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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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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bullshit for the mushrooms


21 posted on 01/13/2015 1:09:08 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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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.
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Lots of things are not OBVIOUS to the BLIND..

22 posted on 01/13/2015 1:10:04 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: SeekAndFind
Exactly.

I wonder if this guy is one of the stupid voters that Gruber was referring to.

23 posted on 01/13/2015 1:10:53 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act “

Author starts off by picking his nose and eating it, what successes?


24 posted on 01/13/2015 1:12:05 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll bet you a dollar to a doughnut this guy has a “husband”.


25 posted on 01/13/2015 1:16:08 PM PST by Bullish (He's just NOT presidential material.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I like this author, he saved me the time I'd have spent reading this by putting, "The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act", right up front. On to the next thread.
26 posted on 01/13/2015 1:18:51 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: jimpick

Good point. LOL


27 posted on 01/13/2015 1:21:44 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SeekAndFind

that was my first question too


28 posted on 01/13/2015 1:26:55 PM PST by GeronL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Steve is living in “The Bubble”. Must be nice.


29 posted on 01/13/2015 1:28:31 PM PST by TheDon (The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So Steve which Obamacare™ plan are you on?


30 posted on 01/13/2015 1:29:43 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s either gross stupidity or just more Transformational commie propaganda for the dick-Tator in charge. Either way, it serves the brainwashing purpose.


31 posted on 01/13/2015 1:30:55 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It was a rough break up.


32 posted on 01/13/2015 1:31:47 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

C’mon, FReepers......you are all missing the real point. If a Leftist SAYS IT, IT IS TRUE. Period.....or true at least until we get unbiased reporting. If there was an unbiased Media, America would not be in the precarious state it is in.


33 posted on 01/13/2015 1:31:57 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: SeekAndFind

That was the clue and why I stopped reading....


34 posted on 01/13/2015 1:35:21 PM PST by Fungi (Fungi--the reason we have antibiotics, cheese, bread, wine, and humor.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
healthliars

The closer to actual repeal it gets the bigger the lies are going to be.

35 posted on 01/13/2015 1:41:09 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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36 posted on 01/13/2015 1:43:12 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a nimrod. Maybe he’d like to explain why my deductible went up, my co-pay went up and the restrictions on the medical network increased. And I still consider myself pretty damn lucky because I’m working for an industry leading Fortune 500 company which did so much better than most others.


37 posted on 01/13/2015 1:45:16 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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38 posted on 01/13/2015 1:45:44 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To the Free Republic Moderator:

It appears that several leftwing sites such as MSNBC, are routinely posting looney articles on FR.

Perhaps the downloads are by a computer program.

I do not think the looney left should dump their garbage by automatic download.


39 posted on 01/13/2015 1:53:35 PM PST by Oak Grove (H)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is a train wreck and has acted as a headwind to economic recovery and there is still plenty of problems to come given that many plans are still “grand fathered” in that will eventually lose that status. Also simply by improving the uninsured numbers does nothing to improve quality of care and will cause an increasing deficit of health care workers and costs will increase even if someone is one of those that doesn’t see them because they are on a medicare plan of some sort. There is no free lunch.


40 posted on 01/13/2015 2:02:18 PM PST by Maelstorm ("I would rather die standing than to live on my knees" Stephane Charbonnier cartoonist Charlie Hedbo)
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