ACA is actually a great deal for a 64-year-old smoker with a high-stress job. Guess who!

[DonViejo]

Whoops! Obamacare turns out to be great deal personally for Boehner

The ACA is actually a great deal for a 64-year-old smoker with a high-stress job. Any idea who I'm talking about?

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 the accusation 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 president’s 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. We’ve got a call into the help desk. Guess I’ll just have to keep trying …”

It’s a bummer that Boehner got that error message. Tyranny almost. But if he’d reached the point at which he was signing up for coverage, it means he’d 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, it’s a marvel that 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/

[allan01]

1. i love it

and to think congress wouldnt give us their health plan

[Sunlei]

2. Del. zip w/300k income, silver plan is only $4,789 per year for a 64 yr old smoker

Hey Mr. Boehner that is 'affordable'. Obamacares

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/#state=pa&zip=15312&income-type=dollars&income=300%2C000&employer-coverage=0&people=1&alternate-plan-family=individual&adult-count=1&adults%5B0%5D%5Bage%5D=64&adults%5B0%5D%5Btobacco%5D=1&child-count=0&child-tobacco=0