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Poor John Boehner.
Thanks to a Republican amendment to the Affordable Care Act, most members of Congress will see their government-provided health insurance lapse at the end of the year, leaving many of them no other choice but to enroll in dreaded Obamacare.
As speaker of the House, Boehner is technically exempt from the requirement, but in order to avoid accusations of special treatment (i.e., because of politics) he decided to take the plunge, too. And he wants you to know how difficult it was. He even wrote a blog post about it.
Earlier this afternoon, I sat down to try and enroll in the DC exchange under the presidents health care law, he wrote. Like many Americans, my experience was pretty frustrating. After putting in my personal information, I received an error message. I was able to work past that, but when I went to actually sign up for coverage, I got this internal server error screen: [Here he embedded an image of an internal server error screen.] Despite multiple attempts, I was unable to get past that point and sign up for a health plan. Weve got a call into the help desk. Guess Ill just have to keep trying
Its a bummer Boehner got that error message. Tyranny almost. But if hed reached the point at which he was signing up for coverage, it means hed already had a chance to shop around and pick a plan. His post is oddly quiet about that part of the experience. Which is curious. As a 64-year-old heavy smoker, its a marvel Boehner will be able to purchase individual market coverage at all. I wonder what crazy law guarantees that he can?
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/22/whoops_obamacare_turns_out_to_be_great_deal_for_boehner/
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)and have him saying...."Boehner just saved a bunch of money by switching to Obamacare".
I wouldn't even know how to START such a project.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Mr. B should try AA for a while...once he's off the booze, he'll find life easier to deal with...
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...would finally provide high-intensity prescription tanning for people with the TBW disability (Total Blinding Whiteness). So that people with his affliction wouldn't look so orange from using the non-prescription tanning beds. He believes Obama especially excluded it because he wanted it.
- And that's the REAL reason he's still mad......
K&R
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)Republicans are beyond useless.
Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)n/t