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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoehner Sabotages Own ACA Enrollment - Places Official Helper on Hold for 35 Minutes
Sat Nov 23, 2013 at 07:10 PM PST
Boehner Sabotages Own ACA Enrollment - Places Official Helper on Hold for 35 Minutes
by ericlewis0
On Thursday, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) blogged about his attempts to sign up for ObamaCare:
Earlier this afternoon, I sat down to try and enroll in the DC exchange under the presidents health care law:
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:...
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:...
Blah blah blah. It now turns out that at one point during this enrollment attempt, he placed an official Healthcare marketplace representative on hold...for 35 minutes. From Talking Points Memo:
Actually, it turns out he had successfully enrolled and got a call confirming that about an hour after his tweet. But it gets better.
According to Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Washington, reports that a DC Health Care exchange representative actually tried to contact Boehner by phone during the enrollment process but was put on hold for 35 minutes, after which time the representative finally hung up.
According to Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Washington, reports that a DC Health Care exchange representative actually tried to contact Boehner by phone during the enrollment process but was put on hold for 35 minutes, after which time the representative finally hung up.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/boehner-fails-to-fail-on-obamacare
I don't think one can get much more fraudulent than that - what a smug fool to think he wouldn't get busted!
Let's make sure voters remember this sad, desperate ploy when they go to the polls in 2014.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/23/1257971/-Boehner-Sabotages-Own-ACA-Enrollment-Places-Official-Helper-on-Hold-for-35-Minutes
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Boehner Sabotages Own ACA Enrollment - Places Official Helper on Hold for 35 Minutes (Original Post)
FourScore
Nov 2013
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Blue Owl
(50,380 posts)1. Boner's dick move
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)2. kick! this proves how the GOP operate
at every turn. they should be shamed into giving up their citizenship and roving the world in sack cloth and ashes with "I'm SORRY, Obama" placards around their necks.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. OFFS! And won't be challenged on MSM, either...
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)4. Ugh...
Cha
(297,240 posts)5. boner's a liar and a drunk and instead of his nose growing longer he
turns orange.
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)6. I'm surprised he knows anything about using a computer.
Many men of his age had assistants do all computer work for them and never did catch on.
Vestigial_Sister
(182 posts)7. Then why's there 'White Out' all over his monitor screen?
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)8. Good one.