Paul Ryan Repeatedly Declines To Detail GOP Plan For O-care Subsidies (VIDEO)

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As “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace peppered Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) with questions about the Republican plan to address a potential Supreme Court ruling against Affordable Care Act subsidies, the congressman repeatedly refused to explain the party’s solution.

“We will have an answer. We will have a solution,” Ryan, the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, responded when first asked if Republicans have a fix. “We don’t want people to fall victim because of this bad law.”

Wallace then asked specifically whether the GOP plan would make sure that all Americans with subsidies could keep them.

Ryan said he would not go into details because congressional Republicans want to see the “nature of the ruling.”

He then refused to answer whether Republicans would include in their fix a provision to eliminate the individual mandate.

Wallace later reminded Ryan that the GOP has yet to propose an alternative to the Affordable Care Act.

“For all the complaints, Congressman, we’re five years into Obamacare and Republicans have still not come up with a coherent plan that will ensure that all of those millions of uninsured people get coverage,” Wallace said.

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  1. Dog, I wish we could come up with a Plan B that would abort these Republicans. That, I am certain, would be covered under ObamaCare!

  2. The GOP’s plan for everything is always exactly the same. Shred the social safety net, and give huge tax breaks to corporation’s and the one percent.

    It’s the only known cure for everything from herpes to male pattern baldness

  3. Avatar for korvu korvu says:

    There is now a name for that: a “full Kansas.” Cut taxes, blow hole in budget, cut school spending, then raise taxes on middle class with a consumption tax."

  4. Their plan is they have no plan.

  5. I keep asking this question… how did Paul Ryan become the budget and numbers guy? is it because when he adds 1+1 and gets 3 its closer than all the other math challenged Republicans?

    one more thing… when did Chris Wallace grow enough spine to actually ask these clown the hard questions and then press them with follow ups when they try to evade an answer? is he angling for Chuck Todd’s job on Meet the Press?

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