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• Days before launch, Obamacare website failed to handle even 500 users

  In the last days before the botched October 1 launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare website, the team in charge was seeing alarming results from performance tests, according to internal emails released by Republican lawmakers investigating the rollout.

• An apologetic Barack Obama unveils fix on health law

  President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to ease the biggest crisis of his presidency, acknowledging missteps with his signature healthcare law and announcing a plan to help those seeing their current health plans canceled because of it.

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  Oracle, Red Hat roped in to help fix US healthcare website

  According to a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, engineers from prominent companies have been recruited to help fix the healthcare site.

• For Barack Obama, health care law's problems may linger

  For nearly five years, Republicans have struggled to make a scandal stick to President Barack Obama's White House. One by one, the controversies faded away.

• Firm run by Indian-Americans to fix Obamacare website

  The Obama administration has turned to a technology company run by Indian-Americans to fix the problem ridden website for Americans to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

• Key part of US health reform launches despite shutdown

  A key part of President Barack Obama's drive to offer low-cost health insurance to millions of uninsured Americans opened today despite a government shutdown over Republican opposition to the plan.

• Obama budget aims to kick start deficit-reduction talks

  President Barack Obama proposed a $3.77 trillion budget on Wednesday that combines controversial cuts to social safety net programs with tax increases on the wealthy in a package the White House hopes will jumpstart deficit-reduction talks.

• Barack Obama renews offer to cut social safety nets

  President Barack Obama raised anew the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts, a White House official said on Sunday, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit millions of Americans.

• US rules out minting trillion-dollar coin

  The US Treasury Department has ruled out minting a trillion-dollar coin so as to address the debt issue in case the Congress fails to increases the debt limit.

• Medicare premiums could rise for many retirees in United States

  It's a health care change that President Barack Obama and Republicans both embrace: Expand a current, little-known law so more retirees the government considers well-off are required to pay higher Medicare premiums.

• Republican House Speaker opens door to tax hikes, shifts US fiscal cliff talks

  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's offer to accept a tax rate increase for the wealthiest Americans knocks down a key Republican road block to a deal resolving the year-end "fiscal cliff."

• US 'fiscal cliff' talks picking up pace

  The White House and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's office held more negotiations on Monday on ways to break the stalemate over the "fiscal cliff," steep tax hikes and budget cuts set to start kicking in next month.

• Republican House Speaker says Obama pushing US toward 'fiscal cliff'

  Republican House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of pushing the country toward the "fiscal cliff" on Friday and of wasting another week without making progress in talks.

• President Obama remains tough on 'fiscal cliff'

  President Barack Obama and Republicans crept closer to negotiations on avoiding a recession-threatening package of automatic tax increases and spending cuts, but the White House reaffirmed it would not budge on demands for higher taxes on the wealthy.

• White House 'fiscal cliff' offer gets Republicans' cold shoulder

  The White House is seeking $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade and an immediate infusion of funds to aid the jobless, help hard-pressed homeowners and perhaps extend the expiring payroll tax cut, officials said Thursday as talks aimed at averting an economy-rattling "'fiscal cliff" turned testy.