back. how many times do we hear the president and his surrogates say if you like your plan, you can keep it? they have known for years that tens of millions of people would lose it. right now they're going it was only going to affect 5% of the country. right now there's a story starting on national review on-line. it says in 2010 inserted in the federal register was the fact that department of justice lawyers knew that perhaps up to 80 million americans, if you have not just individual health care policy on the individual market, but if you had it through your employer, you wo

marilyn tavenner is currently testifying. we're going to keep an eye own that for you and bring you the details on that. and i go think i actually did apologize. i did apologize for him. i'm going to roll that back. >>> election day. many people watching this guy, new jersey's chris christie. he's quite the star. could this governor be really rolling out the stepping stones to the white house in two years? [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. [ inhales deeply ] explaining my moderate to severe so there i was again, chronic plaque psoriasis to another new stylist. it was a total embarrassment. and not the kind of attention i wanted. so i had a serious talk with my dermatologist about my treatment options. this time, she prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps

on behalf of the committee, i welcome our witness, marilyn tavenner, administrator for center for medicare and medicaid services. she was confirmed by the senate. she was principal administrator for cms and served for four secretaryim kaine's of health and human services in virginia. ms. tavenner spent 25 years working for the hospital corporation of america and began her career as a nurse in richmond. she holds a bachelors of science degree in nursing and a masters in health administration from the virginia commonwealth university. i know you are very busy these days, thank you for coming here to share your experience and answer questions today. -- tavenner, i would like to ct,s is an intricate subje we usually give the witness five minutes. i would like to give you up to 10 minutes to make your opening statement, then we have our questions. welcome, your statement will be made a part of the record in its entirety. please proceed. >> thank you, chairman harkin. ranking member alexander, and members of the committee. launched one of the key provisions of the affordable care act, the market

marilyn tavenner. atmy time is expired, summing up, we are concerned that multiple levels, but if you which this cms document, i did not see until now, this morning, it does not take me in about 10 minutes to look at it, and it is absolutely clear that the startup of the website was not going to work well if at all on october 1. it was not. and it says that in here. with that, i yield back. mr.he chair recognizes dingell for five minutes. amfor the requisition, i thanking you for holding this hearing. , into over six months now the implementation of the affordable care act. the website has improved, it is clear there is more work to be done. i'm hopeful the subcommittee will work hard to achieve that goal. the aca is the law of the land, and we hope to make it a functioning website. it is important to remember that we can never fully eliminate the risks when building a large i.t. system. we must take steps to mitigate them. we must take the steps to make the program work, because this is the largest un

marilyn tavenner who managed the rollout said fixes on track to have the site running smoothly by the end of the month deadline. will it be enough to convince users to log on again? >> i think it's very confusing. i know my time is up. i think it's very confusing about where you go. we hear about navigators. i can tell you people really don't know. >> a very happy election day to you. i'm kristen welker in for andrea mitchell. we're watching two big races on election day that could provide a blueprint for what to do and what not to do in major political contests to come. joining me for our daily fix chris cillizza, host of "in play." tim russert and editor mark murray. thanks for being here this afternoon. luke, i want to start with you in virginia. polls showing a close race. mcauliffe has a little bit of a lead there. it all depends on turnout. what are you seeing so far? >> indeed, kristen, turnout is the name of the game in the commonwealth of virginia. so far in the precinct in mclane virginia, quite a wealthy enclave, which has definitely leaned democratic in the last few years,

cms administrator marilyn tavenner was asked why a final security test was never completed before the site went online. she said she knew about the problems but signed documents accepting the risk. >> when consumers fill out the online application they can plus the information provided is protected by stringent security standards. >> she says upgrades are being made every day to make sure the site is secure. republicans say the site should be taken down and this is one more reason why the president's healthcare law needs to be delayed. >>> well, illinois is set to become the latest state to allow same-sex couples to get married. the state senate approved that measure just a few hours ago after an historic "yes" vote in the house. that bill now goes to governor pat quinn who has said that he will sign it. illinois is the largest state in the heartland to legalize same-sex marriage. it begins next summer. >>> new jersey governor chris christie was re-elected with ease. with 23 precincts reporting christie had 58% of the vote compared with barbara buonoa's 41%. he is expected to be the f

