Obama fulfills an Obamacare commitment
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He won’t use it, and he didn’t actually sign up for it himself, but President Barack Obama has enrolled for health coverage through the new insurance exchanges.
While the President was vacationing in Hawaii, he “enrolled in a health care plan [a less expensive “bronze” plan] made available by the Affordable Care Act on the D.C. marketplace,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in an email.
As commander in chief, the president receives his health care through the military, so his new coverage will go unused. Rather, the move fulfills a commitment to personally participate that Obama made in 2010, when he signed into law the Affordable Care Act requiring millions of uninsured Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.
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