D'oh! Cruz Campaign Concedes He Had Insurance Coverage All Along

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-health-insurance-questions ^

[springwater13]

In a reversal from claims made on the campaign trail, Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is now saying the senator and his family do have health insurance and never lost coverage. The late night Friday revelation came more than 24 hours after Cruz had told a New Hampshire audience that he and his family were without health insurance and were scrambling to obtain new coverage--and used the claim to slam Obamacare for the mess he was in.

In statements to Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal, campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier blamed Cruz's false assertion that his family had lost their health insurance on a misunderstanding. She said an insurance broker told Cruz that BlueCross BlueShield of Texas was dropping his PPO plan, but Frazier said that the broker did not tell Cruz his family was automatically being transferred to the carrier's HMO plan.

"Based on this information, Sen. Cruz believed the family was uninsured and asked the broker to pull quotes immediately for a new policy," Frazier said.

[Will88]

Sort of like Hillary landing in Bosnia under sniper fire.

[bgill]

Cruz is getting worse every day.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

A ‘snipper fire’ moment. What a phony. I’m finished with this clown.

And people wonder why Palin chose Trump? Smart cookie!

He and Beck deserve each other — a marriage made in hell.

Beck Pleads Cruz Rally To Accept Even Marxist Atheists Because They Renew Us
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387884/posts

“So when we look at immigration, let’s remember that people-if they want to come here and want to be Americans they renew us,” Beck said.

“And you never know what somebody might do. There was a Marxist, a Marxist who didn’t really realize how Marxist he was that moved into the United States. A guy who fought in a revolution for Marxist principles. He was a little nuts, a little crazy at the time-almost lost his life in fact in the struggle. Came over here, he was an atheist. Didn’t believe in God. Now, who wants that guy here? Except that guy happens to be Rafael Cruz who fell in love with our principles, fell in love with our country, and raised a man who could be the next president of the United States.”

Chaos. Phoniness. Foolishness.

Cruz Takes Presidential ‘Oath of Office’ On Stage With Glenn Beck...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/23/glenn-beck-administers-presidential-oath-of-office-to-ted-cruz-in-iowa

Then there’s the phony claim of liquidating to run for senator.

A Waterloo rally indeed.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Cruz is as genuine as a three dollar bill.

Vetted.

Recommendation —

Toss him under the bus.

[unlearner]

For all his flaws, Cruz is still the most conservative candidate based on his voting record and policy positions.

Ben Carson is probably the most honest, even though Trump found an angle to go after that strong suit of his. In spite of this, Carson is almost honest to a fault. I do not mean that he should lie, but there are times when it is better to keep your mouth shut, like when Glen Beck said he prefers Sanders to Trump. Stupid.

If Trump is held up to scrutiny the way Cruz is being here for petty things, he would have been out a long time ago.

I would really love to see members of this forum get back to conservative principles as the basis for picking representatives, rather than personal grudges, biases, and irrelevant matters.

Trump has a tremendous advantage over Cruz when it comes to being able to get things done. He has pledged to govern conservatively. I would like to see conservatives get more specific commitments from him now before the general — things like a pledge to defund Planned Parenthood.

But pegged in order of conservatism, I think (and organizations that track this) that Cruz comes out on top. Based on their policy positoins, I would put the top candidates in this order:

Cruz
Trump
Carson
Rubio
Bush
Sanders
Clinton

The GOP nod is Trump’s to lose. He needs to solidify his base by picking a solid conservative running mate. I was hoping for Cruz. Allen West would do well. Maybe Palin.

[KGeorge]

“And you never know what somebody might do. There was a Marxist, a Marxist who didn’t really realize how Marxist he was that moved into the United States. A guy who fought in a revolution for Marxist principles. He was a little nuts, a little crazy at the time-almost lost his life in fact in the struggle. Came over here, he was an atheist. Didn’t believe in God. Now, who wants that guy here? Except that guy happens to be Rafael Cruz who fell in love with our principles, fell in love with our country, and raised a man who could be the next president of the United States.”

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Oh, this’ll end well. Not. (So he waited 31 years to become a US citizen. And his son, up there on that stage- running for president of the United States, waited 40 years to denounce his *original* Canadian citizenship.
Actions speak louder than words.)

[freeangel]

Trump has ALWAYS been about single payer health care—that would be health care paid by the government(or obamacare, if you will) At least, he hasn’t lied about it

[freeangel]

“Long live hopey changey messiah Trump, beholden to none, savior of all who adore him.”

And they would still vote for him after witnessing him shoot people in cold blood—Trumps’ words. Yep, that’s the kind of king I want for president-—NOT

[gnawbone]

Don’t forget that he also forgot to file his campaign data on time .....

He forgets a lot of seemingly important stuff ....

