Sen. Mary Landrieu will buy health coverage in Louisiana and lose out on federal subsidy

Times Picayune (NOLA.com) ^ | 11/22/2013 | Bruce Alpert

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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.

[Amagi]

Now ain't that just swell?
Mary Landrieu has a choice.
And she chooses to slum with the rest of us non-political-elites in heathcare about which we have no choice.
Mighty big of her.

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Trying to pretend to be “just like the people’, when she has more old graft money than Ben Gumm, dating back to “Chicken in every pot”.