Senator Cruz is hated by 35-40 of his RINO colleagues in the US Senate for being an actual constitutional conservative who is willing to fight for what is right. We have 2 constitutional conservatives in the Republican caucus of the Senate with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee while the Democrats have 51 Marxists (this number will probably be going down some since Democrats in 2024 have their worst Senate map ever). Senator Cruz to this day is the only US Senator to say the words "Soros DA" and "Soros judges" in a committee hearing and on the floor of the Senate. He brought them up hundreds of times especially during 2022 which was the year with the highest homicide rate in 30 years.

What are your premiums right now? What are your copays right now? What are your out of pocket maximums right now? How is the quality of your health insurance coverage now? What is your coverage level right now?

How was it before Obamacare was implemented?

Looking back at that video from eleven years ago it is amazing how right Senator Cruz was.

In the most recent poll by the University of Texas, Allred is down by 13 points. If you look at his new commercials he is pretending to be a Republican. Allred has voted with Biden 100 percent of the time. Go look up Allred's voting record. He knows he is getting destroyed in the polls so he is going to pretend to be a moderate. Allred is for defunding the police and fully open borders:

https://texasscorecard.com/federal/us-rep-colin-allred-sends-1-million-in-taxpayer-funds-to-group-teaching-racial-equity/

https://texasscorecard.com/federal/us-rep-colin-allred-said-his-generation-will-tear-down-the-border-wall/

Polls: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2024/texas/

Yup

"Abortion for all!" WASNT working any better for him than it did for Wendy Davis so now he's pretending to be a moderate Republican who is tough on the border and "stood up to Biden" which is a flat out lie

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What are your premiums right now? What are your copays right now? What are your out of pocket maximums right now? How is the quality of your health insurance coverage now? What is your coverage level right now?

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I'm not trying to minimize how bad the Affordable Care Act is, but Americans are getting more unhealthy by the minute and that is the primary driver of premiums. The ones that aren't are costing $15,000/yr so a GLP-1 can keep a fork out of their mouth.

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What are your premiums right now? What are your copays right now? What are your out of pocket maximums right now? How is the quality of your health insurance coverage now? What is your coverage level right now?

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I'm not trying to minimize how bad the Affordable Care Act is, but Americans are getting more unhealthy by the minute and that is the primary driver of premiums. The ones that aren't are costing $15,000/yr so a GLP-1 can keep a fork out of their mouth.

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That's cheaper than heart disease, diabetes and the 100's of other ailments obesity brings....but the point stands. The unhealthy need to pay their fair share (where have I heard that before?)

Is Cruz actually gonna campaign this time? That is why it was unnecessarily close with Beto last time because Cruz didn't start trying until Sept before election

If I recall correctly, Obamacare offered to pay the increased costs for the first 3 years for the states that expanded Medicaid and put more people on the program . After that 3 year period then the bill for the expansion fell onto the states. I believe Texas and about +20 other states declined to expand their programs.

That was simply wise and responsible financial management by the states that declined to expand their Medicaid rolls. It was a absolute budget buster for the states that did expand their programs. It is beyond me why any state would have been so irresponsible as to have done this.

So many states elect absolute trash to public office that have zero interest in doing what is financially responsible for their state or for the country.

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What are your premiums right now? What are your copays right now? What are your out of pocket maximums right now? How is the quality of your health insurance coverage now? What is your coverage level right now?

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I'm not trying to minimize how bad the Affordable Care Act is, but Americans are getting more unhealthy by the minute and that is the primary driver of premiums. The ones that aren't are costing $15,000/yr so a GLP-1 can keep a fork out of their mouth.

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That's not the primary driver. Insurance carriers have their profit margins capped. It's the most idiotic thing in the world. The only way to increase returns is to charge more money. And for every additional dollar brought in, they have to spend 85 cents of it. Of course health services cost more. The insurance companies are incentivized to pay more.

Obamacare was going to fix everything. The Do-gooders were convinced they'd done so much good. Anyone with a brain (a conservative) knew government getting involved in healthcare would be bad.

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That's cheaper than heart disease, diabetes and the 100's of other ailments obesity brings....but the point stands. The unhealthy need to pay their fair share (where have I heard that before?)

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That is exactly right. When the "cheapest" option is $15,000/yr it's a significant problem. Healthy people have been floating the cost of unhealthy for far too long. Health insurance should be tied to risk

Conservatives aren't going to like this, but we also spend far too much money on end of life care. I'm not talking about people of sound mind, but extending care when the soul is already gone.

DebacleCare needs repealed. As does Medicare, MedicAid and all of the other market interference by government that has caused the mess we're in.

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What are your premiums right now? What are your copays right now? What are your out of pocket maximums right now? How is the quality of your health insurance coverage now? What is your coverage level right now?

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I'm not trying to minimize how bad the Affordable Care Act is, but Americans are getting more unhealthy by the minute and that is the primary driver of premiums. The ones that aren't are costing $15,000/yr so a GLP-1 can keep a fork out of their mouth.

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The primary driver of increased premiums and healthcare costs has been and continues to be Medicare since it's inception in 1965.

Each additonal form of interference by state and the federal government exacerbates costs.

I just saw an Allred commercial yesterday where he talks about making greedy corporations pay more taxes. Sounded incredibly liberal to me. Glad to hear he's down 13%. If that result holds it'll confirm the suspicions that Beto was an outlier due his appeal to young voters.

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That's cheaper than heart disease, diabetes and the 100's of other ailments obesity brings....but the point stands. The unhealthy need to pay their fair share (where have I heard that before?)

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That is exactly right. When the "cheapest" option is $15,000/yr it's a significant problem. Healthy people have been floating the cost of unhealthy for far too long. Health insurance should be tied to risk

Conservatives aren't going to like this, but we also spend far too much money on end of life care. I'm not talking about people of sound mind, but extending care when the soul is already gone.

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As I'm now in my mid-forties and unfortunately divorced, this has become such a weight on my shoulders that I don't know what I'm going to do when I get old and sick. I have three daughters that are on their way to great things and I'll be damned if they'll put that on hold to care for their sick father instead of living their lives. I now understand why Joe Pesci in With Honors (90's film) tried to get out of the car and run off to the woods to die by himself when he realized his end was near.

You're splitting hairs. Medicare costs are soaring because people are unhealthy and are on Medicare. At least 60% and some estimates as high as 80% of healthcare dollars are spent on lifestyle diseases and disorders. Saying that's not the root of the problem with healthcare costs is simply and factually incorrect.

If healthcare costs were risk based, health insurance for healthy individuals would be minimal and unhealthy people wouldn't be able to afford premiums and would either have to get healthy or die the death they brought on themselves much sooner. Unfortunately their vote counts as much as mine and they outnumber the healthy so we'll just keep moving to a socialized model

Again, Medicare is the leading driver of healthcare costs.

Many states elect people that have zero interest in doing what is financially responsible for their state.