Ryan: ‘We Were on the Cusp of Fulfilling a Promise’

‘We came a little short’

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RYAN: “We were on the cusp of fulfilling a promise that we made. The cusp of achieving an ambition. We were close. This bill would have made what we call phase 2 much better. Nevertheless, there’s some things that the secretary of HHS can do to try to stabilize things. Really we needed this bill to make it better. For instance, risk pools. We believe the smarter way to help people with pre-existing conditions get affordable coverage while bringing down the healthcare costs for everybody else is through a reinsurance risk or risk sharing pools which this bill supplied for the states. That won’t happen now and therefore he won’t be able to deploy that policy tool that we think is better than ObamaCare. So we do lose a lot of the tools we wanted to help improve people’s lives and bring down healthcare costs.”

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