Desperate Paul Ryan reverts to form to try to save Zombie Trumpcare: He lies like a rug

Daily Kos Staff

Tuesday May 02, 2017 · 10:35 AM PDT

2017/05/02 · 10:35

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 15: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) (R) talks to reporters following the weekly House Republican conference meeting at the GOP headquarters on Capitol Hill March 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. Ryan confirmed that the House Republicans are consulting with Republican candidates about their plans, including front-runner Donald Trump. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) — Who you gonna believe? Paul Ryan or your own lying eyes?

The loss of influential Republican Rep. Fred Upton (MI) on Zombie Trumpcare has House Speaker Paul Ryan desperately trying to stem the flow and, as Politico puts it "into full-fledged damage-control mode."

House GOP leaders are desperately trying to change a hardening narrative that sicker Americans would suffer under their plan. Ryan argued to lawmakers in a closed-door GOP conference meeting that people with pre-existing conditions would not be harmed by the latest draft. Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price will also huddle with lawmakers to try to win votes on Tuesday afternoon.
In total, nearly 20 GOP lawmakers, mostly moderate or centrist Republicans worried about sicker Americans paying more for premiums, have now added their names to the “no” column. At the same time, the list of Republicans who say they’re “undecided” has grown to at least two-dozen. Even several GOP whips tasked with drumming up support for the bill said Monday night they have not yet made up their minds on whether to support the revised American Health Care Act.

Ryan followed that up with this tweet.

VERIFIED: MacArthur Amendment strengthens AHCA, protects people with pre-existing conditions. https://t.co/6W7bDEO40r
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) May 2, 2017

That "verified" link goes to … himself. His own fact sheet on Zombie Trumpcare which details all the circumstances under which people with pre-existing conditions can be harmed by the law. Basically if states decide they can be. Pretty much every real healthcare analyst and as pretty much every healthcare industry group, as well as patient groups like the March of Dimes, refute Ryan on this one.

Clearly, Ryan's reputation for lies precedes him with some of the people who know him best—his colleagues like Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) and every other Republican who's defected since they came up with this brilliant idea to make a bad bill even crueler. None of them believe Ryan's lies, either.

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