The Chatter for Sunday, Nov. 17 President Obama, who took responsibility for the problem-filled rollout of the Affordable Care Act. He announced new rules that will let insurance companies keep people on health care plans that would not have been allowed under the new law. Once you created a super-Delta and a super-United, you had to create a super-American. George Hoffer, a transportation economics professor at the University of Richmond. The merger of American Airlines and US Airways to create the world's largest airline became all but certain after the airlines reached a settlement with the Justice Department just two weeks before a scheduled antitrust trial. I think this is classic bird-in-hand versus bird-in-bush. Julie A. Ask, an analyst at Forrester Research. Snapchat, the social media service, reportedly rejected a multibillion-dollar takeover offer from Facebook.