Why would Cruz sign up for Obamacare?

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19. I thought about this yesterday.

What I've come up with is two choices.

He's one of those mega wealthy people who doesn't want to part with one cent more than is necessary.

Or, and this one is feeling more and more likely to me.

He wants to complain about Obamacare.

It's going to be about 20 months he's going to need coverage due to the timing of his wife taking her leave from work. If he being sensible, like the rest of us have to be, she could have stayed on for two more months and they then could have applied for COBRA for the 18 month period they would need coverage. No switching of health care plans, no having to hunt for a plan which uses the same providers as they currently use, or which has coverage in all the areas they need and expect from their current policy. Money is not an issue for them, they're loaded. Which means that under normal circumstances the easiest thing for them to do would be wait two months for her to leave her job and sign up for COBRA. Instead he's changing his health insurance coverage, making sure everyone is well aware of what he's being "forced" into doing. This isn't an accident, or a minor oversight, it was by design. Now he can complain about all the horrors of having to deal with a new carrier, the 'nightmare' of signing up on the exchange, and how he had it so much better before he was "forced" into using Obamacare, which since he's a federal employee is what his job offers as coverage.

I could of course be way off on this, but I think it fits nicely with the type of politics Cruz plays at and will resonate with the people who buy his BS, which is a fact he's well aware of.