henry chow, marilyn tavenner. i think the key is to sort of create this, i think, an illusion of collective irresponsibility as opposed to having a buck stops here moment. >> that's interesting. you think they would just keep president obama isolated, have other people take the fall as it were, even if no one gets fired. but this is part of actual strategy. >> yeah, and also -- and i think "the washington post" reported just to change the benchmarks constantly. we're going to keep this vague as to what we will subscribe a successful month to. define success downward. i think they will be able to buy themselves enough time to get something that works reasonably well. >> what did you make of former president bill clinton? some conspiracy theorists will argue this is part of giving red state democrats or vulnerable democrats some room to operate. i'm of the mind that if puff enough ground swell of action in and around some of these bills to delay the individual mandate, to let americans stay on their crappy insurance

now, tomorrow marilyn tavenner will be back on the hill testifying. that hearing gets under way at 10 a.m. on wednesday kathleen sebelius will be back as well, testifying before the finance committee. back to you. >> bertha, thank you so much. the obama administration set a target of 7 million people to sign up for the new health care plan by march 1 st of next year. that's 39,000 each day. the exact number of enrollees is not public but early estimates show enrollment falling short right now. joining us right now with their take, doug holtz, former director of the economic budget action and michael mandell, economic strategist for progressive policy institute. thank you for joining us. doug, kick us off. what do you think the impact of health care overall will be if the enrollment in exchanges falls short, which seems to be what we're seeing? >> well, this is a big problem for the obama care rollout. no question. you need the young invincibles. a group traditionally has not boughten some insurance. in polling we did earlier, 45% of them said they wou

a senate committee would ask marilyn tavenner about a white house memo showing that four days before the launch the government grand a waiver despite a high security risk. president obama is trying humor to reassure americans and get his healthcare law back on track. >> let's face it, a lot of us didn't realize that passing the law was the easy part. >> this is much more than a failed website. real people who are facing real healthcare problems are being hurt. >> the president says you can still apply by phone, by mail and in person. but notes from a congressional committee show that all applications eventually go through the healthcare.gov website. >>> a new study indicates some herbal supplements actually contain no herbal supplements. canadian researchers performed dna tests on 44 popular supplements. one out of three had no trace of the supplement whatsoever. industry advocates admit quality control is an issue here but they don't believe it is as bad as the study suggests. >>> the university of california system is about to get stricter on its smoking ban. the school is now goin

marilyn tavenner says the website can now process nearly 17,000 people every hour with almost no errors. >>> some blue shield customers will get to keep their health insurance for a little while longer. the company is canceling california policies in the wake of the affordable care act but the state insurance commissioner is threatening to sue the company now. the health insurance giant was supposed to give families 180 day cancellation notice but only gave 90 days warning. >> blue shield refused initially to comply with this law so i notified them that i would file a court action to force them to comply. >> blue shield will now send out a correction notice. customers who want to keep their coverage longer need to respond by december 6. >>> happening today, san jose state is slashing classes across the board. students will have fewer options and crowded classes come next semester. as kpix 5's cate caugiran reports, departments were given just hours' notice. cate. >> reporter: yes. this news comes just as students registering for the new spring term. so the future for san jose students a

medicare and medicaid chief marilyn tavenner told a senate hearing today the troubled web site's performanceimproving. >> we are now able to process 17 registrants per hour or five per second with almost no errors. we've updated the site several times since october 1, fixing bugs and improving the healthcare.gov experience. we've added more capacity and we've doubled the number of servers in order to meet demand. >> ifill: in washington last night, the president told supporters he has "one more campaign" in him, to prove the health care law will work for everyone. he'll take that pitch to dallas tomorrow, meeting with enrollment volunteers. federal findings today raised major questions about day care. the inspector general for the department of health and human services found that 21 states do not require a yearly unannounced inspection at day care facilities, and only 15 states require background checks on employees. 1.6 million children rely on federal subsidies to attend programs at 500,000 day care centers or homes nationwide. this was election day in a number of cities and states around

