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D'oh! Cruz Campaign Concedes He Had Insurance Coverage All Along
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-health-insurance-questions ^

Posted on 01/23/2016 11:27:47 PM PST by 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.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
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To: springwater13

What kind of 0bama-sucking fool thinks 0bamaCare is going great? I personally know two families who thought they were on then they weren’t then they were changed and now they’re looking again. They’re the only two families I know of that have tried to use 0bamaCare.


61 posted on 01/24/2016 12:47:19 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: RitaOK
No, I didn't see it but hope to find it on YouTube tomorrow and watch it.

I am just shocked and revulsed by that PHONY "presidential oath taking" !

62 posted on 01/24/2016 12:48:27 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

The bloom has come off the Rose for Cruz.

Too many outright untruths.


63 posted on 01/24/2016 12:52:02 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: nopardons

Oath? How phony is that? Ick. Aren’t there any grown ups around there? What would be with the kiddie stuff. Got to be a Beck brain gas attack to come up with that theater.


65 posted on 01/24/2016 12:52:45 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Gene Eric

It’s a f’n nightmare. Hope your new insurance works out.

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It will be OK, thanks.

I do have a company but our health insurance is through my husband’s employment, luckily in a group.

I believe Trump and others are correct when they say the system is going to fall apart. The Coops are failing all over the country and United Healthcare announced they will not longer participate. What a mess they have made.


66 posted on 01/24/2016 12:54:05 AM PST by GeaugaRepublican (Angry yes, mad, no.)
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To: Gene Eric

There is a different between tactical mistakes and lies. The latter applies to Cruz. Inadequate campaign support? Is that the best you can come up with? He has raked in millions of dollars and numerous endorsements - and you call that inadequate support? SMH.


67 posted on 01/24/2016 12:56:36 AM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: 4rcane; All
I seem to recall Sir Winston Churchill called something like that as:

...a terminological inexactitude.

68 posted on 01/24/2016 1:05:02 AM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: tennmountainman
Oh lets just call a spade a spade.........CRUZ LIES and does so repeatedly!

Lets face it, we REALLY don't know that much about Ted, but what has come to light lately, STINKS ON ICE!

69 posted on 01/24/2016 1:08:55 AM PST by nopardons
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Yep,can’t argue with the truth you stated.


70 posted on 01/24/2016 1:09:55 AM PST by nopardons
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To: GeaugaRepublican

Many have been saying that Obamacare was designed to fail in favor of Single Payer.

>> I do have a company but our health insurance is through my husband’s employment,

I’m also self-employed. Good your husband has the insurance through his job.

I’m now paying $1450/month in addition to the unforgiving deductibles the Democrats have wrought. When the kids get sick or broken bones, I’m paying $20k/year out of pocket.


71 posted on 01/24/2016 1:11:42 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: RitaOK
Yes, using a compass, which "supposedly" once be,longed to George Washington, instead of a Bible.

Grownup in the same sentence as Glenn Beck is an oxymoron.

72 posted on 01/24/2016 1:12:53 AM PST by nopardons
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To: springwater13; Aria

No, it was based on misinformation he received from his broker. As such it might very well have been the cause of friction in the home. As the husband in my home, I rely on information I receive from various experts, and sometimes they relay the wrong information to me and I relay that to my wife and sometimes its not good news, but eventually it gets corrected.

The point is, this is such a lame excuse for an accusation it seems positively irrational.

Peace,

SR


73 posted on 01/24/2016 1:17:27 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Catsrus

I guess it isn’t obvious I’m looking past the disunity.

Enjoy the fight. It’s Primary season!!!


74 posted on 01/24/2016 1:18:19 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Aria

His wife probably does the bills


75 posted on 01/24/2016 1:22:50 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Springfield Reformer
No, the point is that Ted LIED yet again; this time to the people of New Hampshire.
76 posted on 01/24/2016 1:32:14 AM PST by nopardons
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To: RitaOK; VitacoreVision

The Susette Kelo home was disassembled and relocated closer to downtown New London:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/20/seized-property-sits-vacant-nine-years-after-landmark-eminent-domain-case.html

But Kelo was just the lead complainant out of a number of other homeowners (15) in the Fort Trumbull area and the “big meanie” did indeed force all of them out, and the land to this day remains a blight and a waste:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370441/nine-years-after-kelo-seized-land-empty-alec-torres

But you’re missing the bigger point. Even if everything had worked out hunky dory for all 15 homeowners, Kelo is still horrible constitutional law. It sets a precedent for a Marxist theory of property, where even the weakest excuse for “public use” allows the municipality to treat the homeowner like a mere renter to be evicted at will. “Public Use” under Kelo is now a blank page on which the state may write any speculative theory of collective benefit and use that to justify compulsory relocation. Scalia likened it to the Dred Scot decision, and rightly so. It is a complete disaster for it’s failure to uphold long-standing, fundamental principles of property rights.

And Trump thinks it’s just fine. It shows he really doesn’t get it. He doesn’t have what it takes to defend and uphold our Constitution.

Peace,

SR


77 posted on 01/24/2016 1:52:09 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: VitacoreVision

Love it. Unforced errors are the best in shining some daylight on politicians.


78 posted on 01/24/2016 2:00:26 AM PST by orangeTank
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To: chris37

If I ever had the aspiration of running for president and I knew there could be reservations about my eligibility, I would get that cleared up with the Court before I filed my first form.

This is especially the case when running as the “Constitutional standard-bearer.” You would not want to offend the Constitution by running for an office you are ineligible for.

I think Cruz’ campaign is dishonest to the core.


79 posted on 01/24/2016 2:00:32 AM PST by orangeTank
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To: springwater13

My reaction to the no insurance news is exactly the same as when Ted blamed his TPA vote on believing McConnell’s lies;

How stupid is Ted, and how stupid must he think the voters are?

He is exceeding anything I ever believed about him.

If Trump weren’t in the race we would be doomed.


80 posted on 01/24/2016 2:00:58 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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