Doesn’t this guy know his party leader STILL wants to get rid of the nations healthcare system?
WTF did he keep voting against the program?
Why has he changed his mind?
Could it have something to do with him up for re-election come November?
After voting more than a dozen times to repeal the Affordable Care Act and leading Senate Republican efforts to dismantle it, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday that the “good news” is that people can sign up for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if they’ve lost their jobs and need health insurance amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“The good news is that if you lose your employer-provided coverage, which covers about a 180 million Americans, that is a significant life event, which makes you then eligible to sign up for the Affordable Care Act,” Cornyn said in a PBS Austin interview. “As you know, it has a sliding scale of subsidies up to 400% of poverty. So that’s an option for people.”
Here’s a video of the interview. His ACA comments are around the 6-minute mark.
It’s quite a change of tune for Cornyn, who voted to repeal or defund the ACA (or to move forward with bills to do so) here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.
Cornyn’s job was to secure the votes to repeal the ACA in 2017 when he was the Senate GOP Whip, the third-highest-ranking Republican. He spoke confidently for months about having the votes to do it. But the bill ultimately failed at the hands of Senate Democrats and three Republicans….
Like I continue to say…
Conservatism is bunk.”
They don’t believe in anything.Just hate “libruls,l hate the media, and cling to power for powers sake.
And oh yes blind support of POS whose whole career and personality mocks all these “ values” they profess to believe.
Still waiting on that Republican alternative to the ACA.
Guess I’ll be waiting awhile if a GOP Senator running for reelection in Texas is touting it,
It ain’t coming we’d guess , eh Scott?
Typical Trump stupidity