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Obamacare and you: When does Obamacare start?There's a lot of political banter about the health-care reform law, but also a lot of confusion about what it does. Here, we answer your questions about key deadlines for Obamacare.
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Over fifty years after his assassination in Dallas, John F. Kennedy remains one of the most famous and admired Americans of the 20th century. US voters routinely rank him among the best of the nation’s presidents, though historians remain split over the import of his thousand days in the Oval Office. Revelations about his philandering and health problems have darkened his image but not dimmed public fascination with him and his family, if the steady stream of JFK books, movies, and other media material is any guide. Today it is clearer than ever that his murder was a hinge of history. At dusk on Nov. 22, 1963, America was a different country, less innocent than it had been at sunrise.
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HealthCare.gov: Five questions about the problem-riddled rollout (+video) Nobody, including President Obama, is sugarcoating the problem-riddled launch of HealthCare.gov, where uninsured Americans can buy health coverage. Here are five questions about what’s happened.- HealthCare.gov: Five questions about the problem-riddled rollout (+video) Nobody, including President Obama, is sugarcoating the problem-riddled launch of HealthCare.gov, where uninsured Americans can buy health coverage. Here are five questions about what’s happened.
Obamacare: President fine-tunes ‘you can keep it’ promise about insurancePresident Obama defended his health-care law Wednesday in Boston while also recalibrating unequivocal statements from the past. Although his speech was a public-relations effort, it could have broader implications for the effectiveness of Obamacare.
Obamacare on trial: 'You deserve better. I apologize,' Sebelius says.Testifying before a House committee, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged to fix the HealthCare.gov site. She said her agency still has no reliable enrollment data on Obamacare.
Obama in Boston: Does Massachusetts prove Obamacare will work?On Wednesday, the president will defend Obamacare at Faneuil Hall in Boston – the site where in 2006, then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed similar health-care reforms into law for Massachusetts.
Monitor BreakfastHealth-care law: 'Raw deal' for the young, says Purdue President Mitch DanielsPurdue's Mitch Daniels, the former Indiana governor, says at a Monitor Breakfast that health-care premiums for young people under Obamacare will rise beyond what is fair 'to subsidize the elders.'
It's budget crunch time. If lawmakers say no 'grand bargain,' then what?A 'grand bargain' that cuts entitlement programs and raises revenues, thus whittling the deficit in a big way, is not a likely outcome of House-Senate budget negotiations that begin Wednesday. The best hope is for a modest deal that averts another government shutdown. Is that doable?
Obamacare fiasco: Was building HealthCare.gov really that hard?Many experts say the Obamacare website HealthCare.gov, in many ways, is trying to do something unprecedented: unveil an enormously complicated site all at once and in the media spotlight.
Official tells Congress Obamacare 'is working,' Republicans disagreeAn Obama administration official offered an apology for the Obamacare website glitches during a congressional hearing Tuesday but said fixes would be completed on schedule.
Syrian Electronic Army says it hacked Obama accountsThe Syrian Electronic Army has taken credit for breaking into the Gmail account of at least one staff member at the Obama group Organizing for Action. The group is now taking extra security steps.
Millions losing health plans under Obamacare. Did president mislead?It turns out that at least 7 million Americans will not be able to keep their current health insurance plans under Obamacare, news reports say, despite Obama's assurances that they would.
Obamacare website: Is one month enough time to fix it?The Obamacare website will work 'for the vast majority of users' by Nov. 30, the White House says. No one's saying that's impossible, but hitting the deadline will be a tough task, it seems.
NSA revealed: When a spy agency comes under public scrutinyFor years, the National Security Agency did its spy work out of public view. Now, with revelations and allegations coming almost daily, that’s no longer true for the NSA.
German spy scandal: Should Obama have apologized?Europeans are once again complaining that President Obama is relying on Bush-era tactics to fight terrorism. But in apologizing, Obama did something Bush would never have done.
Kathleen Sebelius prepares to face the music on ObamacareDozens of Republican lawmakers have demanded that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resign over Obamacare glitches. She'll appear before a congressional panel this week, where she's likely to stand her ground.
In Iowa's presidential testing ground, Ted Cruz echoes – who else? – Ronald ReaganTea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz is best known for fighting Obamacare. Speaking in Iowa, where presidential hopefuls come early and often, Cruz focused on the economy and the legacy of GOP champion Ronald Reagan.
FocusIn three US cities, three longtime mayors prepare exits. What legacies?Minneapolis' R.T. Rybak, New York's Michael Bloomberg, and Boston's Tom Menino will all have successors after Nov. 5 municipal elections. Each has served at least 12 years as mayor, and all leave an imprint on America's urban landscape.
With computer glitches, has GOP finally found a way to kill Obamacare?Since it first was proposed, Republicans have been saying they'd 'repeal and replace' the Affordable Care Act. Massive computer problems with Obamacare's roll-out may have given them their best chance to do that.
