Oh boy.

Via Reason:

Chad Henderson is the media’s poster boy for Obamacare. Reporters struggled this week to find individuals who said they had been able to enroll in one of the law’s 36 federally run health-insurance exchanges.

That changed yesterday, when they found Henderson, a 21-year-old student and part-time child-care worker who lives in Georgia and says that he successfully enrolled himself and his father Bill in insurance plans via the online exchange administered at healthcare.gov.

But in an exclusive phone interview this morning with Reason, Chad father’s Bill contradicted virtually every major detail of the story the media can’t get enough of. What’s more, some of the details that Chad has released are also at odds with published rate schedules and how Obamacare officials say the enrollment system works.

The coverage of Chad Henderson has been massive. He was featured in The Washington Post Thursday as “the Obamacare enrollee that tons of reporters are calling.” He was also profiled in The Huffington Post as someone who “beat the glitches to sign up for Obamacare.” He was interviewed by Politico, multiple local news organizations, and, according to his Facebook feed, was asked to be part of a conference call hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services. […]

But details of Chad’s story proved difficult to verify. And in a phone interview conducted this morning, Chad’s father Bill contradicted major details of Chad’s story. I reached Bill Henderson by following a series of links at Chad’s Facebook page, through which I was able to speak directly to the father.

Bill Henderson told me that both he and his son were interested in getting coverage, but that they 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.”

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Update: LOL!

Update: Chad Henderson’s claiming he didn’t lie because he never said he bought health insurance through the exchange. That is a lie:

(HuffPo) — The Hendersons are getting a lot of attention right now as one of the few people who have publicly identified themselves as having signed up for Obamacare. The Wall Street Journal has contacted him, Chad claims, and the Washington Post featured him in a blog post Thursday. The Huffington Post contacted him via Twitter late Wednesday. Chad volunteered for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign last year.

The Hendersons, who are among 48 million uninsured in the U.S., had to stay motivated — and awake — to finish applying for coverage, Chad said. About 45 minutes after creating an account on the website, Chad chose separate “bronze” plans for himself and his father. Bronze health insurance plans typically have the lowest premiums but the highest out-of-pocket costs, like deductibles and co-payments, meaning patients have to pay more when they receive medical care. The exchanges are intended for the uninsured and for those who buy their own health insurance rather than for those who get it through their employers.

“Once I created an account, there were hardly any glitches at all after that,” Chad said, likening the shopping experience to comparing cell phones on Verizon’s website.

The Hendersons could have opted for a single plan for both of them, because the health law allows young adults to stay on a parent’s health insurance until they turn 26, but Bill Henderson thought his son should buy his own. “He’s old school, so he wants me to take responsibility,” Chad said.

So Chad will pay the full sticker price for his insurance, which is $175 a month, while his father will receive tax credits to cut the cost of his down to $250 a month. Tax credits are available to people who earn between the poverty level and four times that amount, or about $46,000 for a single person.