"Rather than prove that the GOP can govern, it makes the Republican position on Obamacare look weak." A natural result, you know.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Remember when he was running with Romney & he was asked about his budget plan (I think that was it) and he said he couldn't go into it, it would take too long (on one of the Sunday morning shows, I believe. This man, Ryan, is duplicitous and creepy.
*  Its pretty clear that Ryan wants to take away health care from everyone but the wealthy. And that includes taking it away from senior citizens dependent on Medicare.
*  Ryan, like all Republicans, believes that a good way to cut down on Social Security and Medicare expenses later in life is to not fund good health care and education to children and young adults early in life since that will cause them to die early enough in life that they will not live long enough to collect on their contributions. After all, only the rich and corporations deserve to have any benefits from the government. All others deserve to be treated as badly as possible. Republicans are genetically heartless.
*  Poor people shouldn't die in the gutter due to lack of insurance. All western nations have universal healthcare.
*  You are wrong. They would never approve anything Obama wanted even if it was a cure for cancer. The Medicaid expansion keeps people out of the emergency rooms where care is mostly not paid. That means higher costs for you and me. Poor people still get sick no matter what their circumstance.
*   This is classic Ryan. He disguises his venality in alleged wonkery and 'reason' that either completely distorts the truth or is so asterisk dependent it borders on best being laughable and at worst being criminal. The man's a con artist who relies on legerdemain to propagate his small government agenda. He's actually just as bad as Don the Con with a better temperament. Of course the whole Republican party reflects this. No wonder he's committed to voting for Drumpf. Birds of a feather flock together.
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A shameless deception in Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement plan
By Stephen Stromberg, June 23, 2016

Republicans have tried to sabotage the Affordable Care Act since it passed. Now they are using one of the messes they have made as evidence that they should replace the law.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released an Obamacare replacement plan on Wednesday that, among other things, complains that the ACA leaves people out. In many states, some low-income people are eligible neither for Medicaid, a public health-care program for the poor, nor for Obamacare subsidies, which help those higher up the income scale buy private plans. Ryan’s document rightly points out that this coverage gap is a major failure. Then it blames the gap on “Obamacare’s poor design and incentives.”

This is an outrageous distortion. The coverage gap is not a design glitch. It is the direct result of anti-Obamacare hysteria in Ryan’s party.

After the ACA passed, the Supreme Court ruled that the Medicaid expansion must be optional for states. The terms were so good for state leaders — the federal government promised to pay nearly the whole cost to cover lots of vulnerable people — it seemed inconceivable that any of them would refuse to expand Medicaid within their borders. But this thinking did not account for the anti-Obamacare tantrum the GOP has thrown over the past six years. Nineteen states have refused to expand Medicaid in rote Republican opposition to the ACA.

Obamacare’s drafters did not foresee this irrational turn of events. They expected that people below a certain threshold would be on Medicaid and those above that threshold would be on marketplace subsidies. So they did not offer subsidies to those they thought would be on Medicaid. When Republican states refused to expand Medicaid, they created an eligibility gap hitting millions of people the law’s authors reasonably expected would have coverage.

Republicans had — in fact, have — at least two ways to avoid this result. State GOP leaders could have simply expanded Medicaid in their states, as many observers assumed they would, apparently giving them too much credit. Or Republicans in Congress could have agreed to extend eligibility for marketplace subsidies downward, solving this gross and unnecessary inequity without requiring the states to do a thing. Instead, Republicans chose not only to create the gap, but also to keep it in place. Their continued inaction hurts low-income people in those 19 states. And Ryan has the nerve to complain about it — even to use it as evidence that the ACA is fatally flawed.

Rather than offer a believable alternative to Obamacare, Ryan released a document that not only contains this shameless deception and other claims that warp the reality of the law’s rollout, but also lacks crucial details about how it would reshape the health-care system. Rather than prove that the GOP can govern, it makes the Republican position on Obamacare look weak.
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