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dajoki

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Wed Aug 28, 2019, 11:44 AM Aug 2019

Paul Ryan will now profit off his failures to strip healthcare from millions of Americans

Paul Ryan will now profit off his failures to strip healthcare from millions of Americans
As Speaker of the House, Ryan tried to take away coverage from 23 million Americans
https://thinkprogress.org/after-trying-to-kill-health-insurance-for-millions-paul-ryan-now-profits-from-medical-tech-9dbac192d3d8

According to his hometown paper, Ryan has joined the board of directors at SHINE Medical Technologies. The Janesville-based company makes molybdenum-99, a radioactive isotope used to illuminate bones and body tissue in medical tests — the sorts of tests typically paid for by health insurance plans

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Ryan’s share in the company’s profits will likely be higher thanks in part to the failure of his own signature health care legislation proposals that did not become law. In 2017, he rammed the American Health Care Act (better known as Trumpcare) through the House of Representatives. Had the bill not died in the Senate, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office predicted it would have left 23 million more Americans uninsured

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Paul Ryan will now profit off his failures to strip healthcare from millions of Americans (Original Post) dajoki Aug 2019 OP
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