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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan: I've Been Dreaming About Kicking Poors Off Medicaid Since I Was a Drunk Frat Boy
Paul Ryan: Ive Been Dreaming About Kicking Poors Off Medicaid Since I Was a Drunk Frat BoyBy Osita Nwanevu
Ryan: So, the health care entitlements are the big, big, big drivers of our debt. There are three. Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare. Two out of three are going through Congress right now. So, Medicaidsending it back to the states, capping its growth rate. Weve been dreaming of this since you and I were drinking out of a keg.
Lowry:I was thinking about something else, he was thinking about reforming Medicaid.
Ryan: I was, I was! Ive been thinking about this for a long time. We are on the cusp of doing something weve long believed in.
When Paul Ryan was doing keg stands with his Delta Tau Delta brothers, Medicaid provided insurance almost exclusively to poor families on welfare, pregnant women, and the low-income elderly and disabled on Supplemental Security Income.
Today, in part due to Obamacares expansion of the program, Medicaid covers more than 73 million struggling Americans. Ryans AHCA gradually ends funding for the Medicaid expansion and allocates Medicaid funding to states based on the number of Medicaid beneficiaries rather than the actual cost of covering them as is currently the case.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 14 million fewer Americans will be covered by the program by 2026 as a result. That number could balloon if the work requirements and block-granting currently being contemplated on the Hill make it into the final bill.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/17/paul_ryan_s_college_dream_was_to_kick_poor_people_off_medicaid.html
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Paul Ryan: I've Been Dreaming About Kicking Poors Off Medicaid Since I Was a Drunk Frat Boy (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Mar 2017
OP
Their orgasmic ecstasy over making poor and working class fellow Americans
workinclasszero
Mar 2017
#2
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. I really just want to rip his face off.
I hate these people for making me hate so much.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Their orgasmic ecstasy over making poor and working class fellow Americans
suffer and die needlessly is the sickest, vile, evil thing about these dirty damned republicans!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)4. He is a sorry SOB...
To do list:
Rip faces off of:
Donald Trump
Paul Ryan
Mitch McConnell
ok, the rest of the Republican party.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. And to think this Sucker got a free ride
Thru School due to one of them Socialist Programs.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)7. Remember. This character has to run for his seat very 2 years.
Surely we can come up with someone who doesn't want to kill off the elderly, disabled and the poor.