posted October 04, 2013 11:29 AM            

Now we find an O'BomberCare political activist is to be run out in front of America by O'Bomber drooling political activists posing as journalists to tell us he got his O'BomberCare. Wow, aren't we all surprised! But, it's too late, their cover is blown. Enjoy!

October 4, 2013
Poster boy for Obamacare website launch is a ringer
Thomas Lifson

What's a leftist to do when a cherished program fails embarrassingly? Of course, create a phantom success, and publicize it relentlessly. And that is exactly what has happened with the disastrous launch of Healthcare.gov and the assorted state websites intended to enroll people in Obamacare.

Obamacare found its poster boy for "success" in one Chad Henderson, who claims to have successfully enrolled where others have encountered nothing but frustration. As Chad wrote on his Facebook page:

I've now been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post,Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Huffington Post, Enroll America, and POLITICO!! Those stories will be published in the coming days. I have a press conference call with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services later tonight. Also, local folks..... my interview with Kimberly Barbour WRCB-TV will be aired TONIGHT at 5:30pm on WRCB Channel 3 Eyewitness News so be sure to check it out thanks for all your support!

As Twtichy noted:

Wow, that's a lot more coverage than most people were able to score from a visit to the broken health insurance exchange website. Another amazing coincidence: Henderson lists himself on LinkedIn as an Organizing for America (i.e., @BarackObama) volunteer working to continue the president's agenda.

In fact, as it turns out, Chad has a long history as an Obama activist.

The left is able to acquire and hold political power solely because it has mastered the techniques and controls the organs of propaganda. It works in the short run, and the startegy always is to distract the public with something else before the truth comes out. Hwoever, the problems with Obamacare aren't going to go away.

posted October 04, 2013 11:41 AM            

Who turned out to have been unable to finish his 4th year, therefore not receiving his degree, and to be sleeping on friends' couches because he can't afford rent...whose sister is now insured for the first time in her life due to previous denials on the basis of her seizure condition ...and his UNION father's insurance is covering POSTER BOY because he is under 26.

He says he would prefer if we had gone to single payer universal healthcare but he sure is glad the ACA is there in place of what was before.
http://gawker.com/the-guy-ted-cruz-said-was-a-victim-of-obama-actually-li-1413919139

posted October 04, 2013 11:46 AM            

Of course, Cata will make an excuse if a drone fell on her head that it was a meteor from Obama that conferred special, super powers on whom it was dropped.

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posted October 04, 2013 11:56 AM            

Cruz reported the facts the guy gave to the Wall Street Journal and he relayed the facts straight.

"John Connelly thought he was on the right track in life. The son of a New Jersey auto mechanic, he was the first in his family to go to college when he enrolled in Rutgers in 2009. Four years later, the 22-year-old found himself $21,000 in debt, without a permanent job and sleeping on friends' couches in New Jersey and Brooklyn."

"Connelly reports to Al Jazeera America that while all of that is true, Cruz took things way out of context:" ***(No he didn't take anything out of context)

posted October 04, 2013 12:04 PM            

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posted October 04, 2013 12:11 PM            

People who don't finish college tend not to reap the benefits of a degree, but they still have to pay the lians. Obama has pushed for lower interest rates on student loans so not sure how Connelly is any mire his fault thsn yours.

As to "running with" any crowd I first heard that on AM radio. If Al Jazeera were the only outlet reporting it (as they were the only on the ground news in Tahrir Square for some time) then I guessCruz reads them too, eh?

So am I now running with the Cruz crowd? Or is Cruz a member of Al Jazeera's? I know it can be hard for some peoplr to distinguish between hispanics and arabs. Or arabs and jews for that matter.

posted October 04, 2013 12:20 PM            

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posted October 04, 2013 12:52 PM            

Why bother wasting your time defending the Democrats. The whole world knows the republicans have nothing on their sleeves and the most boring party. The day a insane person will say he is insane that day he is cured

posted October 04, 2013 01:07 PM            

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Originally posted by PhoenixRising:
Hahaha Kat. Thanks.

