D'oh! Cruz Campaign Concedes He Had Insurance Coverage All Along

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-health-insurance-questions ^

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In a reversal from claims made on the campaign trail, Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is now saying the senator and his family do have health insurance and never lost coverage. The late night Friday revelation came more than 24 hours after Cruz had told a New Hampshire audience that he and his family were without health insurance and were scrambling to obtain new coverage--and used the claim to slam Obamacare for the mess he was in.

In statements to Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal, campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier blamed Cruz's false assertion that his family had lost their health insurance on a misunderstanding. She said an insurance broker told Cruz that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas was dropping his PPO plan, but Frazier said that the broker did not tell Cruz his family was automatically being transferred to the carrier's HMO plan.

"Based on this information, Sen. Cruz believed the family was uninsured and asked the broker to pull quotes immediately for a new policy," Frazier said.

[SunkenCiv]

Having Beck on the Cruz campaign was ill-considered, and unless the two have a private heart-to-heart to get Beck to remove himself from the campaign, Cruz will have to do a de facto firing and try to make it subtle enough that Beck won’t turn on him — as he has turned on everyone he’s ever endorsed, from the look of it. Nightmarish.