--- title: Paul Ryan Healthcare PowerPoint Internet Reactions description: The Internet is turning Paul Ryan's presentation on the GOP's proposed Obamacare replacement plan into hilarious memes. canonical: https://time.com/4697016/paul-ryan-healthcare-powerpoint-memes/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-09T19:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:19:58.984Z og:title: The Internet Is Having a Field Day With Paul Ryan's Healthcare PowerPoint og:description: Twitter is at it again og:url: https://time.com/4697016/paul-ryan-healthcare-powerpoint-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd55ee0657612021/6988bdc8f887dc5106e9960c/paul-ryan-healthcare-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Paul Ryan, House Leaders Hold Press Conference On American Health Care Act og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Having a Field Day With Paul Ryan's Healthcare PowerPoint twitter:description: Twitter is at it again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd55ee0657612021/6988bdc8f887dc5106e9960c/paul-ryan-healthcare-meme.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Having a Field Day Turning Paul Ryan's Health Care PowerPoint Into Hilarious Memes > Sponsored content. 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Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday defended the House Republican health care plan as the only alternative to the Obama-era law, even as opposition grew from conservatives and medical professionals._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 9, 2017 7:00 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 9, 2017 7:00 PM UTC After [Speaker ](http://time.com/4695282/paul-ryan-health-care-plan/)[Paul Ryan](http://time.com/4695282/paul-ryan-health-care-plan/) held a press conference to explain the [GOP’s proposed Obamacare replacement plan](http://time.com/money/4691860/obamacare-repeal-replacement-plan/?xid=homepage) Thursday, the Internet saw an opportunity to poke fun at his chosen presentation method. Twitter users quickly pounced on Ryan’s use of a PowerPoint-playing screen, replacing the slides to turn the image of him delivering the healthcare pitch into hilarious memes. “Caught the tail end of [@SpeakerRyan](https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan)’s powerpoint presentation, and I have to say, I’m a little concerned,” [Rep. Keith Ellison](https://twitter.com/keithellison) jokingly captioned a doctored photo of Ryan in front of a “no iPhones” sign. > [](https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/839900437658611714) See a selection of the best reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/Four%5FPins/status/839882935876612096) > [](https://twitter.com/maggieserota/status/839884093479354373) > [](https://twitter.com/thecultureofme/status/839884037271375872) > [](https://twitter.com/bakedinapie/status/839884697178099713) > [](https://twitter.com/twolf10/status/839882996152938497) > [](https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/839884447344361473) > [](https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/839885849877700608) > [](https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/839883319558942722) > [](https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/839884553250553857) ## Transcript Take a look at this chart. The red slice here are what I would call people with preexisting conditions, people who have real healthcare problems. The blue is the rest of the people in the individual market. That's the market where people don't get health insurance at their jobs, where they buy it themselves. The whole idea of Obamacare is the people in the blue side pay for the people in the red side. The people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick. It's not working and that's why it's in a death spiral. Here's how we propose to tackle this problem. We want to have a system where we encourage states, with federal funding, to set up risk pools and reinsurance mechanisms. Here's our solution. Let's make sure we just cover the people who have preexisting conditions. Make sure that reinsurance or risk pools kick in for those four people in that small business that get cancer, subsidize that coverage. 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