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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
(37,549 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)still_one
(92,502 posts)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
(7,290 posts)They have to buy from the exchange, but they do get subsidies.
still_one
(92,502 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)still_one
(92,502 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,819 posts)that Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions, even one as serious as "being Ted Cruz"...
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Maybe now he will get the mental health care he so desperately needs.
LynnTTT
(362 posts)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
(13,869 posts)Earlier thread here on this deliciously ironic news: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026409678