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kpete

(71,988 posts)
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 09:18 AM Mar 2017

Rude Pundit Give Ryan a Tutorial on How Insurance Works:

Paul Ryan: "Did You Know Insurance Works Like Insurance?"
Blithering ass pimple Paul Ryan, a man who looks like he's perpetually contemplating how he can get away with getting fucked by a horse dick, said one of the stupidest things anyone in politics has said recently, and that's even counting every word out of Donald Trump's dumb, leathery, old man mouth. Using the filmstrip of the damned that is PowerPoint, Ryan attempted to explain what is so bad about the Affordable Care Act's insurance mandate, and, in doing so, demonstrated that you can make anything seem sinister with a colorful pie chart.

"The fatal conceit of Obamacare is that we’re just gonna make everybody buy our health insurance at the federal government level. Young and healthy people are going to go into the market and pay for the older, sicker people. So the young, healthy person’s going to be made to buy healthcare, and they’re gonna pay for the person, you know, who gets breast cancer in her 40s, or gets heart disease in his 50s," Ryan said.

You following that so far? Now let's have some motherfuckin' pie: "So take a look at this chart. The red slice here are what I would call people with pre-existing conditions, people who have real healthcare problems. The blue is the rest of the people in the individual market, that’s the market where people don’t get health insurance with their jobs, or they buy it themselves. [For the record, the blue is about 80% of the pie] The whole idea of Obamacare is the people in the blue side pay for the people on the red side. The people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick. It’s not working, and that’s why it’s in a death spiral."

In other words, the insurance works, well, just like fuckin' insurance works. Exactly like insurance works. Every kind of insurance. Your car insurance? Homeowner's? Yep. But, hell, let's put insurance aside for a moment.




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The Rest:

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/03/paul-ryan-did-you-know-insurance-works.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-insurance-twitter_us_58c210b5e4b0ed71826b85e7?d5h2r0lnbud81714i&

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Rude Pundit Give Ryan a Tutorial on How Insurance Works: (Original Post) kpete Mar 2017 OP
Fun read, but reality is the Ryan/Koch types intend to destroy it. Hortensis Mar 2017 #1

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. Fun read, but reality is the Ryan/Koch types intend to destroy it.
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 09:26 AM
Mar 2017

The worse this first stage of destruction works, as long as they can fool people into accepting it, the sooner they will be able to finish the job.

Itm, this "reform" is also designed to cut into and defund Medicare, also planned for destruction.

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