President Obama said Friday that he was so frustrated by the problems with HealthCare.gov that he would have tried to fix it himself -- if he could.
"I wanted to go in and fix it myself, but I don’t write code," Obama said during a speech in New Orleans.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who was in Iowa just this week, is heading to South Carolina in early December.
Perry will headline the Spartanburg County GOP's Bronze Elephant Dinner on Dec. 3, according to the county party's Facebook page.
The Pew Research Center is the latest pollster to show President Obama's approval rating hitting a new low.
The newly released poll shows that 41 percent view Obama in a positive light -- down from 55 percent after his reelection win, in December. Meanwhile, a majority -- 53 percent -- now disapprove of him.
Democrats on Friday said that while they were encouraged by an October jobs report showing about 204,000 jobs were created in October, the numbers would have been better without the government shutdown. Some Republicans, meanwhile, suggested the report vindicated their shutdown strategy.
"Consider how much stronger job growth and the economy could be without the Republican government shutdown and debt limit brinksmanship," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, pointed to progress leading up to the shutdown and said it was thwarted.
Some have dismissed talk of former senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) moving to New Hampshire to challenge Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) next year.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is not one of them.
Only about one in five uninsured adults has attempted to log on to the embattled HealthCare.gov Web site, according to a new poll from Gallup.
The poll shows 18 percent say they have logged on or tried to log on in order to review their options.
The Obama administration will finalize a rule Friday that will require insurers to treat mental health and substance abuse problems the same way as physical illness, according to an administration official.
The regulation--which will be jointly issued by the Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury Departments—will ensure that co-pays, deductibles and visit limits for mental illness and addiction treatment will be comparable to surgical and medical benefits. The administration official who described the measure asked not to be identified because the announcement had not been made yet.
President Obama on Thursday said he was sorry that Americans are receiving cancellation notices from their insurance companies after he promised that people could keep their insurance plans if they liked them.
“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation … based on assurances they got from me,” Obama said in an interview with NBC News. “We’ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and that we’re going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this.”
President Obama supports a bill sponsored by a pair of congressional Democrats to bump the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, a White House official said Thursday.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) have been pushing a plan to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour in increments of 95 cents. Not all Democrats have been on board.
On Oct. 1, millions of Americans began shopping for health insurance plans on the federal and state online exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act. The federal site, HealthCare.gov, has continued to experience overloads, enrollment issues and glitches. Despite technical problems and political backlash, the desire for affordable health care drives people to keep trying to enroll.
Our reporters continue to cover the exchanges, and we'd like to ask for your help. What has been your experience with the online insurance exchanges? Have you looked for a health plan? Did you purchase insurance or are you waiting? What, if anything, keeps you from completing the process? Please keep in mind that we are only looking for real experiences with the online exchanges at this time and not opinions.
