House Speaker Paul Ryan repeated a longstanding GOP call to repeal Affordable Care Act on Thursday, and rejected President Obama’s call to expand his signature healthcare law.
“After listening to the president’s speech, I’m not sure what health care law he was talking about,” Ryan said in a statement.
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Obama on Thursday said Obamacare has improved health coverage for millions of people, but called on Congress to work with him to expand the law and fix it.
Obama’s solutions aim to provide coverage to the remaining 10 percent of Americans who are still uninsured. He called on holdout states to expand Medicaid for low-income people, and to increase subsidies to help people buy coverage.
But Ryan, R-Wis., said the law needs to be repealed, not repaired, and he pointed to the House GOP plan to replace the law with a “step-by-step approach that ensures every American has access to quality, affordable health care.”
Ryan pointed to the law’s many problems, including huge premium hikes and lack of choice for consumers seeking health insurance coverage.
“One thing is clear,” Ryan said. “The law can’t be fixed.”
