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2:55 AM ET, November 12, 2013

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Wall Street Journal:
HealthCare.gov brings 40,000 to 50,000 enrollees in private plans through last week, people familiar say  —  Initial reports suggest that fewer than 50,000 people successfully navigated the troubled federal health-care website to enroll in private health insurance plans as of last week, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Who counts as an Obamacare enrollee?  The Obama administration settles on a definition.  —  The fight over how to define the new health law's success is coming down to one question: Who counts as an Obamacare enrollee?  —  Health insurance plans only count subscribers as enrolled in a health plan once they've submited a payment.
Dr. Perry Inhofe / KOCO.com:
Sen. Jim Inhofe's son dies in plane crash near Owasso  —  Plane crashed around 4 p.m. after reporting engine trouble  —  A source close to Sen. Jim Inhofe has confirmed that his son, Dr. Perry Inhofe, was on board a plane that crashed near Owasso, Okla. on Sunday.  Perry Inhofe was killed in the crash.
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Jarrel Wade / Tulsa World:
Plane in Owasso crash linked to Sen. Jim Inhofe's son  —  Perry Inhofe, the son of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, is associated with a company that recently purchased a plane that crashed near Owasso on Sunday, killing the pilot, according to government records.  —  Officials in charge …
Discussion: BBC and The World's Greatest …
Foreign Policy:
How France Scuttled the Iran Deal at the Last Minute  —  Western and Iranian negotiators were putting the finishing touches on a far-reaching nuclear deal.  Then, at virtually the last minute, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius joined in the talks.  It didn't take long for the negotiations …
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
A Doable Iran Deal
Discussion: The Dish
Mark Landler / New York Times:
After Near Miss on Iran, Kerry Says Diplomacy Is Still the Right Path
Lori Gottlieb / New York Times:
Daring to Complain About Obamacare  —  LOS ANGELES — THE Anthem Blue Cross representative who answered my call told me that there was a silver lining in the cancellation of my individual P.P.O. policy and the $5,400 annual increase that I would have to pay for the Affordable Care Act-compliant option …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Why Isn't Everyone More Worried about Me?  —  Apparently, there was a meeting of the editors at The New York Times op-ed page in which someone said, “You know how every time someone does a story about one of these Obamacare ‘victims’ whose insurance companies are cancelling their plans …
Discussion: BizzyBlog, Power Line, Hot Air and Eschaton
Michael Cohen / NY Daily News:
Behind Obama's lie, our own immaturity  —  Understand why he wasn't straight with us.  —  In selling the health-care plan that bears his name, President Obama has, according to the fact-checking website Politifact, said at least 34 times that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”
Discussion: Mediaite
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Julian Zelizer / CNN:   Obamacare and the failure of half-baked liberalism
Chicago Tribune:
Truth, consequences and Obamacare
Discussion: Hot Air
Sherman Frederick / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Lipstick on the Obamacare pig
Discussion: BizzyBlog
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sarah Palin Struggles To Explain Her Obamacare Alternative (VIDEO)  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin attempted on Monday to explain her alternative proposal for Obamacare on the “Today Show.”  —  When asked by Matt Lauer about her alternative plan, Palin gave a rambling answer that echoed …
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Justin Doolittle / Salon:
Stop thanking the troops for me: No, they don't “protect our freedoms!”  —  Their claims are wrong in more ways than one  —  The millions of Americans who regularly watch nationally televised NBA games are, by now, familiar with the “NBA Cares” commercials that run quite frequently during the season.
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Most Americans for Raising Minimum Wage  —  Tying minimum-wage increases to inflation is slightly less popular  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — With momentum building at the federal and state level to increase hourly base pay, more than three-quarters of Americans (76%) say they would vote for raising …
Tom Junod / Esquire:
GEORGE CLOONEY'S RULES FOR LIVING  —  No one does the fame thing like Clooney.  He floats above it even as he uses it to embellish his influence.  He understands his place in the pantheon even as he remains hidden from the inquisitive lens.  He's the master.
Reuters:
State Obamacare exchanges enroll 3 pct of target so far -report  —  President Barack Obama's healthcare reform has reached only about 3 percent of its enrollment target for 2014 in 12 U.S. states where new online health insurance marketplaces are mostly working smoothly, a report released on Monday said.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Clayton Cramer
Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
I've Got Whooping Cough.  Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy.  —  At this writing, I have been coughing for 72 days.  Not on and off coughing, but continuously, every day and every night, for two and a half months.  And not just coughing, but whooping: doubled over, body clenched …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Liberaland and Balloon Juice
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
How Twitter Helped Bring a Virginia Election to Its Knees … Virginia's Attorney General race could be decided by the smallest margin in U.S. history, and Twitter might be able to claim some of the credit.  —  More than 2.2 million ballots were cast in a statewide election last Tuesday …
Discussion: Slate, Politico, CNN and The Other McCain
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Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
What will have a greater impact in reducing the deficit: the sequester or ‘Obamacare’?  —  “If you look at the biggest thing that are cutting our deficit over the medium and long run, it's actually the Affordable Care Act, which is, you know, by bringing down the cost of health care …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
How Republicans Are Denying Health Care Coverage To Thousands Of Veterans
Discussion: Daily Kos and Liberaland
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Salvaging Obama  —  President Obama is under water.  His approval in the polls is low and sinking, his signature initiative is staggering from a combination of incompetence and sabotage, his foreign policy is a jumble.  Congress is a Bermuda Triangle where the most elementary White House business disappears.
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Time to Start Considering Obamacare's Worst Case Scenarios  —  The saying goes that things have to get worse before they get better.  But with Obamacare, things just keep getting worse—and then they get worse still.  In private, even many critics of the law are at least a bit surprised by how poorly the rollout has gone.
Helen Pidd / Guardian:
War veteran Harold Percival mourned by strangers after online appeal  —  Hundreds gather in Lytham, Lancashire for cremation of Harold Jellicoe Percival, who died in nursing home, aged 99  —  It began with a tiny notice placed by undertakers in a Lancashire newspaper: “Harold died peacefully …
 
 
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