Ted Cruz's Wife Confirms He's Covered Under Her Blue-Chip Health Plan The wife of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led a vocal effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, confirmed in a New York Times interview published Wednesday that the senator receives health care coverage through her blue-chip employer insurance plan.But that's OK! says Ted Cruz's office:
"Ted is on my health care plan," Heidi Nelson Cruz, a Houston-based managing director for Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, told the newspaper.
A spokeswoman for the Texas senator confirmed the coverage to the Times, which was worth at least $20,000 a year, according to Goldman.
“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,” spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said.I'm sure you've already spotted that there is either a logic, knowledge or truth problem with that statement. Goldman Sachs is using pre-tax dollars to provide Ted with this gold-plated health insurance plan.
Unless Mrs. Cruz is paying the entire premium and Goldman is not offering coverage through a Section 125 “cafeteria” plan — both highly unlikely — then taxpayers are subsidizing it, as they do all such employer-sponsored health insurance. All health policy wonks know this. I would hope Senator Cruz, who gives long speeches aimed to influence health policy, knows it. ...
In fact, the Senator and Mrs. Cruz are probably getting a bigger tax break than the cost of coverage of a typical, non-elderly Medicaid beneficiary, or even two.
