What, older people don’t love freedom, too?
“We believe that we do need to add some additional assistance to people in those older cohorts,” Ryan said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Older cohorts? Who talks like that? What RAyn meant to say is, we’re losing our base…we need to get those old white people back or this bill is gonna kill us at the polls.
What a dope.
Shouldn’t he known that from the beginning
“We believe that we do need to add some additional assistance to people in those older cohorts,” Paul Ryan said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Well, I can cut coupons for cat food and send them to you, if you think that’ll help, Paul. I’m sure Ivanka would love to run a Cat Food Coupon for Our Seniors Program, if you ask her nicely. She’s real smart like that, you know – she once wrote a whole article teaching poor women who apprentice (for no pay) on how to live on a budget.
“Yeah, ok you’re 100% right that my plan screws old people, so here’s some lip service to that, but everything you said is still 100% wrong because I said so. So there.”
Ryan brushed off the CBO’s analysis comparing coverage under Obamacare to coverage under the proposed House plan, arguing that the Affordable Care Act is collapsing. But he said that providing more help for older Americans is “among the things we’re looking at doing.”
The issue is two fold: Paulie doesn’t want to piss off their older base AND they don’t want to kill them off.
Truly altruistic and humanitarian.
TRANSLATION…house members are hearing from “older” voters and none of it is good so they are starting to panic at the thought (which they never believed possible) that losing their jobs and the house majority is becoming a real possibility especially with a president below 40% approval.
the real question is have these “older” voters FINALLY realized that continuing support for republicons is against their interests and that wont change any time soon?
You need a fuckin clue, slick. Your death panel bill is DOA.
Odd, the designers of the ACA had the same epithany. The question is how do you give seniors sufficient assistance at a reasonable cost. There was a big debate but Democrats decided on an individual mandate. The key to understanding the ACA is understanding that medicaid expansion is needed to covering the working poor. Jimmy John is never going to provide health care for his minimum wage workers.
Who put all these senior-harming clauses in my Kill The ACA bill???
We are essentially watching the drafting of the ACA all over again, but this time in the full view of an attentive media and public.
Why not save everybody the trouble and repeal the ACA and immediately pass the same bill calling it whatever you like? Then you can say you kept your promise without taking away health care from anyone.
A dope he is, but he doesn’t come off that way in small-city newspapers. The AP article that covers this story portrays Ryan as a leader concerned about the welfare of “older Americans,” acting in response to the CBO analysis. Apparently working the refs pays off for these jerks. Let’s hope that people read beyond the headlines and see through the smokescreen.
i.e. his compatriots who rely on older voters have just threatened him and now he’s scrambling to amend this so he doesn’t have the daggers out for him.
Let them eat freedom!!
Alt Headline: Serious Person In Serious Trouble
Why do Republicans support the ACA provision that allows parents to provide coverage to their children up to the age of 26? What is it about insurance that it’s viewed by these people as being important up to that age but not so much after that?
Wait a minute…does this person not know what a cohort is? Seems like he’s just blowing smoke.