Good friggen grief, is he serious?
Via CNS News:
Questioning Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Dick Dubin, an Illinois Democrat, explained why he’s proud to have voted for Obamacare.
He told the story of a chambermaid named Judy who works “at a motel that I often go to,” and who will benefit from Obamacare because she is so poor: “The good news for Judy is that her income is so low that she now qualifies for Medicaid for the first time in her life,” Durbin said.
Here’s what Durbin said to Cruz:
One of the reasons that I voted for health care reform — and am proud that I did — was illustrated by a woman that I met in southern Illinois…this woman’s name is Judy, and Judy is a housekeeper at a motel that I often go to, and we’ve become friends. Judy has worked her whole life in manual labor. She’s been everything you can imagine — cook, a waitress, housekeeper, all of these thing. She’s 62 years old.
Judy told me that she’d never had health insurance one day in her life — ever. She worked every single day that she could, but she never had health insurance.
It turns out that Judy was diabetic, and we found some doctors and hospitals locally in her area to give her some care.
We just had an announcement in Illinois that’s going to be officially released tomorrow about what this new health insurance marketplace in Illinois means for people like Judy.
It means that we’re going to offer 165 different health insurance plans in Illinois by 8 different insurers. The premiums — at the lowest level of health insurance for those who aren’t under Medicaid — will be in the range of $84 a month.
But the good news for Judy is that her income is so low that she now qualifies for Medicaid for the first time in her life.”