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        "uri": "/2013/10/30/sebelius-apologizes-for-ppaca-rollout/",
        "title": "Sebelius apologizes for PPACA rollout",
        "byline": "Laurie Kellman, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
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        "prettyDate": "October 30, 2013",
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            "name": "Laurie Kellman, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar"
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        "summary": "President Obama's top health care official told Congress on Wednesday that she's responsible for the \"debacle\" of cascading technical problems plaguing HealthCare.gov.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/29/administration-lowers-enrollment-expectations/",
        "title": "Administration lowers enrollment expectations",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher",
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        "prettyDate": "October 29, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Obama administration is trying to lower expectations for strong initial enrollments under the president's historic expansion of health coverage for the medically uninsured.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/29/medicare-chief-apologizes-for-ppaca-problems/",
        "title": "Medicare chief apologizes for PPACA problems",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher",
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        "prettyDate": "October 29, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Stressing that improvements are happening daily, the senior Obama official closest to the administration's malfunctioning health care website apologized Tuesday for problems that have kept Americans from successfully signing up for coverage.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/29/medicare-chief-to-get-ppaca-grilling/",
        "title": "Medicare chief to get PPACA grilling",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher",
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        "prettyDate": "October 29, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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            "name": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher"
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        "summary": "Medicare Chief Marilyn Tavenner will be questioned Tuesday by the House Ways and Means Committee not only on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov, but also whether lawmakers can trust Obama administration promises to have things running efficiently by the end of November.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/28/white-house-grants-ppaca-sign-up-extension/",
        "title": "White House grants PPACA sign-up extension",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
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        "prettyDate": "October 28, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "The Obama administration says its granting a six-week extension until March 31 for Americans to sign up for coverage next year and avoid new tax penalties under PPACA.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/25/health-care-site-needs-dozens-of-fixes/",
        "title": "Health care site needs dozens of fixes",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Nearly a month into a dysfunctional health care rollout, Obama administration officials said Friday they have identified dozens of website problems that need fixing and tapped a private company to take the lead.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/25/administration-taps-contractor-to-fix-health-websi/",
        "title": "Administration taps contractor to fix health website",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "1 minute",
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        "summary": "Nearly a month into the health care rollout and no end in sight to computer problems, the Obama administration says it's finally getting someone outside the government to take the lead.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/25/website-contractors-blame-administration/",
        "title": "Website contractors blame administration",
        "byline": "Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 25, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "summary": "Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration's health insurance marketplace said Thursday the site's crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just prior to going live.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/24/healthcare-gov-failures-surface-at-hill-hearing/",
        "title": "Healthcare.gov failures surface at Hill hearing",
        "byline": " Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher ",
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        "prettyDate": "October 24, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "The leading contractors on the Obama administration's troubled health insurance website told Congress Thursday that the government failed to thoroughly test the complicated system before it went live.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/24/hill-hearing-targets-healthcare-gov/",
        "title": "Hill hearing targets Healthcare.gov",
        "byline": " Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher ",
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        "prettyDate": "October 24, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "The principal contractors responsible for the federal government's troubled health insurance website say the Obama administration shares responsibility for snags that have crippled the system.",
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