Paul Ryan of Janesville is no Sarah Palin

Wisconsin's U.S. Representative  Paul Ryan (Rep-1) is attempting to appeal to the moderate and thoughtful Americans as he prepares to enhance his national presence. 

In search of a base not occupied by Sarah Palin, he continues to publish polemics with compound sentences and lots of dashes.

The latest, Capitalizing on Common Ground establishes Ryan as a conciliatory and congenial leader of his party as he repeatedly asserts that Republicans and Democrats have 'common ground,' 'shared principles,' and 'more agreement than first meets the eye' as he focuses on health care reform.

Then the other shoe drops.

He bemoans the Democratic proposals, complains about what the 'majority' will do to run up the cost of health care, and praises private medical delivery systems while  admitting, 'We already spend over two-and-a-half times more on health care than any other country, with government alone spending roughly $1 trillion last year.'

It is that very private system he is defending that accounts for the expansive cost of American health care.

As for the cost of government spending, it was Ryan and his Republican majority and President Bush who banned the Federal government from utilizing one of the oldest capitalistic tools - the government's enormous buying power to negotiate lower prices for drugs from the pharmaceutical companies.

Then Ryan makes this accusation about the Democratic proposals on heath reform:

Here is how it works: the federal government ‘option’ would reimburse doctors at below market prices in order to control costs, forcing those with private coverage to make up the difference.

Congressman, that is exactly what the hospitals and private health insurance carriers are doing now. Come clean.

 

Comments

[antpoppa]

U.S Representative Paul Ryan says
Shut Up! Paul Soglin.
Shut Up ! Antpoppa.
Shut Up ! Wisconsin.
Shut Up! America.
I am U.S. Representative “Mister Paul Ryan” and I’m gonna tell you, ol’ man, what your life is all about. Don’t look up and don’t look down just pull that wagon, mule. I’m gonna kick that American dream around the block, dry it up like a raisin or drown it in a bath tub!
Stand tall, all these elites have is fear and fraud. And that has failed.
Talk up!

[mandrake]

Yes, he is a capitalist tool. Never actually held a real blue colloar job. Unless politician counts, he never even held a job. Started out as a congressional page as I recall...

[R.J.]

So let me get this straight, you 'want' to wait 9 months to see a substandard doctor for a routine procedure?

Have you thought about the unintended consequences?
...like the creation of private groups that will siphon away the best doctors?

It may end up looking like the educational system in this country, where the public teachers gained a strangle-hold on government with their quid pro quo Dem voting block.
Hmmm, I guess you 'have' thought about the unintended consequences.