Boy, it's a
good thing for Sen. Ted Cruz that Obamacare exists.
(CNN) Sen. Ted Cruz might be in the market for a new health insurance plan.
Heidi Cruz, the wife of the newly announced Republican presidential candidate, is on unpaid leave from her executive post at Goldman Sachs for the duration of her husband's presidential campaign, and will not receive company benefits—including health insurance—during this time, a Goldman spokesperson told CNN.
Cruz has previously said that he receives his health insurance through his wife's Goldman plan and has boasted about not needing to receive government health care benefits.
And if Ted Cruz didn't need to receive Obamacare benefits, well, then everyone else can just find a Goldman Sachs employee to marry to get insurance, as far as he's concerned. Cruz's difficulty now, though, as an official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is that members of Congress are supposed to be carrying Obamacare, if they can't get it from another source. So Cruz, who has made his career out of opposing Obamacare and shutting down government over Obamacare might just have to be on Obamacare, if he wants his family to continue to have health insurance. What an interesting dilemma for him.