There will be no simple fix to Obamacare's subsidy language if the Supreme Court strikes it down,
says Rep. Paul Ryan, who is supposedly in charge of this round of Republican Obamacare "replacement" plan. Instead, he promises, there will be, um, something.
Republicans are developing a "contingency plan" to address the states whose residents would lose subsidies while lawmakers work on a full replacement for the Affordable Care Act, Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, told reporters Friday in Washington.
"What's the bridge out of Obamacare for people in the states that just lost it?" Ryan said during a Bloomberg Television interview Friday. "What we want to do is give the states freedom to let their people go into a patient-centered health care system, which will look like what we would ultimately like to replace Obamacare with."
Ah, a "patient-centered healthcare system." Gee, where have we heard that before? Just from every Republican who has pretended to be working on a healthcare replacement plan since 2010. What does that mean? Who knows!?! They've never actually put anything into real legislative language that would tell us. But of course, now that they have just four months to figure it out, they're totally on top of it.