Paul Ryan is not a fan of Romneycare in Massachusetts. That’s not my opinion. Those are his words from a C-SPAN interview in 2010. Watch below along with the transcription.
Ryan: I’m not a fan of the system. … I’ve got some relatives up there in Massachusetts. My uncle’s a cardiologist in Boston and I’ve talked to a lot of healthcare folks up there. What’s happening now is because costs are getting out of control, premiums are increasing in Massachusetts, and now you have a bureaucracy that is having to put all these cost controls and now rationing on the system.
So people in Massachusetts are saying ‘yes we have virtually universal healthcare’—I think it’s 96 or 98 percent insured. But they see the system bursting by the seams. They see premium increases, rationing and benefit cuts, and so they’re frustrated with this system. … They see how this idea of having the government be the sole, you know, single regulator of health insurance, defining what kind of health insurance you can have, and then an individual mandate—it is fatal conceit. These kinds of systems, as we’re now seeing in Massachusetts are unsustainable.”
The media will have fun with this one. I can see the headlines now: “Romney/Ryan split on healthcare?” Of course Romney would be hard pressed to find a running mate who agreed with RomneyCare so....
Oy-vey.