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President Barack Obama's health care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies' religious objections to the law's birth-control mandate.

The state official overseeing the Vermont Health Connect health insurance exchange has apologized for not being fully candid when a legislator asked him during a committee hearing if there had been security breaches on the website.

There was a time in the United States when HMOs were the biggest thing in health care. They still are in Israel, a country thats been using HMOs as major care providers (and, later, the countrys primary care provider) since before the state was even created.

President Barack Obama sounded a nostalgic personal note Sunday night and offered a rare self-assessment while criticizing congressional Republicans as an "impediment" to governing during the start of a West Coast fundraising tour for the Democratic Party.

There won't be a magic moment, but the Obama administration's much-maligned health insurance website should be able to weather an expected year-end crush of customers, officials asserted Friday.

The Obama administration announced they are giving consumers an extra eight days to sign up for health coverage that takes effect Jan. 1.