Obama Says Health Care Law More Important Than Website Flaws

By Joe Sobczyk and Caitlin Webber Bloomberg News, El Paso Times
Tue, 10/22/2013 - 4:39am

President Obama is trying to get America to look beyond healthcare.gov's problems.

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