Paul Ryan: Budget blueprint will promote repealing health care law

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Washington Post

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Sunday that the budget blueprint he plans to unveil later this week will promote repealing President Obama’s signature health care law.

“Yes, our budget does promote repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a better system,” Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Past House Republican efforts to repeal the president’s health care law have failed and the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of law last year.

On Thursday, Ryan lunched at the White House with Obama and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee. Ryan said Sunday that only time will tell how effective the president’s recent outreach to him and other congressional Republicans will be. . .

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/10/paul-ryan-budget-blueprint-will-promote-repealing-health-care-law/

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Of course he says this. Because Ayn Rand continues to command him from the grave.

[randome]

1. So clueless, it boggles the mind.

[marble falls]

2. Why not? No other method has worked. I wish him success on his perpetual motion machine, too....

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is heer to stay. The jury is still out on Eddie Munster.

[OKNancy]

3. He's obviopusly doing this for publicity and to shore up his creds with the

nutty right because this has no chance in hell of passing.

[GoCubsGo]

9. That's for sure.

Only an idiot would believe that the President would sign a bill repealing his one of his signature achievements.

[The Wizard]

4. He and Boner should retire to a bar

and order a double vinegar and water. Two douche bags.

[Charlotte Little]

30. Ha ha ha ha...

[koiwoman53]

5. Give him a high colonic

And send him on a fifty mile hike.

[louis-t]

11. With full pack.

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. Love the references!

[Eatacig]

6. Get a clue

Paul Ryan says he wants to replace ACA with a patient controlled plan. What he
doesn't say is that means the deductible is so high that you control whether you
get health care by whether you can afford to pay cash.

[tridim]

7. Republican assholes don't have to participate in the ACA if they hate it so much.

[BlueStater]

8. Fuck off, Paul. No one likes you.

You couldn't even win your home state for Robme, asshole.

[Turbineguy]

10. Obamacare obviously is not killing enough people for profit.

at least, "a better system" is a sufficiently detailed description for his teabagger base.

[sofa king]

12. Yes/No: Will the Ryan proposal have any actual numbers in it?

Ryan astounded and wowed Republicans by producing a batshit insane budget proposal that had actual numbers in it.

Before that, in 2009, the Republican budget proposal was a 19-page pamphlet with no actual numbers in it.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_budget_proposal_contains_no_numbers_0327.html

Ryan's attempt to appear more professional harmed him greatly last year, when those evil numbers were unceremoniously turned against Ryan and Mitt Romney. They had to lie about what those numbers were, what they meant, and how they would work, which was a lot of effort expended on defending a proposal that was not seriously considered by any legislator, ever (though many voted for it).

So the safe play would be to go back to writing a political platform and making sure to put a blue cover on it so people know it's a "budget."

I think Ryan will produce a modified proposal that offers no substance, but with a handful of numbers so that they cannot again be ridiculed for that.

[mtasselin]

13. Paul

You were born on 3rd base and think you are so smart, well you are not. You are a spoiled asshole who has never worked a day in your life, first of all you have no idea what real work is. Another thing you will never be prez the people in this country know what you are all about, and it is only a matter of time when you will be voted out of the 1st district in Wisconsin they have caught on to you. Have a nice day asshole.

[SoapBox]

14. ROFLMAO

Ditto, ditto, ditto about the Asshole Ryan.

[BobTheSubgenius]

25. Just like W. Born on third base, thinking he hit a triple.

Thrown out stealing second.

[msongs]

15. just answering Obama's call for ever more bipartisan solutions lol nt

[EC]

16. Must of been a very good lunch.

Obama wasted his time with this fool.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. Not fit to be in office

fool

[CBHagman]

18. Some news stories say the budget ASSUMES the law will be repealed...

...in other words, that Ryan's calculations are based on that. But thus far I haven't seen any specifics.

I noticed in one of the stories Ryan is promoting his plan (whatever it is) as "patient-centered health care." Again, there are no details. But given his previous faulty math and his promotion of throwing people on the mercies of the same corporations who were only too happy to take money but not necessarily deliver care (and in fact would cut off patients who actually needed treatment), we can all be forgiven for not being optimistic about the whole exercise.

[blkmusclmachine]

19. Let me guess:

Repeal 90% of the benefits, but keep 90% of the tax.

[ehrnst]

20. Rethugs had their chance from 2001 - 2007. They did SHIT about healthcare.(nt)

[and-justice-for-all]

21. We are still doing this??

It will not be repealed, so shut the hell up Paul Rand and get over it.

[Glimmer of Hope]

22. Lol.

[Gravitycollapse]

23. My first post: Ryan watch your fucking step...

For you, this is a self-righteous crusade.

For millions of Americans, you are putting forth legislation that would deny them health coverage. You are putting their lives at risk.

As someone living without health insurance because of a preexisting condition denial, I can tell you with confidence, do not fuck with me. And do not fuck with my friends. Because you do not even comprehend the kind of hell you will have to endure the moment you make any meaningful attempt to repeal the healthcare overhaul.

I have never liked you. But it was more of a passive dislike. Now I have a real reason to put you on my list of political enemies.

[BobTheSubgenius]

27. Welcome, Gravitycollapse.

Hating on Paul Ryan will not win you any friends around here, though.

Oh, wait. Yes it will.

[Drale]

26. It must really suck to be elected by stupid people

who's want was to repeal "Obamacare". You have to try at least once a week and everyone else in the US hates you more and more everyday and even your own party is starting to get tired of it.

[wandy]

28. "and replacing it with a better system". Right. Nothing. Same thing Teapublicans always offer....

Well, nothing of value that is. Unless, of course, you're into the traditional republican offerings of hate, fear, prejudices, endless war and all that other nasty republicans offer.

2014: Get the vermin out of the house.
End the republican menace.

[ladjf]

29. America has got to wake up to the fact that P. Ryan is dumb, egotistical and mean, a very

bad combination. nt