Posted on 04/19/2014 5:27:42 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Cruz tweeted that message:
The repeal debate is far from over. #FullRepeal — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 17, 2014
"The point is the repeal debate is and should be over," Obama said. "The Affordable Care Act is working. And I know the American people don’t want us spending the next two and a half years refighting the settled political battles of the last five years."Obama claimed at his press conference that eight million Americans signed up for Obamacare. However, even by the most conservative estimates, at least 20 percent of those Americans may not have paid their premiums, which means they actually do not have insurance. In addition, it will be impossible to determine how many more Americans actually got insurance after Obamacare's implementation because this year the Census Bureau decided to drastically change its annual survey for the first time in 30 years in what officials said was merely a "coincidence."
Cruz has repeatedly said those opposed to Obamacare should aim to "repeal every single word" of the law.
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I think most of these folks were young and made a choice not to buy insurance because they didn't see value in it. Others who wanted insurance went without it because they figured they would rather spend their money on something else.
The ones who really, truly needed it but couldn't afford it already had a choice.....medicare or medicaid.
Obamacare was never about insurance. That's how it was sold. It was cover for massive tax increases and a blatant money grab by the fedgov.
there are ways to do it it think without disrupting the existing policy holders. The “If you Like Your Healthcare Plan You can Keep It” act should first off allow for the current insurance plans to become a defacto approved state plan in the state in which the person lives. That establishes minimum disruption to the people that signed up. Then establish state run high risk pools and begin to transition pre-existing conditions into those pool like is done with auto insurance. This should be allowed to be gradual over 2-3 years. everyone else then is free to go back to the plan they had. I think the Insco’s would have to be have some inventive to return to the other individual plans. Maybe just allowing individuals to sort it out with plans migh work. Also any of the fixes at the fed level are expired at some point with no possibility to extend.
” - - - those opposed to Obamacare should aim to “repeal every single word” of the law. - - - “
Yup. “True the Repeal of Obamacare.”
Obama should be tried for treason.
Well, they'll either go bankrupt, or default to converting their version of MediCaid into a managed care/subsidized premium system that you could buy into.
What in the world are you talking about? You’re not making sense.
It seems you’re upset with and disagree with people being allowed to choose how to spend their own money... specifically it seems you disagree with the idea that people be allowed to spend their own health care dollars as they see fit.
just wow
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