THE PROGNOSISHouse Speaker Paul Ryan announces his retirement during a news conference on Wednesday. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)When House Speaker Paul Ryan exits Congress, he’ll leave unfulfilled his most prized policy goal: Slimming down the government’s big, costly health insurance programs. “All the budgets I passed normalizing entitlement reform … I’m very proud of that,” Ryan told reporters yesterday as he announced his plans to step down after the November elections. “In my mind, the Paul Ryan health-care legacy isn’t necessarily about anything that has passed in the last couple of years,” said Charlotte Ivancic, who advised Ryan on health policy at the Budget Committee. Ryan told reporters yesterday that “of course more work needs to be done” on cutting Medicare and Medicaid spending.

Source: Washington Post April 12, 2018 13:07 UTC