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If you have ever tried to defeat anything, the best way to know how to defeat it is to become part of it....know how it ticks, know what is wrong....
Oh, this is priceless. Cruz is only buying through the exchanges so he can see how it works from the inside!! He's not trying to cover his butt and get healthcare because he knows if he doesn't have it, one illness or accident could bankrupt him--like it has done to so many others through the years (those being people he could not possibly care less about). No, see, he's really a spy gathering counterintelligence! It's genius!
So is that the newest right wing talking point talk radio has given you to explain why Raffy has bought into the ACA? Hilarious.
The point is: he doesn't have to partake in that evil ACA plan. Cruz is free to buy his own private health care plan directly from an insurance company. Why would he not do this since he is against every word in the ACA?
That plan he could buy would be ACA compliant.
If he desires to insure the healthcare risks of his family, he buys ACA compliant insurance.
If he desires to forego the employee benefit that subsidizes the cost of insurance, he is free to buy an ACA compliant plan directly from an insurer or off the federal exchange.
He had ACA compliant insurance via his wife's employer subsidized plan.
Only change is who is subsidizing and the enrollment portal.
OF course he can...and he will be paying his FEDERALLY MANDATED OBAMACARE insurance WITHOUT A SUBSIDY, like every other American who makes the same salary and is not eligible for a subsidy. The Democrats EXEMPTED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES from the part of Obamacare that denies subsidies to high-wage earners, yet Cruz is NOT going to act like he is above the law and will pay what other Americans pay.
Keep trying to figure out a way to belittle him....and keep failing.....
Federal employees, including Senators, Reps and their aids are all eligible for employee benefits, which include subsidized insurance. This was true before and after ACA.
The portal used by Senators, Reps and their aides is different from the portals used by other federal employees and the general public.
Federal employees, including Senators, Reps and their aids are all eligible for employee benefits, which include subsidized insurance. This was true before and after ACA.
The portal used by Senators, Reps and their aides is different from the portals used by other federal employees and the general public.
So you mean his experience on the exchanges will not be what is experienced by the average joe?
Sorry up the wazhoo meant he pays alot for his policy.
I've went to Covered California and played with the numbers myself on the exchanges.
Our Kaiser insurance plan more than doubled in cost (Cost without subsidies)
On another note, if he's on it and now actually experiencing Obamacare for himself, he may start batting for the other team. The poster prior did make an excellent point that if you are for or against something, you really learn the ins and outs when you are truly a part of it.
Personally I don't believe we need to be offering our Politicians health insurance at all.
They are over paid already.
Let them help those who do not have insurance by donating out of their salary
You must be joking. This isn't in any way going to chance his stance on ACA. I bet he is going to get a lot of hits though making out for himself at the expense of others and especially in selling out to the perceived enemy.
If he is getting the fed subsidized part, he is out a few thousand. If not, $10k more.
No better, no worse than many, many others pay. Especially in DC.
The federal/state healthcare exchanges are portals, not insurance.
He used a DC portal designated for Senators, Reps and their aides.
Insurers sell plans via public, private and proprietary portals.
Well, the more I read..the more I understand how so many rail against ACA....It's because they have no clue what ACA is...I recall when ACA (nicknamed Obamacare) was called another name aka Kynect (Kentucky HC exchange) the people who looked into it loved it..when asked about Obamacare..Yikes THEY HATED IT..Worse thing in the world..Get rid of it..LOL
It's just one example of mis-informed individuals making judgements based on lies spewed forth constantly by ACA opponents!!! I have pity for them
Why not pay cash? You assume that people without insurance cannot pay...
Cash for what?
Cancer Treatment Centers typically want cash up front from the uninsured, $75-100,000+ for the first of what may be many rounds of treatment. They are under no obligation to treat the uninsured.
A Wealthy Arab flies in on his private jet for medical tourism, has no issue paying cash.
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