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Paul Ryan's Connections to Insurance CompaniesBy Janie Boschma at Open Secrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/03/paul-ryans-connections-to-insurance.html
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Chairman PauPaul-Ryan.jpgl Ryan (R-Wis.) is back with a new budget proposal that's not so different from his previous ones. Like its predecessors, it repeals the Affordable Care Act and significantly cuts back Medicare, potentially creating more customers for health insurance companies, some of Ryan's top campaign supporters.
So how exactly does Ryan -- GOP nominee Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick in 2012 -- plan to balance the nation's books? Well, it doesn't entirely repeal the Affordable Care Act: It keeps the $700 billion in Medicare and other cuts the law made, which Ryan has also included in previous versions of his budget (though he wasn't so enthusiastic about those Medicare trims -- which are actually reductions in the program's future growth -- during the presidential campaign).
Ryan would repeal much of the rest of the health care law, cutting $1.8 trillion in new spending, most of which subsidizes private health insurance coverage. Instead, he's reintroducing his controversial proposal to allow those currently under 55 to opt out of Medicare for subsidized private insurance coverage once they become eligible for the program.
In a letter to Ryan analyzing an earlier iteration of his budget plan, the Roadmap for Americas Future Act of 2010, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office wrote that individuals would likely pay higher premiums with private coverage than under Medicare, because they have less negotiating leverage than the federal program; also, administrative costs are higher for individual plans.
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"Paul Ryan's Connections to Insurance Companies" (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2013
OP
imagine that, he is easily bought, if it lines his pockets, then he is for it.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#2
Aerows
(39,961 posts)1. He's such a weasel
and that's probably a huge insult to weasels.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. imagine that, he is easily bought, if it lines his pockets, then he is for it.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)3. He'll be a multi-millionaire the year after he leaves Congress.
The bigger the sellout, the bigger the pay-off.