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Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The Legality of the Latest ObamaCare Fix — Yesterday, the President announced a purported fix to the problem that, under the PPACA, insurance companies are not allowed to renew policies that fail to comply with PPACA requirements, even if consumers like their existing plans. This was not an accident.
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
W.H.: Obama doesn't accept Upton bill — The White House reiterated its veto threat of a just-passed House bill to allow insurance companies to continue selling insurance plans that don't meet the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act. — The House passed the legislation introduced …
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New York Times:
House Passes Bill Letting People Keep Their Health Plans — WASHINGTON — Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Friday approved legislation that would allow health insurance companies to renew individual insurance policies and sell similar policies to new customers next year …
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Yuval Levin / National Review:
The President Is Losing His Plan — The most important thing about the policy move announced by President Obama on Thursday is not its practical significance—which is frankly very hard to predict—but rather what it tells us about the mindset of the president and his top lieutenants.
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Is Whatever Obama Says It Is — Well, it's been a pretty busy couple of days for Obamacare. — First we got the enrollment numbers, except for the one we'd like to know, which is how many people have actually gone through the process of enrolling in a plan.
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ABC News:
39 Dems Defect as House OKs ‘Keep Your Health Plan’ Bill … Thirty-nine House Democrats joined 222 Republicans to pass the “Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013,” a bill to allow Americans to keep certain health care plans banned because of Obamacare. — The 261-to-157 vote was the largest sign …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Why liberals are panicked about Obamacare — “Even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.” — Bill Clinton, Nov. 12 — So the former president asserts …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
To pass health plan, Obama and Dems kept mum about its downsides — BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE HARRY REID NANCY PELOSI — The journalist Jonathan Cohn, an ardent supporter of Obamacare, recently wrote in The New Republic that problems with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act should be …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The President's ObamaCare Backpedal
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New York Times:
A Health Care Fix
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House defends legality of Obamacare fix
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Pelosi: No apology for ACA promise
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David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Revealed: Obamacare plans will cost MORE ‘in many cases’ …
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Regulators ‘unclear’ on O-Care fix plan
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Obamacare's Problems Could Haunt Democrats for Years — The party's strategists thought the program would show white voters that government programs can help them. It's not going so well. — President Obama's health care law is now compounding a political problem it was meant to solve …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Health Law Rollout's Stumbles Draw Parallels to Bush's Hurricane Response — WASHINGTON — Barack Obama won the presidency by exploiting a political environment that devoured George W. Bush in a second term plagued by sinking credibility, failed legislative battles, fractured world relations and revolts inside his own party.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Memo to Democratic Chicken Littles: The Sky Is Not Falling — Ah, now this is what politics is supposed to be like: Ruthless Republicans, gleeful at the prospect that they might increase the net total of human suffering. Timorous Democrats, panicking at the first hint of political difficulty …
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First Read / NBCNews:
First Thoughts: Rock bottom for Obama?
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The Obamacare fumble — It's the cardinal rule of marketing …
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Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologise after cutting off head of wrong person — Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham militants say sorry for decapitating a fellow extremist rather than enemy — Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to al-Qaeda have asked for “understanding and forgiveness” …
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Salma Abdelaziz / CNN:
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels mistakenly behead fellow fighter, rebel group says
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BuzzFeed:
Senator Kirk Pulls Senate Meeting Room For Group Supportive Of Russia's Anti-LGBT Law — “It is rather shameful that Senator Kirk has been such a coward,” said one of the participants in the panel scheduled by the World Congress of Families. Update: Kirk's office responds: “Sen. Kirk doesn't affiliate with groups that discriminate.”
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Insurance chiefs called to White House for meeting — Several insurance company CEOs have been called to a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House Friday afternoon, POLITICO has learned. — The meeting comes one day after the White House announced a plan to allow insurers …
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David Lat / Above the Law:
Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks — And Oh What A Speech! — Over the past few years, some amazing speakers have appeared at the Thursday evening dinner of the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention. Last year, Justice Samuel A. Alito offered a very funny look back at his time at Yale Law School.
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Donald Gilliland / Marching toward Gettysburg:
Living on the wrong side of history? The Harrisburg Patriot & Union's notorious ‘review’ of the Gettysburg Address — “We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of.”
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Michele Bachmann: I lost my insurance — Rep. Michele Bachmann says she is one of the people who lost their health insurance because of Obamacare and she won't go shopping on a health exchange until it's fixed. — “Are you kidding? I'm not going to waste an hour on that thing,” …
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