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Officials say Obamacare website improves as Republicans pounce
Officials say Obamacare website improves as Republicans pounceby David Morgan and Caren Bohan at Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/officials-obamacare-website-improves-republicans-pounce-000213106--sector.html
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The race intensified on Monday between Republicans trying to discredit President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and officials trying to repair the flawed website crucial to the success of his policy reform.
While Obama administration officials said they had made significant improvements to HealthCare.gov, Republicans began appealing to the public on Monday for personal accounts of negative experiences with the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.
The government has promised the site will be operating smoothly for the vast majority of users by November 30, so that potentially millions of people can enroll by a December 15 deadline for coverage that would begin on January 1.
"Eventually it's going to be the easiest place to shop for healthcare," Obama told a call on Monday put together by Organizing for Action, the group that grew out of his 2012 re-election campaign.
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