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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 …
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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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Dems double down in attack on Upton bill — House Democratic leaders are doubling down in their opposition to GOP legislation that would allow Americans to keep their healthcare plans, even as the party is taking a political drubbing over the contentious issue.
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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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White House officials get earful from Democrats on Obamacare — [Adds breaking news update 2:10 p.m.] — White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday the Obama administration believes HealthCare.gov will be working smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of the month as planned.
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Two Dems join ‘keep your plan’ bill
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Merkley, Feinstein Back Landrieu's Bill To Unwind Obamacare Market Reforms
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Obamacare is in much more trouble than it was one week ago
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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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WebMD's healthy deal with Obamacare: Kind words for law, millions from feds
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Wall Street Journal and The PJ Tatler


Historic Pro-Choice Bill To Be Introduced In Congress — Following an unprecedented three-year wave of state legislative attacks on abortion and family planning services, a group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate plan to go on the offensive Wednesday with a historic bill …
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Democrats To Introduce Bill To Prevent States From Restricting Abortion — Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday will introduced a bill that would prevent states from creating standards for abortion clinics that would make it more difficult for women to obtain an abortion, according to the Huffington Post.
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The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion
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Boehner dashes hopes of immigration talks — House Republicans will not negotiate over the Senate's immigration reform bill, Speaker John Boehner said, dealing another blow to the chances of an overhaul being signed into law this year. — “Frankly, I'll make clear, we have no intention …
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VIDEO: Immigrant Youth Activists Share Their Stories With Speaker Boehner After Intercepting Him At Breakfast
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Boehner: We Have ‘No Intention Of Ever’ Taking Up Senate Immigration Bill
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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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Is Richard Cohen a Racist?
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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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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) — WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world's GDP.
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Police: At Least 3 Shot Near Brashear High School — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh Police dispatch reports that they are responding to a possible shooting at Brashear High School. — Police and other emergency personnel are on the scene of the high school.
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Tea Party Group Will Primary 87 Republican “Traitors” — The Tea Party Leadership Fund is hoping to find “credible challengers” to any Republican who voted for the shutdown deal in October. At the top of the list: House Speaker John Boehner. — Via theteapartyleadershipfund.com
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Sudbury girl wants Apple to remove derogatory definition from dictionary — SUDBURY, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) - A history essay on gay rights led a 15-year-old Sudbury girl to take a stand against a giant corporation. — Becca Gorman said she was writing her essay when she typed the word “gay” into her Macbook laptop's dictionary.
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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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Palestinian youth stabs sleeping soldier to death on Afula bus — Funeral for Eden Atias, 18, to be held later Wednesday; passengers capture 16-year-old killer, who was in Israel illegally — An Israeli soldier died after he was stabbed multiple times in the neck Wednesday morning …
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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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Guardian, India & World and Shakesville