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Ted Cruz Unveils Obamacare Repeal Act
National Review ^ | February 2, 2015 | By Joel Gehrke

Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”

The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.

“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”

The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacare working group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.

“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abolishobamacare; cruz; elections; obamacare; repeal; repealobamacare; tedcruz
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To: conservativegranny

You’re welcome. The link I listed, in my earlier post - to the full text of Sen Cruz’ Bill - was not a working link. This one should work....

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Bills/20150202_Obamacare_Repeal_Act.pdf

I agree with you about the “suspicious names” of some of the co-sponsors...>cough< Ayotte...McConnell....Cornyn...>cough<.


41 posted on 02/02/2015 7:17:10 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jim Robinson

So I guess Ted Cruz is the only republican who can see that most americans can’t afford to pay for Obamacare.


42 posted on 02/02/2015 7:17:24 PM PST by jetson (Can I catch you a delicious bass...)
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To: Jane Long

I do like his idea to just keep at it. At least someone is keeping this on the front burner....in spite of all of the daily distractions.”

Thats right ,...if we dont head towards that light at the end if the tunnel we shall never get near it!


43 posted on 02/02/2015 7:17:54 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: conservativegranny

It brings the liars out in the open.


One of the things Cruz does best, bust the squishes publicly.

I want to thank you for being honest about your governor. Most of us in TX try to warn off FReepers from Perry and we’re considered traitors or spoil-sports, when we’re just trying to educate non-Texans what they might expect if Perry was their POTUS. Like you do. Thanks again, granny.


44 posted on 02/02/2015 7:19:00 PM PST by txhurl (RINOs: conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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To: Jim Robinson

GO Ted Cruz!


45 posted on 02/02/2015 7:23:23 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: MeshugeMikey

From his Senate website....

The Obamacare Repeal Act fully repeals Obamacare effective 180 days after its enactment, and provides Congress and the states the intervening six months to develop and vote on patient-oriented health care reform that will incrementally unravel Obamacare’s structural damage to our health care system and economy.

Congress must demonstrate its commitment to reducing healthcare costs and empowering American families with better innovations that save and improve lives. To begin accomplishing this goal, Sen. Cruz plans to introduce additional pieces of legislation, starting with measures to allow American families to shop around the country for insurance and to reform the Food and Drug Administration to more efficiently deliver greater life-saving medical therapies for all Americans.

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2136


46 posted on 02/02/2015 7:23:33 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

Sen. Cruz plans to introduce additional pieces of legislation, starting with measures to allow American families to shop around the country for insurance and to reform the Food and Drug Administration to more efficiently deliver greater life-saving medical therapies for all Americans

I havent seen this much common sense emerging form Washington in Many Many Moons

THIS is unexpectedly impressive to say the least!


47 posted on 02/02/2015 7:26:40 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: cripplecreek

What you describe is called retainer fee medicine and it is truly the right solution to healthcare. It is also the way health care was arranged prior to WWII when wage freezes distorted the labor markets and led to Employer Sponsored Health Insurance.


48 posted on 02/02/2015 7:30:01 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: EvilCapitalist; txhurl

Thank you. That sour grapes response seems to be common among Cruz supporters, but I didn’t know if that included you.


49 posted on 02/02/2015 7:30:30 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: MeshugeMikey; All

If you are on twitter, you can retweet and/or favorite Sen Cruz’ announcement tweet, here:

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/562418640583413760


50 posted on 02/02/2015 7:31:31 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jim Robinson

Wow, totally awesome and it already has 44 sponsors. Where’s the rest of the GOP?

Make Obama veto it. Make the Dems vote against it. Bury this Party of Ruin into the next century.


51 posted on 02/02/2015 7:32:57 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Foolish.


52 posted on 02/02/2015 7:35:11 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: jazusamo

” 44 Republicans co-sponsoring it, where’s the rest of them?”

Do we have votes for this? It would be so cool to see the Republicans kick so skinny obama butt for a change.


53 posted on 02/02/2015 7:35:18 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: 1010RD
"This way...to take our country back"


54 posted on 02/02/2015 7:35:35 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Hostage

When I was born in 64 the cost of my hospital birth was about $85. Right around 2 weeks pay for my dad who was a garbageman at the time.


55 posted on 02/02/2015 7:36:18 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Balding_Eagle

Texans try to warn you off Perry - who you might know nothing of - and we get beat up.

When we try to warn you onTO Ted Cruz, we get beat up.

I frankly don’t care about Walker supporters anymore, they demonstrate illiteracy as to our nations imminent demise if Cruz doesn’t break all these things zero has erected.

Put another way, Don’t want no Walker supporters in my foxhole.


56 posted on 02/02/2015 7:37:42 PM PST by txhurl (RINOs: conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Great news- should inspire all constitutional conservatives. Proves a truth- The Gop-e elite has neither loyalty or principle– it is wholly malleable- it’s sole interest is to maintain its power. Here then, we see it is not committed to inexorable socialism, so long as it can be convinced that its continued power resides instead in free markets and the constitution.

Senator Cruz has just demonstrated that the statist herd can be re-directed— that’s seismic. There is hope.


57 posted on 02/02/2015 7:37:56 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: Hostage
A smarter war against Obamacare (Michigan's medical retainer agreements)
58 posted on 02/02/2015 7:38:23 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Rusty0604
“The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans,

And is Rep Mia Love in with the 44......?

Mia Love who has nice things written on her web site but promptly voted for the weeper as speaker...

Litmus test Redux....

59 posted on 02/02/2015 7:39:42 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: spokeshave

Mia’s house.


60 posted on 02/02/2015 7:43:47 PM PST by txhurl (RINOs: conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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