Obama signs up for health care, selects ‘bronze’ plan in D.C. exchangeObama signs up for health care, selects ‘bronze’ plan in D.C. exchange
By Philip Rucker
December 23 at 1:27 pm

President Obama is driven through the Kailua, Hawaii, neighborhood where he is spending his annual holiday vacation with his family on Dec. 21. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
HONOLULU – President Obama has enrolled in the federal health-care insurance exchanges, selecting a bronze-tiered insurance plan on the D.C. marketplace, the White House announced Monday.
In advance of Monday’s key enrollment deadline, Obama signed up for coverage over the weekend during the start of his holiday vacation here in Hawaii in what a White House official described as a
“symbolic” act to promote the Affordable Care Act, his signature legislative achievement.
The president’s health care will continue to be provided by the military, according to a statement distributed to reporters from a White House official who demanded anonymity.
Still, the White House official added, Obama “was pleased to participate in a plan as a show of support for these marketplaces which are providing quality, affordable health-care options to more than a million people.”
The deadline for Americans to sign up through the new federal health insurance exchange for health plans that begin Jan. 1 is midnight Monday, although administration officials have quietly changed the rules to give last-minute shoppers an extra day to enroll.