Boots, Ryan might have been able to get enough votes to pass the bill if Republicans had resorted to bribery and extortion like Democrats did to pass Obamacare.  You may not recall how some Democrat members of Congress who were opposed to the ACA agreed to vote for it only if their states received special concessions and favors.  That is extortion.  Democrat leaders also offered Democrat holdouts special deals if they voted for the ACA.  That is bribery.   This is corruption made legal by members of Congress.   Ryan could have done the same thing but he did not stoop to such tactics because he is a person of much greater character than former Democrat leaders who forced Obamacare nightmare on us.