http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/20/1372233/-Paul-Ryan-Oh-God-no-states-shouldn-t-take-action-to-preserve-health-nbsp-insurance?detail=email
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Sociopath.
If the Supreme Court strikes down subsidies to states using the federal health insurance exchanges, Rep. Paul Ryan was asked, should they set up their own exchanges to prevent people from losing their insurance?
"Oh God, no…The last thing anybody in my opinion would want to do, even if you are not a conservative, is consign your state to this law," the Wisconsin Republican told state legislators Thursday during a conference call organized by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative think-tank. The foundation provided a recording of the call. […]
Mr. Ryan, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012, asked the state legislators to hold firm and promised them congressional Republicans would have alternative health-care legislation—with an official cost estimate—introduced by June 20. The bill, he said, would revive lower-cost, limited coverage insurance plans in states that didn't want their own exchanges. Currently, 37 states use HealthCare.gov.
"If people blink and if people say this political pressure is too great, I'm just going to sign up for a state-based exchange and put my constituents in Obamacare, then this opportunity will slip through your fingers," he said.
And if you really believe congressional Republicans are going to have a bill by June 20—and that they could actually pass that bill? Well, he's got a bridge he'd like to sell you, too. Ryan told the legislators that he had talked to the plaintiffs' lawyer in the case—Michael Carvin—who told him he was convinced that the court would strike down the subsidies and that "Justice Samuel Alito, in particular, was likely to ensure any decision voiding the credits would have a delayed effect," giving Republicans time to produce a unicorn replacement plan.
By the way, what Republicans in Congress are most enthusiastic about, Ryan told the group, is "allowing states to strip some of the health law’s requirements that insurance plans must provide certain minimum benefits and a requirement that insurers sell to all customers equally regardless of their medical history." In other words, returning to the pre-Obamacare status quo. Helluva plan you got there, Mr. Ryan.
okay known fact along with Romnety Ryan lied his way through 2012 cycle now he's invoking God as being complicit with the republican agenda to deny you ACA under ObamaCares. this is the real deal when we've heard them talk about returning states rights it is to give them in those red states the ability to screw it's people till the cows come home over anything that is not profiting them or their benefactors the rich. look at what red states are doing to it's taxpaying citizens governing with bigotry and racist ideals, right to vote. denying all things that Pres. made possible and keeping with the mantra "all men are created equal", in their states except other races and gays and liberals and anything not hateful and discriminative.
oh did i mention he authored the previously rebuked voucher plan instead of ACA, giving people a pittance to buy their own nsurance was a contrivance to kill that same plan knowing that many would default or spend money elsewhere than they can say it's the peoples fault it didn't work, that is like throwing an Obama lie at the feet of a republican instead of rebuking they would sell it they too would not do what is intended.
