It turns out Ted Cruz does not get his insurance through Obamacare

Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2015 | By Katie Zezima

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I don't think there is platinum plan on the market place. I landed on a page which offered a 4th level, Platinum, probably unique to that particular company. Being a Bronzer, I can only dream of being able to afford the same coverage my husband has ( and I once had) through his employer.

[BigEdLB]

My understanding was that the Cruz family had insurance through Heidi Cruz’s employment. Then when she resigned when Ted announced, they got it through the private market rather than the Senate... Is there a problem? Is there something I do not understand?

[Jim Robinson]

Well, the leftstream media raised a big brouhaha a couple months ago about Cruz possibly signing up for Obamacare. Guess they got it wrong. No surprise.

[PghBaldy]

He was talking like he would sign up for it.

[Din Maker]

Ted Cruz, our last chance. The one man who stands between us and socialism
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Hmmmm.... iIn all seriousness Vin, I think you are only half right. I think Ted Cruz is the one man who stands between us and the total destruction of this great Constitutional Republic called the U.S.A.

[PghBaldy]

"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," Cruz said in an interview with CNN. Cruz's family currently gets employer insurance through his wife, who is taking an unpaid leave during his presidential campaign. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3272178/posts

[Hardens Hollow]

“Ted Cruz, our last chance. The one man who stands between us and socialism.”

We are already rather socialized. Look at Socialized Security. And the progressive tax structure and the EIC.

We are also fascist to some extent, with rogue unaccountable agencies controlling what businesses have to deal with (EPA, OSHA, etc).

But Cruz could reverse some of that. IMO, he’d be the only one that I would vote for because he would reverse the amnesty that is being forced upon us.

[cynwoody]

I landed on a page which offered a 4th level, Platinum, probably unique to that particular company.

From the article:

Cruz and his wife, Heidi, purchased a private health insurance plan from Texas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said Saturday.

"They didn't buy it off the exchange," Tyler said. There was no gap between coverage, and the Cruz family never enrolled in a plan through the Affordable Care Act. He would not give details on the plan the Cruz family has, nor discuss the cost.

That piqued my curiosity. We can probably assume they picked one of the high-end plans. Good for them!

As for not purchasing the plan through the ZeroCare exchange, that's just good sense. But it doesn't really matter, since ZeroCare mandates what plans the likes of Texas BCBS and other private insurors can offer.

[Fresh Wind]

Turns out, they’re all the same anyway.

True. Bought through the exchange or not, the fact is Obunglecare has forced up the price of ALL plans. You can't escape its effects.

[GailA]

As long as TAX SERFS DON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT!

It’s the
TROJAN HORSSE CANIDATE: that worries me the most. Yes, it’s FR posted.

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[Rodamala]

I was going to say the SAME THING. We need to know if or what health insurance his family has? How about we open his medical records and find out he has toenail fungus and tennis elbow? Meanwhile there has been an illegitimate pres__ent in the whitehouse with no record of education or actual employment... we don’t even know where he may have been born... but the things we do know are completely disregarded by a corrupt leftist press. Disgusting.

This is what happens when we allow a minority of the voting population of this nation; the “47%”, the entitled, the takers, the consumers, the idle, the destroyers, to vote.

I hope everyone gets their feces in rectilinear fashion soon and gets behind a constitutional conservative candidate NOW. Hint: Ted is tge only one, it seems.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I am all for someone purchasing the best health care plan they can afford. I do not begrudge anyone for purchasing a plan on the open marketplace instead of the federal exchange. If I had the means to purchase a policy on the open market, I would have.

Seriously, if Cruz purchased a plan through the federal exchange I would question his intelligence! :)

[VinL]

“I think you are only half right”

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THANKS so much, DM! That’s about 50% better than usual-—

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[VinL]

I agree-I think we’re all saying the same thing. It’s not hyperbole. There’s been a structural change in governance, Obamacare now the tipping point. None of the GOP, except Sen. Cruz, will seek to reverse that shift.

If President, while Cruz may not be able to effect a complete reversal of the DC Politburo, he has a credible chance of reorienting the Republican Party back to limited gov’t/ federalism.

[Hardens Hollow]

“If President, while Cruz may not be able to effect a complete reversal of the DC Politburo, he has a credible chance of reorienting the Republican Party back to limited gov’t/ federalism.”

I hadn’t thought of that! If he could do the miraculous - give us a true two party system with the Republicans espousing real conservatism, that could change the country back to what made it great.