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Via the Chicago Tribune: President Barack Obama offered a fix to his troubled healthcare law today that would allow insurance companies to extend for one year the health plans of Americans that would otherwise face cancellation. Struggling to convince Americans he is on top of the growing crisis around the Affordable Care Act, Obama disclosed that he was not informed …

The president is scheduled to speak at 11:30am Eastern.

According to the 14th annual Survey Of Global English, the top word for 2013 is a number.  The Global Language Monitor has announced that ‘404’ is the Top Word, ‘Toxic Politics’ the Top Phrase and Pope Francis the Top Name of 2013 in its 14th annual global survey of the English language. 404 was followed by fail, hashtag, @pontifex, and …

The woman whose face adorned the Obamacare site has finally stepped forward, but is declining to give her last name because she says she’s been the subject of brutal cyber-bullying. Right wing sites today are taking particular glee at the news that the woman is not an American citizen. ABC News interviewed her this morning.

Three more clips are here.

Prior to the July swimming accident that left him a quadriplegic, when NOM communications director Thomas Peters wasn’t tweeting against gay marriage, he was issuing regular denouncements of Obamacare.  But now that he’s at the literal mercy of our current broken medical system,  a campaign for donations will be launched across social media later this week. I doubt that the …

Mediaite has the recap: “The key that has really undermined the president’s credibility in the hearts of the American people is that he went out, as a centerpiece of his campaign, and as a centerpiece of Obamacare, over the last several years, saying time and time again, that fundamentally his plan was the right people would have to keep their …

The Washington Post has given President Obama its four Pinnochios rating for his claim that you can keep your existing insurance under Obamacare.  From their Fact Checker blog: The administration is defending this pledge with a rather slim reed — that there is nothing in the law that makes insurance companies force people out of plans they were enrolled in …

“When Obama was asked once what his basic deepest flaw was, he said, ‘deep laziness.’ And I wonder whether this is not the equivalent of that first debate last year. The guy just didn’t focus — playing too much golf.” – Andrew Sullivan, speaking about the Obamacare website fiasco last night on CNN.

Via the Associated Press: The Obama administration says it’s granting a six-week extension until March 31 for Americans to sign up for coverage next year and avoid new tax penalties under the president’s health care overhaul law. Monday’s move had been expected since White House spokesman Jay Carney promised quick action last week to resolve a “disconnect” in the implementation …

On the firing line are the administrators and executives of the companies paid hundreds of millions of dollars to create and operate the site. Click below for the live video.

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Typically dead-on.

The woman standing behind the president nearly fainted at today’s press conference about the Obamacare website, prompting mocking tweets from Tea People claiming that the incident was staged to “make Obama look heroic.” Because he helped keep her from falling. As the woman was taken away, a medical patch on her arm was visible. UPDATE: She’s OK.