Ted Cruz to sign up for Obamacare
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Cruz is just following federal law.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
No, he's not. He's not required to purchase a plan through Obamacare. The Grassley amendment merely says that lawmakers can only receive government subsidies IF they sign up for Obamacare. He could sign up for a private Texas plan if he wanted to.
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/26/8296863/mcmorris-rodgers-obamacare
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House GOP conference, took to Facebook tocommemorate the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act by asking to hear real-life horror stories from real people.
This week marks the 5th anniversary of #Obamacare being signed into law. Whether it's turned your tax filing into a nightmare, you're facing skyrocketing premiums, or your employer has reduced your work hours, I want to hear about it.
Please share your story with me so that I can better understand the challenges you're facing: http://mcmorris.house.gov/your-story/
Instead she got this:
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This is mostly just an object lesson in social media use. As many brands have discovered, opening yourself up to this kind of dialogue is basically an open invitation to get trolled.
But it also reveals something fundamental about the structure of the Affordable Care Act. Reasonable people can disagree about whether this law is, all things considered, a good idea. But one of the main things it does is raise taxes rather dramatically on a pretty small number of high-income people in order to give subsidized health insurance policies to a substantially larger number of low-income people. Indeed, this is one of the main things Republicans don't like about it!
But if you do a simple head count, you are almost certainly going to find more people getting discount insurance than people paying extra taxes.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House GOP conference, took to Facebook tocommemorate the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act by asking to hear real-life horror stories from real people.
This week marks the 5th anniversary of #Obamacare being signed into law. Whether it's turned your tax filing into a nightmare, you're facing skyrocketing premiums, or your employer has reduced your work hours, I want to hear about it.
Please share your story with me so that I can better understand the challenges you're facing: http://mcmorris.house.gov/your-story/
Instead she got this:
This is mostly just an object lesson in social media use. As many brands have discovered, opening yourself up to this kind of dialogue is basically an open invitation to get trolled.
But it also reveals something fundamental about the structure of the Affordable Care Act. Reasonable people can disagree about whether this law is, all things considered, a good idea. But one of the main things it does is raise taxes rather dramatically on a pretty small number of high-income people in order to give subsidized health insurance policies to a substantially larger number of low-income people. Indeed, this is one of the main things Republicans don't like about it!
But if you do a simple head count, you are almost certainly going to find more people getting discount insurance than people paying extra taxes.
that is not trolling
BZZZT, WRONG.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...ly-required-sign-obamacare-hes-totally-wrong/
So rather than buck up and pay for his own healthcare as he can afford to do, he's going to do a complete 180 on his ideological crusade to get his filthy hands all over govt handouts now that its convenient.
These are your heroes :scumbag:
Jamaal
Rookie
Ted "Carnival Cruz": Do as I say, not as I do. (I.E. Let me get my health care while I cut yours)