Little was sacred when President Barack Obama tossed out playful but pointed jokes at the black tie dinner – not even his own health care plan.

“We rolled out healthcare.gov. That could have gone better,” Obama said in remarks at the Saturday night dinner.

“In 2008 my slogan was ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013 my slogan was ‘Control-alt-delete’.”

On the plus side, the president said, “they did turn the launch of healthcare.gov into one of the year’s biggest movies”. On a screen flashed the poster for the film `Frozen’.

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