Government Pampered Paul Ryan Clueless about Private Health Care Disaster!

Paul Ryan is saying pretty much what Scott Walker just said about not expanding Medicaid, and that is that Medicaid must be preserved for “those who truly need it.”

Ryan’s plan calls for, among other things, “reforming the federal Food Stamp program to ensure only qualified applicants receive the benefits.”

What that resulted in was a massive unloading of poverty level families into the private for-profit insurance marketplace, the signature piece of the Affordable Care Act. That will force families to not only pay a monthly premium, but will also require them to pay a huge deductible they hope they’ll never pay.

FoxNews: Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said Sunday that his new budget includes the repeal of President Obama’s health-care reform law known as ObamaCare … repeal would be to stop the expansion of Medicaid.

Walker and the Republicans, long removed from the private sector health insurance market, are completely clueless about why we have a health care disaster; many families can’t afford the monthly insurance premiums, and escalating deductibles are forcing families to gamble on whether they'll ever having to pay them.  

Even scarier is the often ignored problem of moving to a completely untried private free market health care “system."

To make such a reckless shift nationwide says a lot about Ryan’s credibility and competence.  To boot, Health care isn't a consumer product. Is there anyone willing to quibble about the price of the surgical equipment used by your doctor? Any skinflints want to set a dollar limit on what it’ll take to save their life or cure their disease?

This whole idea of a "balanced budget" is ridiculous. States "balance budgets" with tricks while maintaining structural deficits. Families have mortgages and car loans, even charge card balances, that continue on for decades. Smaller deficits are okay, it's all part of managing our lives. $16 trillion is too much, but "0?" Let's get serious.