Headline: Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI): Repealing ACA (Obama-care) is First Priority

Ryan-GOP Plan: Throw 20 Million Americans Under the Bus

(Then what: Hope the driver is sober)
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Two key articles are related to this subject and headline of this posting that Speaker Ryan says in his own words: 

“Repealing the ACA (Obama-care) is our 1st Priority.”

That story from Fortune here. Some highlights.

The promise of repealing and replacing the ACA (Obama-care) will also have another unintended consequence if fully repealed: It will severely damage Medicare, which Republicans also fervently want to dismantle and privatize, as I said since 1965 when it was signed into law (see the list below of that possible damage).

Even though Donald Trump said during the campaign that he wouldn't touch Medicare or Social Security – or else he wouldn't have secured enough Electoral College votes to win if he had – tearing apart the ACA (Obamacare) will almost certainly raise costs for Medicare beneficiaries and hasten its decline as a guaranteed, fee-for-service system that millions of seniors now have and enjoy but now could lose these entitlements embedded in the ACA (pilot projects and provisions) to:

1.     Make medical care for retirees less expensive.

2.     Make doctors more accountable.

3.     Share in cost savings.

4.     Cut hospital re-admissions.

5.     Crack down on fraud and abuse.

Now this unintended consequence of repealing ACA (Obama-care)… guess they didn’t read the fine print, um, boys?

Reform of the ACA will gut Medicare, which BTW: the GOP, as I have said, has hated since 1965 as well has hated Social Security since 1935… 

That unintended (or maybe it was carefully planned anyway, you think) part is reported on from Forbes here in part: Donald Trump's campaign vow to repeal Obamacare is now fast-tracked in Congress and will be embraced by his HHS nominee (Rep. Tom Price).

Now, the result of the largely unheralded Medicare reforms in Obamacare could be lost if the Trump-GOP plan is implemented and get their way – that is to toss the ACA in the trash can of history.

          1.  Lower operating costs. 

          2.  Higher quality care.

          3.  A sounder financial footing for the program.

So, Mr. and Mrs. America, tell me again whom you voted for. I see, I see. Okay, carry on, then.