Posted on 06/28/2015 3:34:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Today, after more than 50 votes in Congress to repeal or weaken this law, after a presidential election based in part on preserving or repealing this law, after multiple challenges to this law before the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act is here to say,” President Obama said on Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld the state subsidies provision in the Affordable Care Act. In other words, time for Republicans to give up the fight against the health law.
But appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, Rep. Paul Ryan seemed unfazed.
Ryan said the current law is not fixable, and, citing the rationing of Medicare, denial of choice, double-digit annual increases in premiums, and the consolidation of insurance companies, he argued that the country won’t stand for it.
“This law’s going to collapse under its own weight,” he said. “I am as motivated as ever before to repeal and replace this law, and that’s what we’re working on.”
Ryan told host John Dickerson that, despite media reports to the contrary, the GOP has plenty of ideas for legitimate replacements to the law, something that he plans to move forward on in 2017 if a Republican is elected president.
“There are a number of alternative ObamaCare bills out there right now, in Congress. So I just disagree with that notion,” said Paul, who was the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012.
“In 2016, we need to show the country what exactly we would replace this law with, so that when we win the election in 2016, we will have the ability to do it in 2017,” he continued, encouraging GOP presidential candidates to talk at length about what they want to do to replace ObamaCare with a system that works better.
As of early June, support for the law stood at a mere 39 percent, which ties an all-time low, last hit in April of 2012.
meaning: “I’m giving up, but keep voting for me.”
They just fully funded it.
Even Larry Kudlow is in favor of “using the power of purse” to get rid of it.
Do these backstabbers have a clue about how fed up we are?
Oh please! Didn’t anybody tell you that BS argument went out the window in the first week!
Shut up, Paul. Just shut the **** up.
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He’s not giving up funding it, to be sure. And watch him push for single payer when it “collapses” under the “weight” he helped pile on top of it.
Ryan is a pathetic RINO weasel of the worst sort but I also believe Obamacare is too expensive and will collapse.
And we should listen to anything Reprehensible Ryan says because...
Bozo.
Repeal
and do NOT replace.
The idiot would have said the same about Social Security, Medicare when they were passed.
Wisconsin voters: please eliminate this guy in the state as we did on the national scene.
Agreed. Both can be true at once.
Lyin Ryan
The government will prop it up you fool..
Hey Congressman Ryan - the country has already told you we don't stand for it, but you and your Bohner-buttbuddies continue to fund it when you promised you wouldn't: You LIE!
Ryan is a pathetic RINO weasel of the worst sort but I also believe Obamacare is too expensive and will collapse.
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Agreed on both counts. The problem is if SCOTUScare collapses, it will likely take the country with it.
The Constitution is gone. It may have saved us, but it is gone.
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