mary agnes carey covers this for kaiser health news. t down with her the other day to discuss the latest. mary agnes carey, welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> so let's talk first about enrollment. we understand there has been a surge in interest just in the first month. what are you seeing? >>. >> from november 15th to until december 10th which was the last set of reported figures, 2.5 million people had signed up for a health plan on health care.gov. and by comparison, this is what happened in the first three months of last year when you had all those web site problems. we're not seeing those this year. but there seems to be real interest. >> can you, so is it just the fact that the web site is up and working? is there something else going on here? >> it's certainly more appealing to go to a web site that actually works and sign in. >> but we've had a year of information about the affordable care ago. perhaps people that didn't get in a year ago are seeing people that are in the affordable care act and getting insurance and decid