Posted on 12/23/2013 2:45:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The obligatory follow-up to Ed’s post earlier. When they said O was planning to enroll today, I thought they meant he’d take a break from the links for half an hour to punch in his info on the D.C. exchange website. Upon reflection, though, that was silly. Of course the president’s not going to entrust his vital info to one of these tinpot online exchanges. He knows better than anyone how vulnerable they are; the one he built himself was so grotesquely flawed, his own security team wouldn’t sign off on it. Special procedures would be needed.
I think it’s fitting. By Team Hopenchange’s own admission, Obama signing up for coverage on the exchange is a publicity stunt, a “symbolic” act designed to show that he endorses the product he’s crafted with his own money. He’ll continue to get his health coverage through the military while president, but as a gesture of solidarity with Americans, he’s willing to sign up. Granted, he waited until the very last second to do it despite pleading with people for months not to wait. And sure, okay, his special status allowed him to bypass the website and delegate to his subordinates the aggravation of enrollment, unlike the millions of poor saps who had to be patient and keep trying during the Great 404 Meltdown of 2013. But there is one way that O’s walking the walk here: Now he’ll be paying hundreds in monthly premiums for coverage that he’ll never actually use, just like millions of “young invincibles’ who are being forced by the mandate to enroll. Their hard-earned money’s being expropriated to subsidize the sick; now a little of O’s hard-earned money is too. Why, he even bought the same type of plan — bronze — that’s likely to most appeal to young adults because of its relatively cheap premiums, even though the deductible is so high that it’ll discourage some of them from ever seeking treatment except in emergencies.
A perfect ending to an embarrassing three months.
Obama “was pleased to participate in a plan as a show of support for these marketplaces which are providing quality, affordable health care options to more than a million people,” the official added.
But Obama did not directly sign up for insurance. Rather, his staff went in person to sign him up, an official told POLITICO.
“Like some Americans, the complicated nature of the president’s case required an in-person sign-up,” the official said. “As you’d expect, the president’s personal information is not readily available in the variety of government databases HealthCare.gov uses to verify identities.”
As translated by John Sexton:
John Sexton @verumserum
The President is there in the trenches with people who already have insurance and choose to buy more from Hawaii via staff.
:45 PM - 23 Dec 2013
Meanwhile, here’s what the hoi polloi’s being told today about HHS’s new half-assed enrollment deadline of midnight tomorrow:
Within hours of that delay being revealed to the public, however, White House communications official Jennifer Palmieri informed MSNBC’s audience that it would be “dangerous” for consumers to consider tomorrow to be the new deadline, even though it now is. She stressed that the problem-plagued website may fail and leave uninsured users without coverage at the start of the 2014. So that’s why the new deadline was supposed to be “secret.” They figured that even if the site went down today under the crush of deadline enrollments, it might bounce back tomorrow as some discouraged users peeled off, reducing the traffic load and making it viable for the most dogged would-be enrollees. In other words, they still don’t trust Healthcare.gov enough to issue any full-throated encouragement for people to use it. With good reason, as it turns out.
Exit quotation from Nancy Pelosi: “It’s worth the trouble, it’s going to be a glorious thing.”
Right...like he’s going to give up his bank acct numbers etc etc...
Pelosi committed perjury to make Obama the
first undocumented Moslem candidate from Indonesia.
Will there EVER again be Law or a Constitution in the USA?
Would have been great to have live video of Obama trying to signup online himself.
In person? wow!
Heck, the Grifter in Chief probably has multiple Social Security numbers, and multiple bogus bank account numbers ... no skin off his teeth to sign up for something he will never use (Obamacare is for the unwashed proletariat -- not for the royal governing class).
Wait let me correct this for them.
“As you’d expect, the president’s personal information is not readily available in the variety of databases
the American people use to verify identities.”
Curious no?
Yeh like Barry’s bothering himself with a website signup (faux or not) while he’s in Hawaii. Only the morons would believe that, which of course, there are tons of them.
Maybe after we split in two.
“As you’d expect, the president’s personal information is not readily available in the variety of government databases HealthCare.gov uses to verify identities.”
Phony sign-up from mac daddy the phony.
I can’t for the life of me figure out way he think that people with an IQ more than a rock would believe anything he does or says.
ROTFL! More fraud from the fraudulent Obama regime. What a bunch of losers. Guess we won’t be seeing a photo op of Barry in his plaid undies drinking cocoa.
OK since he is not going to claim SS due to government pension this would be the unlawful use of that phony SS number and he had his staff use it. Maybe the IRS is the only place that can prosecute him for fraud and I’m sure they are on it.
What makes you think that federal workers don’t get Social Security?
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Like they would ever report he was not able to sign up like the other millions of Americans with Odummycare.
Pray America is Waking
WOW! I’m shocked! (not)
At least they could’ve posted a picture of him pushing the final “enter key”.
I think most Government workers after 1986 choose the Federal Employees Retirement System. Under this system they are not eligible for SS. It probably depends on how much you worked in the private sector and it is my understanding Obama never worked a day in his life.
Sure they did.
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