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This photo taken Jan. 5, 2014 shows Sharon Van Daele posing for the photographer in her home in Tucson, Ariz. Record-keeping snags could complicate the start of care this month as millions of people begin using health plans that they purchased under President Barack Obama’s law. Among the paperwork orphans was cancer survivor Sharon Van Daele, who went back and forth between her insurer and the federal government for more than a week after her coverage was supposed to start but her insurance card failed to arrive. Unable to get answers, she said it felt as if she had fallen into a black hole.(AP Photo/John Miller)
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This photo taken Jan. 5, 2014 shows Sharon Van Daele posing for the photographer in her home in Tucson, Ariz. Record-keeping snags could complicate the start of care this month as millions of people begin using health plans that they purchased under President Barack Obama’s law. Among the paperwork orphans was cancer survivor Sharon Van Daele, who went back and forth between her insurer and the federal government for more than a week after her coverage was supposed to start but her insurance card failed to arrive. Unable to get answers, she said it felt as if she had fallen into a black hole.(AP Photo/John Miller)
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This photo taken Jan. 5, 2014 shows Sharon Van Daele posing for the photographer in her home in Tucson, Ariz. Record-keeping snags could complicate the start of care this month as millions of people begin using health plans that they purchased under President Barack Obama’s law. Among the paperwork orphans was cancer survivor Sharon Van Daele, who went back and forth between her insurer and the federal government for more than a week after her coverage was supposed to start but her insurance card failed to arrive. Unable to get answers, she said it felt as if she had fallen into a black hole.(AP Photo/John Miller)
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President Barack Obama speaks about his Promise Zones Initiative, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Promise Zone Initiative is part of a plan to create a better bargain for the middle-class by partnering with local communities and businesses to create jobs, increase economic security, expand educational opportunities, increase access to quality, affordable housing and improve public safety. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
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A gunman aims his weapon during clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Tribal leaders in Fallujah have warned al-Qaida fighters there to leave to avoid a military showdown, and there were signs that residents of Fallujah were trying to restore a sense of normalcy, however precarious.(AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, file photo, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel talks with retired Army Col. Rebecca Hooper, program manager for the Center for the Intrepid, after Hagel spoke to soldiers, veterans and staff at the center in San Antonio. Hagel is making a rare visit to an Air Force nuclear missile base, on Thursday, hoping to boost morale among the Air Force men and women who operate, maintain and safeguard the nation's Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles, and who officials have said are increasingly tired of working in what can seem like oblivion. (AP Photo/The San Antonio Express-News, Lisa Krantz, File)
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Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine speaks during a press conference announcing his election into the 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame class, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 at the Statehouse in Trenton. N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied. Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly is the latest casualty in a widening scandal that threatens to upend Christie's second term and likely run for president in 2016. Documents show she arranged traffic jams to punish the mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gestures during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied. Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly is the latest casualty in a widening scandal that threatens to upend Christie's second term and likely run for president in 2016. Documents show she arranged traffic jams to punish the mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied. Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly is the latest casualty in a widening scandal that threatens to upend Christie's second term and likely run for president in 2016. Documents show she arranged traffic jams to punish the mayor, who didn't endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
