You have to be ing kidding me...
http://news.yahoo.com/cruz-buy-insur...222855319.htmlWASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Ted Cruz says he is signing up his family for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act — a law the Republican presidential candidate has vowed to repeal should he win the White House.
Cruz on Tuesday told The Des Moines Register that his family is looking at plans offered under the health care law.
The Cruz family previously received its coverage through a plan offered by his wife's employer. Heidi Cruz is taking an unpaid leave of absence to help her husband's campaign and is losing access to her health care plan.
The Texas Republican has been a strident opponent of the health care law, also known as Obamacare. He still is telling voters that he will repeal the law if elected president in 2016.
Oh please, oh please....
As a Democrat, I can only hope that this guy gets the nomination of the GOP.
That would make the drubbing the Mitt "elevator in my garage" Romney got look like a cakewalk.
Luckily, there are still enough sane Republicans to outweigh the crazy wing of their party.
wtf does this turd need to buy obamacare, i thought his job the govt already pays for that ....
yes, the Congressional TAXPAYER PAID health plans are all 5-star luxury platinum plans.
It's amazing how easily the republicans could take the presidency if they just had a candidate that wasn't a total ing lunatic, or such a sociopath that he could only connect to middle-upper class white America.
The Democrats have a good ground game and organize well, but as a party they have no direction and no consensus.
And the GOP won't even muster a decent challenger. It will still be a close election because of White America, but I can't see anyone in the potential republican field at this point swaying the moderates over.
Why is this a big deal? I would imagine it is the only health care plan available to her.
WTF? she's "family", Krazy Kruz and all Congress MUST have family plans, total, low/no deductible plans.
Harvard-educated
1st term senator
ideological
narcissist
"charismatic"
Pass
Here’s some interesting accountability journalism: CNN’s Dana Bash asked Sen. Ted Cruz, a freshly announced 2016 presidential candidate, how his family would get health insurance now that his wife has taken an unpaid leave from her job at Goldman Sachs. “We’ll be getting new health insurance and we’ll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we’ll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange,” the Texas Republican told her.
Yes, there’s irony there, as Bash noted in her interview. Cruz’s statement means that he’ll be getting insurance through the Affordable Care Act, the same law he has committed himself to repealing. As CNN’s MJ Lee reported yesterday, Cruz has previously received insurance through the plan of his wife, Heidi Cruz, via Goldman Sachs, and the family will receive no benefits from the company during her leave.
In his chat with Bash, Ted Cruz noted that, even before Obamacare, federal employees “could get health insurance through their jobs.”
Next issue: Will he take the federal “subsidy” that others on Capitol Hill accept to defray their costs? asked Bash. “We will follow the text of the law,” Cruz said. “I strongly oppose the exemption that President Obama illegally put in place for members of Congress because Harry Reid and Senate Democrats didn’t want to be under the same rules as the American people.” So Bash wanted to know if Cruz would accept the “subsidy.” “I believe we should follow the text of the law,” said Cruz, repeating himself.
It is the insurance available to them since his wife left her job at Goldman Sachs. So what?
Cruz believes he should follow the text of the law he wants abolished. civil disobedience ain't his thing.
Under the Affordable Care Act, members of Congress and some designated congressional staffers are required to obtain health care coverage through the D.C. Health Link Small Business Market.
umm because he has to?
Interestingly, by enrolling, Senator Cruz could conceivably provide himself with legal standing that he previously did not have to challenge the law in courts, should he choose that route, assuming there is anything to challenge after Burwell is decided. I don't think he'll try that, but that was one of the first things that occurred to me about this particular maneuver (which I don't think is calculated to give rise to a legal challenge).
This appears to have much more to do with Senator Cruz being able to say that he complies with laws that he does not like while campaigning against President Obama with the suggestion that the President does not feel himself so obligated.
Do you believe it is hypocritical for Cruz to provide health insurance to his family through the only means available to him?
If my grandfathered policy ever gets cancelled I'll HAVE to buy an Obamacare policy, doesn't mean I won't still think it's a ty law.
Nope.Do you believe it is hypocritical for Cruz to provide health insurance to his family through the only means available to him?
Thanks, Obama!
Obamacare is better than anything Cruz or the Repugs can offer up.
Executive OVERREACH! The Outrage! The CC Spittle!
President Signs Order Making Ted Cruz Ineligible for Obamacare
WASHINGTON — Just hours after Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told CNN that he had no choice but to sign up for Obamacare, President Barack Obama signed an executive order making Cruz ineligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
“Clearly, the hardship of receiving Obamacare was causing Ted a great deal of pain,” the President said. “This should take care of that.”
Obama acknowledged that the executive order, which makes Cruz the only American expressly forbidden from signing up for Obamacare, was an extraordinary measure, but added, “I felt it was a necessary humanitarian gesture to protect Ted from the law he hates.”
Even as he signed the order, the President said that he was “torn” about barring Cruz from coverage, stating,”He’s definitely someone who would benefit from seeing a doctor.”
In an official statement released later in the day, Cruz blasted the executive order and accused Obama of distorting his position on Obamacare: “I never said I didn’t want to have it. I said I didn’t want everyone else in the country to have it.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...-for-obamacare
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-25-2015 at 02:07 PM.
ffs now he is bolding jokes.
Executive OVERREACH! The Outrage! The CC Spittle!
President Signs Order Making Ted Cruz Ineligible for Obamacare
WASHINGTON — Just hours after Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told CNN that he had no choice but to sign up for Obamacare, President Barack Obama signed an executive order making Cruz ineligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
“Clearly, the hardship of receiving Obamacare was causing Ted a great deal of pain,” the President said. “This should take care of that.”
Obama acknowledged that the executive order, which makes Cruz the only American expressly forbidden from signing up for Obamacare, was an extraordinary measure, but added, “I felt it was a necessary humanitarian gesture to protect Ted from the law he hates.”
Even as he signed the order, the President said that he was “torn” about barring Cruz from coverage, stating,”He’s definitely someone who would benefit from seeing a doctor.”
In an official statement released later in the day, Cruz blasted the executive order and accused Obama of distorting his position on Obamacare: “I never said I didn’t want to have it. I said I didn’t want everyone else in the country to have it.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...-for-obamacare
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
