GOP congressman says Republicans totally would have fixed health care if they'd kept their majority

[turbinetree]

Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) must have forgotten the dozens of Affordable Care Act repeal votes that dominated his party's reign.
Josh Israel
Apr 30, 2019, 11:22 am

Rep. Greg Walden (R-OH), who chaired the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce until the 2018 blue wave cost his party its control of Congress, went on Fox News Tuesday to denounce Medicare for All and other proposals to create a single-payer system for health care. Asked about his party’s lack of an alternative, he suggested that they would have had one had they kept their majority.

Walden has been in Congress for just over 20 years. His party held the majority for 16 of them. Since 2011, they spent much of their time pushing to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, although most of their more than 50 attempts to kill the bill (in whole or part) were more focused on the “repeal” and less on the “replace.” In May of 2017, Walden voted for the wildly unpopular Trumpcare proposal, which would have taken health insurance away from an estimated 14 million people.

Walden said on Tuesday that the single-payer proposals were a “complete government takeover” of the health care system and would turn the United States into Venezuela. Citing a single example of a Canadian woman who had a long wait for a cancer diagnosis under that country’s system, he predicted “If you think it’s fun to wait in line at DMV, you’ll gonna love [Sen.] Bernie Sanders’ [(I-VT)] wait times for Medicare for All.”

But pressed by Fox News to explain what his party’s solution was, Walden claimed that they would have tamed the nation’s growing health care costs had they only kept control of the House.

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-congressman-greg-walden-republicans-would-have-fixed-healthcare-majority-2a9f6bdd5e60/

Hey libertarian asshole, really, my wife has no health care, you have health care paid for by me and my wife through your government plan, and by millions of others across this country.........................your a parasite just like your former libertarian Speaker, Eddie Munster ( Paul Ryan) you and him had over 50 votes to repeal health care, and had nothing to replace the ACA, nothing, and then to top it all off you increased the debt by over 1.5 trillion, someone has to pay for that , and your libertarian plan asshole is and was to go after Medicare and Social Security to pay for it, so no one would have anything, but you will, you will have us, paying for your retirement and health care, when you leave office................... go fucking figure asshole.....................

[DownriverDem]

1. Yea Sure

Tell me another lied repub man.

[Kahuna7]

6. That's malarky!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Where's the republican plan?

They are so full of shit.

[MineralMan]

3. There has never been a GOP healthcare plan.

They don't have one. They don't have a clue about one.

[abqtommy]

4. Actually, the republiCON health plan

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is "die already"! They're not interested in anybody's health except their own.

[MineralMan]

7. Or "Stay healthy so you don't die!"

[BigOleDummy]

5. Well said Brother!

", and your libertarian plan asshole is and was to go after Medicare and Social Security to pay for it, so no one would have anything, but you will, you will have us, paying for your retirement and health care, when you leave office................... go fucking figure asshole..................... "

As I said, well said indeed.

[Turbineguy]

8. Yes. It was a clever and secret plan

all along. If we had only trusted them.

[IronLionZion]

9. GOP likes to be against things. They needed ACA as a bogeyman to complain about

They don't have any real healthcare plan. They put forth some nonsense bills they never expect to pass with no thoughts towards policy or implementation.

[lunasun]

10. Thought it would be The Onion

[diane in sf]

11. Lololol, he's just another Repug sociopath.