House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), photo by Gage Skidmore, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on ABC News, composite image.
Responding to report that President Donald Trump is now open to working with Democrats on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blasted Republicans for continuing to lead the fight against it without having a replacement plan in hand.
With a conservative federal judge in Texas casting doubt on the future of Obamacare in a ruling late last week, the Nobel Prize-winning economist called out the GOP in exceedingly blunt terms on Twitter.
'If there's one thing that is absolutely clear after the past 2 years on health care, it is that Rs have no alternative to the ACA, and never will. Their plan is for people to get sick, go bankrupt, and die," he wrote.
Responding to a comment from HuffPo health care correspondent Jonathan Cohn, who observed, "Seems pretty clear that GOP policy towards the ACA over the last 8 1/2 years has been about revving up the base as much as it's been about fixing health care," Krugman tersely responded.
"Half wrong. It was never about fixing health care. Not even slightly," he wrote.
You can see the tweets below:
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