Ways and Means Committee Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) had one of his unscheduled Obamacare bashing hearings this week. He continued to misinform with an opening speech that showed that the congressman and his ilk continue to put politics over the well-being of Americans.

Paul Ryan claimed that the answer is to repeal and replace the law. Yet Republicans have had over five years to come up with something different that could reduce the deficit, provide health care, and remain completely private. The reason they cannot is that Obamacare used Republican tenets to build Obamacare, a private-based system. Had the president implemented Medicare for all (single payer) by getting rid of insurance companies that continue to skim up to 20 percent of premiums for false overhead and profits, they could demagogue and attempt to change it to a more inefficient system. That was the genius of Obamacare. It was built on the Conservative Heritage Foundation principles that most Republicans once supported along with a dose of progressive middle-class protections.

"So whatever the Supreme Court decides later this month," Paul Ryan said, "I think the lesson is absolutely clear. Obamacare is just flat busted. It just doesn't work. And no fix can change that fact."

That statement makes Ryan a liar. There is enough data to prove that statement is a lie. Ryan knows that statement is a lie. The media knows that statement is a lie. Yet very few have made Paul Ryan or Republicans pay for those lies.

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