UNDATED, (WTAQ) – Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says sitting back and letting Obamacare collapse is frustrating and the Senate needs to keep working on a solution.
Ryan spoke on WTAQ’s Jerry Bader show Wednesday.
The House Speaker says he thought this past weekend they had a winning proposal.
That was before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act just weren’t there.
“I called some folks who wanted to talk about it over in the senate. I felt reasonably good and then we had a healthcare issue with one of their members, John McCain, which he’s going to be fine but he couldn’t travel,” Ryan said.
McConnell recently stated the senate will now vote on a full Obamacare repeal plan.
“The law is collapsing and perhaps democrats will wake up and say, you know what, this idea of going towards a government run system doesn’t work. People don’t like it, it’s not popular. Let’s work with the republicans to fix it. That would be great. I haven’t seen any evidence of that but that would be great if that could happen,” said Ryan.
Ryan says healthcare is an emotional issue but is hopeful for a solution since the house already passed the bill.
“I’d like to think that we can just keep at it. We passed the bill in the house. The house has spoken; we are proud of our bill,” explained Ryan.
