Just trust him.
If Republicans repeal Obamacare, Rep. Paul Ryan is admitting that all that popular stuff—like young adults staying on their parents' insurance until age 26 and coverage of pre-existing conditions—is gone.
Forget about it. But, uh, y'know, Republicans will totally come up with something to replace those policies:
Ryan added that Congress should look at different and more cost-effective ways to accomplish the same kinds of goals.
"I think there are better ideas and better reforms for getting at these very serious issues without these kinds of things that needlessly jeopardize the health care for people," Ryan said.
Is it just me or does that sentence make absolutely no sense? Better ideas for covering pre-existing conditions than just simply covering pre-existing conditions, because the latter needlessly jeopardizes the health care for people, except the people with pre-existing conditions who only have health care to begin with because of the policy that supposedly needlessly jeopardizes health care?
In short, Paul Ryan wants to take health care away from millions and millions of people, and replace it with ... something. He's totally going to come up with something, for sure, and it's going to be awesome. Maybe as awesome as his plan to privatize Medicare. Don't worry: You. Will. Love. It.
Do you ever get the feeling that when Paul Ryan was a teenager, he spent a lot of time telling his peers that he had a girlfriend, but they hadn't met her because she lived in Canada?