http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/paul-ryans-plan-undermine-obamacare
While everyone was looking at the Planned Parenthood hearing debacle, House Republicans once again moved a bill forward to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the umpty-zillionth time.
But that's all show. All of it. The Planned Parenthood monkey court, the public vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, all of it. Just a show.
Don't mistake their carnival barking for harmless base-feeding, however. Paul Ryan has a plan to kill Obamacare by a thousand cuts.
Using a method called “reconciliation” that allows tax-related measures to be fast-tracked to the president’s desk, GOP lawmakers can dodge the Senate by slashing the budgetary pieces of Obamacare. This complicated workaround wouldn’t repeal Obamacare outright. However, it would eliminate the central policy that the Affordable Care Act is founded on: The individual mandate that requires Americans to purchase health insurance, which was ruled a “tax” when it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012.
“By tearing down many of the worst parts of the law — like forcing people to buy insurance only to later tax them for it — we could stop Obamacare in its tracks and start working toward a more affordable, higher-quality, patient-centered system,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said on Tuesday.
Currently, 27 million Americans remain without health insurance, even with Obamacare’s major provisions in effect. Repealing the law’s individual mandate would effectively increase the number of uninsured to 41 million by 2025, according to a previous analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO also projects that getting rid of the mandate would increase health care premiums in the individual market by 20 percent.
The measure, which passed the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, would also roll back other policies included in the ACA, like its employer mandate and its controversial “Cadillac” tax on high-cost health plans.
Obama will veto this bill as soon as it reaches his desk. But this doesn’t kill the long-term potential for the strategy. If the GOP is able to unite around reconciliation, it could be a blueprint for dismantling Obamacare if a Republican takes the White House in 2016.
his career is dead he thinks that if he can pull off the dissection of ObamaCares he'll get his swagger and bragging rights back but how many of the currently insured and insurance companies will think it's a good idea they would lose thousands of customers and going back to gouging would be harder because the spotlight would be on them but the more egregious thing is the millions who go back to being uninsured where then they would try to initiate Lyin' Ryans voucher plan which has been their only totally rebuked replacement.
the number of those too under informed to realize that they are the ones who would lose wake up your party ain't the kind of party you think taking aim at you should be your first clue.
