Ted Cruz is Going on Obamacare

[liberal N proud]

Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:43 PM - Edit history (1)

The Goldman Sachs health insurance plan has lost a high profile customer. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is going on Obamacare. With his wife Heidi taking leave to help her husband campaign for president, the Cruzes are leaving the $20,000 per year coverage she enjoyed at Goldman.

"We will presumably go on the exchange and sign up for health care and we're in the process of transitioning over to do that," Cruz told the Des Moines Register's Jennifer Jacobs. "It is written in the law that members will be on the exchanges without subsidies just like millions of Americans... I think the same rules should apply to all of us."

Heidi Cruz's coverage became the subject of a small media tempest in 2013, after Cruz and House conservatives insisted on de-funding the ACA through the appropriations process. After the resultant government shutdown ended, Heidi Cruz confirmed that she was covered, and her husband benefited from Goldman's generous plan. It was a rare and tooth-pulling mention of Heidi Cruz's career. Even in his announcement speech, at Liberty University, Cruz talked at length about his wife's success but

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/ted-cruz-is-going-on-obamacare-as-wife-takes-goldman-sachs-leave/ar-AA9X0k5

[msanthrope]

1. Not the Onion, eh? nt

[liberal N proud]

2. It is MSN, these days one never knows.

[still_one]

3. Bullshit he is covered as a congressperson with better coverage than anyone has. This is some

Stunt and I have every confidence the MSM will not ask him about his coverage as a congressman

Also, the link you gave is not working for me

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. Members of Congress no longer have the same health care as other fed employees

They have to buy from the exchange, but they do get subsidies.

[still_one]

8. Ok, thanks. However, how does a 174K/year congress person qualify for a subsidy?

[liberal N proud]

9. Fixed the link

[still_one]

10. Thanks, and my error about the exchanges was pointed out to me

[madamesilverspurs]

5. He's lucky

that Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions, even one as serious as "being Ted Cruz"...

[JeffHead]

6. Good for him.

Maybe now he will get the mental health care he so desperately needs.

[LynnTTT]

7. Won't hsppen

In a week or so he'll be saying that Goldarnit, he just spent hours and hours on healthcare.gov but he was never able to complete an application because they just make it so complicated. So he just had to go ahead and buy the 18 month extension available under his wife's plan at Goldman. Just proves Obamacare doesn't work you know.

[Electric Monk]

11. 60 recs and counting

Earlier thread here on this deliciously ironic news: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026409678