Ryan Plans Tweaks to Health-Care Bill to Help Older People
- House speaker seeks to increase tax credits for older buyers
- Cotton said he doubts bill as is will lower insurance premiums
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said he would “most likely” bring a health-care bill forward for a floor vote on Thursday, even as he seeks to increase tax credits to help older people buy insurance to tamp down concerns about moderate Republicans.
“We believe that we do need to add some additional assistance to people in those older cohorts,” Ryan said of the bill, known as the American Health Care Act, on “Fox News Sunday.” “That’s one of the things we’re looking at.”