Paul Ryan Reacts to Breitbart Audio: ‘This Is Ancient History’

Return medical care to the private sector in a nationwide marketplace.

“The House must halt further action on this irresponsible bill immediately”, Hall said.

“I want to live a life of dignity”, said Griffin. “He continued, “[We’re] working on getting that consensus among our members in the House and the Senate to make sure that we make this the best possible legislation. They want to halt the continuance by the end of the fiscal year. So this is sounding very apocalyptic for Republicans no matter what they do. “Not as many people will get coverage, ‘” he said. We can only hope that Americans don’t get caught up in this unsafe game of chicken the White House is now playing. You will put your Republican majority in the House at risk.

“He had achieved next to nothing in his entire career before becoming speaker, and he’s worked against his party’s presidential nominee and he has lost”, Dobbs said.

That all covers the number of people who would be insured under the AHCA, but the type of people covered would also shift: namely, the people in the individual market would skew younger than they would otherwise.

They have their reasons.

That’s Bloodbath Version No. 1.

“So the question is: Are we providing a system where people have access to health insurance if they choose to do so?” The surge of grassroots energy we’ve seen on the left gains even more momentum. “That’s not going to happen with us”.

“Death panels”, they promised.

Suggesting that this is moving fast, going through four committees, going through regular order, saying we are going to do this for seven years, and now come to the point where we are actually on the cusp of keeping our word, I hardly think that that is rushing things.

The Republican plan replaces income-based subsidies with age-based tax credits, targets the Medicaid expansion, defunds Planned Parenthood and eliminates insurance mandates in favor of a 30 percent penalty imposed by insurance companies for people who let their coverage lapse.

President Trump has not yet responded directly on Twitter to the CBO’s report. That’s the baseline from which Republicans start. One can argue that, in a better world, all legislators would focus single-mindedly on fixing big problems without regard to political consequences.

Some of this policy nightmare could have conceivably been avoided had Republicans not made the mystifying decision to craft their bill behind closed doors. They can only be charged three times more now.

So far, specific numbers on how many Arizonans stand to lose coverage aren’t available.

While Newt Gingrich was excoriating the CBO report, Paul Ryan was celebrating it as though it were the crowning achievement of his career (granted, it’s a career with few actual achievements). They will share their stories and march from Monument Square to Paul Ryan’s office. It’s up to people. “If you’re going to require that an insurer has to provide insurance to everyone, then you have to have a way to get people into the market when they’re healthy. And the answer is yes”.

The audio, first published by Breitbart News late Monday evening, is from an October 10, 2016 conference call Ryan held with House Republicans. He’s saying that when they do, it will only be because they chose to go without it, once they were led into the glorious light of liberty.

“Everybody doesn’t get what they want”. Hey, freedom isn’t free.

ROY BLUNT: Well, I think older lower-income people are the most at jeopardy in any plan.