but the fact is, is that i think as marilyn tavenner said to our committee yesterday, they are on track to have the website up and running for almost everyone within the next 30 days or so. that's plenty of time for most people that really weren't going to look at signing up until the end of this year or the beginning of next year. listen, she got tough questions yesterday from democrats and republicans, as she should have. but ultimately the point i made is that you are not going to reorder one-sixth of the american economy, which is what health care represents, without having some winners and losers. some people will be upset with their experience in the new system, but way more people are going to get a better, more affordable product out of there. i just don't think that we should have an expectation that everyone is going to be happy. the vast majority of people who see a change in their health care benefit are going to be happy, but there's going to be some folks who are going to walk away from this change with a little bit less than they had before. >> and there's a lot of talk t

you heard marilyn tavenner say it would be working fully. you can see the administration managing some expectations. it's really just several miles from the white house where whether the website will be fully functional, mostly functional will be determined. it's happening at a facility in an area in northern virginia, a suburb of washington, d.c. where i've spoken with industry sources familiar with this facility where most of the fixes are undergoing. following a "washington post" report today, wolf, that said it's unlikely that the website, the problems with the website will be resolved by the end of the month. i am told by industry sources that actually from their perspective, and they are sitting in meetings with the people on the ground technically who are saying what's working and what isn't, i'm told by one source, i have not heard anyone in a position of authority and knowledge freak out. that's the quote, that the deadline is not possible to meet. but i think, wolf, one of the reasons that you're seeing these managed expectations h

any minute lawmakers will start to question the medicare chief, marilyn tavenner. expected to say the website is getting better and added capacity by doubling the number of servers. but the website crashed again yesterday and is now offline every night from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m. at an organized -- at an organizing for action event last night, president obama made an election day analogy. >> i have run my last political campaign. but i'll tell you what, i've got one more campaign in me. the campaign to make sure that this law works for every single person in america. >> let me bring in our company. liz sidoti is the national politics editor, alex burns, senior political editor for politico. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> we're going to keep our eye on this live hearing today, and it's also election day. liz, the president said himself this is going to be his last campaign, selling the health care law. how's he doing so far? >> well, i think he's having incredible difficulty in doing that. i mean his message was fairly strong

marilyn tavenner, the head for the centers for medicare and medicaid services, talked about that today at a senate hearing. listen. >> what's the target enrollment number for the end of november for the exchange? >> for the end of november? >> yes, ma'am. >> i think that we were looking at between october and november, i think that number was i want to say around 800,000. >> so it's the first sign of what the administration wants and where they want to be by the end of november. keep in mind, they have yet to reveal any numbers of actual enrollment and won't, until mid-november. but if you look at the number they have just released, 700,000, that's just the people who have signed up to start looking for plans but haven't necessarily enrolled. the administration warns that the numbers at the outset certainly are going to be low and now we have a measure of the expectation. some of the other numbers that caught our ear today at this hearing, alaska, the senator there said they had just three enrollees but rhode island has more success, with 4,000, according to the senator. >> people who

. >> marilyn tavenner, who runs medicare and medicaid, testifying before a senate hearing today.macare exchanges is getting better and she promises they will be fully operational by the end of this month. she is also said that it is still contractors who are to blame for the very poor rollout of the obamacare exchanges. now yesterday we shared with you a story from the "wall street journal" about a woman with stage 4 gallbladder cancer. her insurance had been canceled. she can't see the doctors she credits with keeping her alive. she blames obamacare. >>> now think progress a leftist group wrote up piece debunking her argument. i quoted, she is losing her sunday and doctor because of a business decision her insurer made within the competitive dynamics of the california health market. the piece explains, says, united health dropped their coverage because they struggle to compete in california's individual market for years and they don't want to pay for sicker patients like sundby. to add insult to injury. white house chief of staff dan pfeiffer tweeted that out. >> period i were p