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Title: Maryland Exchange Informs Man He is Not a Citizen (though his ancestors arrived on the Mayflower)
Post by: Rapunzel on October 31, 2013, 03:00:45 am
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/10/30/Video-Maryland-Man-Seeking-Insurance-Told-He-is-Not-a-Citizen

Maryland Exchange Informs Man He is Not a Citizen (though his ancestors arrived on the Mayflower)

by John Sexton 30 Oct 2013, 12:45 PM PDT

Brian Shaffer lives in Maryland. He is one of hundreds of thousands who has lost insurance because of the Affordable Care Act. But when Shaffer tried to buy replacement insurance on the Maryland exchange he got a surprise, one which he described as "sheer stupidity."

"I went to the Maryland Exchange, filled out the application, and at the end it told me I wasn't eligible because I was not a U.S. citizen" Shaffer told WJLA-TV.

Shaffer says he sent in his drivers license and birth certificate to the exchange by fax not once but twice. And still he has not been approved to buy insurance.

Amusingly, Shaffer has studied his own ancestry and knows that some of his relatives arrived in the New World on the Mayflower. His family has lived in America for 13 generations.



Title: Re: Maryland Exchange Informs Man He is Not a Citizen (though his ancestors arrived on the Mayflower)
Post by: happyg on October 31, 2013, 03:11:24 am
It's sounding more like the government borrowed the hard drive off someone else's computer.  :silly:
Title: Re: Maryland Exchange Informs Man He is Not a Citizen (though his ancestors arrived on the Mayflower)
Post by: R4 TrumPence on October 31, 2013, 06:16:03 am
It's sounding more like the government borrowed the hard drive off someone else's computer.  :silly:

It takes time to decipher the code: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:

(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2009/12/4175840101_5f98070d27_o.jpeg)
Title: Re: Maryland Exchange Informs Man He is Not a Citizen (though his ancestors arrived on the Mayflower)
Post by: mountaineer on October 31, 2013, 12:43:42 pm
Had his surname been Gomez and the exchange deemed him "not a citizen," it wouldn't have been a problem, though ...