Paul Ryan's Sickening Obamacare Replacement
After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that's guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick.
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After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that's guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick.
After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that's guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick.
One week ago, Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans released their replacement plan for Obamacare. Well, sort of. Republicans have voted more than 60 times to repeal health care reform without offering a real replacement. They've had more than six years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to come up with a detailed, comprehensive alternative that can match the ACA's accomplishments. Instead, Republicans have offered an amalgam of the same old ideas they've been batting around for years -- including some that have already failed -- with some extra twists to make them even worse.
The 37-page document, titled "A Better Way: Our Vision For A Confident America," is short on details, and fails to answer one very important question: How much will it cost?
There's no legislation attached to the Republican plan either. That's probably more by design than chance. As House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pointed out, "It's not a bill. It isn't scored." At a roundtable with reporters, Pelosi said, "Maybe when they ever decide to write legislation, they'll get a score on how much it's going to cost, how many people will lose coverage, and we can make a judgement about it." Writing legislation would require Republicans to supply important details, like how many people their plan will cover, and how much it will cost. That's something Republicans are unlikely to do, because their plan will cover far fewer people, and at considerable cost to American families.
The rest of the Ryan/Republican plan to replace Obamacare is simply the same ideas conservatives have been half-heartedly kicking around since health care reform passed.
Republicans still want to repeal Obamacare for the same reason that the majority of Americans oppose repeal. It's working.
Despite its imperfections, health care reform is working. Most Americans want to improve upon its imperfections, and not repeal the law and reverse its benefits. If it's to be replaced, a Gallup poll conducted in May of this year found that 58 percent of Americans favor replacing the ACA with a federally funded program that provides insurance to all Americans. That's a far cry from what Paul Ryan and House Republican's propose: a hodgepodge of old, stale, failed ideas that guarantee millions of Americans will go back to being sick and uninsured.
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After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that's guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick.
One week ago, Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans released their replacement plan for Obamacare. Well, sort of. Republicans have voted more than 60 times to repeal health care reform without offering a real replacement. They've had more than six years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to come up with a detailed, comprehensive alternative that can match the ACA's accomplishments. Instead, Republicans have offered an amalgam of the same old ideas they've been batting around for years -- including some that have already failed -- with some extra twists to make them even worse.
The 37-page document, titled "A Better Way: Our Vision For A Confident America," is short on details, and fails to answer one very important question: How much will it cost?
There's no legislation attached to the Republican plan either. That's probably more by design than chance. As House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pointed out, "It's not a bill. It isn't scored." At a roundtable with reporters, Pelosi said, "Maybe when they ever decide to write legislation, they'll get a score on how much it's going to cost, how many people will lose coverage, and we can make a judgement about it." Writing legislation would require Republicans to supply important details, like how many people their plan will cover, and how much it will cost. That's something Republicans are unlikely to do, because their plan will cover far fewer people, and at considerable cost to American families.
The rest of the Ryan/Republican plan to replace Obamacare is simply the same ideas conservatives have been half-heartedly kicking around since health care reform passed.
Republicans still want to repeal Obamacare for the same reason that the majority of Americans oppose repeal. It's working.
Despite its imperfections, health care reform is working. Most Americans want to improve upon its imperfections, and not repeal the law and reverse its benefits. If it's to be replaced, a Gallup poll conducted in May of this year found that 58 percent of Americans favor replacing the ACA with a federally funded program that provides insurance to all Americans. That's a far cry from what Paul Ryan and House Republican's propose: a hodgepodge of old, stale, failed ideas that guarantee millions of Americans will go back to being sick and uninsured.
After six years, and more than 60 votes to repeal health care reform, Paul Ryan and House Republicans have come up with a GOP alternative to Obamacare that's guaranteed to make millions of Americans sick.
One week ago, Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans released their replacement plan for Obamacare. Well, sort of. Republicans have voted more than 60 times to repeal health care reform without offering a real replacement. They've had more than six years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to come up with a detailed, comprehensive alternative that can match the ACA's accomplishments. Instead, Republicans have offered an amalgam of the same old ideas they've been batting around for years -- including some that have already failed -- with some extra twists to make them even worse.
The 37-page document, titled "A Better Way: Our Vision For A Confident America," is short on details, and fails to answer one very important question: How much will it cost?
There's no legislation attached to the Republican plan either. That's probably more by design than chance. As House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pointed out, "It's not a bill. It isn't scored." At a roundtable with reporters, Pelosi said, "Maybe when they ever decide to write legislation, they'll get a score on how much it's going to cost, how many people will lose coverage, and we can make a judgement about it." Writing legislation would require Republicans to supply important details, like how many people their plan will cover, and how much it will cost. That's something Republicans are unlikely to do, because their plan will cover far fewer people, and at considerable cost to American families.
The rest of the Ryan/Republican plan to replace Obamacare is simply the same ideas conservatives have been half-heartedly kicking around since health care reform passed.
Republicans still want to repeal Obamacare for the same reason that the majority of Americans oppose repeal. It's working.
Despite its imperfections, health care reform is working. Most Americans want to improve upon its imperfections, and not repeal the law and reverse its benefits. If it's to be replaced, a Gallup poll conducted in May of this year found that 58 percent of Americans favor replacing the ACA with a federally funded program that provides insurance to all Americans. That's a far cry from what Paul Ryan and House Republican's propose: a hodgepodge of old, stale, failed ideas that guarantee millions of Americans will go back to being sick and uninsured.