Rand Paul Signs Up for Obamacare

[jct74]

Rand Paul Signs Up for Obamacare

By Sterling Beard
December 6, 2013 11:12 AM




Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said yesterday that he has enrolling his family in Obamacare, but he isn’t happy about it. In fact, he says he has “been in a bad mood ever since.”

The freshman senator said he paid $20,000 for his plan, four times as much as he paid five years ago.

However, high prices weren’t the only thing that the senator found off-putting about signing up through DC Health Link, the healthcare exchange designated for members of Congress. It took him two hours to successfully enroll because the website lost the data he entered the first time around.

“I went through all of my information and then I clicked the sign up button — which I wasn’t very happy because of the price — but it didn’t sign up and I lost all my data,” Paul said in Louisville. “And I had to start all over again and finally got through.”

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[Lucille]

Paul said that in his home state of Kentucky, 40 times as many people have lost insurance than have signed up for Obamacare, and that he wants a “unified Republican spokesman” to counter the Obama administration’s messaging.

“Everyday when there’s a press conference and Jay Carney gives his opinion, we should have a press conference immediately after there with our opinion,” Paul said.

I like it.

 

[Dianne]

I actually don't like it. The mere fact, he is signing up for it; gives it some type of legitimacy. Rand needs to set an example for the rest of the country, and say NO, HELL NO to Obamacare. If it is not good enough for Obama, Harry Reid, Pelosi, the Unions, the bimbo's Pelosi hangs out with ... Well it's not good enough for Rand or you, or me............. PERIOD.

 

[cruzrulez]

I actually don't like it. The mere fact, he is signing up for it; gives it some type of legitimacy. Rand needs to set an example for the rest of the country, and say NO, HELL NO to Obamacare. If it is not good enough for Obama, Harry Reid, Pelosi, the Unions, the bimbo's Pelosi hangs out with ... Well it's not good enough for Rand or you, or me............. PERIOD.

no joke. what is he doing?!!!!

 

[thoughtomator]

If it's any consolation, it's likely that he's not really signed up for it - no matter what the website claimed.

 

[alucard13mm]

I think he does not want to look like one of those senators that exempt themselves and their staff from Obamacare. There was an article about Reid going to exempt his staff from obamacare and there was a list of senators and their positions on exemptions. STrangely, Rand was not on the list (early black out?)

 

[erowe1]

Why?

 

[juleswin]

I actually don't like it. The mere fact, he is signing up for it; gives it some type of legitimacy. Rand needs to set an example for the rest of the country, and say NO, HELL NO to Obamacare. If it is not good enough for Obama, Harry Reid, Pelosi, the Unions, the bimbo's Pelosi hangs out with ... Well it's not good enough for Rand or you, or me............. PERIOD.

I was still watching MSNBC when I saw this and Rand should have at least listened to part of Olbermann's spiel.

"fine me if you will, jail me if you want...... I will not buy this insurance"
Keith Olbermann

 

[amy31416]

It's garbage insurance and he'll be able to speak first-hand about how much better and cheaper his other insurance was--easy segue into how the Dems screwed us all over.

 

[Neil Desmond]

Suppose he runs for POTUS'16, becomes the Pres., and says he'll sign a law that repeals Obamacare. No one will be able to use the argument that he doesn't know what it's like to sign up and be on Obamacare as criticism against his decision to repeal it.

 

[Neil Desmond]

It's garbage insurance and he'll be able to speak first-hand about how much better and cheaper his other insurance was--easy segue into how the Dems screwed us all over.

Yeah, this basically. You sort of beat me to the point I was also making.

 

[Lindsey]

no joke. what is he doing?!!!!

Didn't he propose a constitutional amendment that would prohibit Congress from exempting themselves, judges, etc from the laws passed by Congress? He had to sign up or be considered a hypocrite.

 

[Guitarzan]

Great move.

 

[dannno]

Why?

Well being able to give a first hand experience about how unaffordable it is will be pretty valuable for his talking points.

 

[juleswin]

Well being able to give a first hand experience about how unaffordable it is will be pretty valuable for his talking points.

Really, do you really have to buy into the health insurance to see how shitty it is. The healthcare is the same, the hospitals are mostly likely the same, same with doctors, one does not need to buy it to be able to what the outcome is going to be.

Just think, what if he goes through the whole year without using it? does it mean he cannot comment on the crappiness of the insurance bill? I just hope this doesn't backfire on him

 

[Brett85]

I actually don't like it. The mere fact, he is signing up for it; gives it some type of legitimacy. Rand needs to set an example for the rest of the country, and say NO, HELL NO to Obamacare. If it is not good enough for Obama, Harry Reid, Pelosi, the Unions, the bimbo's Pelosi hangs out with ... Well it's not good enough for Rand or you, or me............. PERIOD.

He's just trying to point out that elected officials should have to abide by the same laws that everyone else is forced to abide by.

 

[Brett85]

I was still watching MSNBC when I saw this and Rand should have at least listened to part of Olbermann's spiel.

"fine me if you will, jail me if you want...... I will not buy this insurance"
Keith Olbermann

Olbermann is a far left progressive. Why would he say something like that?

 

[Tod]

Olbermann is a far left progressive. Why would he say something like that?

Maybe in protest of it not being single-payer?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Why?

I imagine that if one of Rand's primary efforts is to hold Congress to the same law as the rest of America, he knows part of doing that is setting an example. IIRC he was a primary behind the push to force Congress to sign up for it. All I see him doing is not being a hypocrite.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Didn't he propose a constitutional amendment that would prohibit Congress from exempting themselves, judges, etc from the laws passed by Congress? He had to sign up or be considered a hypocrite.

He's just trying to point out that elected officials should have to abide by the same laws that everyone else is forced to abide by.

This is what it means to be a republic. This is one of the only things the US Constitution gives to enforce against the states by all means necessary, and that is that the people in the several States will enjoy a republican form of government. (Article 4 Section 4)

The President keeps the same law as the plumber. If not, then we are not America. Oh, wait.