Paul Ryan: "Obamacare is the law of the land"

[DonViejo]

Paul Ryan: “Obamacare is the law of the land”

An admission that Ryan probably wasn’t expecting just three months into a full Republican government.

Updated by German [e-mail]@vox.com Mar 24, 2017, 5:12pm EDT

It was an admission of defeat that House Speaker Paul Ryan probably didn’t expect to make just three months into a fully Republican government: “Obamacare is the law of the land. … We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, Republicans have been working to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature piece of legislation. The House in particular tried to repeal or otherwise cripple the law — to no avail — literally dozens of times.

Then Republicans captured the White House, on top of already controlling Congress. It was widely believed that this was finally their chance to repeal the health care law they despised so much.

Yet when the time came to pull the trigger, they couldn’t do it. Not even because of Democratic opposition, but because different factions in the Republican Party just weren’t satisfied with the bill that House leadership put forward. More conservative members felt the repeal-and-replace bill didn’t do enough to dismantle Obamacare, while the more moderate members worried that the bill would rip away health insurance from too many Americans. This fracture within the party proved too much, and the American Health Care Act (AHCA) never obtained enough votes to even warrant a vote.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I can only speak for myself, but I am damned grateful to the moderate Republicans for their stand!

They were worried about their constituents' losing Medicaid under this draconian law. Of course, they were also worried about losing votes! But still, their hearts were in the right place.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. We should stop calling it Obamacare

The a holes are now going to do everything they can to mess with it and sabotage it. Then squeal that it was all Obama and Dem fault that it "failed".

the ACA became Trumpcare when Donnie took office.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Salient point - taken.

[Grizzled Ol Granddad]

4. AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT, Paulie What A Cracker!

[RussBLib]

5. 500,000 apply for the ACA in the week after repeal failed

I hope to see that headline, or more! Heck, we're going to try to get onto it now too.

[Skittles]

6. FUCK WITH IT AT YOUR OWN PERIL, ASSHOLE

if it fails now it will be YOUR FAULT

you need to take up the offer from the Dems to WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE ACA

[Cha]

7. flynn jr on ryan..

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