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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan: Budget Deal Will Allow House To Focus More On Obamacare Repeal
Not surprising, except may be for the media.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/15/3066991/paul-ryan-budget-deal-obamacare/
On NBCs Meet the Press Sunday, House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) extolled their bipartisan budget deal, which will spare the nation from more government shutdowns over the next two years. But Ryan also suggested that it will help the House GOPs never-ending attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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The unsuccessful 2012 vice presidential nominee then argued that this budget deal will allow the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to focus more on getting rid of Obamacare:
RYAN: On our side of the aisle, we like the fact for the economy, no shutdowns. We also dont want to have shutdown drama so we can focus on replacing Obamacare, so we can focus on showing better ideas and what this is coming in. Cause we dont think people like this law and we dont think its gonna get any more popular. We dont agree on this. So each of us gets something out of this that we think is good.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)How do these dumb asses get through college?
Mass
(27,315 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)is devoted to repealing the ACA it stupid beyond reason. Our tax payers dollars are being wasted on these morons. And they are supposed to be working for us. Utter bs
CrispyQ
(36,236 posts)"so we can focus on showing better ideas and what this is coming in." He's sounding a bit like Palin there.
Every time I see that little shit I just want to smack the smugness off his face.
Skink
(10,122 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)7 million people get covered, almost every American has a family member of close friend who is helped by the ACA, Americans discover there are no death panels, and health costs continue to moderate.
Please proceed, Congressman Ryan.
Democrats should be taking the initiative with a strong message like "The ACA is helping millions of Americans, and brings us badaly needed reforms to an industry that makes up a full one-fifth of our economy. We are already seeing major changes for the good, specifically: ..... But we have also seen some continued abuses and some things that are not working well enough under the new law. So Democrats are moving forward with these improvements to the ACA: ..."
It is important to actually identify real improvements that Americans can understand, or at least, identify specific trouble stops and invite the Republicans to engage in constructive solutions to those areas and ONLY to those areas.
To me, the big trouble spots are:
1) The Medicaid gap
2) The extremes in pricing around the country. We have markets where there is clear and obvious price-fixing going on, where the cartels have decided to carve up markets from monopoly pricing and other such abuses.
The best solution, IMHO, is to allow Medicare to offer policies at their cost in the markets that are not working. I doubt that has any chance of working, and the Republicans would use that as a "big government" argument in the 2014 election. A different way to get to tat problem is to recognize that in the markets where there isn't much competition, that is probably because the states are protecting the big insurers by blocking other competition.
So another way to hit this problem would be to have big financial penalties for any states that don't have real competition. If a state's exchange prices come in more than 20% above the national average, then it should cost that state serious money.
Another angle of attack is to make sure the 80% rule (that 80% of premiums must go to actual health care) is applies at the local market level, not averaged across the whole insurance company's pool. IN other words, a company shouldn't be able to make 30% in Indiana where there is little competition and average that against a 15% margin in California to avoid paying rebates.
The point is to go on offense with real proposals.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Blue Owl
(49,939 posts)Show the nation how truly stupid a republican man can really be...
treestar
(82,383 posts)Thank the stars he is not the Veep.
Mass
(27,315 posts)Lyan makes the Orangeman look reasonable.