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As rumored prior on Monday, President Barack Obama enrolled this weekend in a well being care plan throughout the Inexpensive Care Act federal exchange.
In what was once admittedly a “symbolic” move, as the president receives well being care from armed forces physicians under the White Home Scientific Unit, Obama selected a “bronze plan,” the least pricey of the three options. Obama made the choice while on trip in Hawaii, although his staff signed him up in particular person in DC because of the “sophisticated nature of the President’s case.”
According to a White Home supply:
“The President is likely one of the eighty five % of Americans who will get his medical insurance through his employer and, like earlier Presidents, is privileged to receive health care from the militia. The act of the President signing up for insurance coverage protection throughout the DC alternate is symbolic because the President’s health care will continue to be supplied by using the military. However, he was happy to take part in a plan as a express of improve for these marketplaces that are offering high quality, reasonably priced well being care options to more than one million folks.”
As of late is technically the final day to enroll in an insurance plan for coverage to be effective on January 1 (consumers have except March 31 to sign up as a way to avoid the paying the individual mandate penalty). Alternatively, the White Home quietly extended the deadline 24 hours on Monday, in what might probably have a “buffer” in opposition to any technological system faults within the last hours of 2013 enrollment.
[Correction: This put up has been up to date to reflect that the president didn’t enroll through a federal alternate.]
[h/t POLITICO / TIME]
[Picture via White Home]
