Ted Cruz

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Originally Posted by jeremy1375

Oh how fun, the speculation game. Anyone think Reagan would secretly facilitate the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo to secure the release of hostages and then divert the profits of said sales to Nicaraguan rebels?

I bet you'd speculate no, but he did. But Cruz, of course he and his Goldman Sachs VP wife are about pure goodness.

Anyone think a president would start a war with a country under the guise of looking for WMDs with no proof and no help from the UN, Invade the wrong country as retaliation for the attacks of 9/11 and destabilizing the entire region, using private companies with no accountability to torture prisoners against the Geneva convention, all the while fighting two wars that we couldnt afford because the housing boom was ready to blow up that ended up destroying the economy? yeah that happened too.

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Here's the latest I've seen on it.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...acare/2883635/

If things have changed and I'm wrong with that statement, I'll take my lashing and take it back. I'm willing to admit a mistake if I made one.

[jeremy1375]

Nothing has changed since then. It's the argument that lawmakers are exempt from something important that is the issue.

Senator Chuck Grassley wrote the amendment that takes away the government health plan benefit from federal lawmakers instead requiring them to get their insurance from the exchanges. What he forgot to do was include legislation that describes how the federal government should pay for the exchange insurance since the exchanges were only designed for small businesses and individuals.

The "exemption" that was being sought by some after was the ability to keep their government health plan. What wound up happening was the federal government would kick in the same amount of money towards the exchange insurance as went toward the government plan. That also was considered an "exemption" by some because technically only a small business could do that under the law.

The whole thing that was called the "exemption" amounted to this - lawmakers lost access to their government health plan and instead had to get their health insurance benefits from the exchange. There's really nothing controversial about that.