| | | Former Reagan campaigner thanks Obamacare for saving his life, humiliates Paul Ryan on national TV
In News by Aric Suber-Jenkins / January 13, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan participated in a CNN Town Hall on Thursday night to address concerns over the incoming administration’s policy agenda. It could’ve gone better, to say the least.
In one of the more embarrassing moments of the evening, Ryan was questioned by a terminal cancer survivor in regards to the GOP’s plans to repeal Obamacare. This wasn’t typical liberal pushback — the man described himself as a “lifelong Republican” who campaigned for Reagan in the ’80s.
“When [Obamacare] was passed, I told my wife we would close our business before I complied with this law,” Jeff Jeans of Sedona, Arizona told Ryan. “Then, at 49, I was given six weeks to live with a very curable type of cancer.”
Jeans went on to explain that the Affordable Care Act allowed him to receive, well… affordable healthcare.
“I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren’t for him,” he said to a visibly uncomfortable Ryan.
Jeans then asked Ryan, on national television: “Why would you repeal the Affordable Care Act Without a replacement?”
“Oh, we wouldn’t do that,” Ryan said. “We want to replace it with something better.”
Watch the deliciously awkward clip for yourself, below.
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