Paul Ryan To States: Don’t Set Up ACA Exchanges To Save Subsidies

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, takes reporters' questions as during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday,... House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, takes reporters' questions as during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The budget deal was one of a few major measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on President Obama's agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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A top House Republican says states should avoid setting up Obamacare exchanges as a way to protect insurance subsidies for their residents if the Supreme Court erases them on the federally-run marketplace.

“Oh God, no… The last thing anybody in my opinion would want to do, even if you are not a conservative, is consign your state to this law,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the chair of the powerful Ways & Means Committee, told state legislators on a Thursday conference call, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Instead, Ryan urged them to sit tight while Congress works on introducing legislation to reform health care, saying it would drop by June 20.

“If people blink and if people say this political pressure is too great, I’m just going to sign up for a state-based exchange and put my constituents in Obamacare, then this opportunity will slip through your fingers,” Ryan said, per the Journal.

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  1. Earth to Ryan, all states are “consigned” to the ACA because, take a guess… it is the law of the land.

    What a moron.

  2. DBag of Vile Vouchers says what?

  3. “Oh God, no”… we wouldn’t want people to get health care (at least not the poor ones). Paul Ryan, snake oil salesman strikes again

  4. He calls on “god” yet he does stand with God!!! We all know that so does he shame on him

  5. Instead, Ryan urged them to sit tight while Congress works on introducing legislation to reform health care, saying it would drop by June 20.

    Right, because that’s what most Americans want-another healthcare system overhaul that won’t include the things they like about Obamacare. I predict that the debate over their healthcare legislation will actually wind up making Obamacare more popular. If one thing is true, Americans don’t truly love anything until you threaten to take it away from them.

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