In the Green Room: Rep. Paul Ryan on the ‘Paternalism’ of the House Health Bill

Gerrit Lansing / November 03, 2009

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“The most outrageous detail in the current House bill is the philosophy on which it is premised. It is premised on the philosophy that the government knows best how to organize 1/6th of our economy,” said Rep. Ryan (R-WI) today before visiting Heritage’s Bloggers Briefing. Ryan was speaking about the current House health bill, a behemoth piece of legislation weighing in at 1,990 pages and costing $1.5 trillion. (more…)