Ryan's approach in his first budget is the wrong approach. Ryan wanted to cut Medicaid without fixing the trade issues that are destroying our industries.
Medicaid is not the problem. Poverty is the problem.
"In FY 2011, total national Medicaid spending per enrollee was $5,790. When excluding “partial-benefit enrollees,” national spending per enrollee was $6,502. In general, states in the south tend to have lower spending per enrollee, while states in the northeast have higher spending per enrollee.Jan 28, 2015"
"NHE grew 5.8% to $3.2 trillion in 2015, or $9,990 per person, and accounted for 17.8% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Medicare spending grew 4.5% to $646.2 billion in 2015, or 20 percent of total NHE. Medicaid spending grew 9.7% to $545.1 billion in 2015, or 17 percent of total NHE.Mar 21, 2017"
The cure for that fiasco is to require members of congress to participate in everything they demand of the rest of us.