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Tensions between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his old antagonist, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), have reappeared in the high-stakes negotiation over healthcare reform.
Cruz is insisting on a reform to the Senate GOP bill that senior GOP aides say is a nonstarter with much if not most of the Republican conference.
While Cruz sought out Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to play what he promised would be a constructive role in the debate, senior GOP aides say Cruz is no longer being agreeable.
Instead, he is again being a thorn in McConnells side, much like he was in 2013, when he insisted on blocking a government spending bill unless it included language halting the implementation of ObamaCare, the staffers argue. Two years ago, Cruz famously called McConnell a liar on the Senate floor amid a debate on the Export-Import Bank.
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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/340765-gop-tensions-rise-over-cruz-proposal
The proposal would allow insurance companies the freedom to sell any kinds of health plans they want as long as they also sell at least one plan that qualifies under the regulatory requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Cicada
(4,533 posts)People will sign up for cheap plans until they get an expensive illness. Then they will switch to a plan with Obama care protections. The good Obama Care plans will end up full of seriously sick people causing the premiums foe Obama care compliant plans to sky rocket.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)patricia92243
(12,594 posts)rgbecker
(4,823 posts)I know, its hard to keep them straight! Seems like there are so many.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,577 posts)There's what, 500+ people in the room and he's the one person they single out to focus the camera and audio on?
WTF?