An AP News Analysis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now it's their turn to try to fix the health care mess. Republicans, just like President Barack Obama, may discover that's easier said than done.
The GOP budget expected to go to the full House this week would remake health care programs for the elderly and the poor that have been in place for nearly half a century. Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., says his approach would "save" Medicare by keeping the financially troubled program affordable for federal taxpayers.
But it turns out that people now 54 and younger would pay the price.
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