Boehner Successfully Enrolls In Obamacare Only 45 Minutes After He Blogs About Frustrating Exchange

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Speaker Boehner's office confirms he has successfully enrolled in Obamacare, 45 mins. after critical blog post - @jparkABC
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says he is signed up for "Obamacare," but only after receiving the same error message experienced by other Americans. The Ohio Republican says the process worked after he tweeted his frustration with the delay.

Boehner said Thursday he re-started the process several times, tweeted about it, and about 45 minutes later, received an email from DC Health Link confirming he was signed up.

Boehner's experience came about nine days before a deadline by which the Obama administration says the web site will improve. President Barack Obama has apologized to the nation for the problems implementing his signature law. Many Democrats are squirming over the difficulties on the eve of a midterm election year. Republicans, led by Boehner, already are aggressively campaigning against the law's congressional supporters.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/john-boehner-enroll-obamacare_n_4319933.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

[global1]

1. What Am I Missing Here? Why Did Boehner Have To Enroll In Obamacare?....

Do all elected officials in Congress have to enroll? Or was he just testing the system to make some sort of point? If he was just noodling around the website to find something wrong with it - wasn't he taking valuable time and space away from an American that truly needed to enroll?

Also the fact that he is saying he successfully enrolled - doesn't that fly in the face of everything the Repugs are criticizing the website and Obamacare for?

I seem to be missing something here - what is the point of him doing this?

[TroglodyteScholar]

2. He was attempting to demonstrate how broken the site is.

45 minutes...what will the American people do?

[frylock]

6. what's the point of living?!!

[bulloney]

13. 45 minutes? Our local radio station said Boehner complained on Twitter it took him 4 hours.

Who do you believe?

[DonViejo]

3. Why Did Boehner Have To Enroll In Obamacare?....

It's his dog and pony show, just a stunt to try and prove how ineffective the web site is. Nothing more, nothing less

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Then I'd say it sort of backfired

Didn't it?

[DonViejo]

7. Yep! It sure did backfire...couldn't have happened

to a bigger jerk, and I'm very glad it did backfire!.

[wercal]

5. Not quite

Somewhere along the way, part of ACA or follow on legislation eliminated the current congressional coverage.

All the congresscritters will have to get healthcare somewhere. Some will go private to make a political statement...some will enroll.

[JaneyVee]

8. I've waited on hold longer with my cable company.

[bluestate10]

11. I have spent multiple hours with my former Internet access supplier. nt

[octoberlib]

9. Boehner kept THEM on hold for 35 minutes

Scott MacFarlane ?@MacFarlaneNews 2h
DC Health exchange spokesman tells @NBC4ITeam he tried to call Speaker John Boehner to complete Boehner's insurance enrollment, but..

Scott MacFarlane ?@MacFarlaneNews 2h
was put on hold 35 minutes, hung up (2


Scott MacFarlane ?@MacFarlaneNews 2h
DC health exchange spokesman says Speaker Boehner office kept DC representative on hold 35 minutes, "lots of patriotic hold music", hung up


Scott MacFarlane ?@MacFarlaneNews 2h
DC Health Exchange rep. says problem w/ John Boehner enrollment exacerbated by 35-minute wait on hold, when DC called Boehner office

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews

[doc03]

10. I have spent three hours on hold waiting to talk to someone

at the Ohio Jobs and Family Services for unemployment.

[marble falls]

21. Hey, doc!

[Berlum]

12. Hypocrisy is THE core Republicon "Value"

Sheesh - what phonies.

[FourScore]

14. Hey Boehner, here's an idea -- why don't you get your buddies to stop hacking it? n/t

[butterfly77]

15. Hey that is suppose to be a secret...

They think they're the smart people and that most people don't know what they are doing. I wonder how many people they are paying to muck up the works?

[stillcool]

17. I'd love to know that too.…

There must be some being paid to just log-on, or call over and over, all day every day. Probably aides calling through their D.C. offices.

[CatWoman]

16. ...

[Egnever]

18. Awesome!

[ismnotwasm]

19. Stolen!

[valerief]

20. I wonder how long it would have taken him had he used the phone instead. nt

[fadedrose]

22. Did he actually sign up or was "able" to sign up?