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And since he is, as an American president, entitled to care through the military, he will now pay $4800 annually for absolutely nothing, congratulations on your 'victory.'
Obama signs up for health care, buying bronze plan the White House calls 'symbolic' - The Washington Post
WaPo was able to find one honest Republican to comment.
Obama signs up for health care, buying bronze plan the White House calls 'symbolic' - The Washington Post
WaPo was able to find one honest Republican to comment.
“I’m not going to take a cheap shot at him for signing up,” Chaffetz said. “It really wasn’t necessary, but if he didn’t do it, we would all bark at him. . . . He’s the president of the United States. His health care is a little different than the rest of us. We get that.”
The GOP push to get Obama to sign up dates to the crafting of the law in 2010. As the Senate neared debate on the bill that would become the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced an amendment that would require Obama and Vice President Biden, as well as the Cabinet and top White House staff members, to purchase health insurance through the marketplaces.
“It’s pretty unbelievable that the president and his closest advisers remain untouched by the reforms they pushed for the rest of the country,” Grassley said at the time. “In other words, President Obama’s health-care reform won’t apply to President Obama.”
Senate Democrats rejected that approach, arguing that the purpose was to cover those not already offered insurance by their employers. Congress approved a separate provision requiring lawmakers and some of their staff members to use the exchanges, but not the president or his aides.
Nonetheless, the White House said at the time that Obama would sign up for an insurance plan through the program once the marketplaces went online.