Speaker Ryan defends CBO estimate the 24M would lose insurance by 2026

“Obviously the major components are staying intact, because this is something we wrote with President Trump, this is something we wrote with the Senate committees”, Ryan told Fox Business. Ryan has been struggling to win over fellow GOP lawmakers, too. The new figures, which estimated that 24 million people would lose insurance over a decade, also appeared to strengthen pockets of conservative resistance to the bill and rattle nerves among rank-and-file Republicans.

A group of about 20 Chicago seniors trudged out into the snow Tuesday morning, bound for Wisconsin and bringing lunch for U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan: some cans of cat food and a bag of dry dog nibbles.

Rep. Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvania Republican and member of the House’s moderate Tuesday Group, signaled another concern among moderates: that conservatives in the GOP conference are exerting vast influence over President Donald Trump and potentially imperiling efforts to reform healthcare at all.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., explains the American Health Care Act, the ObamaCare replacement bill introduced by House Republicans, during a town hall-like press conference on March 9, 2017.

Ryan’s office had no immediate response to the release of the tape.

“I think that Paul Ryan’s selling him a bill of goods that he didn’t explain to the President, and the grassroots doesn’t want what Paul Ryan is selling”, the Kentucky Republican told CNN.

Ryan has, of course, proposed the American Health Care Act, which accomplishes some of the GOP’s campaign goals-like ending the healthcare mandate, for example, and guaranteeing right of free exercise for religious health care workers.

Because Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to move the current bill through Congress, it can’t include provisions that don’t affect spending or revenue, and thus does not mention Congressional health care. If the changes are significant enough to make inroads with one faction, they may well be significant enough to enable the other faction to pick up new defectors.

In the audio, obtained by Breitbart News, Ryan said he was abandoning then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump forever and would never defend him ever again.

The CBO is widely respected but doesn’t have a ideal track record, including estimating that Obamacare would cover more people than it has. “This bill doesn’t repeal Obamacare”, he said. “As written, I do not believe the House bill would pass the Senate”.

The bill would eliminate the tax penalty that pressures people to buy coverage and the federal subsidies that let millions afford it, replacing them with tax credits that are bigger for older people.

Across the Capitol, an increasing number of senators, including Sen. It would cut Medicaid, repeal the law’s tax increases on higher earning Americans and require 30 percent higher premiums for consumers who let coverage lapse.