Republican Skeptics On Ryan Health Care Plan: John Kasich, Rand Paul, Tom Cotton, Darrell Issa, And Many Others

The Republican Party has an increasing number of skeptics about the Paul Ryan alternative bill to ObamaCare, which has now been scored on its effect on the budget by the Congressional Budget Office, and it is a total disaster.

All of the following are unhappy with the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, as it is, but warn against the House sponsored plan:

Governor John Kasich of Ohio
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
Congressman Darrell Issa of California
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio
Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado
Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Senator Susan Collins of Maine
Senator Dean Heller

But also there are the right wing extremists, the Freedom Caucus House Republicans who oppose the Ryan bill, as do the following groups:

Freedom Works
Club For Growth
Heritage Action

And the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American Association Of Retired Persons, and many other groups are also totally against the legislation.

So in the midst of control of both Houses and the White House, the Republican Party is in a crisis as to how to appeal to their base, as they work to deny them health care–elderly, sick, disabled, and poor.

8 comments on “Republican Skeptics On Ryan Health Care Plan: John Kasich, Rand Paul, Tom Cotton, Darrell Issa, And Many Others

  1. Paul Doyle March 14, 2017 8:55 am

    Professor, Between his greatest health plan ever and his spokespersons Orwellian “wire tapping is not wiretapping” and microwaves can be turned into cameras, I think we need to call the spirit of Dr. Seuss to comment:

    I do not like his health plan scare
    I do not like his lack of care
    I do not like his constant “no”
    I do not like his orange glow
    I do not like his Cabinet choices
    I do not like his changing voices
    I do not like his hate of science
    I do not like his global warming deniance
    I do not like the power he craves
    I do not like he wants us slaves
    I do not like his plans one bit
    I do not like this Trumpy twit

  2. Ronald March 14, 2017 9:14 am

    Paul, I love it, love it, love it! LOL

  3. Paul Doyle March 14, 2017 4:19 pm

    One of the highlights of the Ryan/Trump proposed plan are that once you die from no preventative health care, the federal deficit goes down by $337 billion over 10 years. The plan empowers sick people to take one for the team. Talk about patriotism…

  4. D March 15, 2017 4:27 am

    I just came across this video, “24 Million Will Lose Health Insurance With Trumpcare.” It tells more than I will what I will say here. But, I will mention this: the Republicans don’t have meaningful plan unless they go for single payer.

    http://youtu.be/1_voDmdD0Ww

  5. Ronald March 15, 2017 7:07 am

    Precisely, D, but to imagine the Republicans ever to accept single payer is to believe in the tooth fairy, as single payer to them is SOCIALISM, a dirty word!

  6. D March 16, 2017 11:22 am

    “The Young Turks” video has most interesting comments from reporter David Sirota.

    In this next report, something that should have happened a long time ago were the actions of thousands of citizens.

    Over 350,000 Back Call for Lawmakers To Give Up Their Subsidized Healthcare

    By Nika Knight | March 15, 2017
    http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/15/over-350000-back-call-lawmakers-give-their-subsidized-healthcare

    “Highlighting the hypocrisy of members of Congress who benefit from large healthcare subsidies at the same time that they work to kick millions of Americans off of their health coverage, a man who lost his father to cancer because he was uninsured has created a petition demanding an end to those subsidies for lawmakers.”

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