Rep. Ryan says deficit reduction plan would ‘entrench ObamaCare’

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Rep. Ryan says deficit reduction plan would ‘entrench ObamaCare’
By Erik Wasson - 12/02/10 10:43 AM ET

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who will chair the House Budget Committee next year, said Thursday that he would vote against the president’s deficit commission plan.

“Obviously I am not going to vote for it,” he told reporters at an event organized by The Christian Science Monitor. He said the plan makes spending problems related to healthcare “dramatically worse.”

“The plan accelerates and entrenches ObamaCare,” Ryan said. By taxing employer health plans but leaving the rest of the healthcare reform law in place, the plan presented by the chairmen of the deficit commission would push too many people into healthcare exchanges, which Ryan said would balloon subsidies paid by the government.

The debt commission is set to vote on the plan on Friday. Fourteen of the 18 commissioners must vote yes for the plan to be adopted.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had promised to bring up the commission report for a vote if it is adopted, but incoming Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made no such commitment.