I'm not shitting you... Ted Cruz signs up for Obamacare..

[SomethingFishy]

Ted Cruz, one of the loudest critics of Obamacare, will soon be using it for health insurance coverage.

"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, a Republican candidate for president, told The Des Moines Register Tuesday.

Cruz's wife, Heidi, is going on an unpaid leave of up absence from her job at Goldman Sachs to join Cruz full time on the campaign trail, Cruz told the Register....

..Asked if it chafes at all to have to rely on Obamacare, Cruz told the Register: "Well, it is written in the law that members will be on the exchanges without subsidies just like millions of Americans so that's – I think the same rules should apply to all of us. Members of Congress should not be exempt."


http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-signs-obamacare

God what an asshole.

[msongs]

1. doesnt he get the same plan the rest of the senate and congress get already/ nt

[Cali_Democrat]

2. He was using his wife's healthcare plan from her previous employer, Goldman Sachs

She's leaving her job to work for his campaign full time so they're now ineligible for that plan.

Now their whole family is uninsured and they need affordable heatlhcare...so they turn to the affordable care act...a.k.a. Obamacare.

Thank god for Obamacare!

[merrily]

4. Having been in the Goldman Sachs plan did not disqualify them from participating in the Congress

plan after she left Goldman, did it?

Also, I very much doubt that they actually do NEED affordable health care. He makes nice money and perks, even if didn't manage to save a dime or two from her Goldman Sachs paycheck.

Also I would bet they have other health insurance that is cheaper if the insureds also have Obamacare. I wonder how anyone would even know he applied for Obamacare, unless Cruz wanted them to know? Isn't that info supposed to be secret? However, all the publicity he apparently sought for applying for Obamacare sure does make him seem like just another average American, even if he isn't, doesn't it?

[ND-Dem]

5. I think he has access to healthcare elsewhere too. I suspect he has an ulterior motive.

worse than the one you attributed to him.

[merrily]

6. I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

Are you thinking of anything in particular?

[Ms. Toad]

14. Since that is a change in qualifying circumstances,

he should be eligible for a period of time to sign up for the Congressional plan, even if it isn't generally open enrollment period (same trigger that makes him eligible for the ACA).

[merrily]

3. No worries. They probably have other health insurance as well.

[SoCalDem]

7. He's eligible for insurance through the senate

why would he even want to use the ACA???

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Because the GOP inserted the requirement in the ACA

as what they assumed would be a "poison pill", forcing Congress and their staff to drop their FEHB coverage and use the ACA (specifically one of the D.C. exchanges) for their health insurance, in order to qualify for a government contribution towards the premium. So rather than pay the penalty as a way to "stand defiant on principle" or continue to pay for the gold-plated Goldman Sachs health insurance (but at full price via COBRA), he opted to go full blown hypocrite and blame Obama for breaking laws.

[TexasProgresive]

10. BINGO!

You got it right.

[yuiyoshida]

8. Uh...YES.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026409502

[brush]

11. This two-faced creep has to up to something . . .

because I just heard him in his speech to announce that he's running for president that one of his goals is to get rid of Obamacare.

I didn't purposely tune in, btw, the speech was covered on the progressive satellite radio channel.

He's probably doing it so he can find out how to criticize it in his campaign.

If that's not his motive, and he's just making sure his family is covered, that would be supreme, hypocritical a-holedom, of which he is very familiar.

[Paladin]

13. I agree. Cruz will do nothing but criticize it.

But I don't think it will work for him, not after years of benefitting from the primo health care he enjoyed from his wife's coverage. That high-level job she had at Goldman Sachs had to be a 7-figure salary deal, with family health benefits to match. That's something that can and should be used against him.

[B Calm]

12. His wife works at Goldman Sachs. . .

[LynnTTT]

15. No, he hasn't

Presumably (to use his words), he'll try ever so hard to sign up. But to no avail. After hours trying to get through on healthcare.gov, he'll just have to give up. Proving once again that the website is broken.
Then the family will take advantage of the COBRA law and buy the 18 month extension under his wife's Goldman Sachs employee plan.