Back in 2017, when the Republicans were trying for the zillionth time to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Paul Ryan sat with Rich Lowry, the editor of the conservative publication National Review. Lowry asked Ryan about his proposed cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poorest Americans. Republicans have long hated Medicaid because…it is the government health insurance program for the poorest Americans. The Congressional Budget Office had estimated that if the Republican cuts went into place, fourteen million people would lose their health insurance. Ryan, unbowed
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