Ryan Rolled ‘Em

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, during the committee's hearing looking at wa... Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, during the committee's hearing looking at ways to fix the No Child Left Behind law. Alexander said he is open to discussion on whether the federal government should dictate standardized testing or leave it up to states. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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It looks like Paul Ryan and whoever else in the Trump camp and in the Senate who’s in league with him has rolled Sen. Lamar Alexander on signing on to the GOP House’s “repeal and delay” concept. As we’ve discussed “repeal and delay” seems certain to require chaos verging on collapse in the insurance markets or a gargantuan pay-off to insurance companies to tread water until Republicans come up with an idea of what to use to replace Obamacare.

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