Meanwhile, Trump gives money to the Clinton Foundation, gave Emanuel money for his mayoral campaign, believes in eminent domain for non-govt use, etc.

And a couple of Communist running on the other side.

Nice mess we have here .....

[nopardons]

No he has not, but then I assume that you have difficulty in keeping up. Pity that....

[gg188]

HOW MANY SLICK LIES will Cruzers swallow and make excuses for before they realize they are backing a typical PROFESSIONAL INSIDER WASHINGTON POLITICAL CLASS INSIDER who treats his supporters like they are treated at the car dealer by a slick car salesman.

[nopardons]

Carson isn't fit to be president. His "honesty" has nothing at all to do with being qualified to be president.

Trump has been "VETTED" for decades; by the MSM, his books are out there, and even by the government, since they have asked him to appear before committees to talk about financial matters and such.

Cruz knows nothing at all about finance, has flip flopped many times over re ILLEGAL ALIENS, etc., and as for his Conservatives votes...do we have to go into TPA et al ?

I just LOVE the way some here talk about the supposed civility of days gone by. At primary/elections season? It is to laugh! LOL

You have your opinion, I have mine, and never the twain shall meet. Lets just leave it at that.

[Kickass Conservative]

We actually lost our Coverage. Found out two weeks before the end of 2013. We received an “oh by the way” Letter.

Had to scramble to get a new Policy, with a $300 a Month bump in our Monthly Premium. Having Leukemia, I wanted to be sure the HMO we went with had my Oncologist on their preferred Provider list.

As of January 2016, our Monthly Premium is $700 a Month MORE than we were paying in December 2013.

Has anyone seen my $2,500 Check from Obama?
Must have been lost in the Mail for a few years.

[Impy]

If I did it would not be in favor of Trump, who’s conservatism is as genuine as unicorns that fart rainbows.

But no, I don’t think I shall, this means nothing to me.

[Impy]

Thoughts? Team Trump seems to think this is the equivalent of getting caught in bed with a dead intern.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t waste time on stupid Trumpanzee crap flinging.

[Springfield Reformer]

I don’t see it as a victim card strategy at all. From the getgo he rejected special treatment as a senator because, on principle, it was hypocritical for Congress to pass laws for the “little people” that they themselves could evade or at least soften. In my view, his entire purpose for doing this was to identify with the people he was sworn to represent. I consider that good and noble behavior.

For my own part, I knew folks at work who simply didn’t believe that good policies were being trashed over this, and they were shocked to hear my own story, proof that yes, the predicted bad consequences were really happening. Libs live in such a lala land it’s unbelievable.

Peace,

SR

[Bubbette]

Ok, I've got to jump in. If I remember correctly, Ted said he did not want congressional insurance and had private coverage. There is no doubt that his broker told him his PPO was being dropped because in Texas, BCBS did drop all individual PPO plans. Ours was dropped and everyone was scrambling to find coverage that their doctors would accept. What happened with us IS BCBS sent us two HMO cards, assigning USA doctor we'd never heard of. I ignored that and continued to try to find a PPO plan through my broker. Finally we found out we could have an employer plan with as little as 2 people which would be a PPO. We went through a hellish application process and still have not heard from BCBS because they received over 5000 applications of people trying to stay on a PPO plan through an employer plan. So, even though I have not paid BCBS a payment for their JMO, you.could say we have coverage. In my mind, they can take their HMO and shove it. Not a single one of my doctors are on it and I know to s of people in the same situation. If you asked my husband, he'd say we don't have coverage because he never saw the HMO cards come in the mail.
That's the situation in Texas, for what it's worth. Lots of pissed off people hating BCBS.

[BillyBoy]

Ineligible Canadian bible thumbing holier-than-thou right-winger hypocrite Goldman-Sachs owned GOPE sellout Ted Cruz would make a fine running mate for my man Trump IF he cleared up this issue!

Together, Trump/Cruz would EASILY take Washington DC’s electoral votes and win AT LEAST 168% of the black vote!

But he BETTER think VERY carefully about what he says from now on because continuing to shamelessly smear Trump WILL prevent him from replacing Roberts as Chief Justice of SCOTUS!!!

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[visualops]

Sadly, I think nearly everyone (and I only say ‘nearly’ to not smear those few who may be honest) who is a lawyer/whatever then takes the career path to politician- and believe me, it’s a life long career path- everything they do is to further their career. If it happens to sometimes coincide with what’s good for the constituents, that’s just happenstance. But everything they say and do is to maintain the desired trajectory. And each of them has their “tagline”, their niche, their specific appeal. For Cruz, he was the ‘constitution guy’ blah blah. It’s just a mantle. Like the characters in a sitcom they each have their shtick to appeal to a certain type. Then, like Trump says they are all talk and do nothing, because they are only there for themselves.