Obama urged Americans who have flocked this week to the new government-run Web marketplaces for insurance policies not to “give up” because of the technical problems attributed to "greater-than-anticipated demand".
He did not have any figures to counter scattered reports that a very small number of people have succeeded in signing up for insurance coverage since last Tuesday for the so-called insurance exchanges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/politics/obama-urges-patience-with-insurance-exchanges.html?_r=0