Given the wide system failures associated with the rollout of the Obamacare exchanges, the administration was quick to show at least one success story featuring a Chattanooga State U. student.

Just moments after writing a blog post Thursday morning, about the lack of information on Obamacare enrollees, Enroll America reached out with contact information for Chad Henderson, a 21-year-old in Georgia who had successfully enrolled in coverage on the federal marketplace.

…He’s a student at Chattanooga State University who lives across the state border in Flintstone, Ga. (population: 3,456). He describes himself as a supporter of President Obama who has anxiously awaited Obamacare’s rollout.

It turns out Chad is a bit more than just an average supporter.

The man touted by several national media outlets and government officials for successfully signing up for Obamacare Tuesday is a volunteer for an Obama grassroots organization.

Chad Henderson, who is being hailed as a hero for becoming one of the few Americans to navigate the Obamacare website and sign up for health insurance coverage, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that his history as an Organizing for America volunteer did not provide him any special skills for navigating the Obamacare exchange, which he agreed was very poorly structured….

Henderson “describes himself as a supporter of President Obama who has anxiously awaited Obamacare’s rollout,” wrote Kliff.

But Henderson’s support of the President extends further than that. According to Henderson’s LinkedIn profile, the 21 year-old Florida native has been a volunteer at Organizing for America — the forerunner to Organizing for Action — since 2007.

Henderson’s goal with OFA was to “help elect Barack Obama as our 44th President and to continue his agenda.”

Reached by The Daily Caller News Foundation, Henderson said that his volunteer work at OFA did not help his story go viral.

“I’ve been accused of that all day and I can assure you I just simply sent a tweet and it went crazy from there,” said Henderson.

Henderson did confirm that he volunteers for OFA but said “It’s totally irrelevant to my situation.”


 
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