You have to be joking. That was Ryan's entire focus the entire time he was in Congress. You can find all sorts of bills with his name on them, but other Republicans generally were too chickensh*t to sign on. Whatever else he was wrong about, he was always on the conservative side with that.
That was exactly what he tried to do with Obamacare. He wanted to convert it from an entitlement program to being block funded by the Feds...which of course meant that unlike entitlements, it would have to be renewed in every budget. But he lost when McCain voted against the bill that Ryan got through the House.
Democrats hated him for it, which was why they were dancing on his grave when he left Congress:
Will seniors and their families miss Paul Ryan in the U.S. Congress? Not a chance. His impending retirement lifts a dark cloud that has hung over older Americans – not to mention the poor, sick, and disabled – for nearly two decades. Speaker Ryan has spent his 11 terms on Capitol Hill fighting to enrich the wealthy and powerful, while undermining programs that serve as a lifeline for America’s most vulnerable citizens.
As America’s Privatizer-in-Chief, he spearheaded attempts to turn Medicare into a voucher program and to gamble retirees’ Social Security benefits on the whims of Wall Street. He passed legislation in the House to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid by imposing per capita caps and turning it into a block grant program. If the Senate had passed it, too, millions of low income Americans would have lost health coverage, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office. At the end of last year, Speaker Ryan muscled-through the Trump/GOP tax giveaway to the rich and profitable corporations, inviting deep cuts to seniors’ earned benefits. “We’re going to have to get back next year [2018] at entitlement reform,” he said last December, “which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.”
Here is a man who has been downright giddy while championing Scrooge-like policies from his powerful perch in Washington. In 2017, he gloated about gutting Medicaid in the House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “This is why I’m so excited about it… We are de-federalizing an entitlement, block-granting it back to the states, and capping its growth rate. That’s never been done before,” he told a conservative radio host. Ryan boasted at a National Review forum that he had been “dreaming” of cutting federal Medicaid funds “since you and I were drinking at a keg” – barely able to contain his glee about stripping health coverage from poor people.
https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/ farewell-paul-ryan-insidious-entitlement-reforms/ And here's a 2017 article about Ryan pushing entitlement reform, McConnell and others nixing it as too unpopular.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/27/ryan-mcconnell-congress-entitlements-medicare-social-security-314766
The hard truth is that in 2016, Trump ran against entitlement reform and promised he wouldn't touch Medicare or Social Security. He did change that position -- finally -- in 2020, but until then, he was openly against touching Social Security or Medicare.
As I recall, Ryan was wanting to make Medicare more progressive by cutting Medicare benefits for the upper middle class.
Then shouldn’t you and Ryan be blaming McCain instead of Trump?
(Whom, btw, championed Ryan’s bill)
Thank you.
This right here illustrates everything that is wrong with the establishment GOP. They only talk about how to shuffle money around rather than addressing the real problem.
In Ryan’s mind, the only problem with ObamaCare was its impact on the Federal budget. That’s pathetic. The REAL problem with ObamaCare was that it imposed all kinds of requirements for health insurance plans — none of which is a legitimate function of the U.S. government — that made those plans ridiculously expensive.
Ryan and the rest of the GOP got exposed as frauds when the Republicans ended up controlling Congress and the White House after the 2016 elections … because they were suddenly in a position to do something (repeal ObamaCare) that they had promised to do for years but had no intention of doing at all.