Wow! That's powerful. God Bless Ted Cruz.
I hope it can be repealed.
I hope it’s just repealed — period — and not replaced with some other stupid idea, especially from the Republicans.
The likely scenario:
1. This little budget helper for the insurance companies to prevent failure....will be attacked and cut (maybe not a lot, but enough). This speeds up the collapse process.
2. By summer of 2015, shock over the January 2015 rate increases, and the new rates for 2016 will be released. Most everyone who makes over seventy thousand a year will question now....why they need to pay out $12,000 a year for the insurance and deductible costs. More folks will decline to stay with insurance.
3. By January of 2016, whatever number of uninsured we had in 2008....will be almost doubled. News journalists will try hard to get around the story, but health insurance companies will be noting massive cancellations and fewer customers....which means less profits....which means higher costs for January of 2017. The number one topic for all of spring 2017....will be how to fix this mess. Forget the budget problem (which ought to be number one).
Why can’t other Republicans talk like this? Every sentence is dagger of truth plunged into the political hearts of democrats.
Beavis and Butthead, Bonor and McCornhole, won’t repeal it. The two clowns need to be ridden out on a rail.
I know it’s premature . . . but I’m really starting to think “Cruz for President.” ‘Cause no one else is speaking truth to power like he is these days.
Though he got his numbers a little off, didn’t he? Wasn’t it supposed to be 30 million uninsured, not 330,000? But the idea is the same. It would have been cheaper to just give those folks a free ride.
A Dem friend (I keep trying to convert her; she actually owns a brain) asked me what I would have done rather than Obamacare. I see the use of our emergency rooms as a walkin clinic by our uninsured as the major part of the problem. I tolk her I thought it would have been cheaper and better just to build a sliding-scale clinic right beside every emergency room in the country. When Joe Uninsured walks in with his hangnail and sees the triage nurse, she would make the decision to either have Joe continue on into the emergency area, or deflect him next door, to the clinic, where he could wait six hours to have his hangnail looked at. Then people with heart attacks etc. would actually go to the emergency area.
I’ve never seen this idea in print anywhere, and I was just wondering what our Freepers think of it.
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Cruz said he was “still looking at the details” of a ****plan to replace******* Obamacare proposed Monday by Senators Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ,Richard Burr (R-N.C). and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that would eliminate the federal mandates, and instead use tax incentives based on age and income to encourage individuals to buy health insurance and business owners to provide it.
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As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act :
OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have your choice of doctor.”
Repeated over and over ---- with the promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1940's ERA EUROPE Obama And The Dumbos marched in lockstep. The persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
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SIGNING "THE BIG EFFIN' DEAL" (now known as "The Big Effin Debacle")
"Those Democrats leering over my shoulder owe me bigtime. This
healthcare bill insures we have a permanent Democratic majority."
" All except those Tea Party types, swallowed hook, line and sinker my promises that they could:
(1) keep their existing health plans,
(2) keep their own doctors that they like,
(3) keep their 25-year-olds on the family health plan,
(4) never be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition,
(5) sign up instantly on my tech-savvy government Web site,
(6) buy insurance only after becoming seriously ill."
(7) save $2,500 in annual premiums in the bargain....
(8) All without any new taxes."
"Them sonovagun Tea Partiers will rue the day they criticized my wonderful bill."
I devoutly believe that Obamacare will be chronicled in history as a blunder of Ceausescuian proportions.
Boobamba’s signature legislation —— formerly touted as his main “accomplishment” -—— has been an unmitigated disaster.
January 1, 2015 after the new congress is sworn in w a majority in both houses:
1. Replace Boehner
2. Impeach and remove Obama, Biden, and Holder
3. Repeal Obamacare in total.
4. Pass a bill beginning to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendmends.
5. Defund DEA, EPA, TSA, DHS, DoE, DoHHS, DoEDu, CIA, NSA.
The good news is, when they repeal it, a lot fewer people will lose their health insurance than lost it when the commie lib ‘RATS turned this beast loose on Americans.
“Cruz noted that “momentum was building” to repeal President Obama’s signature health care law even among groups that had previously supported it.”
That certainly does not apply to us, does it?
I wonder how Big Pharma likes the unintended consequences of Obamacare. Millions of Americans lose their coverage, so fewer prescriptions for those noxious statins, anti-depressants, etc.
How can you add Abilify to your anti-depressant, when you no longer have a doctor?
Congress isn’t listening to Main Street. I think Cruz is referring to K Street.
What a team this would make.
Problem is can we recover from the damage? The business model has already changed. Can we un-ring the bell. I see having to pass more, new laws to get things “back” to the open market model. Maybe a new one to get rid of that stupid interstate albatross.
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The proposed GOP replacement will be as expensive, if not more expensive than Obamacare. It will raise taxes on those who get insurance through their employers. And it will bankrupt the insurance companies. Other than that it’s great.