Paul Ryan Doesn’t Seem To Care About These People


The Republicans against the Affordable Care Act are showing us just how mean they are. The Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, has vowed to take away the protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Before the ACA, people had to pay ridiculous amounts of money just to get the healthcare they needed. Now, Ryan wants to take us back to that.


Ryan says that the pre-existing condition provision raises health care costs for everyone, and is “undermining choice and competition.” He goes on to say that people under 65 with a pre-existing condition are “just uninsurable.” He just doesn’t care about people who need medical care. Everyone who has a chronic condition just isn’t important to Ryan.

Is this what he really thinks of his constituents? Are those with chronic conditions just screwed? He may say no. He has proposed funding a risk pool for people with pre-existing conditions.

He complained about the fact that insurance companies can’t currently charge more money to people with pre-existing conditions. No one should have to face bankruptcy for being sick. No one asks for a chronic illness, and we need to be able to survive.


Here is more of what he had to say about it:

“Let’s fund risk pools at the state level to subsidize their coverage, so that they can get affordable coverage. You dramatically lower the price for everybody else. You make health insurance so much more affordable, so much more competitive and open up competition.”

Experts say that these “risk pools” Ryan is proposing make health care prohibitively expensive for the people that really need it and it doesn’t offer good healthcare either.

The House republicans are claiming they have an alternative to the ACA and plan to release it in July, just in time for the Republican National Convention.

 

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