Why bother wasting your time defending the Democrats. The whole world knows they have nothing on their sleeves and the most boring party. The day a insane person will say he is insane that day he is cured

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You and Cata should get married. I will be the rabbi officiating

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posted October 04, 2013 01:26 PM            

How do you manage to consistently get things wrong?

Cruz read the Wall Street Journal..not Al Jazerra.

"in fact i have little time for tge Dems either"...Catalina/katatonic

Really? You are forever in defense of O'Bomber...demoscat. Forever in defense of his Socialist comrades in congress...demoscats and in fact you are forever in defense of every Socialist bit of nonsense to be found, most of it by demoscats.

posted October 04, 2013 01:44 PM            

In the years I have been talking to you, I have consistently debunked your outrageous attempts at making him out to be a DEMON of unworldly proportions, but I have not been defending him or Democrats, just pointing out that you are over the top personalizing everything that is wrong with this country and pretending it's all about Obama.

Talking to you may make someone sound like they are defending the Dems and Obama but really I simply object to your hate campaign and the ghoulish glee you get out of pretending that Obama is ALL THINGS EVIL, to the point of contradicting yourself as to which evil thing he is perpetrating in the back rooms of the White House at any given moment.

Stephen King couldn't paint a better monster tale. Pity is so many believe it.

posted October 04, 2013 01:54 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
I know it is hard for you to conceive, jwhop, but not everybody is either a hater or a defender of Obama.

In the years I have been talking to you, I have consistently debunked your outrageous attempts at making him out to be a DEMON of unworldly proportions, but I have not been defending him or Democrats, just pointing out that you are over the top personalizing everything that is wrong with this country and pretending it's all about Obama.

Talking to you may make someone sound like they are defending the Dems and Obama but really I simply object to your hate campaign and the ghoulish glee you get out of pretending that Obama is ALL THINGS EVIL, to the point of contradicting yourself as to which evil thing he is perpetrating in the back rooms of the White House at any given moment.

Stephen King couldn't paint a better monster tale. Pity is so many believe it.

As to Al Jazeera my point was that I did not read it in Al Jazeera either, and since Cruz got it from a source more reputable in your eyes, same story, WHO CARES?

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Obama is destroying America. Any true patriot hates him because any true patriot loves America.

Hence, people do not like their beloved country destroyed.

Maybe if you lived in Russia like your fake grandparents, you would have an appreciation for freedom.

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posted October 04, 2013 01:56 PM            

Obama is just a disgrace and his skin color has nothing to do with it.

Come out of your time warp, Cata.

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posted October 04, 2013 02:03 PM            

Don't even attempt to go there with me! You are one of Socialists most staunch supporters and certainly one of O'Bomber and his Socialist comrades in Congress most staunch supporters.

Now, you're attempting to back away from years of blind unwavering support and pretend you're not really much into them.

posted October 04, 2013 02:34 PM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:
As i said.

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I second that emotion. That reminds me of a song.
Smokey Robinson--I second that Emotion

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posted October 04, 2013 10:45 PM            

He's a fake, a fraud, a phony and a liar. Just what you'd expect from leftists. This is similar to leftists trotting out fake soldiers who supposedly fought in the Iraq war, said they were against the war...but nerver were soldiers or never were in Iraq.

Leftists just can't be trusted to tell the truth about anything.

This phony jerk never signed up for O'BomberCare but was going to be all over the leftist media with his story about how easy it was.

Is Obamacare's First Enrollee Bogus?
By Megan McArdle Oct 4, 2013 2:45 PM ET

It seems as if every policy reporter in the nation spent the last four days trying to log in and browse policies on Healthcare.gov, yet was stymied by glitches. Many of us have also been on the lookout for people who had actually bought insurance policies under Obamacare. Over the first day, reports trickled in of various successes -- most of them in Kentucky, funnily enough. (As I tweeted at the time, who had Kentucky in the office pool for “most successful exchange rollout”? Yeah, me neither.)

