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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
White House to Allow Insurers to Continue Canceled Health Plans — Obama to Deliver Statement — WASHINGTON—The White House on Thursday will announce a plan for allowing insurance companies to continue offering existing individual insurance policies even if they fall short …
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Insurance Industry Rips White House Obamacare Fix — “This doesn't change anything other than force insurers to be the political flack jackets for the administration,” says an insider. — Joe Skipper / Reuters — WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry is already attacking …
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LOCKED IN THE CABINET — The worst job in Barack Obama's Washington. — Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a brilliant innovator whose research fills several all-but-incomprehensible paragraphs of a Wikipedia entry that spans his achievements in single-molecule physics …
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Obamacare fix: Keep plans — President Barack Obama gave a rare and extensive “mea culpa” news conference Thursday on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, as he repeatedly conceded that he and his administration had made mistakes in implementing key pieces of his signature policy achievement.
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Everything You Need To Know About Obama's ‘Fix’ For Insurers Canceling Plans — The White House announced an “administrative fix” on Thursday that will allow insurers to continue offering their 2013 individual health care plans in 2014 without complying with the Affordable Care Act's minimum benefit standards.
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Nick Gillespie / TIME:
Ads Hide Obamacare Truth: It's Generational Theft — Get a clue, bro. New spots targeting millenials disguise the health insurance plan's real impact — Is massive stupidity covered under Obamacare? What about sexual promiscuity and heavy drinking? Those are some of the questions raised …
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Everything you need to know about the plans to ‘fix’ Obamacare — Democrats are engaged in a tricky game right now: They want to do something to respond to public outrage over the flawed implementation and broken promises of Obamacare. But they don't want to do something that further breaks Obamacare.
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Washington Post:
Obama announces change to address health insurance cancellations — President Obama announced Thursday an administrative change in one of the bedrock ideas of the new health-care law, allowing people with individual insurance policies to keep them for another year even if they do not comply with the law's rules for minimum benefits.
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A Contrite Obama Unveils a Health Fix — WASHINGTON — President Obama bowed to mounting political pressure from across the country and on Capitol Hill on Thursday, announcing new rules that will let insurance companies keep people on health care plans that would not have been allowed under the Affordable Care Act.
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CNN:
Palin apologizes for not being ‘clearer’ in comments about Pope
Palin apologizes for not being ‘clearer’ in comments about Pope
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Obama Admits That Obamacare is Unworkable
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
‘Fairy Tale’ Continues as Obama Proposes Extralegal Obamacare Fix
‘Fairy Tale’ Continues as Obama Proposes Extralegal Obamacare Fix
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Washington Post:
Full transcript: President Obama's Nov. 14 news conference on the Affordable Care Act
Full transcript: President Obama's Nov. 14 news conference on the Affordable Care Act
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USA Today:
Obamacare credibility going up in smoke: Our view
Obamacare credibility going up in smoke: Our view
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's big Obamacare trap: Not as brilliant as they think!
GOP's big Obamacare trap: Not as brilliant as they think!
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Maggie Fox / NBCNews:
‘You deserve better’: Obama offers fix for canceled health insurance plans
‘You deserve better’: Obama offers fix for canceled health insurance plans
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
How The White House Wants To ‘Fix’ Obamacare
How The White House Wants To ‘Fix’ Obamacare
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
The White House's Obamacare fix is about to create a big mess
The White House's Obamacare fix is about to create a big mess
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Cruz talks about ‘vindication’ with rocky Obamacare rollout
Cruz talks about ‘vindication’ with rocky Obamacare rollout
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The Hill:
House Dems about to ‘go crazy’
House Dems about to ‘go crazy’
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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP starts to offer Americans a better alternative.
The GOP starts to offer Americans a better alternative.
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CNN:
First on CNN: Obama to push fix for insurance cancellations
First on CNN: Obama to push fix for insurance cancellations
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ring of House Republicans to call for impeachment of Holder
Ring of House Republicans to call for impeachment of Holder
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The Democrats Need to Stop Freaking Out About Obamacare and Take Charge — Well, here we are again—the Democrats are ‘in disarray,’ flailing on Obamacare. It's a potent story line, but this time Obama must crack the whip, stop the panicking, and make it work.
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Republican Party Weighs a 2016 Shakeup With ‘Midwestern Primary’
Republican Party Weighs a 2016 Shakeup With ‘Midwestern Primary’
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House Speaker John Boehner: LGBT Employment Protections Are ‘Unnecessary’ — On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reiterated his opposition to allowing a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which the Senate passed last week. According to Boehner, the bill …
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Exclusive: Why Dylan Davies Disappeared — The ex-contractor, a key source for last month's ‘60 Minutes’ report on Benghazi, has gone into hiding. British police are investigating allegations his family was threatened. — It is the kind of note a publisher dreads.
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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Questions about ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi story go beyond Dylan Davies interview; CBS conducting ‘journalistic review’
Questions about ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi story go beyond Dylan Davies interview; CBS conducting ‘journalistic review’
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Obamacare Schadenfreudarama — To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the unraveling of Obamacare. — First, the obligatory caveats. It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans' lives have been thrown into anxious chaos as they lose their health insurance …
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State rebuts Obama plan to allow old health insurance policies — By KOMO Staff & Associated Press Published: Nov 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM PST Last Updated: Nov 14, 2013 at 1:19 PM PST — SEATTLE (AP) - Washington state's insurance commissioner says President Barack Obama's proposal …
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Koch-backed nonprofit spent record cash in 2012 — Americans for Prosperity's expenditures last year exceeded all previous years' spending combined — Americans for Prosperity — the main political arm of billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch — spent a staggering $122 million …
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Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births — The idea came to Jorge Odón as he slept. Somehow, he said, his unconscious made the leap from a YouTube video he had just seen on extracting a lost cork from a wine bottle to the realization that the same parlor trick could save a baby stuck in the birth canal.
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