Obama meets with insurance companies to try to stem the tide of fears that Obamacare just won't work. How'd it go?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/business/after-meeting-health-insurers-question-proposals-workability.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
After Obama Meeting, Insurers Question Plan’s Workability
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/16/washingtons-insurance-regulator-supports-obamacare-and-rejected-obamas-fix-heres-why/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd
Wash. insurance regulator supports Obamacare — and rejected Obama’s ‘fix.’ Here’s why.
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/healthcaregov-goal-80-percent-able-to-enroll-for-insurance-through-web-site/2013/11/16/04fa02a2-4e1a-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
HealthCare.gov goal will leave many unable to enroll for insurance through Web site
Ain't it true?
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/11/17/how_quickly_political_fortunes_change.html
How Quickly Political Fortunes Change
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-care-law-has-changed-game-for-democrats-looking-to-2014-election/2013/11/16/71d8e5fa-4e65-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
Health-care law has changed game for Democrats looking to 2014 election
Sunday seminar: climate change
The Sunday talk show line-ups
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/sunday-morning-bobblehead-thread-247
ABC's "This Week"
— Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.;
Roundtable: Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., PBS “NewsHour” co-host and
managing editor Gwen Ifill, former Obama White House senior adviser and
ABC News contributor David Plouffe, ABC News political analyst Matthew
Dowd, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, and Wall Street Journal foreign
affairs columnist Bret Stephens. ABC News Chief National Correspondent
Byron Pitts, JFK nephew Patrick Kennedy and documentary filmmaker Ken
Burns. Founder of security contractor Blackwater USA Erik Prince.
NBC's "Meet the Press"
— Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. NBC Special
Correspondent Tom Brokaw; Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker;
Republican Strategist Mike Murphy; and host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Chris
Matthews.
CBS' "Face the Nation"
— Luci Baines Johnson Turpin; journalists Hugh Aynesworth and Mike
Cochran; Dr. Ronald Jones, among those who attended to President John F.
Kennedy after the president was shot in Dallas. Panel: Douglas
Brinkley, Thurston Clarke, and Larry Sabato. And we'll joined by Harvard
University's David Gergen and Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal.
MSNBC's "UP with Steve Kornacki"
-- Robert MacNeil, Fmr. NBC News White House correspondent; Harris
Wofford, White House aide to Pres. Kennedy, Fmr. U.S. Senator, (D-PA);
Walter Mears, Associated Press; Shirley Franklin, Fmr. Atlanta Mayor,
recipient, JFK Profile in Courage Award; Kerry Kennedy, president,
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights; Jane Hall,
journalism professor, American University's School of Communication;
David Nasaw, author, “The Patriarch”; Michael Steele, MSNBC Political
Analyst, Fmr. RNC Chairman; Philip Shenon, reporter & author, “A
Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy
Assassination”.
MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry"
-- Tanya Fields, founder of The Blk ProjeK; Tanner Colby, author of
“Some of My Best Friends Are Black”; Adam Serwer, Reporter at MSNBC.com;
Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director at The
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia; Wesley Harris, Associate Provost for
Faculty Equity at MIT / Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Nina
Khrushcheva, Associate Professor of International Affairs at the New
School; Gordon Chang, Columnist at Forbes and author of “The Coming
Collapse of China”; Charlie Sennott, Founding Editor & Co-Founder of
GlobalPost; Rula Jebreal, MSNBC Contributor/Foreign Policy Analyst for
Newsweek.
MSNBC's "Disrupt with Karen Finney"
-- Capt. Mark Kelly, Husband of Rep. Giffords; Bob Shrum, Democratic
Strategist; Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post; Peter Edelman,
Georgetown University Law School; Perry Bacon, theGrio.com; Jennifer
Martinez, DREAM Activist.
CNN's "State of the Union"
— Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.;
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. Panel: Crossfire Host Van Jones, CNN
Commentator Ross Douthat and Amy Walter from the Cook Political Report.
CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS"
-- Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Center for Resilient Studies
at Northeastern University, and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Laurie Garrett; New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and The
Council on Foreign Relations’ Elizabeth Economy; Pulitzer Prize-winning
writer, biographer, and historian Robert Caro.
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