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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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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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Is the HealthCare.gov Fix Too Late to Save Obamacare?
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Redone HealthCare.gov faces new test
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Insurers Seek to Bypass Health Site
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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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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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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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Fire Your Team, Mr. President
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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Christie's Lobbying Records — Documents obtained by Firedoglake under New Jersey's Open Public Records Act (OPRA) detail New Jersey Governor and popular contender for the Republican Party's 2016 Presidential nomination Chris Christie's career as a registered lobbyist.
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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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Black president admits profiling immigrants by their appearance — So, Barack Hussein Obama can tell where Americans are from just by looking at their faces. Imagine if he also knew their funny foreign names or detected defective English. — How would Obama react if someone determined his birthplace by looking at that face of his?
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Vulnerable House Dems targeted on O-Care — A major conservative advocacy group is hitting vulnerable Democratic House members on ObamaCare with a new series of web ads themed around the “Cyber Monday” shopping holiday. — It's American Action Network's (AAN) first web campaign focused …
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