Cincinnati
Enquirer
Boehner
signs up for Obamacare – eventually
by
Carl Weiser
11/21/13
Being
speaker of the House doesn’t make it any easier to sign up for
health care coverage using the troubled federal website. Just ask
John Boehner.
The
Ohio Republican says he had to re-start the process several times
while spending four hours trying to sign up at HealthCare.gov, the
Associated Press reports.
At
one point Thursday, Boehner tweeted his frustration — “Guess I’ll
just have to keep trying” — along with photos of himself at a
computer and the error message he says he received. The House speaker
has 583,000 followers on Twitter.
Nearly
an hour after his tweet, Boehner received an email confirming he was
signed up, his spokesman said.
Boehner’s
effort comes as Republicans crank up a highly organized effort to
capitalize politically on the troubled rollout of the health care
law’s website, as well as millions of Americans receiving policy
cancellations...
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