Posted on 11/25/2013 6:43:53 AM PST by BerniesFriend
Sen. Mary Landrieu will buy health coverage in Louisiana and lose out on federal subsidy
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Friday that she and her husband will buy their health insurance from Louisiana's Affordable Care Act marketplace.
That decision means she won't qualify for the federal contribution provided to federal employees, including members of Congress and their staffs. It can be as high as $11,377 for a family health plan.
Members of Congress and their staffs must buy insurance through Washington D.C.'s small business exchange to qualify for continued federal health subsidies, under a recent directive from the Office of Personnel Management.
After reviewing their options, Landrieu said she and her husband, Frank Snellings, decided to bypass the D.C. exchange and sign up with the Louisiana exchange for themselves and their two children.
"We are pleased about the number of choices we have to choose from, the value this coverage will provide and that this is coverage our family can count on when we need it," Landrieu said. "In the coming weeks and months ahead, I will continue my efforts to fix and strengthen the Affordable Care Act so that every working person and middle class family in Louisiana and across the country can have affordable, quality insurance that they can never lose."
The New Orleans exchange that Landrieu and her family are using has 41 insurance options, according to the senator's staff.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Mary Snellings has huge Republican support in LA; many are disaffected with “Republican” Governor “Common Core” Jindal and will support their Mary again.
You can smell the desperation from here. Too bad the Republican leadership can’t take advantage of all the stumbling, bumbling, and scrambling the Democrats are doing. If they were interested in anything beyond protecting their careers they’d be clobbering the Democrats right now.
Penance is a good place to start, but it is too little, too late. Hope she and all the turncoats spend a good year freaking out and then pack their offices and go home. Time for the conservatives to run the show like grown-ups.
Good for Senator Baby Fat.
I wonder how she’ll afford when she loses her cushy job.
Wow!!! What courage and integrity. She’s the kind of person Washington needs. She has my vote.
I am sure she is THRILLED to pay $1,000 a month for Insurance she used to pay a couple hundred a month for. It is nice that her $170K per year salary plus her husbands income allows her the opportunity to chose a plan that most Louisianans could never afford to purchase as $1,000 a month is more than most of their mortgage payments.
What a bunch of BS!
“Another meaningless gesture by a politician who has to face the results of her own bad conduct and failure to honor her oath of office. Just what does her buying an Obamacare policy accomplish? Does she think that somehow helps the people who lost their old healthcare plans and those who have to pay much more for an ObamaCare plan that is worse than what they lost?”
Great points. In orther words, she will do NOTHING to repeal this turkey but will show her solidarity with the unwashed masses by wallowing with us in the misery that is ObummerCare until after November 2014, when she decides to jump back to her gold-plated senator’s plan.
Interpretation: She'll win in a landslide!
Hope not!
She’s as dumb and ignorant as she sounds.
OK, she may PUBLICLY make noises about Obamacare, yet she shows her true colors by being one of the 52 who erased the 60 vote rule! On that alone she should LOSE!
Are we sure that she was even paying for insurance to begin with ?
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that Taxpayers will be paying $1,000 a month for Insurance, for Landrieu, that they used to pay a couple hundred a month for ?
I think you are right! She must have seen some internal polling.
The only thing that worries me is that she should’ve been beaten last time around. Will we be able to overcome all of the ‘dead vote’and other voting corruption that goes on in this state?
You wouldn't believe how many Josef Stalin's we have in this country. Many of them count the votes.
Watch Kay Hagan(D) NC, be next.
A”LOT”TOO LITLLE;TOO LATE!Sorry Mary,you voted for this monstrosity for the rest of us;”YOU OWN IT”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. We warned her - I warned her about obamacare. She just wrote back these canned responses that really added up to - tough, I’m voting for obamacare and that is that! Well, we warned her to start packing but she thought she was going to bring home all this money to the state and we would be grateful! WRONG! Obamacare affected the whole country and bringing home money to Louisiana when our country was going to suffer was not acceptable. So, bye bye to Landrieu. Hope she NEVER holds another political office in her lifetime.
“The low information voter from N. Orleans will vote for her as she busses them to the polls!”
I think the buses are still in the same parking lot...where they were sitting after the Katrina “evacuation” orchestrated by the Blanco and Nagin administrations.
You have more faith in the GOP than I do...
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