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While Texas Senator Ted Cruz pushes to force low-paid congressional staffers to pay the entire costs of their own health insurance without any contribution from their employers, Cruz himself is sitting pretty with a cushy health care plan provided by the high-flying Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs. Cruz gets his diamond-studded health coverage thanks to his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, a managing director at the Goldman Sachs Houston, Tex., office, who carries her husband, an avid Affordable Care Act opponent, on her plan. The most high-visibility proponent of the recently-resolved government shutdown, who delivered a 21-hour solo diatribe against the ACA, better known as Obamacare, on the floor of the senate September 25, Cruz backs a measure that would not only require congressmembers and their staffers to drop their current federal health plans and buy into the new ACA insurance exchanges, it would eliminate any government contributions they could receive in paying those plans. It is routine for employers to help their workers pay for health insurance coverage.
Asktheanimals
reply to post by 727Sky
Somehow I doubt his insurance costs matter when your wife works for Goldman Sachs.
How many times have the taxpayers bailed them out and yet they still give out billions in bonuses.
One might think the government works for the banks, but we know that idea is plain silly.
727Sky
Seems anymore whatever tag or title they put on something it is the absolute opposite of the actual case.
sealing
Notice how we can't say anything negative about
Conservatives or TP members ?
Yet Obama is a Muslim with secret plans to take over the
country and probably will kill your grandma.
Oh that's fine, but don't dare point out the hypocrisy
of Cruz's Havard Goldman Sachs ties. Not to mention
his birther rants while the tall "Texan", was born in Canada.
PlatinumShatinum
This post doesn't makes no sense. Ted Cruz is saying that everyone should have to follow ACA. He likes his plan, so he gets to keep it, just like Obama said he could.
Mr Cruz is trying to point out how many of the people who made the bill are refusing to participate. He, on the other hand, is participating by keeping his plan.
Are you saying he shouldn't participate in ACA and his wife shouldn't get to keep her plan?
buster2010
What a hypocrite little Teddy wants to force others to buy into the ACA
amfirst1
reply to post by buster2010
And Obama gets his health insurance from the commie George Soros. Your point?
What orifice did you pull that doozie out of?
Cruz backs a measure that would not only require congress members and their staffers to drop their current federal health plans and buy into the new ACA insurance exchanges, it would eliminate any government contributions they could receive in paying those plans.
amfirst1
reply to post by buster2010
And Obama gets his health insurance from the commie George Soros. Your point?
he was “eligible” for the federal plan but didn’t take part in it.
even though he qualifies...
The senator is on his wife’s plan, which comes at no cost to the taxpayer
require congressmembers and their staffers to drop their current federal health plans and buy into the new ACA insurance exchanges, it would eliminate any government contributions
What a hypocrite little Teddy wants to force others to buy into the ACA
buster2010
Ted Cruz Gets Health Insurance Through Wall Street Giant Goldman Sachs, Thanks To His Wife
While Texas Senator Ted Cruz pushes to force low-paid congressional staffers to pay the entire costs of their own health insurance without any contribution from their employers, Cruz himself is sitting pretty with a cushy health care plan provided by the high-flying Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs. Cruz gets his diamond-studded health coverage thanks to his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, a managing director at the Goldman Sachs Houston, Tex., office, who carries her husband, an avid Affordable Care Act opponent, on her plan. The most high-visibility proponent of the recently-resolved government shutdown, who delivered a 21-hour solo diatribe against the ACA, better known as Obamacare, on the floor of the senate September 25, Cruz backs a measure that would not only require congressmembers and their staffers to drop their current federal health plans and buy into the new ACA insurance exchanges, it would eliminate any government contributions they could receive in paying those plans. It is routine for employers to help their workers pay for health insurance coverage.
What a hypocrite little Teddy wants to force others to buy into the ACA but his sorry ass is covered by Goldman Sachs. Does Teddy get other perks from Goldmans that we know nothing about?
I think all members of congress should be forced to join the ACA. If it's good enough for the people then it's good enough for congress.