Obama signs up for health care, selects ‘bronze’ plan in D.C. exchange

[Forever_frost]

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HONOLULU – President Obama has enrolled in the federal health-care insurance exchanges, selecting a bronze-tiered insurance plan on the D.C. marketplace, the White House announced Monday.

In advance of Monday’s key enrollment deadline, Obama signed up for coverage over the weekend during the start of his holiday vacation here in Hawaii in what a White House official described as a “symbolic” act to promote the Affordable Care Act, his signature legislative achievement.

The president’s health care will continue to be provided by the military, according to a statement distributed to reporters from a White House official who demanded anonymity.

Obama’s premium will be less than $400 a month, but it only covers himself, not his wife, Michelle, nor their daughters, Malia and Sasha, according to a White House official.

Obama will be paying the premium in full himself: His annual salary of $400,000 makes him ineligible for federal subsidies.

Although Obama was involved in selecting a plan, he didn’t sign up himself. The president’s staff did that for him, going in person to the D.C. exchange over the weekend, the White House official said.

"Like some Americans, the complicated nature of the president’s case required an in-person sign-up,” the official said. “As you’d expect, the president’s personal information is not readily available in the variety of government databases HealthCare.gov uses to verify identities.”

Still, the White House official added, Obama “was pleased to participate in a plan as a show of support for these marketplaces which are providing quality, affordable health-care options to more than a million people.”

The deadline for Americans to sign up through the new federal health insurance exchange for health plans that begin Jan. 1 is midnight Monday, although administration officials have quietly changed the rules to give last-minute shoppers an extra day to enroll.

For weeks, Republicans have pressured Obama to sign up for coverage under his own law – even though some acknowledge that he didn’t need to.

“I’m glad he did it,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said in an interview Monday. “I’m not going to take a cheap shot at him for signing up. It really wasn’t necessary, but if he didn’t do it we would all bark at him.”

Chaffetz added: “He’s the president of the United States. His health care is a little different than the rest of us. We get that.”
This post has been updated.

[Fastlane]

He tried anyway...

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ObamaCare Bombshell: Obama’s Identity Unable to be Verified by Healthcare.Gov

(Tea Party) – Even Obama couldn’t enroll in healthcare.gov it seems, but not for the reasons you might think, such as a “glitch” or downed website. Instead, his staff enrolled him and when the White House attempted to explain why the staff enrolled the president in Obamacare, instead of Obama himself, they dropped a mother of a bombshell.

Ed Henry, Fox News White House correspondent reported:

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“Somebody who’s not waiting in line to enroll is the president of the United States. We learned today from the White House. Initially, they said he signed up for what they called a bronze plan, paying about four hundred dollars a month in premiums. But, then they came back to us and said – ‘Well, wait. He didn’t actually enroll. They said his staff did it and that’s because of his unique circumstance obviously, as commander-in-chief, that his personal information is not in various government databases, so Healthcare.gov could not actually verify his identity, oddly enough. So, he had to do it in person this weekend, so he was signing up for the D.C. exchange, but his staff did it.”

CBS in Washington also reported White House staff went to an Obamacare site in person to sign up the president for coverage.



What information is so sensitive that Obama had to be excluded from government databases? It cannot be his Social Security Number or even his birth records since the White House claimed to have made them public. After a great deal of backlash over the birth certificate, the White House released what it claims was Obama’s long-form birth certificate showing the date and his place of birth.

Several months ago, news media outlet WND reported its researchers located the Social Security Number Obama has been using through a basic search of an online Social Security database. That Social Security Number was for applicants with Connecticut addresses, however, public records do not show that Obama ever held a Connecticut address, raising intense speculation.

It is standard protocol for the White House to annually release income tax returns for president Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, sans social security numbers. This, despite there appearing to be no exception allowing the president or vice president to omit their Social Security Number for filing the IRS return.

As for Healthcare.gov, the only information required by the website to apply for coverage on the government health care exchange is a Social Security Number, employer and income verification along with the policy numbers for current health-insurance plans, if applicable.



Source: HealthCare.gov

As evidenced above in the Marketplace Application Checklist, it appears no other information is required and none that would be included in a government database for any U.S. citizen prior to applying for health insurance through the exchange.

Only the policy numbers of members of the household for existing health insurance coverage would be protected under various state and federal privacy statutes. However, the information is not near the level that would cause national-security concerns, requiring it to be kept secret for the commander in chief under a national-security classification.

Obama’s SSN raises red flag by E-Verify

E-Verify is the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the US Department of Homeland Security created. The system is used to verify whether or not prospective employees can legally work in the United States. In September 2011, WND reported that the Social Security Number purportedly being used by Obama did not pass an E-Verify check. Instead, Obama’s Social Security Number produced a mismatch as seen below. The reason for the mismatch “red flag” was “SSA record does not verify, other reason. SSA found a discrepancy in the record.”



E-Verify notification of “mismatch” in Obama Social Security number self check

The following screen shows a Social Security Administration website page with “SSA Record does not verify, other reason” interpreted as “Special indicator present” then referencing three E-Verify sections.



Social Security page explaining response “SSA record does not verify, other reason.”

The SSA adds “Special indicator codes” to verify Social Security Numbers that were obtained fraudulently. As of August 2008 there were nine special indicator codes according to an audit report from the Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration. They are as follows:
•False Identity
•Noncitizen Not in Status
•Multiple SSNs with Different Identities
•Scrambled Earnings with New SSN Assigned
•SSN Obtained Using Fraudulent Documentation
•SSN Assignment Based on Harassment/Abuse/Life Endangerment
•Fictitious Identity
•Fraud – OIG Investigated
•Fraud SSN Misuse

A copy of the affidavit was obtained from Linda Jordan—the private citizen who entered Obama’s SSN into the “Self-Check” field on the E-Verify website. According to Jordan, “Eight of the Special Indicators have to do with fraud of some kind. It looks to me like the SSN Obama is using has been flagged with a Special Indicator suggesting fraud.”

Will the real Social Security holder of Obama’s SSN please stand up

It has been independently verified that Obama is using the Social Security Number in question, however, the SSN currently being used by Obama is a number that was never issued to him. Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister obtained this verification from the Social Security Administration as seen below.



SSA verification that the Obama’s Social Security number (redacted above) was not issued to Obama

It was confirmed by WND that Obama’s SSN links to Obama in the online records that are maintained by the Selective Service system. Putting Obama’s SSN into their search engine produces a valid Selective Service Number for Obama as evidenced here:



Selective Service online search engine links Obama’s Social Security Number to his Selective Service Number

As of June 2011 the Social Security Administration decided to randomize future SSN that are issued, which will eliminate state-specific assignment of Social Security Numbers.

For now, we are continued left wondering what Obama is hiding.

- See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/obamacare-bo....9QoBBjxz.dpuf