memeorandum: It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan (Matthew Yglesias/Slate)

1:35 PM ET, November 13, 2013

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Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November — Software problems with the federal online health insurance marketplace, especially in handling high volumes, are proving so stubborn that the system is unlikely to work fully by the end of the month as the White House has promised …

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:

It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan — Obama was wrong to mislead people but right to scrap dysfunctional insurance products. — “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” That was the promise Barack Obama made to insured Americans when stumping for his signature health insurance overhaul back in 2009 and 2010.

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Obama is boxed in by Bill Clinton — President Obama scrambled to find a coherent response Tuesday after former President Clinton jammed the administration by saying it should keep its promise that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them.

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Brett Norman / Politico:
Issa attacks Obamacare website

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Two Dems join ‘keep your plan’ bill — A House bill that would allow insurance companies the option of offering old healthcare plans is gaining dozens of co-sponsors ahead of a vote this week. — Sixty-eight House members signed on to the bill Tuesday alone, giving the measure sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton …

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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

Merkley, Feinstein Back Landrieu's Bill To Unwind Obamacare Market Reforms — It's one thing for embattled red state Democrats to support legislation that significantly disrupts Obamacare. It's a very different thing for bright-blue state Democrats to support such a bill. — That's what's happening.

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A reversal of fortune for Democrats after Obamacare

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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Feinstein becomes 5th Dem on bill fixing ObamaCare

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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama's Image as “Strong and Decisive Leader” Takes a Hit

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's critic-in-chief strikes again

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
NC Senate race tightens up

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Phillip M. Bailey / WFPL:
Mitch McConnell Wants Kentucky Senate Race to Focus on Obamacare Woes

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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:

Exclusive: Obamacare's Mystery Woman Says She Fell Victim to Cyberbullies … The smiling woman who was once the face of the Affordable Care Act's website has come out of the shadows to stand up to the “cyberbullying” she says she suffered after the law's flawed kickoff.

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Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
WebMD's healthy deal with Obamacare: Kind words for law, millions from feds

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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Health care website photo: The face of Obamacare speaks out

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Controversy over Richard Cohen's comments on the de Blasio family — Richard Cohen has a knack for making venom-spewing enemies out of people who should be his allies. — Like on Tuesday, when The Washington Post columnist wrote about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's chances …

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Is Richard Cohen a Racist?

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Alan Taylor / The Atlantic Online:
Richard Cohen in Context

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First Read / NBCNews:

Boehner draws another hard line on immigration reform — House Speaker John Boehner says he will not allow any House-passed immigration legislation to be blended with the Senate's sweeping reform bill, further quashing the chances of comprehensive immigration reform legislation being signed into law anytime soon.

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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: We Have ‘No Intention Of Ever’ Taking Up Senate Immigration Bill

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Republicans Again Reject Obama Pick for Judiciary

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Washington Post:

Democrat Mark Herring gets a leg up in Va. attorney general's race in late ballot count — State Sen. Mark R. Herring padded his still-narrow lead over state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain on Tuesday night in the race for Virginia attorney general, giving the Democrat an apparent 163-vote advantage …

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TIME:
With 106 Vote Attorney General Victory, Virginia Democrats Sweep State

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Jose DelReal / Politico:

Charles Krauthammer: Death of ‘liberalism’ — Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer sees “the collapse of American liberalism” in sight, in no small part because of the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act. — “We have not just Obamacare unraveling, not just the Obama administration unraveling …

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Dallas News:

One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video — By: myfoxdfw.com Staff - email — The Urban League of Greater Dallas fired one person and suspended three others after a video from a conservative activist reportedly showed the workers encouraging health care applicants to lie.

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James Carville / TheHill:

Not so fast, my friend — In my column two weeks ago, I bet that Terry McAuliffe would have a decisive win in Virginia but that it wouldn't be enough for the Washington media elite. — Look, I'm not one of those people who always has to be right — when I'm wrong, I fess up.

Ben White / Politico:

The Jeb Bush boomlet — Blankfein on Christie — Yellen hearing prep — THE JEB BUSH BOOMLET — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gets all the love as the current GOP front-runner for 2016 (to the extent there can even be a front runner three years out.) But there is growing chatter in elite …

ThinkProgress:

India's Top Police Official: 'If You Can't Prevent Rape, You Enjoy It' — India erupted in outrage Tuesday after the nation's top police official casually commented, “'If you can't prevent rape, you enjoy it.” — Ranjit Sinha, chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation …

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