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New York Times:
Insurers Claim Health Website Is Still Flawed — Weeks of frantic technical work appear to have made the government's health care website easier for consumers to use. But that does not mean everyone who signs up for insurance can enroll in a health plan. — The problem is that so-called …
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Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Website Sign-Ups Said to Reach 100,000 in Month — About 100,000 people signed up for health insurance through the online federal exchange last month, a roughly four-fold increase from October even as a team of U.S. government and contractor programmers was fixing …
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Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Is the HealthCare.gov Fix Too Late to Save Obamacare?
Is the HealthCare.gov Fix Too Late to Save Obamacare?
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Redone HealthCare.gov faces new test
Redone HealthCare.gov faces new test
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Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Insurers Seek to Bypass Health Site
Insurers Seek to Bypass Health Site
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
As Obamacare website relaunches, there's reason to hope
As Obamacare website relaunches, there's reason to hope
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Kelly Kennedy / USA Today:
White House claims success on HealthCare.gov repairs
White House claims success on HealthCare.gov repairs
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Drones Could Be Amazon's Undoing — Tonight on 60 Minutes, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced rather hazily that the company is working on trying to hone unmanned aerial vehicles as a last-mile delivery solution that could make ultra-fast same-day delivery a reality.
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Charlie Rose / CBS News:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future — Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, serving 225M customers. What's next for the company that prides itself on disrupting tradition? — STUMBLE — TWITTER
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The Hill:
Democrats admit reboot needs stronger White House team — Former administration officials and Democratic operatives say President Obama is ill-served by his current White House staff and must reboot his second term team following the disastrous ObamaCare rollout.
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Fire Your Team, Mr. President
Fire Your Team, Mr. President
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Report: Obama Arranging Tehran Visit for Next Year — The Kuwaiti news outlet Al-Jarida reports that President Obama is seeking to arrange a trip to Tehran, Iran next year. — The headline of the article reads, “Obama would like to visit Tehran, official invitation after details resolved.”
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Dems now party of women — As the 2014 midterm election season begins, the Democratic Party is in full bloom as the political home of the modern American woman. — For the last half-century, women were swing voters between the parties. A gender gap emerged in the 1980s …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
5 NEW THINGS ABOUT OBAMA — You are here — Home » United States government » 5 new things about Obama — WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is more than just another celebrity, or the famous face behind the government's troubled health care website.
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
GOP's massive 2013 mistake: How the party ignored its terminal illness — Celebrating Obamacare's troubles, Republicans finish the year ignoring lessons it was supposed to learn from 2012 — We did a whole “Hardball” hour Friday on how the GOP ratcheted up the crazy this year.
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
‘Bizarre behavior’ could be risk to Christie White House run — Chris Christie's endorsement for New York governor could impact his presidential chances. — Gov. Chris Christie's “bizarre behavior” in refusing to say he'll support a possible GOP challenger to Gov. Cuomo next year could derail …
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Lincoln Chafee decks Christmas title on tree — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee is attempting to end the war on Christmas in his state once and for all. — Chafee, a Republican-turned-independent-turned- Democrat, issued a statement Monday announcing the tree in the State House will be called a …
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Michael Howard Saul / Metropolis:
Bloomberg in Bermuda During Derailment — Privacy Policy » Search Metropolis1 — Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in Bermuda on Sunday when a train derailed in the Bronx, the most recent time that the mayor has been out of town when a major incident in New York City occurred, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Better Pay Now — 'Tis the season to be jolly — or, at any rate, to spend a lot of time in shopping malls. It is also, traditionally, a time to reflect on the plight of those less fortunate than oneself — for example, the person on the other side of that cash register.
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James Hohmann / Politico:
GOP targets blue states in battle for Senate — In 2012, Democrats snagged Senate seats from Republicans in states where the GOP should have prevailed with relative ease. — In 2014, Republicans want to show they can play that game, too. — The GOP could conceivably capture the Senate …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Kuehn: Obamacare Mandates Made UPS Drop Coverage for Employee Spouses — UPS Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn confirmed to CNBC's Squawk Box Monday that Obamacare's mandates had increased costs for the company and were the reason it dropped health benefits for 15,000 spouses of its employees.
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