memeorandum: How Bad Is the Obamacare Rollout? (Pejman Yousefzadeh)

12:05 PM ET, November 5, 2013

Top Items:

Obama: “What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed” — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, Scared Monkeys, NewsBusters, The Lonely Conservative, Right Wing News, National Review, Power Line, Conservatives4Palin and Clayton Cramer's Blog

The Lead with Jake Tapper:

Obamacare ‘War Room’ docs: We're concerned next media story is some consumers getting on website and finding fewer options, higher prices — Washington (CNN) - Officials expressed concern that the next shoe to drop in the evolving story about the Affordable Care Act would be disappointment …

Discussion: CNN, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, The Hill, Betsy's Page, Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers

Robert Pear / New York Times:

Strategic Move Exempts Health Law From Broader U.S. Statute — WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies …

Discussion: Conservative Intelligence …, Weasel Zippers and National Review

Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:

Lying About Lies: Why Credibility Matters to Obama — The president is trying to reinvent the history of his you-can-keep-it promise on health care. — It might not seem possible that President Obama could do more harm to his credibility and the public's faith in government than misleading Americans about health insurance reform.

Discussion: USA Today, Townhall.com, Washington Post and Hot Air

Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
HealthCare.gov ducked final security requirements before launch

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and Doug Ross

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Senators Grapple With Health Care Rollout Woes

Discussion: Politico

Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama's ACA message evolves again

Discussion: Hit & Run

Jonathan Capehart / PostPartisan:
Decrying GOP sabotage of HealthCare.gov

Discussion: National Review, Wonkblog, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Los Angeles Times and Firedoglake

Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com:

REVEALED: OBAMA CAMPAIGN BUNDLER HELPING FUND LIBERTARIAN IN TIGHT VA. GUBERNATORIAL RACE — A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot …

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Hit & Run, The Right Scoop, Weekly Standard and Associated Press

Washington Post:
How to watch the exit polls in the Virginia governor's race

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, CNN, Washington Blade, Real Clear Politics, BBC and Weekly Standard

James Hohmann / Politico:
Touting Ken Cuccinelli, Ron Paul urges ‘nullification’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story, Washington Post, CNN and Guardian

Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion

Discussion: VodkaPundit, Weasel Zippers, LifeNews.com and The Lonely Conservative

Michael O'Brien / NBCNews:
It's Election Day: From N.J. to Va., what contests to watch

Discussion: ABC News, Politico, A plain blog about politics, New York Times, First Read and Washington Post

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Sections Of Rand Paul's Op-Ed On Drug Sentencing Plagiarized From Article Week Earlier — Portions of the Kentucky senator's op-ed in The Washington Times appear to be copied word-for-word from an article published a week earlier. — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Conservative Intelligence … and Politico

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Senator Rand Paul Faces New Charges of Plagiarism

Discussion: Mediaite, Liberaland, The Fix, Washington Free Beacon, The Raw Story and The Reaction

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fresh Plagiarism Charges Raised Against Rand Paul

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Hit & Run and Dependable Renegade

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:

Maybe Pain Will Teach You Millenials Not To Vote For Your Own Serfdom — You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for. We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and VodkaPundit

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

Hillary in 2016? Not So Fast — Hillary Clinton of all people knows how political fortunes turn on a dime. But she must be puzzled nonetheless, and spooked, that over a six-month period when she made no big news whatsoever, her popularity took a double-digit tumble.

Discussion: Power Line and Ken Cuccinelli …

Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:
We Call B.S.! Hillary's big S.F. events closed to press

Discussion: Erik Wemple and Taegan Goddard's …

Peggy Noonan's Blog:

Obama's Catastrophic Victory — A few years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called “A Sense of Where You Are.” I keep thinking about that title. You have to know where you are in time and space, you have to know who you are and what you're doing …

Discussion: Forbes, Samizdata, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Connecting.the.Dots, National Review and Weasel Zippers

CNN:

New Jersey mall gunman found dead hours after shooting — (CNN) — A gunman who opened fire at a New Jersey mall Monday night later holed up in a back room and shot himself in the head, authorities say. — No one else was injured in the mall shooting. — Richard Shoop's body was found …

Discussion: CBS New York, Liberaland and Runnin' Scared

nbcnewyork.com:
Police Sweep Garden State Plaza Mall in Search for Gunman

Discussion: NBCNews and Scared Monkeys

Chris Rauber / bizjournals:

Blue Shield forced by state to delay its Obamacare cancellations — California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will announce Tuesday an agreement with a “major health insurance company” in California to delay by three months cancellation of more than 115,000 individual policies due to Affordable Care Act rules.

Discussion: Politico and ProPublica

Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:

Will ACA Problems Hurt Democrats as Much as the Shutdown Hurt the GOP? — Democratic dreams of long-term Republican fallout may be fading as Obamacare rollout issues grab the spotlight. — People look at a sign informing them that the Statue of Liberty is closed due to the government shutdown …

Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:

Why National Democrats Rolled Over for Chris Christie — Fearing an expensive lost cause, the national party took a pass on Tuesday's election for New Jersey governor. But the decision may come back to haunt Democrats in 2016. — If Gov. Chris Christie wins reelection Tuesday …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Hot Air

Wall Street Journal:

Early Buyers of Health Coverage Are Older Than Expected, Raising Expense Concerns — Insurers say the early buyers of health coverage on the nation's troubled new websites are older than expected so far, raising early concerns about the economics of the insurance marketplaces.

Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Hugh Hewitt Show

kff.org:

State-by-State Estimates of the Number of People Eligible for Premium Tax Credits Under the Affordable Care Act — Key provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) create new Marketplaces for people who purchase insurance directly and provide new premium tax credits to help people with low or moderate incomes afford that coverage.

Discussion: Bangor Daily News and The Plum Line