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Subject: The Harris / Biden adminstration caught sticking it to the taxpayers again.
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:12:59 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Vice President Kamala Harris is facing backlash for vowing to secure
the Medicare trust fund, as critics point out her administration's
move to tap into it to offset premium hikes.
Both Harris and former President Donald Trump participated in a survey
by the leading advocacy group for Americans over 50 years old the
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) covering social
security and health care issues.
"I will always fight to protect and strengthen Medicare for this and
future generations," Harris told AARP last week.
"That includes securing the Medicare trust fund and making sure that
big corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, which,
by the way, they can afford to pay," she said.
In a move critics say is designed to shield the Biden-Harris
administration from election fallout, the administration was
discovered this year to have leveraged taxpayer funds to mask upcoming
increases in Medicare premiums.
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, which was intended to cap
out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries, insurers are
poised to significantly hike monthly premiums, with average bids for
Part D plans expected to triple by 2025.
In response to potential voter backlash, the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out a three-year "demonstration
project" to subsidize these premiums, aiming to keep them artificially
low.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/highway-robbery-critics-blast-vp-harris-violating-medicare-trust-fund?intcmp=fb_fnc&fbclid=IwY2xjawF3mvhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXJNLOZ5-JB9uxnmCi6HkIACKU08o9NyUZbwAjna64kVMPhRdKQUBBBZCA_aem_PLLh0oNWZMM9-MuWXywguw