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One of the highlights of this morning’s hearings was this exchange between Sec. Sebelius and Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska. Terry first asked if Sebelius would be offering any enrollment numbers. She claimed she did not have the data to

Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post does a nice job explaining why the President’s oft-made claim “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” is not remotely true and why the administration’s current excuses are not believable. Kessler

Just something fun which premiered today. This is supposedly based on a series of comics of the same name published in 1980. The concept is a dystopian future in which mutants are hunted down by giant robots called sentinels. There

A new report by NBC News confirms that the administration knew President Obama’s oft-uttered promise “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” would not prove true for millions of Americans: Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable

The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has published an excerpt from Gov. Scott Walker’s forthcoming book. It describes the threats to life and limb that he and his family received during the debate over Act 10. In particular Walker notes how

Princeton economics professor Uwe E. Reinhardt gives President Obama a letter grade on the roll out: President Obama taught constitutional law at the University ofChicago Law School. How would he have graded a student’s performance on,say, a term paper or

Perhaps Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown hasn’t heard the claim that President Obama had no idea the Obamacare was in trouble. During a visit to the Hamilton County Human Services Chamber in Ohio Thursday Brown was asked about the roll out.

Last night on Megyn Kelly’s new evening time slot show (which I really like so far) Kirsten Powers described how her health insurance premiums had gone from $160 a month to $300 a month : Kirsten has been, and continues

Via John Podhoretz on Twitter comes this glimpse into the mind of a socialist multimillionaire. Russell Brand, the comic best known for his Judd Apatow movies and brief marriage to Katy Perry, resurrects the spirit of Occupy in this interview

According to Sec. Sebelius, President Obama did not know about warnings within HHS that Healthcare.gov was not ready for launch. And yet in the two months prior to the go live date the White House, including the President himself, was

Today’s hearing on ACA implementation did not produce a lot of news. In part that’s because no one at the hearing–Republicans, Democrats, or representatives for the private companies testifying–seemed especially well prepared. The corporate heads in particular repeatedly said they

What has been common knowledge on the right since Monday is now making its way onto the left leaning Wonkblog at the Washington Post. The phone number the Obama administration has been giving out will not allow you to purchase

The White House continues to refuse to release enrollment figures for the federal exchange. The official excuse, offered by Jay Carney again today, is that the information will be released on a regular schedule starting in mid-November, just like the

We’ve now reached the cover up stage of the Obamacare roll out. In a CNN interview with Sanjay Gupta, Sebelius claims the President didn’t know about the problems prior to the launch. GUPTA: The president did say that he was

WLUK Fox 11 in Wisconsin took a local look at the success of the Obamacare exchange. What they found is that brokers and navigators are unable to sign up anyone for new policies. One woman spent 3 hours trying to

The over-the-top headline is a reference to a funny Stewart bit from 2010 in which he mocked online headlines for being “out of proportion” to their content. In any case, if you ignore the introductory premise in which Stewart suggests

Truth Revolt published this video of CNBC anchor Steve Liesman asking for “Mexican music” to accompany a picture of Senator Ted Cruz:

If you’ve just tuned into the debate over Obamacare in the last 48 hours you’ve probably heard several times that it is more than just a website. That was the President’s message yesterday in his oddly self-congratulatory apology for the

The NY Times political and government blog reports that activists who gathered at a conference over the weekend vowed widespread civil disobedience if the Obama administration takes the next step toward approval of the Keystone XL pipeline: If the State

Another damning report from the NY Times makes it clear that the health exchange which opened October 1st is weeks (possibly months) away from being fully repaired: Administration officials approached the contractors last week to see if they could perform

The Nevada health exchange continues to struggle three weeks after launch. Today the Las Vegas Sun reports on the ongoing problems with the site: While Nevada’s health insurance marketplace was held up as a model for other states in the

A new analysis by Aon Hewitt predicts that the slow down in health care costs, which the company says hit a low of 3.3 percent in 2013, will end next year. The company predicts health care costs will rise 6.7

Richard Davis is a blogger in Chicago who writes on a site called Chicago Now. He has not been a proponent of Obamacare and in post published today he explains why: The letter came regular Post Office from Blue Cross,

In Connecticut early numbers show that mostly older Americans are signing up: In the most detailed briefing since enrollment began Oct. 1, Access Health CT’s Peter Van Loon expressed some concern that older people “have jumped on this in a

Yesterday the AP reported on a leaked memo showing sign up targets for the new healthcare.gov website: The Sept. 5 memo, for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, lists monthly enrollment targets for each state and Washington, D.C., through

The budget for Healthcare.gov tripled as the administration rushed to rescue a floundering project. That’s the conclusion of a Reuters story based on a close examination of the government contracts with CGI Federal. “CGI Federal reported at the time of

Jonathan Jarvis is the Director of the National Park Service. Yesterday he was called before Congress to explain why he ordered barricades put up at outdoor monuments in Washington D.C. Rep. Trey Gowdy made a point of comparing Director Jarvis’

Now that shutdown theater has gone dark (for a few weeks) the media can finally focus on the other big story of the last two weeks. Actually, CBS has a head start with this report in which Jan Crawford labels

Remember that meteor that landed in the Chelyabinsk district of Russia back in February? It was captured on numerous dash-cams as it fell, leaving a trail of fire and smoke across the sky: Today, RT posted video showing that a large

A new estimate by an independent web analysis firm says public interest in Healthcare.gov is waning. According to the Washington Post “The number of visitors to the federal government’s HealthCare.gov Web site dropped 88 percent between Oct. 1 and Oct. 13…”

Yesterday I highlighted something Avik Roy pointed out about the design of the Obamacare exchange. Simply put, the decision to force people to create an account in order to shop for plans was made for political reasons not a concern

This week Organizing for Action announced it would hold a rally today near the Capitol. Moments ago Reid Epstein of Politico tweeted this photo of the turnout: OFA rally on the Capitol steps pic.twitter.com/INqPs9Jknu — Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) October

Some health insurance brokers are setting up states that mimic the name and look of the official state exchanges. But the fake sites are easily identifiable because, unlike the official sites, they work. In one such case, a state-licensed broker