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Bad link. But let me guess, the conservative Washington Examiner has found some specific instances of insurance premiums rising? Amiright?
Premiums will go up for young, healthy people and go down for older folks.
SENATE REACHES BIPARTISAN DEAL TO SHUT DOWN TED CRUZ
—In what is being hailed as a rare example of bipartisan coöperation, Senate Democrats and Republicans came together today on a near-unanimous vote to defund Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
The measure, which shuts down all nonessential functions of Sen. Cruz, passed by a margin of ninety-nine to one.
As the final vote was announced this morning, Sen. Cruz’s microphone was unplugged and the Senate exploded with cheers on both sides of the aisle.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said that the vote to defund the Texas senator showed that bipartisan coöperation is possible even in the usually rancorous Senate: “Every now and then the two parties can reach across the aisle and find something that we both despise with all our might.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) acknowledged that the budget impact of defunding Sen. Cruz would be minimal, but added, “This was never about money. We got Ted Cruz to stop talking, and you can’t put a price tag on that.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...rowitz%20(172)
I love Borowitz because he shows what it would be like if The Onion wasn't funny.
i've always thought he was The Onion without the talent.
Sweet Filibuster Bro. Cloture motion passes 100-0, including Cruz voting against himself. LOL.
Rand Paul > Ted Cruz
duh, when then bar is so low ...
they're both extreme right wing losers
Club for Growth sticks by Ted Cruz on Obamacare, will score cloture vote
By Sean Sullivan, Published: September 24 at 2:38 pm
The Club For Growth stood with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) Tuesday, calling for senators to vote against cloture on a stopgap spending bill that passed the House last week. The conservative, anti-tax group said it would it include the vote on its 2013 scorecard.
"To keep the House defund language secure, and to continue using the leverage of the continuing resolution, opponents of ObamaCare should vote "NO" on the cloture vote to end debate," wrote the group's vice president of government affairs Andy Roth in a note to congressional offices.
Cruz has been urging his colleagues to vote against cloture on the bill that keeps the government running and defunds Obamacare, even though the measure is exactly what he's long demanded.
Why? Because he wants to prevent Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) from stripping out the defund provision and passing a new continuing resolution that restores funding for the health-care law with a simple majority. Under Senate rules, Reid can do that.
Cruz has failed to win the support of high-ranking Republicans for his plan. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Tex.) both said they won't seek to block the bill. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) joined them Tuesday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-cloture-vote/
Taking names. Finding out who's with us or a'gin us.
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/
Cruz clotured himself?
lol
Any vote for cloture, any vote to allow Harry Reid to add funding to Obamacare with just a 51-vote threshold, a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare
- Ted Cruz on Sunday
It's all part of the plan.
Health Care Costs Are Projected To Outpace Economic Growth
The nation's health spending will bump up next year as the Affordable Care Act expands insurance coverage to more Americans, and then will grow by an average of 6.2 percent a year over the next decade, according to projections by government actuaries.
That estimate is lower than the typical annual increases before the recession hit. Still, the actuaries forecast that in a decade the health care segment of the nation's economy will be larger than it is today, amounting to a fifth of the gross domestic product in 2022.
They attributed that to the rising number of baby boomers moving into Medicare and the expectation that the economy will improve, according to a published online in the journal Health Affairs.
The actuaries were not persuaded that cost-cutting experiments in the health law will have an impact. Neither were they convinced that new insurer procedures that change the way doctors, hospitals and others provide services will help.
They assumed "modest" savings from those changes from the law.
"It's a little early to tell how substantial those savings will be in the longer term," Gigi Cuckler, an actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and lead author of the report, told reporters Wednesday.
Still, the Obama administration enthusiastically greeted the report. "We are on the right track to controlling health care costs, thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act," CMS Administrator said in a statement. "More Americans will have the ability to get the health care they need, and that is a good thing. We have identified several areas where our reforms to control costs are making progress and we must build on those efforts in the years ahead."
But not everyone agrees. "I think it's quite clear from the study that the notion that the health care law fundamentally bends costs is just totally unsupported by facts," , a budget adviser to President George W. Bush, said in an interview.
"Something more fundamental needs to be done to slow costs than what is in the health law."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013...h?sc=17&f=1003
"Health Care Costs Are Projected To Outpace Economic Growth"
well, duh, that's been going for 30 years, and at annual increases, eg in insurance costs, often much greater than 6%
It's all part of the plan.
Cruz, Rubio, Paul, Lee certainly are. "as they go" nowhere. ACA is unstoppable, will be a huge boost to the 2014, 2016 Dem candidates.
Just more evidence of how delusional these tea bags really are. They are willing to accept that Cruz and company are playing the long game, chess while everyone else is playing checkers, even as the ringleader votes for cloture. Something he said, on Sunday, was tantamount to voting for the ACA. If that's part of the plan, it's one of the most ed up plans I've ever seen.
Boobie4three and the tea bags blindly swallow it down like it's the New Testament.
Yep. All those layoffs and cutbacks will surely be popular side effects.
small businesses say they intend to hire, not lay off
http://www.businessweek.com/articles...ng-in-july-adp
http://www.benefitspro.com/2012/12/0...it-4-year-high
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9597449.htm
so Cruz and similar bags saying ACA is a job destoryer are LYING.
ACA even increases jobs to handle the 10Ms more with health insurance
http://hiring.monster.com/hr/hr-best...mployment.aspx
"In addition to the 55,000 seasonal workers, Walmart U.S. also said it would move more than 35,000 employees from temporary to part-time status, and another 35,000 from part-time to full-time by the end of the year."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...98M0KS20130923
If the Republicans can negotiate a 1 year delay on the implementation of 0bamacare, would you consider that a victory for Republicans and a defeat for Democrats?
Did they do that?
You kind of remind me of the little kid who's always asking his father questions: "Daddy, why is the sky blue?" "Daddy, why is the grass green?"
Per the BLS, 6,430,000 jobs have been created since the ACA was signed into law in March 2010.
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