Obamacare foe Marco Rubio insured under Affordable Care Act

[Benton]

(12-15-2015, 11:41 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: If he wanted to accept insurance from his employer - compensation in the form of a benefit - he had to take Obamacare. 

His alternative was to go into his pocket for "unsubsidized" coverage that would be somewhere around $10k more expensive.


Here’s why: Congress went out of its way to force itself and its staffers who want to keep their employer-backed insurance to buy healthcare plans on the individual market through what are called “exchanges,” which are online marketplaces listing plans and costs.

Normally, those who get insurance through their employer (the federal government, in Rubio’s case) have no reason to shop on the individual health-insurance market.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article1958567.html#storylink=cpy

He could have been one of the 80 people that signed up on his own exchange.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/marco-rubio-florida-insurance-market-117055

Or he could take the federal subsidy he's campaigning against. Dude rails against subsidies, takes one himself.