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The White House is "as sorry as we can be" that a Washington state woman held up as an example of the success of the Affordable Care Act marketplaces appears to be falling through the cracks, press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday. In mid-October, President Obama cited single mother Jessica Sanford as an exchange success story after she wrote to him after being able to sign up for insurance in early October. She's since learned that her state's system miscalculated her tax credit and that her out-of-pocket costs will be substantially higher than expected.

SACRAMENTO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces members of his political party at the state Republican convention on Friday for the first time since he declared himself a "post-partisan" who does not need them. And they are not a happy bunch. The conservatives who dominate the convention are pushing a resolution against the governor's health care proposal. They accuse Schwarzenegger of violating an election-year pledge not to raise taxes by proposing "fees" to fund it. GOP activists also are nursing an assortment of grievances from the recent election. The party is $4.6 million in debt, after spending millions on a get-out-the-vote operation...