Posted on 02/02/2015 6:30:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Don’t worry, McConnell and Boehner will kill it.
GO TED!! WOO HOO!!
At first look, this is a stroke of genius.
Yay, somebody trying to do something.
Market based reforms are the way to go.
If only...
Do it, Ted! Shut it down!
Keep going, Cruz!
You are our best hope!!!!
2.25 pages. GO CRUZ!
No, no, no...medical device tax reform, that’s the ticket...
Too little; too late. How will the damages already incurred be undone? Case in point, a letter to my health insurance provider:
To Whom It May Concern:
Having reviewed the “terms of service” to which I am compelled to blindly agree prior to accessing the online health questionnaire, I am opting NOT to complete said questionnaire at this time.
I have numerous concerns regarding this third-party website:
- “This information primarily consists of claims for reimbursement submitted by your health care providers...” - Please explain in DETAIL the other information that will be collected.
- “By providing information to us through this Website (including information you provide when you complete a Health Risk Assessment), you give (redacted) permission to use and disclose that information as described in these Terms and Conditions.” - Please specify the EXACT entities to which my personal and private health information will be disclosed.
- “This website uses a proprietary software system, (redacted), to identify ways in which your health care might be improved. The(redacted) matches information in this website about your health and treatment against a set of generally accepted clinical “best practices” derived from the medical literature.” - I will require research, and documentation thereof, pertaining to the “best practices” mentioned. My personal physician is my source for knowledge regarding how to best treat whatever may ail me.
- “The clinical messages, called (redacted), issued by the (redacted) are for informational purposes only. These messages do not constitute, and are not intended as, a substitute for medical advice.” - Then WHY will you waste your time and MINE with these messages? I do not require this information as I obtain necessary information pertaining to my health from my personal physician.
- “How is the Security of this Website Maintained? (redacted) employs administrative, physical and technical safeguards to maintain the security of this website. We believe these safeguards are consistent with applicable law and are generally effective in preventing unauthorized access to your information.” - “Generally effective” - Undoubtedly, you are jesting... This website merely offers protection of my personal and private health information in a “general” sense?
Between the health care insurance now offered to me as (redacted) employee and the so-called affordable health care act, I am in the proverbial “between a rock and a hard place.”
I find that neither my insurance carrier nor my employer is forthcoming regarding this so-called “wellness” premium.
Seems to me that the additional $1200 per year out-of-pocket premium that will be assessed my family is to pay for this ridiculous farce of a website.
Compensation for my job has decreased in the last several years. My
take-home pay, apparently, will now decrease even further.
This is why I will only vote for Ted Cruz.
This is the man we need in the White House.
We sorely need strong moral leadership both at home and in dealing with international problems.
Two-bit punks like Putin would be wary of a real man as POTUS.
Of all the conservatives I’ve seen lately, Ted Cruz understands where the fight is.
It will cost them.
Great to see Cruz has the balls to do this and surprised to see 44 Republicans co-sponsoring it, where’s the rest of them?
Go Ted Cruz!
I will say that Ted Cruz is the only man I want to vote for.
I will however vote for anyone that is running against Hillary... but dear Lord, please don’t let that person be Jeb Bush.
Brevity is the soul of good governance.
Wish Sen Cruz could get two-thirds of the Senate to vote for this bill. And, same for the House. Don’t see that happening, though :(
override of a veto - The process by which each chamber of Congress votes on a bill vetoed by the President. To pass a bill over the president’s objections requires a two-thirds vote in each Chamber. Historically, Congress has overridden fewer than ten percent of all presidential vetoes.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/override_of_a_veto.htm
But, 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.
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