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Hold the phone: Chad Henderson may not have signed up for healthcare exchanges?

enrolled in #Obamacare just now! Looking forward to having affordable healthcare for the first time! @newschannelnine @WRCB @TimesFreePress — Chad Henderson (@ChadHenderson) October 1, 2013 The part-time childcare worker who enrolled in the federal health insurance exchanges successfully on day one–Chad Henderson–may not have actually signed up at all. Or at least that’s what his […]

The part-time childcare worker who enrolled in the federal health insurance exchanges successfully on day one–Chad Henderson–may not have actually signed up at all. Or at least that’s what his father, Bill Henderson, told Reason magazine. Whether Chad or Dad is telling the truth, this shows the confusion around the online system for enrollment.

Whether this is a misunderstanding or a media stunt, Bill said they both do plan to enroll in the exchanges (uhm, if they haven’t already).

From the article:

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.

Bill told me that Chad had been looking into plans online. “He told me that there’s different plans. And we haven’t decided which plans to enroll in yet.”

I asked him whether he and his son had talked about going on separate plans, and he told me that, “We’ll probably go on the same plan, more than likely.”

Asked whether he had seen specific plan options yet, Bill said, “No, we haven’t looked over them that discrete yet. But it’s just different plans that he [Chad] has told me we’re going to go with. We’ll have to choose one of them.”