The wife of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) confirmed in an interview with The New York Times what the tea party star's opponents have insinuated gleefully for weeks: The most vocal opponent of Obamacare enjoys a high-priced health plan through investment bank Goldman Sachs.
"Ted is on my health care plan," Heidi Nelson Cruz, who has worked in the firm's management division for eight years, told the paper in a story published Wednesday.
Cruz's plan through Goldman appeared to be an uncomfortable fact for the conservative senator as he lambasted the health care reform law and helped drive what would become a two-week government shutdown. In an exchange during Cruz's 20-hour anti-Obamacare marathon on the Senate floor in September, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) tried unsuccessfully to get Cruz to admit where he gets his own coverage.
“Will the senator from Texas for the record tell us now -- and those who watched this debate -- whether he is protected and his family’s protected?” Durbin asked.
Cruz deflected the discussion toward an uninsured diabetic woman that Durbin had been talking about earlier.
A spokeswoman for Cruz confirmed to the Times that the senator gets his coverage through Goldman. The Wall Street bank told the paper the coverage is worth at least $20,000 a year. "The senator is on his wife’s plan, which comes at no cost to the taxpayer and reflects a personal decision about what works best for their family," the spokeswoman, Catherine Frazier, said.The Huffington Post
Ted Cruz Gets His Health Insurance Through Goldman Sachs, His Wife Confirms
Dave Jamieson
OMG! Cruz's wife works for Goldman?
WTF. Is there anyone that GS doesn't have its tentacles around?
ReplyDeleteGoldman Anglo-Sachs-on Warrior !
I meant Anglo-Saxon !
oops
whatever.
Their children could still qualify for CHiP if her income is 10% or less than the $20,000 health insurance policy....
however, Texas is not allowing the 10% premium-to-income rule anymore though it is a federal mandate of CHiP and Medicaid ... for over 5 years.
Yes, that's right - call Texas Medicaid Star hotline and ask if you qualify using the 10% rule and they will say they do not know anything about it and never heard it.
Even though it is at www.chipmedicaid.org which is a Texas site !
After they refuse you service for this you can file a complaint against the state of Texas at the Office of Civil Rights' HHS Health and Human Services like right after that.
That means if Cruz's wife makes less than $200,000 their family qualifies their children for CHiP
ReplyDeletebut the state of Texas will not honor this qualification even though it is older.... twice as old as Obamacare which also underlines and supports this directive !!
Goog,
ReplyDeleteIts a scandal!
Makes the case for the MMT Healthcare Plan: Everybody Qualifies
I wonder if they put Cruz up to it via his wife and shorted something?
Some years back the disclosure documents showed how Cantor had the ultra-short UST etf in his stock portfolio...
rsp,
"OMG! Cruz's wife works for Goldman?"
ReplyDeleteEven worse. Heidi Cruz is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.....
http://wagpolitics.com/heidi-cruz-junior-texas-senator-ted-cruzs-wife/