But no one could find anyone who had enrolled in one of the 36 exchanges being run by the Federal government, and people were beginning to doubt that anyone had, despite the White House’s assurances. Then finally, finally, Enroll America, a nonprofit ally of the White House run by a former White House communications staffer, came up with someone who had managed to get past all the glitches: Chad Henderson, a student and part-time day-care worker in Georgia who managed to enroll himself and his father in “bronze” plans (the tier with the lowest premium cost and highest cost-sharing). The Federal exchange websites might not be working well, but here at least was proof that they were working at all. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, and @Obamacare both retweeted Henderson about getting enrolled:

The next morning, Enroll America offered his name to the press. Henderson was interviewed by Politico, the Washington Post and the Huffington Post, among others. Details of his story emerged: He had waited until 3 am on Oct. 1 to log in. “Once I created an account, there were hardly any glitches at all after that," he told the Huffington Post, putting him in rare company. Indeed, I tried again last night, and managed to get as far as inputting personal information before it froze up and refused to go any further.

Once in, Henderson said, he purchased two policies -- one for himself, and one for his father. He could have gone on his father’s insurance, at a heavily subsidized rate, because his father makes $24,000 a year selling shave ice. But “he's old school, so he wants me to take responsibility," the younger Henderson told HuffPo. Henderson said he purchased a $175 bronze plan for himself. Since he makes only $7,000 a year, that’s a big sacrifice. If Georgia had passed the Medicaid expansion, he could have gone on Medicaid for free, but Georgia, like most Republican states, declined. Ironically, his father, who has a much higher income, is eligible for the tax subsidies. Chad said his dad would be paying $250 a month.

But there was some weirdness about the story. In the run-up, many reports said that the exchanges were going live at 8 a.m. on Tuesday -- how was it that the only person anyone could find who had bought insurance managed to get in five hours early? Not impossible -- the servers could have been brought up early, or the reports could have been wrong -- but lots of people had been trying to log in starting at midnight, and no one else had gotten through. Yet Henderson had apparently created not one but two accounts. And why, if he had gotten insurance at 3 a.m., did he wait more than half a day to tweet about it?

This morning, Reason magazine reporter Peter Suderman -- aka the Official Blog Spouse -- spoke with Bill Henderson, Chad’s father.

In a phone interview conducted this morning, Chad’s father Bill contradicted major details of Chad’s story. I reached Bill Henderson by following a series of links at Chad's Facebook page, through which I was able to speak directly to the father.
Bill Henderson told me that both he and his son were interested in getting coverage, but that he had not enrolled in any plan yet, and to his knowledge, neither had his son. He also said that when they do enroll, getting the most coverage for the least money would be the goal, and that he expects that he and his son will get coverage under the same plan.

The local Blue Cross website says that the cheapest bronze plan available in Chad Henderson’s county costs more than $225 without subsidies, even for a 21-year old. Meanwhile, the price quoted for his father is too high -- with subsidies, Obamacare's subsidy formulas say, his policy should cost no more than 6.61 percent of his income, or about $130 a month. A subsidy calculator shows that he could add Chad to that policy for at most another $90 a month.

What happened? It seems likely that the Obama administration grew aware of the problems with his story sometime after the Sebelius tweet. Chad Henderson’s Facebook page at one time said that he was going to be on a press call with the administration (that post seems to have been deleted), but as far as I can tell, no such call ever took place. And Politico reports that “he was originally going to be part of an afternoon press conference with Enroll America, but instead two other people who got covered through the exchanges -- a college student from Florida and a small business owner in Kentucky -- were featured.”

If it's true that Chad Henderson hasn't yet enrolled, you can see why the White House wouldn’t want to expose someone who may have let his enthusiasm for Obamacare bubble over a little too exuberantly. But this also raises some questions, such as whether by Tuesday afternoon federal officials could even figure out if there had been two successful registrations in Walker County, Georgia (population 68,000) early that morning? Moreover, if they were able to figure out that Chad and his father hadn’t registered, why can’t they tell us how many people have?

It no longer looks likely that these numbers are zero: Insurers are reporting that they are getting at least a thin trickle of applications from the Federal exchanges. But the speed with which Chad’s (PHONY) story spread tells you just how troubled this launch was, and how few people have so far succeeded in buying insurance.

UPDATE, 2:53 p.m.: The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff has had an interesting chat with Chad Henderson, and the First Spouse's suspicions proved justified: