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.
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I can tell you exactly how long this will last: until 6 a.m. on November 5, 2014. Give or take a few hours.
That will be when Landrieu will be looking for a job and healthcare.
. . . from your keyboard to God’s ears. And I hope she has a lot of company from other Senate Democrats.
My wife actually went to LSU with Mary Landrieu. She was a fine, moral, Christian lady at the time. Decades in the democratic party have made her a shell of a human being.
She is only “losing out” on the subsidy temporarily. She is free to go right back into the FEHB program at some later time. She needs the political cover right now so she can get re-elected.
I don’t know of many families that could afford an $11k premium.
Gee. You don’t think she is doing this for political purposes do you??
Mary is circling around the bowl.
Washington corrupts.
Nearly 536 elected who serve in Washington are infected.
For many, it becomes a terminal, chronic condition. For a few, they manage to escape by seeking other employment outside the beltway.
Will she have a viable GOP opponent?
Too little too late. She needs to be forced to buy it by being kicked out of office.
I think she was either the last senator or next to the last senator to be incentive-ized by zero to vote for O-care.
Her corrupt, tax hungry brother is mayor of New Orleans. Orleans Parish is always the last to report voting results -- the reason is obvious.
Our sissy, EINO governor Jindal will never say a bad thing about Landrieu.
It will take much much more than wishful thinking to defeat this evil, corrupt woman.
Too bad. She deserves to be a civilian.
EINO = RINO
She should be in prison with the rest of the Marxists in D.C.
No argument here. We’ll be in their camps long before they’re in prison, I suspect.
And he will.
My husband calls her “Hillary Landrieu.” He says Mary is too pretty a name for her.
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