Rep. Ryan admits GOP was negligent on health care for 12 years: ‘We should have fixed this under our

[babsbunny]

watch.’

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/07/frank-ryan/

n an CNBC debate with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) today, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) railed against a government takeover of health care until CNBC host John Harwood interjected and asked him, “Congressman, do you not agree that the private market is failing the American patient right now?” Paul agreed that we “do not have a market system working in health care today,” and said, “Let’s fix health care, let’s fix insurance, let’s make sure the uninsured get insured, let’s make sure we have a fix for people with pre-existing conditions.” Frank then interjected and called Ryan out:

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1. We WOULD have fixed it, but it would have been very bad on two counts

if we did:
1) It would have cut into our profits.
and
2) It would have perhaps kept some poor from getting poorer.

Neither of those were acceptable.