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Emails sent by CMS in the days before the Obamacare website launch reveal growing concern about the system’s ability to handle concurrent users because of coding problems. One email dated September 27th warns “Adding capacity to address bottlenecks like these

White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the President is not dropping use of the term “Obamacare” even as a new Gallup survey that shows that the widely used moniker for the troubled health law polls seven points below the phrase

A CNN poll released Thursday finds President Obama’s favorability has hit an all-time low. The joint CNN/ORC poll found Obama at 41 percent approval. His 56 percent disapproval marks an all-time high. This is just the most recent poll to

One of the promises Democrats made over and over in 2009-2010 which hasn’t yet been violated is that Obamacare would lower the deficit slightly over 10 years.  Conservatives have said all along that the history of big government social programs

A Reuters investigation of Pentagon accounting methods discovers “doctored” accounts and “epic waste” are an everyday part of the system. Reuters describes the waste and fraud in the system as “billions of dollars” but after reading their account it’s hard

A five year old boy with Leukemia was given a wish by Make-a-Wish foundation. Miles said he wanted to be “batkid” and save the city from villains. Somehow, in a story that feels like a Spielberg movie come to life,

Mitt Romney appeared on CBS This Morning Friday and was asked about the problems with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. Charlie Rose tries to bait Romney into calling the President a liar “for political gain.” He does this

Michael Shear has a news analysis piece out today which compares President Obama to President Bush and more specifically to his response to hurricane Katrina. Shear goes on to say that Obama has lost American’s trust and is, to some

In the wake of the HHS announcement of Healthcare.gov enrollment figures Wednesday, many people in the media are relying on analysis of the Massachusetts health care law being proffered by supporters of the Affordable Care Act as proof the numbers

Robert Laszewski is president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates. He is acknowledged to be one of the foremost experts on health insurance policy in the country. After the administration released enrollment numbers today Laszewski took to his blog to

Todd Park is the Chief Technology Officer for the White House. Wednesday he testified before the House Oversight Committee about problems with the Healthcare.gov website. During testimony Rep. Jason Chaffetz asked Park if he had ever used Amazon.com. Park replied

A Quinnipiac poll published Tuesday finds President Obama at 39 percent approval, his lowest score in any Quinnipiac poll since he became President. Also for the first time a majority of Americans do not believe the President is honest. The

CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson reports that a September security memo by a CMS employee warned of “limitless” risk potential with the new site. Henry Chao was the project manager at CMS working on Obamacare’s federal exchange. During a nine hour interview

CBS and the Wall Street Journal report that roughly 50,000 have signed up using the federal exchange which covers enrollment in 36 states. That’s in addition to the 49,100 which Reuters reports have signed up in 12 states with their

After a month of shifting explanations it is now universally acknowledged that the President was not telling the whole story when he repeatedly claimed “if you like your plan you can keep your plan.” But that was not the last

On the Lead today Jake Tapper asks whether President Obama’s semi-apology for insurance cancellations follow Chris Christie’s advice not to “lawyer it.” In an interview on Tuesday, Tapper asked if Christie had any advice for the President who was reeling

Huff Post got the audio of an appearance Chris Matthews made in Philadelphia from a local blogger. In the clip, Matthews makes a fat joke about Christie which involves his wife. As you’ll hear, there was complete silence when Matthews

Gallup published a new poll Friday which shows that the people the Obamacare exchanges were designed to help, the uninsured, are mostly ignoring the sites. Just 18 percent of uninsured Americans have attempted to use the exchanges in the five

A security expert who examined several state based exchanges found they were “built in such a way as to almost attract attackers.” Kyle Adams is a software architect for Juniper Networks. He created a tool designed to detect attempted intrusions

Democrats sound nervous about the big win in New Jersey Tuesday. They should be. Christie won with 61 percent of a blue state including majorities of women and 51 percent of Hispanic voters. He even managed to pull in 20

In an interview Tuesday with Jake Tapper, Chris Christie offered some advice to President Obama on the proper response to the firestorm over the President’s promise, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” “Don’t lawyer it” Christie

Wednesday morning Jake Tapper reportedthat the White House attempted to contextualize the President’s latest explanation for his broken promise about people keeping their health insurance: WH: when POTUS said “what wesaid was you could keep” plan “if it hasn’t changed

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” – Bill Clinton “What we said was, you could keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.” – Barack Obama President Obama doesn’t seem to realize just

The President often says “let me be clear” in his speeches but in the case of his October 21st Rose Garden speech on Healthcare.gov he was not clear. His spokesperson Jay Carney was even less clear the same day. In

Thomas Dougall has a warning for Obamacare website users: Your “information may not be secure.” Dougall, a South Carolina attorney whose personal information was misdirected by the Obamacare website to a stranger in another state, says “I just want my

Over at Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff has a post summarizing what we know about who has signed up for insurance under Obamacare. What we know is that, so far, the overwhelming majority of sign ups have been for Medicaid, not for

In an interview with CNN, Bob Laszewki summed up the problem with Obamacare better than anyone else has so far. “I think the administrative mess you’re seeing right now is indicative of what happens when somebody tries to run somebody

Wednesday night Sean Hannity brought up a topic which deserves more attention than it has ever received from the media. Is the ACA intended to transition us to single-payer? The answer to this question is yes, though unfortunately the discussion

Brian Shaffer lives in Maryland. He is one of hundreds of thousands who has lost insurance because of the Affordable Care Act. But when Shaffer tried to buy replacement insurance on the Maryland exchange he got a surprise, one which