Even the president can't use the Obamacare website! Obama 'symbolically' enrolls but has to send aides to file papers in PERSON

Obama chose 'a bronze plan' – the cheapest option – the White House has confirmed

He dispatched his aides to DC Health Link, the Obamacare affiliate in the nation's capital, to file the papers while he was on vacation

Obama's cousin Milton Wolf, a Republican who's running for the U.S. Senate in Kansas, called the move 'yet another lie'

The first news came in a phone call with an Obama-friendly radio network, despite the standing-room-only press crowd at the White House on Friday

The president will officially be part of an Obamacare insurance plan, but his family's medical care will still come from U.S. Navy physicians

The White House had promised since the spring that the president would enroll in his namesake insurance system

Obama snuck under the wire by a full day after the Health and Human Services Department quietly extended the deadline by another 24 hours

The final reprieve marked the 15th time the administration has altered the contents of the Affordable Care Act without consulting with Congress

Unlike millions of ordinary Americans, the President of the United States didn't have to test his patience with an error-prone website or spend hours on the phone with a volunteer 'navigator' in order to sign up for new health insurance.
A White House official confirmed Monday that Barack Obama simply dispatched his aides to the Washington, D.C. insurance exchange's office, where they filed his papers in person – while Obama himself luxuriated in his annual Hawaiian vacation with his family.
'His situation is unique,' the official insisted. 'The president couldn't have used the DC exchange's website because the databases these sites use to confirm insurance eligibility wouldn't contain those sorts of records about him.'
The Secret Service, the aide explained, typically scrubs personal records of U.S. presidents from credit, financial and historical databases when they take office, as part of a range of security precautions meant to protect the occupant of the Oval Office.

Obama chose 'a bronze plan' – the cheapest option – according to the White House. But an official statement conceded the exercise 'is symbolic since the president’s health care will continue to be provided by the military.'
But the president 'was pleased to participate in a plan as a show of support for these marketplaces,' the statement continued, 'which are providing quality, affordable health care options to more than a million people.'




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