Republicans are “as motivated as ever” to repeal and replace Obamacare in spite of last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the law’s federal healthcare subsidies, Rep. Paul Ryan said Sunday.
“I think this law is going to collapse under its own weight. I’m as motivated as ever before to repeal and replace this law,” the Wisconsin Republican and House Ways and Means Committee chairman said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “It denies people choice. It gives the states no rights to craft markets for themselves that work for them.”
Ryan said the majority’s ruling Thursday in King v. Burwell did “a grave injustice to the rule of law … they’re rewriting laws at the bench.”
However he took issue with persistent media reports that Republicans only wanted to repeal the law, saying “there are a number of alternative Obamacare bills out there right now in Congress” and GOP presidential candidates also have put out replacement plans.
“I do believe that in 2016, we need to show the country what exactly we would replace this law with, so that when we win the election in 2016, we have the ability to do it in 2017,” Ryan said.
