Ted Cruz Is Latest GOP Senator to Come Out Against Obamacare Repeal Legislation

Started by Ms.Independence, September 24, 2017, 02:12:25 PM

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Ms.Independence

Well played Senator Cruz ... his timing is perfect on this issue.  Unless they adopt his amendment(s) into this, the bill is dead in the water and Paul and McCain have already taken their stand against it.

Ted Cruz Is Latest GOP Senator to Come Out Against Obamacare Repeal Legislation

...."Sen. Ted Cruz was the latest to signal his opposition to the Graham-Cassidy bill, noting it didn't do enough to bring down the cost of health care.

"Right now, they don't have my vote," Cruz said during a panel discussion in Austin. "And I don't think they have Mike Lee's vote, either." Cruz said that he and fellow senator Lee offered amendments to Graham-Cassidy that would decrease premiums but they weren't included in the latest draft of the bill. But Cruz wasn't all negative, saying the measure also has some "very good elements."....

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/24/ted_cruz_is_latest_gop_senator_to_come_out_against_obamacare_repeal_legislation.html
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...