Following his participation in next Monday’s Young Guns Facebook event in Mountain View, House Budget Committee Paul Ryan will travel north on El Camino Real, to Palo Alto, where he will give a major health care address at the Hoover Institution Tuesday.
Ryan’s speech, The Optimist’s Guide to Repeal and Replace: Patient-Centered Health-Care Reform for the 21st Century, will begin at 1:00 PM EST and will be streamed live on Facebook. Ryan will take questions from the audience and be available to media after the event.
Exact details of Ryan’s plan to replace Obamacare are still under wraps, but a Budget Committee document released earlier this week provides a good outline:
Rather than clinging to an unsustainable status quo, it is imperative that policymakers advance patient-centered reforms – fixing what’s broken in health care without breaking what’s working. In Medicare, this means giving seniors the power to choose from a list of Medicare approved and subsidized coverage options, like the system that members of Congress enjoy. In Medicaid, it means returning authority over the program to the states and giving them the flexibility to tailor their programs to the diverse needs of their unique populations. And for all Americans, it means making health insurance more portable and more affordable by personalizing the tax credit for health insurance.
