Thread: Sources: Rep. Paul Ryan Compromise Will Keep Obamacare 'Forever'

Sources: Ryan Compromise Will Keep Obamacare 'Forever'



by Matthew Boyle 11 Oct 2013, 12:38 PM PDT 576 post a comment
Breitbart News reported that House Republicans have offered a new deal to the White House to end the fiscal stalemate. The GOP plan, authored primarily by House Budget Chair Rep. Paul Ryan according to Hill sources, would meet Obama's demands in exchange for negotiations on a longer-term budget agreement.

At least two high-ranking Capitol Hill sources have told Breitbart News that Ryan’s plan would also help protect Obamacare as it is currently implemented.
Ryan's office deny the claims. “What your sources are attempting to attribute to Congressman Ryan is not accurate,” Kevin Seifert, Ryan’s spokesman, said in an email.
But the Capitol Hill conservative sources are adamant Ryan offered at least two things that they say would mitigate some of Obamacare's hardest-hitting effects on certain communities that are needed for the GOP to take the law down in the end.
The high-ranking conservative source said that this deal will ensure America has "Obamacare forever" and that Ryan's "pro union votes are really coming to light now."
At a meeting on Friday morning, the sources said Ryan’s plan was presented to a group of members. Ryan's plan would grant President Barack Obama a no-strings-attached “clean” debt ceiling increase for six weeks and acquiesce to Obama’s latest demand that Republicans also pass a Continuing Resolution to end the partial government shutdown.
The plan was pitched to a room full of members of the House GOP caucus. Not only would Ryan’s plan amount to a GOP capitulation on the debt ceiling and budget, it would mitigate certain effects of Obamacare to help labor unions and members of the business community.
The grand bargain Ryan is attempting to negotiate would include a repeal of the medical device sales tax, a part of Obamacare even liberal Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) supports removing.
The high-ranking sources also claimed Ryan was trying to negotiate a proposal that would increase from 30 to 39 the number of weekly hours worked to qualify as a full-time worker that would trigger the mandate that employers provide health insurance or pay a $2,000 per employee fine. The sources described this proposal as a hand-out to labor unions. The 30 hour threshold in ObamaCare annoyed people like Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. and prompted him recently to speak out against Obamacare.
The source also said Ryan’s "grand bargain" would increase the number of employees a company may have without providing health insurance from 50 up to 100. This would mitigate effects on the larger members of the small business community, who are currently some of the most ardent opponents of Obamacare.
Ultimately, one of the sources says, such proposals end up keeping Obamacare the law of the land "forever" as it would take away from momentum against it.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...macare-Forever

Tea Party Patriots: Paul Ryan 'Losing His Focus' on Obamacare



by Matthew Boyle 11 Oct 2013, 2:25 PM PDT 102 post a comment
Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin blasted House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Friday for his role in negotiating some kind of a “grand bargain” on the debt ceiling and Continuing Resolution (CR), saying he lost his focus when it comes to Obamacare.

“Thanks to the tea party movement, and courageous leaders like Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, the #1 issue in the country is how the American people have turned against Obamacare,” Martin said in a statement released Friday afternoon. “Now is not the time to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and sign some ‘grand bargain’ to allow the White House to escape the wrath of Americans, who deplore Obamacare so much that they have driven the President’s approval rating to a near-Bush low of 37%."
"Now is the time to stand firm and give the American people what they want: a peaceful end to Obamacare,” she declared.
Martin called out Ryan by name, saying his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal--and the fact he never even used the word "Obamacare" once in it--shows his lack of resolve when it comes to fighting government takeover of the healthcare industry.
“Earlier this week, Paul Ryan wrote a 1,000 word op-ed for the Wall Street Journal – and not one of those words was ‘Obamacare,’” Martin said. “Clearly, Paul Ryan is losing his focus on the #1 issue in the country – Obamacare – and the desire of the American people to rid themselves of its costs and consequences."
"The Tea Party Patriots reminds the GOP in the House that they are standing up for the American people, they need to stop negotiating with themselves, and focus all their energies to say they will not allow Obamacare to be fully implemented," she continued. "Obamacare is harmful to Americans and they need to stop Obamacare from causing more burdens and hardships for American families.”
Earlier in the day in a pre-taped video address to the Family Research Council (FRC) Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., Ryan did mention Obamacare.
“The way I see it, our job is to preserve our values in the 21st century,” he said. ”We need to apply our principles to the challenges of today. And that means we need to completely rethink government’s role in our lives. We need to completely rethink government’s role in helping the most vulnerable. We need to completely rethink government’s role in health care. That means we can never give up on repealing and replacing ‘Obamacare.’”
Ryan did not attend the conference in person due to the ongoing fiscal negotiations across town.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...s-to-Obamacare

Another GOP sell out.