Ted Cruz Says He Plans to Receive Health Insurance Through Affordable Care Act

Texas Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz recently announced that he will sign up for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a policy that the GOP politician vehemently tried to kill before it was made law.

Cruz told both the Des Moines Register and CNN's Dana Bash that he will sign up for health care coverage under the federal government plan, especially because he will no longer be a part of his wife's health coverage, as she is taking an unpaid leave from her employment at Goldman Sachs to help with her husband's presidential campaign.

"We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange," Cruz told CNN.

Cruz added that he will follow the "text of the law" and sign up for the health care plan via exchanges, just like millions of other Americans.

"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," Cruz said, adding: "I believe we should follow the text of the law."

Despite Cruz's claim that he will sign up for the Affordable Care Act, the GOP presidential candidate has said he is still very much against the health care plan, telling the Des Moines Register that "in 2017 a new president, a Republican president, will sign legislation repealing every word of it."