Health tweak ‘aids elderly’

The GOP health-care plan will be updated with more generous tax credits for older Americans to buy insurance, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, noting he’s confident it will pass because President Trump “has become a great closer.”

Ryan said that addressing concerns the Republi- can ObamaCare replacement plan will especially hurt low-income people over age 50 will be part of this week’s “fine-tuning.”

“We believe that we do need to add some additional assistance to people in those older cohorts,” Ryan told Fox News Sunday.

The plan has been flatly rejected by Democrats, while conservative Republicans argue it doesn’t go far enough to undo government intrusion into health care.

But Ryan said of getting the plan through the House on Thursday, “The reason I feel so good about is because the president has become a great closer.”