Posted on 03/24/2015 3:43:41 PM PDT by Kevin C
Despite being vehemently opposed to Obamacare, Ted Cruz is signing up for insurance under President Obama’s health care law.
The Texas Republican Senator and newly-announced presidential candidate, known for his staunch opposition to the Affordable Care Act, told CNN on Tuesday that he will be joining the millions of Americans enrolled in insurance under the law.
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Or to have standing, show it has unfair impact on his freedom and can have status to sue later.
Cruz is doing this for some other reason. The Senate has their own qualifying health care plan, so Cruz need not go for Obamacare.
Maybe in his position, he would have to try to get it repealed if he became POTUS. Don’t know how he would do that because he would be the executor, not the lawmaker.
Maybe that’s what he needs to do in his position. But the states have another route to take - reject and nullify Obamacare and other unconstitutional federal acts.
In that sense, it’s hard to imagine acquiescing to Obamacare and then denouncing those (in Congress, but by extension everyone else) who haven’t helps the cause of rejecting and nullifying unconstitutional and invalid federal laws.
Maybe in his position, he would have to try to get it repealed if he became POTUS. Don’t know how he would do that because he would be the executor, not the lawmaker.
Maybe that’s what he needs to do in his position. But the states have another route to take - reject and nullify Obamacare and other unconstitutional federal acts.
In that sense, it’s hard to imagine acquiescing to Obamacare and then denouncing those (in Congress, but by extension everyone else) who haven’t helps the cause of rejecting and nullifying unconstitutional and invalid federal laws.
It is mostly welfare insurance for free, then bad very costly insurance for anyone with a mediocre job or better.
My bad insurance is almost $5000 a year personally. My wife had hers triple under Obamacare and we have been able to keep my 6 year olds old insurance with a 20% spike in cost.
We are not very well off, and our cost is close to 9k a year. Certainly not a savings of 2k to my family in any world we live in.
If it costs you more than 8% of your income I believe you are not obligated to pay the fine.
I could be wrong but I think that is the way it goes.
Cruz is doing this for some other reason. The Senate has their own qualifying health care plan, so Cruz need not go for Obamacare.
He can tweet each attempted move to get insured which ends in idiocy, and go right over the heads of the MSM, like Reagan did.
If it costs you more than 8% of your income I believe you are not obligated to pay the fine.
Remember zero’s PajamaBoy #starttalking hot chocolate zerocare push?
Cruz is taking it to the stratosphere with this. The admin 100% obfuscates the pain that zerocare is causing Americans, Cruz is going to put it under the microscope. All before the SCOTUS ruling in June.
Good!
It’s the law. So, if Cruz joins, it gives him standing (in a court).
I hope you understand what that means.
His professor at Harvard Law School said he was the most brilliant Constitutional Scholar he had ever met.
His professor, Alan Dershowitz, Democrat.
Cruz clerked for Justice Rehnquist of the Supreme Court. He was Solicitor General of Texas for 6 years - and often presented cases before the Supreme Court. I think that would classify Cruz as more than a “good lawyer”.
No problem,
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Just hours after Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told CNN that he had no choice but to sign up for Obamacare, President Barack Obama signed an executive order making Cruz ineligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
“Clearly, the hardship of receiving Obamacare was causing Ted a great deal of pain,” the President said. “This should take care of that.”
March 24, 2015 President Signs Order Making Ted Cruz Ineligible for Obamacare
Like all those liberals who keep saying that they want their taxes raised so they can pay more.
Do you have a source for that? Or did you pull it out of your nether regions?
/johnny
Ted’s wife. Is resigning from Goldman Sacs she carries their medical insurance through her company!! Ted will now enroll in Obammie care for his family!!!! I hope they ALL stay healthy!!!!!
Resigning a job and being broke are two very different things.
Words mean things.
/johnny
How a big mistake? It's the law for regular citizens and a non-corrupt politician will subject himself to the same laws that the hoi polloi have to bow to.
You seem to find it real easy to criticize Cruz and always seem to be claiming some fault or other issue with him - wut's up wit dat?
Actually, yes he did, here's the comparisons, from the Declaration - see if you can tell the difference between George III and King Putt:
* He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
* He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
* He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
* He {intends to keep} among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
* He {intends to render} the military independent of and superior to civil power.
* He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws...
* For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent...
* For depriving us in many {future} cases, of the benefits of trial by jury...
* For ... abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
* He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers ... savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
* In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
While the law allows him to be exempted, it does not require him to get insurance via the exchanges. He’s doing this for a purpose.
I wonder if he will video his signup experience?
Same reason as me working in MN and my employer offered health insurance is out of Boston.
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