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The White House is meeting with CEOs of health plans on Wednesday, according to two insurance industry sources. The insurance executives are meeting with Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and chief of staff Denis McDonough, the sources told POLITICO on Tuesday evening. The White House didn’t immediately confirm the meeting. Insurers have a lot riding on the success of Obamacare enrollment — which is being stymied by pervasive technical problems with the federal website, HealthCare.gov. HHS has announced stepped-up efforts to resolve the signup problems. The White House hasn’t announced how many people have successfully enrolled, although insurers have described it...

President Obama will sit down Tuesday with about 20 black religious leaders, including representatives of the major African American denominations, in the second White House meeting in three months to discuss the needs of the black community. The president has faced growing questions about whether he has done enough to help African Americans deal with the nation's economic downturn. Blacks have been hurt more than other communities by the lack of jobs and the difficulty in obtaining bank financing, among other issues, and some -- including political commentator Tavis Smiley and some members of the Congressional Black Caucus -- say...

Speaking after a closed door meeting with bickering Senate Democrats, President Obama this afternoon said they are on the verge of an agreement on health care but that more work needed to be done. "There are still some differences that have to be worked on. This was not a roll call. This was a broad-based discussion about how to move forward," Obama told reporters, according to the website Politico. Speaking from the Roosevelt Room, he said the Senate was almost ready to achieve their health care goals, which he called, "an achievement that's eluded congresses and presidents for generations, an...