Ryan on Health Care: "Change It, Repeal It, Replace It"
By Jodi Becker and Jay Sorgi
MILWAUKEE - Republican Representative Paul Ryan tried, and failed, to stop the passage of the health care bill that the House of Representatives approved Sunday evening.
That, however, is not stopping Ryan from trying to change what Congress has done on the issue.
"Change it, repeal it and replace it with a system that works, that's consumer-driven, patient-centered and not a government-takeover or government-run system," Ryan told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Charlie Sykes.
"We have to regroup. Obviously, we really don't like this law. It takes a long time to phase in."
According to Ryan, what will phase in immediately
Tax increases on capital and labor, medicare cuts start kicking in on providers, so medicare providers are going to get hit. Those start right now. The actuaries tell us one out of five providers will probably go out of business or just stop taking medicare patients."
Ryan said that the Democrats did not have enough votes to pass the bill as of 4:00 p.m. Sunday.
Things shifted when Democrat Bart Supack and others who were with him decided to vote for the bill.
They'd been against it because of it's funding structure for abortions.
Ryan says he wasn't expecting the flip-flop.
"That's what surprises me. I've heard talking to him for weeks about this. He really is pro life. He fell for this. That's what really sort of shocks us."
President Obama got Supack's gro
up to his side by promising to issue an executive order banning government dollars from funding abortion.
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