Posted on 03/09/2017 10:35:57 PM PST by TBP
Thursday on the radio, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin gave the rundown on the press conference of Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. (F, 51%), in which Ryan tried to give the hard sell to Americans on the Republican American Health Care Act "reform" plan.
Levin called Ryan’s proposal “repeal in name only." Or, if you will, “RINOcare,” because the GOP plan keeps the core of Obamacare in place.
Levin had a “number of questions” for the speaker, questions that so far remain unanswered.
“Now, here’s my question Mr. Ryan,” Levin said. “How much will the average American’s deduction go up, or down?”
Further, Levin asked, how much will the federal government be spending on subsidies for certain individuals? Will individuals be able to see the doctors they want? The specialists they need? Will individuals be able to go to the hospital of their choice? Will they be able to get the medicines they need to get?
At the end of the day, the problem with RINOcare, Levin explained, is it embraces the Left’s assumption that government involvement is needed to make health insurance affordable. It embraces progressivism; it embraces centralization.
“Republicans have blown it,” Levin said. "There is something horribly immoral about RINOcare."
Is that a bad joke or something? Please know of what you speak in the future.
Absolutely false.
Well, yes they can, and Trump was not down any more than he was the night he won.
So then, how do you define “never Trump” if it includes people who actually voted for Trump? That seems contradictory to me.
RINOCARE is totally immoral.
It’s 100% true. You can say Levin voted for Trump. But he did not endorse. In fact he repeatedly said “I am not endorsing” Trump and “this is not an endorsement”.
There is a tinge of deceit in your challenge. Signing on after it doesn't matter anymore is like someone trying to get out of town before the gunfighter shows up. Neither Cruz nor Levin's vote made one whit of difference, the people they scared away from Trump might have mattered but, thankfully, it didn't.
That was my case. I had health insurance, then my employer canceled it.
I have a pre-existing condition which meant no insurance companies would sell me insurance....no matter what I did, no matter which company I went to, I could not buy health insurance.
That, to me, is immoral. There should be a way for people to be able to receive health insurance.
Policy is way over my head, but I hope we somehow come up with a decent bill.
Ed
After it doesn’t matter anymore? You realize that it was a close election, don’t you?
It was very clear that the part he declared immoral was the part about pre-existing conditions.
He did talk about what was wrong with the entire bill however.
You guys scare me to death. Levin said he would, reluctantly, endorse Trump a few months before Nov. Your blind hero worship is as despicable and TERRIFYING as the left’s for Obama.
Funny SCREEN NAME. So, cuz Trump hasn’t locked her up after saying it ALL throughout the race, he is an evil ‘skank’ too right? Levin calls Trump out when he does really bad, un-conservative things, and praises for the good — like any RATIONAL, honest person should. Your blind hero worship is as despicable and TERRIFYING as the left’s for Obama.
Levin is trying to redeem himself after doing all he could to stop Trump from being elected.
I don’t know what’s to it, but I understand that the billionaire funder behind Levin’s TV business was a student loan magnate who was put out of business when language making his role in student loans illegal was added to the original Obamacare bill. Thus, presumably Levin’s benefactor would have a vested interest in seeing that ObamaCare was officially repealed absolutely.
Levin reluctantly endorsed Trump as an anti Clinton vote (not because he liked Trump that much).
Levin stated that a full endorsement would mean that he was a drone who supported all of Trump’s objectives. Do YOU support the “family leave” mandate that the President was pushing? I surely don’t.
I guarantee you that Levin and I were as happy as anyone in America on election night that Rotten Clinton LOST, nonetheless.
if health insurance were a truly free market, it never would have been tied to employment. thanks to FDR, that’s what happened. health insurance should be portable.
insurance companies would be forced to compete if not for subsidies and “tax credits” that govt run health insurance provide. the “market” becomes a relationship between insurance company lobbyists and donor-hungry politicians. the market should be directly between the individual consumer and the insurance company.
I never did trust Levin.
RyanCare.. RINOCare.. Just what the Doctor ordered.. NOT!!!
Mark Levin is right. This bill that Trump supports is not what we need. However it is probably all we have the votes for.
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