House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday said that Republican leaders are working on increasing assistance to older Americans in their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
“We believe that we do need to add some additional assistance to people in those older cohorts,” Ryan said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Republican bill found that the plan would cause premiums for older Americans to increase.
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.”
“We believe we should have even more assistance, and that’s one of the things we’re looking at for that person in the 50s and 60s because they experience higher health-care costs,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
What, older people don’t love freedom, too?
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
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.”