This wish has been one he’s tried to get for several years, ever since Mitt Romney nabbed Ryan as his running mate in 2012. As the U.S. population continues to age and the ratio of employed to retired individuals falls, Medicare’s shortfall has been a major concern among Washington policymakers, including House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan’s Better Way movement has vigorously addressed health care reform, maintaining as one of its pillars the need to modernize Medicare. Beginning this January, Ryan will do everything in his power to reform Medicare to make it accessible, affordable and sustainable. In September 2013, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) undertook an analysis of how premium support would affect federal spending and recipients’ choices and payments.

Source: Forbes December 05, 2016 14:37 UTC