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"The best thing we can do now is to scrap [the Affordable Care Act] and start over with a step-by-step approach that focuses on lower cost and patient-centered solutions," Rep. Michael C. Burgess, Texas Republican and a physician, said in the weekly Republican address about the continued problems with Obamacare in general and the rocky performance of the HealthCare.gov website. (Associated Press)
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Secret Service employees were accused of misconduct in connection with a prostitution scandal at Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, before President Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas. Some former veteran agents are concerned that the Secret Service, which fired a dozen agents involved in Cartagena, has been left to reform itself. (Associated Press photographs)