National Politics - 2016

Ted Cruz: GOP Congress Should Not Bail Out Obamacare

“WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS ALLOW STATES TO OPT OUT” || By FITSNEWS || It’s hard to imagine congressional “Republicans” – who have defined themselves for years by their opposition to Obamacare (in word, if not deed) – bailing out the controversial socialized medicine law, but then again many never…

“WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS ALLOW STATES TO OPT OUT”

|| By FITSNEWS || It’s hard to imagine congressional “Republicans” – who have defined themselves for years by their opposition to Obamacare (in word, if not deed) – bailing out the controversial socialized medicine law, but then again many never expected them to carry the water for Barack Obama’s secretive crony capitalist trade deal, either.

Or cave on their opposition to Obama’s executive amnesty plan.

We weren’t surprised by any of this, though.  We gave up on the GOP years ago … with good reason.

Anyway, the party which for years has stood for nothing other than opposing Obamacare … is contemplating a bailout of Obamacare.  Specifically, GOP leaders are mulling over whether to “re-codify” the law in the event the U.S. Supreme Court rules that its taxes and subsidies are illegal in thirty-six states.

(You know, this case).

Standing against this effort to bring Obamacare back from the dead?  U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

Here’s what Cruz had to say during an interview with Fox News …

“Under no circumstances should Republicans in Congress extend Obamacare. If the Supreme Court rules, as many observers expect, it will conclude that the Obama IRS violated federal law and illegally imposed billions of dollars of taxes on millions of Americans – millions of young people who are working. Right now, the Obama IRS is extracting taxes from them. And if the Supreme Court includes that Obama violated the law, the last thing Republicans in Congress should step up and do is codify his lawlessness and extend the subsidies.

“What I say is we should use this opportunity to address the real problem, which is that Obamacare has driven health insurance premiums through the roof. In fact, President Obama promised that the average family’s health insurance premium would drop $2,500 under Obamacare. In actuality, the average family’s premiums have risen $3,000.”

“What we should do instead is allow states to opt out. Opt out of the individual mandate, opt out of the taxes, opt out of the employer mandate, opt out of all the mandatory coverage, which is driving up premiums for a lot more than six million people. You’re talking about hundreds of millions of people who are seeing their premiums go up for Obamacare.”

“What you replace it with is something that expands competition and empowers consumers and disempowers government from getting between patients and their doctors in three specific reforms. One, you let people purchase health insurance across state lines. That creates a 50 state marketplace that lowers cost and gives you more choices, which expands access. Number two, you expand health savings accounts, so that people can save in a tax advantage way for routine healthcare. And number three, you work to delink health insurance from employment, so health insurance is portable.

“If you or I lose our jobs we don’t lose our life insurance, our car insurance, or our house insurance, there’s no reason we should lose our health insurance, and that’s what causes much of the problem of preexisting conditions. We should be empowering patients, not putting government bureaucrats between us and our doctors.”

We concur.

Should the Supreme Court follow the law and strike down Obamacare’s subsidies down in these thirty-six states, then this onerous, economically debilitating law will be effectively kaput.  And the very last thing “Republicans” should do is resurrect something they claim they’ve been trying to kill.

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15 comments

Supreme Court Jester June 25, 2015 at 8:16 am

Both Kennedy and Roberts are potential votes to keep Obamacare running, hopefully they do!

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They BOTH Voted For ACA! June 25, 2015 at 10:12 am

6-3, both Kennedy and Roberts support ACA! Yahoo!

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Bible Thumper June 25, 2015 at 8:33 am

If the tax credit for the federal exchange is struck down, then the politics for Republicans is very dicey.

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vicupstate June 25, 2015 at 8:37 am

“What you replace it with is something that expands competition and empowers consumers and disempowers government from getting between patients and their doctors in three specific reforms. One, you let people purchase health insurance across state lines. That creates a 50 state marketplace that lowers cost and gives you more choices, which expands access. Number two, you expand health savings accounts, so that people can save in a tax advantage way for routine healthcare. And number three, you work to delink health insurance from employment, so health insurance is portable.

“If you or I lose our jobs we don’t lose our life insurance, our car insurance, or our house insurance, there’s no reason we should lose our health insurance, and that’s what causes much of the problem of preexisting conditions.

^^ I agree with every word of this. [Even a broke clock is right twice a day] If Republicans had actually done this after Hillarycare went down, we would never have had to resort to something as dramatic as Obamacare. Unfortunately, the quote from Cruz reflects the GOP ‘smoke and mirror’ rhetoric, not a genuine proposal that they would actually support.

The Health industry was funding the party post-Hillarycare and was not about to let the GOP implement anything of the sort. They would have lost their low-competition gravy train, so it would never happen then, and would not happen now either.

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Rakkasan June 25, 2015 at 9:51 am

By all means let’s open this back up for “the marketplace” to screw millions of people. After all, they did such a good job of it before. And, if you can’t afford the premiums then you don’t have any choices. Ted the Clown just wants to give away the ranch to the insurance industry like the Repubs gave it away to Big Pharma with Medicare Part D

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stumpknocker June 25, 2015 at 8:48 am

my friend shattered his leg last year and had no insurance, all the many doctors and clinics offered %50 off their bills if he paid cash, and I mean all of them. It would seem that the medical community is inflating their bills when one is insured, insurance is their cash cow and they are all bellying up to the teats.

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Bible Thumper June 25, 2015 at 9:08 am

There is truth in what you say, but 50% off their bill is not necessarily 50% off what insurance companies pay.

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stumpknocker June 25, 2015 at 9:14 am

there are laws to prevent price gouging and we don’t have a problem with that, maybe it is time to take a good look at what the medical community is doing.

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Clueless June 25, 2015 at 9:35 am

“there are laws to prevent price gouging and we don’t have a problem with that”

lulz

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erneba June 25, 2015 at 10:04 am

There are so many candidates in the Republican field and I can find something with almost every candidate that I favor and/or agree with. On the other hand, I usually find more than one thing on which I disagree with each of them.
ObamaCare is in for a rocky road ahead. The Supreme ruling concerning subsidies for state exchanges could all but kill the bill. Even if there is a favorable ruling for ObamaCare, the increase in premiums, higher co-pays, and inferior or diminished care could put the program in jeopardy.

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GOP Won't Have To Bail It Out! June 25, 2015 at 10:11 am

6-3, subsidies are SAFE! YES!!!!

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The Buzzman June 25, 2015 at 10:35 am

Whatevah.

Bright and Chumley = Tweedledum and Tweedledumber

Reality: They will help the RNC stomp on Cruz like a bug.

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Manray9 June 25, 2015 at 11:19 am

Cruz — trailing events, as usual.

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bogart June 25, 2015 at 11:39 am

Way to go US Supreme Court and as I’ve said before, Ted Cruz is just nasty.

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