[TakebackGOP]

The article only quotes Ryan.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Comprehensive American Health Care Act

CAHCA

Sen. Cotton is right.
Start over.
Don’t mend it.
End it.

[A CA Guy]

I heard the interview. Ryan did not want to sit in front of FOX cameras with others discussing the bill or changing the bill.

[DoodleDawg]

“No, that’s not an entitlement. Letting people keep more of their own money and doing what they want with it is not an entitlement," Ryan said.

Giving them a government check ahead of time regardless of whether they will have a tax liability or not is an entitlement. It is giving people more money than they pay in taxes.

[Jim Robinson]

Lyin’ Ryan.

[A message]

I’m convinced there is a reason God let 0bama get elected twice.

[arthurus]

Whatever Ryan says about it, it is a stepping stone to Single Payer. If it is not a full repeal with no replace then repeals of other government interference in and manipulation of insurance and medicine it is all headed to Single payer which is what almost all of the politicians want and the Chamber of Commerce wants and even Trump has suggested that SS might be the fair answer. Single Payer does make political campaigns easier in that the medical system becomes the single issue that all elections will be run on. Pols will strive to promise to tweak it this way and that way to get certain voting groups a little ahead in line or a little better treatment as the system loses medical talent. The effect on the economy will be place a lead weight atop it and it can never get going into boom again. What we call recession now will be touted as good times.

We are pretty much doomed to Single Payer after Congress and the Bureaucracy fiddles and tweaks for a couple of years and most people in the economic middle get cut out altogether. The rich can get their medical care from a private and discreet system that sucks up whatever medical talent remains. The poor and the middle will not be allowed alternatives except offshore and passport control may well wall that off, too.

[grania]

EVERYBODY professes to despise Ryan. (except for the other people we despise) Yet, he was elected Speaker...AGAIN. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d suspect that the Invisible Hand gets to choose “our” leaders.

[cableguymn]

If you have to argue it’s not. It is.

[JimRed]

Not entitlements any more than SS an Medicare- you paid for them. To those who pay nothing they ARE entitlements.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”The speaker also argued that the tax credits in the GOP plan aren't an entitlement.
“No, that’s not an entitlement. Letting people keep more of their own money and doing what they want with it is not an entitlement,” Ryan said. “...If you think letting people keep more of their own money and letting them do what they want with it is an entitlement, then you must believe this is Washington’s money.”

Letting people keep more of their own money is called a tax cut or tax deduction not a tax credit.

Earned income tax credits are not ‘letting people keep their own money’, they are giving them other peoples money.

[Arthur McGowan]

There should be no federal health care “plan.” Just federal guarantees of freedom.

[trebb]

Sometimes, having a few dissenting Republicans can be a good thing....

[Mr. K]

this ba$tard is too secure in his seat...

PRIMARY FOR EVERY RINO THAT SUPPORTS THIS POS

SEND TRUMP A MESSAGE TOO if we need to

[MHGinTN]

Paul Ryan is quite an adept liar, so this is not surprising from him.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I have no problem with doing this repeal in 2-3 stages. My problem is with the actual substance of the legislation. What happened to doing away with the individual mandate?

[i_robot73]

“The last thing we want to do is repeal it, and then have replace being filibustered...”

Heaven forbid we’d want THAT to happen. Govt completely out of an area where it has no power nor authority!?

How WILL the People survive? /s

Slimy snake-oil salesman. NEVER following his own promises and rules (going to rush it through in the dead of night).