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## Video: Ted Cruz Going on Obamacare

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_Published 2015-03-25. Despite being vehemently opposed to Obamacare, Ted Cruz is signing up for insurance under President Obama’s health care law._


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## Transcript

You and your family have been getting your health insurance through your wife's job. Mm- hm. Her company has been Goldman Sachs. Mm- hm. She has now left that. Right, right. To, to help you with your campaign. So where are you getting your health insurance now? So she's taking an unpaid leave of absence from her job. And, and so we're transitioning. We'll be getting new health insurance. And, and we'll presumably do it through my job in the Senate. And so we'll be on. The Federal Exchange, like millions of others, on the Federal Exchange. So you will be getting Obamacare, effectively. It is one of the good things about Obamacare, is, is the statue provided that members of Congress would be on the Exchanges without subsidies, just like millions of Americans, so that there wouldn't be a double standard.

But, Senator, for right now, the irony is just -. Kind of unbelievable that you have made your name fighting against Obamacare, and you now are going to sign up to get your insurance through that very process, Obamacare. Listen, it was the case before Obamacare that federal employees could get health insurance through their jobs. That's not a new development -. So, yes, I'll get my insurance, through my job, like millions of other Americans. That, that's not a shocking- Would you take, would you take a subsidy from your job, which is the federal government? We will follow the text of the law. I strongly oppose the exemption that President Obama illegally put in place for members of Congress because Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats.

Didn't want to be under the same rules as the American people. That means you are gonna take a government subsidy? I, I believe we should follow the text of the law. The law that you want to repeal. Yes, no, I, I believe we should follow the text of every law, even laws I disagree with.

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