April 4 (Bloomberg) — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said he rejects the premise that President Barack Obama's health-care law can't be repealed now that its first class of 7 million enrollees has signed up.
"I don't think it can last," Ryan said in an interview with Bloomberg Television to air on "Political Capital with Al Hunt" this weekend.
Ryan this week unveiled a budget plan that seeks to repeal the 2010 law known as Obamacare and would revise the U.S. safety net in an effort to eliminate the deficit in 10 years. The House will vote on the plan next week. House Democrats will release their alternative as soon as April 7.
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