In the three weeks since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, despite her reluctance to say anything of substance about her platform, her record has come back to bite her again and again.
She opposed voter ID — but implemented it at her rallies. She stole President Trump’s “No Tax On Tips” policy, despite casting the vote that made tips taxable two years ago. And now, a government agency is scrambling to mitigate the effects of one of her votes, expected to triple the monthly costs of medicare, by offloading it on taxpayers until November.
The Daily Caller reports:
The Biden-Harris administration touted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as the end of the U.S.’s inflation woes. It was supposed to help with several economic issues, including capping out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries. However, Medicare beneficiaries will see significant hikes in their monthly premiums to compensate for the profit loss from the mandatory cap on out-of-pocket drug costs.
The last thing Harris needs during an election year is for millions of Americans to have increased monthly costs (with average bids for Part D plans expected to triple) after she voted to pass the IRA using her tie-breaking vote in the Senate. To keep premiums artificially low and help Harris avoid “potential voter backlash,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on July 30 that it would be subsidizing the premiums with taxpayer monies, Fox News reported.
CMS enacted the “demonstration project,” which will increase the taxpayer burden “from $30 per recipient per month in 2024 to $142.70 in 2025,” according to Fox. Critics told the outlet the move will likely not “survive legal scrutiny,” but that won’t matter because Harris just needs the premiums to stay low long enough to make it to the Nov. 5 election to avoid voter scrutiny from the over 67 million Americans enrolled in Medicare programs.
Harris hopes the millions of American Medicare beneficiaries won’t see or understand that the taxpayer subsidies keeping their costs low are only temporary. She wants to keep the bleeding at a minimum to keep her campaign afloat, but the move doesn’t fix the massive problems in our social benefits system. It only exacerbates a problem that won’t matter to her once the election is over and she’s won. But it’s going to matter a great deal to Americans who are already suffering under her administration’s economic policies.
Former Trump advisor Joe Grogan discussed the decision in an interview with Fox News.
“This is only going to get worse in 2025, 2026. The program is in a death spiral…The demo is going to fail. Premiums are still going to go up. They just want to get through the election. They’re hoping after the election they can face it, but it’s gonna need to be dealt with in the next 12–18 months. They did not believe it would be this bad, and it’s only gonna get worse.”
Sadly, that response could apply to any number of issues created by and facing the Biden-Harris Administration — and there are still three months to go.
You would have to be a moron or a communist to vote for this witch.
This coming election is not a popularity contest. We’re talking about the survival of our nation. If the Biden/Harris destruction our country should continue for another four years it will look like Venezuela on steroids. We need to hold our noses at the voting booth and return Trump to the White House, period! It will only be for four years. If Kamala becomes president, you can rest assured they will find a way to keep her there for a second term, and the Republicans will never see the White House…ever again!!