Tag: Affordable Care Act

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Reid reported progress toward a deal to avoid a threatened default and end a two-week partial government shutdown as President Obama called congressional leaders to the White House to press for an end to the impasse. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Examiner Editorial: McConnell may deal but Boehner needs to seal

Editorial Writer · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Senate Democrats and the White House insisted they would not negotiate with Republicans on broader budget issues until after the government is reopened and the debt ceiling raised. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

White House sits back as Senate inches toward deal

Susan Crabtree · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Healthcare.gov, the Obamacare website, has been live for barely two weeks and has operated so poorly during its short existence that it seems certain to replace the Pentagon's infamous $600 toilet seats as the face of federal waste and fraud. (AP/David Mercer)

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: No wonder the Obamacare website is a nightmare

Mark Tapscott · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

In an effort to quell criticism of the lack of transparency surrounding the troubled rollout of President Obama's health care program, the Department of Health and Human Services promised to provide regular "operational updates" to the press. But the first such update, a conference call held on Thursday afternoon, didn't provide Americans with much insight. (Screenshot: Healthcare.gov)

Obamacare meltdown triggers congressional investigations

Byron York · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Senate Minority Whip John Cornin, R-Texas; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; and Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo, on their way to the Senate Floor. McConnell is under fire from the Senate Conservatives Fund, which has accused him of being a "turncoat" for working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Conservative group likens emerging debt deal to ‘Republican surrender’

Rebecca Berg · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Peter King’s new goal: Take down Ted Cruz

Ashe Schow · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Last month, the AFL-CIO passed a resolution calling for the elimination of the reinsurance fee. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Emerging deal would be a victory for big labor

Philip Klein · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Fate of Senate deal will rest with undecided House Republicans

Susan Ferrechio · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Clinical applications counselor Rachael Richardson, left, works with Louis Peters at the Henry J. Austin Health Center, in Trenton, N.J., as he and others fill out papers to sign up for new plans through an Obamacare health insurance exchange. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Obamacare shock: $12,600 deductible, 40 percent co-pay, zero competition

Paul Bedard · October 14, 2013 4:00 am

Obamacare Triples Health Insurance Premium for New Mexico Man

Daniel Halper · October 13, 2013 2:37 pm

‘It’s Awful, Just Awful’

Daniel Halper · October 13, 2013 1:37 pm

"Saving Private Ryan" is instructive on the current inability to figure out the longer term implications of the government shutdown.

Nobody can know for months who ‘won’ the Battle of the Shutdown

Hugh Hewitt · October 13, 2013 4:00 am