CNN's GUT CHECK | for November 8, 2013 | 5 p.m.
– n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle

CNN BELIEF: THE “COVERAGE GAP” IN THE BIBLE BELT: When people talk about the Affordable Care Act, most focus on the troubled launch of its website. But another complication of the law has received less attention: a “coverage gap” that will leave nearly 5 million poor Americans without health care, according to a Kaiser Health Foundation study. The coverage gap was created when 25 states refused to accept the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare. The people who fall into this gap make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and not enough to qualify for Obamacare subsidies in their state insurance exchanges. … Most of the people who fall into the coverage gap live in the Bible Belt, a 14-state region in the South stretching from North Carolina to Texas and Florida. – John Blake

SUBPOENAED, AGAIN: House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-California, is again pressing the IRS over its scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He issued another subpoena late Thursday to the Treasury Department, according to two spokespeople for the committee.- Lisa Desjardins and Deirdre Walsh and Ashley Killough
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