paul ryan healthcare

a few days ago, paul ryan speaker of the house,the guy that's going to be speaker of the house when the new republican-controlled congressconvenes in january, told fox news bret baier a few days ago that his first order of businessis going to be dismantling obamacare, specifically. paul ryan wants to dismantle not only obamacarebut medicare. during the interview, paul ryan told baierthat obamacare has actually drained the finances of medicare, the whole system is going broke,it's a failure, everything needs to be redone from the bottom up. now, first of all, that's not true. in fact medicare has more money today becauseof obamacare.

experts agree that obamacare has increasedthe solvency of medicare by at least a decade. paul ryan's first point about obamacare weakeningmedicare's finances, absolutely false. here is ryan's plan. according to him, those people who are alreadyenrolled in medicare, don't worry, you get to keep your coverage at first. after that, we're going to let the privateinsurance companies come in, kind of take over, they're going to offer you differentplans that cover different things, it's basically going to be a cash for play thing, which iswhat regular health insurance is, and the private industry is going to handle it justso much better than the federal government

ever could. furthermore, those people who are not yeton medicare but will be some day, don't worry because you'll be able to just buy healthinsurance, and the government is going to give you some kind of subsidy to help coverit, which really doesn't do very much considering the fact that the subsidies come in the formof tax rebate, so you've got to wait a full year before you ever get that money back,and you are always going to be one year behind. doesn't work that way paul ryan. we have a system in place, is it perfect? hell no.

does it work? hell yes. there is no reason to dismantle medicare. it's not going to save you any money, allit's going to do is put more money in the pockets of the private health insurance industrythat's already raping consumers left and right all over this country. those are the same people who fill your campaigncoffers paul ryan, the same people who fund your campaigns, the same people who help makeyou speaker of the house. that's why you're doing this.

don't try to sell this to american citizensas part of your, "a better way," plan that you've been rolling out for the last six months. that's total nonsense. you are doing this to repay the people thatput you in the office, that allowed you to keep your seat, that made you speaker of thehouse. this is ridiculous, you're going to screwover and potentially kill american citizens who will not be able to afford that privatehealth insurance. or they're going to be rejected because ofsome kind of preexisting condition. considering the fact that all of them aregoing to be aged 65 and older, it will be

damn near impossible for them to enter theprivate market and buy health insurance. but hey, that's okay with you paul ryan, right,because you're still going to get that campaign money whether or not people live or die. it all works out for you in the end.