Cruz has no patience for GOPs Obamacare-lite. Calls them out at CPAC

Posted: Feb 23, 2017

lukewarm replacement plans that would keep most of the disastrous 2009 law in place, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas called out Obamacare-lite replacement plans at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. “There are some Senate Republicans who would like to keep the Obamacare taxes because they want to spend money,” the senator said in a closed-door meeting with reporters at CPAC. “That would be exceptionally foolish.” “I don’t think we should replace one 2,000-page monstrosity with another 2,000-page monstrosity,” Cruz said, in discussion of the current struggle to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “’Replace’ should not entail ‘give me an equally unsustainable government leviathan to replace the one we’ve got right now.’” At the very minimum, the Texas senator said, two of the biggest requirements for an eventual plan are opening up the insurance market across state lines and expanding health savings accounts.... Regardless of the time it actually takes to repeal the onerous health care law, Sen. Ted Cruz said, “What matters is that we honor our promise and get it done.”;