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The ‘train wreck’ that only Ted Cruz can see
MSNBC ^ | January 13, 2015 | Steve Benen

Posted on 01/13/2015 12:47:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act pose a challenge for the right, at least in theory. The more “Obamacare” works effectively, and the more Republican predictions are discredited, the more difficult it should be for conservatives to deny what is plainly true.

And yet, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) doesn’t seem to mind. The Texas Republican delivered some predictable red meat at the Heritage Action Conservative Policy Summit yesterday, taking aim at the health care law he loves to hate.

Obamacare, he asserted, has wrought “devastation.” He called it a “train wreck” that has cost millions of Americans their jobs or access to doctors of their choice, and forced employers to roll back working hours.

I find rhetoric like this fascinating because it’s so completely detached from reality. If the ACA were really causing “devastation” – and “millions” of U.S. job losses, as Cruz claimed yesterday – it’d be pretty obvious.

It’s not. What is obvious is the law has quickly improved the uninsured rate while producing impressive results on premiums, customer satisfaction rates, the lowest increase in health care spending in 50 years, the growing number of insurers who want to participate in exchange marketplaces, high enrollment totals with consumers who paid their premiums, the efficacy of Medicaid expansion, the efficacy of the medical-loss ratio, and reduced medical errors system-wide....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aca; medicine; obamacare; tedcruz
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1 posted on 01/13/2015 12:47:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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This guy is just plain stupid. Do the research idiot and write the truth fool.


2 posted on 01/13/2015 12:50:23 PM PST by jimpick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pajama boy’s roommate?


3 posted on 01/13/2015 12:50:59 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is the author drunk, or on unprescribed drugs?


4 posted on 01/13/2015 12:51:13 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: jimpick

I was going to read it and then I saw it was some second rate Blog.


5 posted on 01/13/2015 12:51:13 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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RE: The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act pose a challenge for the right, at least in theory

Define “successes”.


6 posted on 01/13/2015 12:51:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What box top did this dude purchase his eddikashun from?

What a maroon.

Great pic, but where’s his red bunny pjs?


7 posted on 01/13/2015 12:51:45 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Cruz speaks the truth.
The Author is so green he does not know **** from shinola.


8 posted on 01/13/2015 12:52:14 PM PST by mylife
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To: House Atreides

I would say he is the stupidest person out there, but hen I saw his wedding ring. So there is competition for that spot.


9 posted on 01/13/2015 12:52:22 PM PST by jimpick
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The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act pose a challenge for the right, at least in theory.


All I needed to read to grasp that the author is either stupid or hopes the reader is. Either of which makes the article useless to me.


10 posted on 01/13/2015 12:52:29 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

One thing I noticed about MS NBC and CNBC, is that they do not publish a phone number or email address for comments. They are opining in a vacuum.


11 posted on 01/13/2015 12:52:43 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If looks were any indication of intelligence, we’d know that this guys IQ is single digits.


12 posted on 01/13/2015 12:52:48 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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“The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act”

I started LOL and I knew the rest of the article was total Obamaturd.


13 posted on 01/13/2015 12:53:27 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: jimpick

Yup.
Just go to the Gov website and look at the prices.


14 posted on 01/13/2015 12:53:45 PM PST by mylife
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To: b4its2late

He would say he has a triple digit IQ. We know it is just 006.


15 posted on 01/13/2015 12:55:28 PM PST by jimpick
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I need to add a “Like” button. lol


16 posted on 01/13/2015 12:57:21 PM PST by John Robinson (HTML::Parse: Skipping unknown tag sarcasm)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alas, for Stevie Benen @MSNBC, the pet project of his man crush 0bama is in fact a TRAIN WRECK. And scary (to wimps like Stevie) Ted Cruz isn't the first or only one to call it for what it is.


17 posted on 01/13/2015 12:59:36 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Yeah, his husband is probably even dumber than he is.


18 posted on 01/13/2015 1:00:18 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Define “successes”.”

10,000,000 lose their health care. 5,000,000 are forced to enroll in Obamacare.

Net gain 5,000,000. To a liberal.


19 posted on 01/13/2015 1:04:39 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Global Warming is caused by government grants to academics." DJ Taylor)
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The ‘train wreck’ that only Ted Cruz can see

The dorkfest that is Obama's sycophant brigade that anyone with a functioning brain can see.
20 posted on 01/13/2015 1:04:55 PM PST by chrisser (Silly Wabbit. Trix are for kids. And Cheetos are for Rinos.)
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