PAUL RYAN LETS THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG - By Charles P. Pierce
Finally ... finally someone speaking on behalf of the beleaguered insurance industry.
PAUL RYAN LETS THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
By Charles P. Pierce on April 4, 2014
Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from Wisconsin and First Runner-Up in our most recent Vice Presidential Pageant, apparently will set the kitty free from the burlap during an upcoming interview with Al Hunt on the Bloomberg teevee channel.
The former GOP vice presidential nominee was asked on Bloomberg's "Political Capital with Al Hunt" about whether Republicans would keep provisions like requiring coverage for pre-existing conditions, keeping kids on their parents' insurance until they are 26 years old and barring insurance companies from having different rates for those whose jobs include physical labor. The first two provisions are among the most popular parts of Obamacare, which as a whole is not popular. But Ryan says such provisions would also drive up the cost of insurance too much. "If you look at these kinds of reforms, where they've been tried before - say the state of Kentucky, for example - you basically make it impossible to underwrite insurance," Ryan said, according to an advance transcript. "You dramatically crank up the cost. And you make it hard for people to get affordable health care."
He really doesn't know what he's talking about. He hasn't had to live in the real world away from the government trough for 10 minutes since he entered high school. Biggest fake in American politics.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-obamacare-repeal-040414
updated to add this graph:
http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budget-gets-69-percent-of-its-cuts-from-low-income-programs/