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Feb 7th, 2017 at 9:59 pm
[font color="gray" font size="5"]"After Cruz expressed phony concern about insurance company profits, Sanders excitedly pounced."[/font]
In the highly anticipated CNN debate between former presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz regarding the Affordable Care Act, Cruz boxed himself into a corner and Sanders was happy to let him stay there.
After Cruz expressed phony concern that insurance companies have racked up huge profits over the last six years, Sanders excitedly pounced, telling the Texas senator that there is an easy way to combat insurance company greed simply scrap the for-profit system altogether.
Once Cruz essentially admitted that the only goal of insurance companies is to make billions of dollars, not help people get health care, Sanders had all the ammunition he needed to urge Cruz to put is money where his mouth is and support a system that puts patient health above profits.
Predictably, Cruz changed the subject and instead told Sanders they should work together in going after big pharma, hoping to maneuver himself out of his own trap. Once again, though, the Vermont senator was happy to engage, urging Cruz to walk the walk and join him in crafting legislation to take on the issue.
Each time Cruz tried to pretend to care about greed and profits for the sake of not looking foolish, Sanders made him pay and Cruz was forced backed down. Ultimately, Sanders exposed the Texas senator as a phony who talks a good game but will always defend insurance company profits over his constituents.
None of this should be all that surprising given the fact that Ted Cruz has received nearly $150,000 from insurance companies since 2011.
Video clip at link:
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/07/bernie-sanders-shuts-ted-cruz.html
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think Bernie Sanders should be our President right the fuck now.
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ehrnst
(32,640 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)I think Bernie did a fine job showing Ted's 'crocodile sincerity'.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)raging moderate
(4,305 posts)The way Facebook is set up.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Bernie worked him over good. It was a good debate.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)... that this "great" nation doesn't have a single-payer system, a system that covers everyone, while being the most inexpensive and most sensible, and doesn't have all the problems that the monstrosity of a cluster-fuck we have now.
Our government has failed us in this regard, and should be ashamed.
wiggs
(7,813 posts)Cruz's mission (besides annoying everyone listening) was to trash the ACA and dems and government in general. He did it with lies, exaggerations, selective stats, passion, and smooth talking. I think he largely accomplished his mission.
Sanders' mission was not to defend the ACA and dems against the lies and distortions...it was to push for single payer and to push for healthcare as a right of all Americans. I think he largely got his point across too.
So the ACA and dems came out on the short end, not for valid reasons and not because Cruz is a great debater and not because Cruz was right... but because several of Cruz's misleading assertions were in many cases unopposed....Sanders wanted to make different, larger, worthy points and passed at several opportunities to directly counter the garbage.