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  President Obama may enroll under health law
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ContributorBrandonius Maximus 
Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  Mar 22, 2013 11:16am
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AuthorKYLE CHENEY
News DateFriday, March 22, 2013 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionIf President Barack Obama wants to make good on a promise to become one of Obamacare’s first customers, he’ll have to take a route most Americans are unlikely to choose.

He’ll have to enroll in a health plan that lacks a taxpayer subsidy, even though he has access to generous coverage through his day job.

In the days following the passage of the health law in March 2010, the White House confirmed that Obama planned to walk the walk by enrolling in one of the health insurance exchanges his law created, assuming his reelection.

“The president will participate in the exchange,” an administration spokesman told USA Today at the time, rejecting Republican efforts to compel the president to do so by law.
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