http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/12/1392722/-Rep-Sander-Levin-D-MI-schools-willfully-ignorant-Rep-Paul-Ryan-R-OH-over-Obamacare-lies?detail=email
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) had one of his unscheduled Obamacare bashing hearings this week. He continued to misinform with an opening speech that showed that the congressman and his ilk continue to put politics over the well-being of Americans.
Paul Ryan claimed that the answer is to repeal and replace the law. Yet Republicans have had over five years to come up with something different that could reduce the deficit, provide health care, and remain completely private. The reason they cannot is that Obamacare used Republican tenets to build Obamacare, a private-based system.
Had the president implemented Medicare for all (single payer) by getting rid of insurance companies that continue to skim up to 20 percent of premiums for false overhead and profits, they could demagogue and attempt to change it to a more inefficient system. That was the genius of Obamacare. It was built on the Conservative Heritage Foundation principles that most Republicans once supported along with a dose of progressive middle-class protections.
"So whatever the Supreme Court decides later this month," Paul Ryan said, "I think the lesson is absolutely clear. Obamacare is just flat busted. It just doesn't work. And no fix can change that fact."
That statement makes Ryan a liar. There is enough data to prove that statement is a lie. Ryan knows that statement is a lie. The media knows that statement is a lie. Yet very few have made Paul Ryan or Republicans pay for those lies.
Congressman Sander Levin's (D-MI) response was calm and concise. It is easy when you are speaking from a position of truth.
"What's busted is not ACA but your attacks on it, endless attacks," Levin said calmly and deliberately. "Never coming up with a single comprehensive alternative all these year. So you sit as armchair critics while millions of people have insurance who never had it before. Millions of kids have insurance who would not otherwise have had it. People who have preexisting conditions no longer are cancelled or can even get insurance. The donut hole is gone.
Millions of people in lower income categories are now insured through Medicaid, millions and millions and millions. Cost containment is beginning to work. The increase in cost net rate is going down. And so you are livid because it is getting better. That's why you are livid. ... And the states that are denying their citizens further coverage under Medicaid, are essentially telling people, well get lost when it comes to health care. ... And you have a governor, Mr. Chairman, who is running around this country talking about the evils of health care when millions of people are benefiting from what happened. ... Your frustration is millions and millions and millions of people are benefiting, and have health care when they did not before."
President Obama's speech at the Catholic Health Association Conference is well worth watching on this issue. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/08/1391559/-President-Obama-touts-Obamacare-success-as-he-challenges-GOP-Supreme-Court-to-do-the-right-thing
this is what puts us in the proverbial ball of confusion, one side speaks truth the other relentlessly deny it and create pro nouns and adjectives to define their misleading we the Progressive party have failed the people we care about by not being more relentless in rebuking those definitions of something that is historically the most humane action by any President in history making available to so many disenfranchised affordable quality healthcare.
that is something we never hear from the republicans the sub par healthcare system designed to rip you right along with insurance co.'s and the right wing not wanting to assist in keeping their employee's healthy get sick and those politicians fight against sick leave pay as well as the healthcare and still there are millions out there still chomping at the bit to vote for them, they are basically telling their constituents to go to hell and look forward to the trip.
