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One of President Barack Obama's favorite new Obamacare sign-up pitches is that young enrollees, which the law banks on for sustainability, can get health insurance for the price of a monthly cellphone bill. But in reality, premiums are more than a little pricier.
"HealthCare.gov works great now,"
Obama told Zack Galifianakis Tuesday in a Funny or Die "Between Two Ferns" video. "And millions of Americans have already gotten health insurance plans, and what we want is for people to know that you can get affordable health care - and most young Americans right now, they're not covered."
"And the truth is that they can get coverage all for what it costs you to pay your cell phone bill," Obama said.
As competition heats up in the wireless war between the nation's biggest carriers, prices and options for cellphone plans are spread across a wide range, depending on phone type, data limits, upgrade terms, etc. For comparison's sake, we'll define an average middle-of-the-road plan as consisting of a smartphone, two-year upgrade, unlimited calls, unlimited texts and an average of two gigs of downloadable Internet data per month.
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