{"id":8711,"date":"2015-03-27T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2015-03-27T03:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T03:02:01","slug":"cruz-plays-games-with-aca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8711","title":{"rendered":"Cruz plays games with ACA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ted Cruz wants to “repeal every word” of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

Now the Texas Republican U.S. senator and GOP presidential candidate has enrolled in the act he wants to eliminate.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2015\/03\/25\/3638697\/ted-cruz-wants-believe-hes-legally-required-sign-obamacare-hes-totally-wrong\/<\/p>\n

What gives with the Cruz Missile?<\/p>\n

He says he’s obligated to sign up. He’s either (a) wrong, (b) confused or (c) lying.<\/p>\n

Any takers on which one? I’ll pass for now.<\/p>\n

The ACA doesn’t require members of Congress to sign up for health insurance. He could buy the coverage without having to participate in the District of Columbia health exchange set up under the ACA.<\/p>\n

Does the former Texas solicitor general know this? Let me think. I’m guessing he knows that, sharp Harvard Law grad that he is.<\/p>\n

Cruz is gaming the system and in the process is playing Republican voters for fools.<\/p>\n\n

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Ted Cruz wants to “repeal every word” of the Affordable Care Act. Now the Texas Republican U.S. senator and GOP presidential candidate has enrolled in the act he wants to eliminate. http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2015\/03\/25\/3638697\/ted-cruz-wants-believe-hes-legally-required-sign-obamacare-hes-totally-wrong\/ What gives with the Cruz Missile? He says he’s obligated to sign up. He’s either (a) wrong, (b) confused or (c) lying. Any … Continue reading Cruz plays games with ACA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[73,131,164,1112,1198,4537,4980,5246],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-aca","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-congress","tag-cruz-missile","tag-ted-cruz","tag-u-s-senate","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}