As opposition to the GOP’s “healthcare reform” plan heats up, House Speaker Paul Ryan put together a powerpoint presentation (see video excerpt above) during a news conference this Thursday morning in an effort to defend the plan, which many are now referring to as “Trumpcare.”
“The fatal conceit of Obamacare is that ‘we’re just gonna make everybody buy our health insurance at the federal government level, young and healthy people are gonna go into the market and pay for the older, sicker people,'” Ryan said. “So, the young healthy person is gonna be made to buy healthcare, and they’re gonna be made to pay for the person who gets breast cancer in her forties, or who gets heart disease in his fifties…”
Interesting take. As NBC’s Bradd Jeffy points out, “Isn’t that how employer-based insurance works?”
People are pissed, and some found a creative outlet for their frustration on Twitter:
hi twitter I made you this pic.twitter.com/74gbOm4A1J
— delrayser (@delrayser) March 9, 2017
Whoa pic.twitter.com/sgl6gqkwgr
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 9, 2017
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 9, 2017
Caught the tail end of @SpeakerRyan’s powerpoint presentation, and I have to say, I’m a little concerned. pic.twitter.com/vScaYT2LOs
— Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) March 9, 2017
— ᴊᴀᴍᴇs ғᴏʟᴛᴀ (@JamesFolta) March 9, 2017
the GOP replacement plan is actually pretty simple pic.twitter.com/fvq42i32IZ
— Isaiah Breen (@isikbreen) March 9, 2017
incredible pic.twitter.com/p1JpmeYNty
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) March 9, 2017
It was awfully nice of @SpeakerRyan to walk us through his health care plan today. Much easier to understand now! pic.twitter.com/VTorYd5Ln7
— Stop the Speaker (@StopTheSpeaker) March 9, 2017
“rest assured our plan will not cover the people the president so artfully mocked during the campaign” pic.twitter.com/cywI37r6m8
— darth™ (@darth) March 9, 2017
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