GOP Plan is Unsustainable

RyanCare fails to repeal Obamacare.by Ken Cuccinelli II, Senate Conservatives Action, 3/7/17

Fellow Conservative:

The new health care bill written by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been released, but it does not repeal Obamacare.

Of course, GOP leaders are calling it "repeal" in the hopes that they can trick the voters long enough to pass it. Then, when the dust settles and Americans learn the truth, it will be too late.

The truth is that RyanCare keeps Obamacare's most expensive coverage mandates, it keeps much of Obamacare's costly Medicaid expansion, it continues to impose penalties on people who don't keep their coverage, and it continues to provide government subsidies using a new entitlement program.

Between the regulatory structure, the Medicaid expansion, and the subsidies, RyanCare is Obamacare 2.0.

Republicans campaigned on full repeal and they even put a clean repeal bill on President Obama's desk in 2015. But now that the election is over and they are writing the bill they really want, they have abandoned repeal and are only making minor changes to the law.

THIS is why Americans are so upset with Washington!

The sad, but unavoidable, fact is that RyanCare will not lower costs and improve access to health coverage, but it will cause Republicans to own the disaster that follows.

TAKE ACTION

Conservatives in the House and Senate know that RyanCare is fundamentally flawed and breaks the promises Republicans made to the voters, but they are going to come under intense pressure from GOP leaders to compromise their principles.

The establishment wants them to give up the chance to pass the right policies in exchange for an immediate, yet hollow victory.

Please call the House and Senate members listed below and urge them to oppose RyanCare and to insist on full repeal of Obamacare, which was passed in 2015 and promised to the voters.

Since this bill is being passed under budget reconciliation, Republicans can pass it with a simple majority in the Senate. The same repeal bill Republicans passed in 2015 can be passed now.

Encourage the lawmakers listed below to hold strong and to keep their promise to truly repeal Obamacare. While the establishment may accuse them of blocking repeal, that is a flat-out lie.

Also, remind them that they will never regret doing the right thing, but they will regret passing this bill that continues Obamacare and its failed health care policies forever. The voters gave them the ability to repeal this terrible law and now they need to deliver.

If we can get 20 to 25 Republicans in the House and 3 to 5 Republicans in Senate to hold firm, GOP leaders will be forced to scrap RyanCare and pass the repeal bill they promised.

Finally, please don't get discouraged. The GOP establishment has always been bad on Obamacare and the grassroots have always had to force them to support repeal. That hasn't changed. We have succeeded in keeping them committed to repeal in the past and we can do it again now.

Thank you for standing strong for freedom and for doing so much to fight for our country's future.

Sincerely, Ken Cuccinelli II President, Senate Conservatives Action

Comments

RyanCare needs to be amended to begin to cut the $338 billion we spend each year on illegal aliens, refugees and other immigrants.  We also need to limit EIC tax credits to those who live under our roof .and end the Illegal alien scam in EIC where they claim 30 cousins who live in Mexico.

We need to stop admitting more unemployed illegal aliens and refugees and stop adding recipients to US welfare programs.  Until we cut them off, they will not stop coming. We need to reduce the incentives to migrants who don’t support themselves.  Legal immigrants can and should pay for their own healthcare and insurance through employer plans.

Then we could simply offer Medicaid to Obamacare victims and have all the unretired, poor and sick in one plan block granted to the States to manage.

In 1965 the Insurance companies didn’t want to offer health insurance to the retired and didn’t want to offer health insurance to the poor, so Lyndon Johnson shifted the cost to the taxpayers by creating Medicare and Medicaid.  Now the insurance companies want the government to continue to subsidize the really sick and poor who don’t qualify for the other government paid programs, but they want to stay in the revenue stream.

Rand Paul is right. We need to offer Medicaid to the really sick and poor who are now covered by Obamacare and then begin to reduce the cost of medical care across the board.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader