Kamala Harris for President

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In a move critics say is designed to shield the Biden-Harris administration from election fallout, the administration has leveraged taxpayer funds to mask upcoming increases in Medicare premiums.

Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), 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. However, despite the appearance of relief, some critics are saying that taxpayers will fund a dramatic increase in subsidies — from $30 per recipient per month in 2024 to $142.70 in 2025 — raising concerns about the long-term impact on government spending and debt.

Former President Trump adviser Joe Grogan has criticized the maneuver, arguing that it merely shifts costs rather than providing real relief.

"They've destroyed Part D premiums," Grogan told Fox News Digital in an interview. "I'm not sure it'll survive legal scrutiny if someone were to sue. Objectively, it shouldn't be done. It's just interjecting $5-$10 billion of taxpayer dollars, while the taxpayers are paying the price 85 days before an election. It's sickening."

"This is only going to get worse in 2025, 2026," Grogan continued. "The program is in a death spiral. They announced a three-year demo. It's already broken. The demo is going to fail. Premiums are still going to go up."

Paragon Health Institute, a health care research group, called the CMS demo plan a "fake, costly demonstration," in a recent analysis.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-harris-administration-using-taxpayer-money-mask-medicare-premium-hikes-before-election-critics

Thank you for sharing this objective criticism coming from Donald Trump's advisor, Joe Rogan.

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Old people singing on a porch is "cringey?" Wow, that's a pretty weird take.

You’re missing that they don’t menstruate anymore so they have no value.

It appears at least three of those singers are men.

Bu gotcha on the point

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Anonymous wrote:I have a $10 bottle of salad dressing that was $5 less than a year ago.

Now what? What will a Harris administration do to fix that?

What will Trump do? She's going after price gouging. Can't do anything about the past -- which, as you know, affected every other country as well and with a worse recovery than the U.S.

"She's going after..."

What does that even mean?

Supporting the House and Senate to pass anti-price-gouging bills.

The Dems offered one up post COVID and the GOP voted it down.

So, try again but this time, hopefully with a majority in both the House and Senate.

Uh, it's a product or service. Purchase it or don't.

There's no such thing as price gouging. No one is forcing you to buy anything.

This is really f'n basic stuff.

“There’s no such thing as price gouging.” Except that’s exactly what’s been happening. From March:

“Large grocery store chains exploited product shortages during the pandemic by raising prices significantly more than needed to cover their added costs and they continue to reap excessive profits, according to a Federal Trade Commission report.

The grocery giants also used their marketing power and leverage to widen their advantage over smaller competitors, according to the report, titled “Feeding America in a Time of Crisis.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/21/ftc-report-grocery-chains-gouge/73059901007/

https://www.ftc.gov/reports/feeding-america-time-crisis-ftc-staff-report-united-states-grocery-supply-chain-covid-19-pandemic

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In a move critics say is designed to shield the Biden-Harris administration from election fallout, the administration has leveraged taxpayer funds to mask upcoming increases in Medicare premiums.

Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), 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. However, despite the appearance of relief, some critics are saying that taxpayers will fund a dramatic increase in subsidies — from $30 per recipient per month in 2024 to $142.70 in 2025 — raising concerns about the long-term impact on government spending and debt.

Former President Trump adviser Joe Grogan has criticized the maneuver, arguing that it merely shifts costs rather than providing real relief.

"They've destroyed Part D premiums," Grogan told Fox News Digital in an interview. "I'm not sure it'll survive legal scrutiny if someone were to sue. Objectively, it shouldn't be done. It's just interjecting $5-$10 billion of taxpayer dollars, while the taxpayers are paying the price 85 days before an election. It's sickening."

"This is only going to get worse in 2025, 2026," Grogan continued. "The program is in a death spiral. They announced a three-year demo. It's already broken. The demo is going to fail. Premiums are still going to go up."

Paragon Health Institute, a health care research group, called the CMS demo plan a "fake, costly demonstration," in a recent analysis.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-harris-administration-using-taxpayer-money-mask-medicare-premium-hikes-before-election-critics

The government isn’t raising the premiums. Private insurers are raising the premiums because that’s what private insurers do. This was always the flaw in the Bush design of Part D. The government has to continually subsidize and/or coerce insurers and drug companies to keep Part D costs reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:Empty words. "Targeting price gouging".

Solicits an emotional response.

She won't do anything. The bottle of salad dressing will remain $10 until sales go down. She can't do anything.

Yes, she can, in concert with the House and Senate. Remember Schoolhouse Rock and "I'm just a bill?"

The House and the Senate are not going to pass such ridiculous legislation.

Why not? If companies are ripping off consumers to excess profit and the GOP calls that "inflation" then why shouldn't there be more regulation around it to help protect American consumers?

If you don't want to be regulated, then don't take the subsidies. If you take subsidies, then expect to be regulated. Agri-business can decide which they want, but they shouldn't get both.

The problem is not price gouging. That is a red herring by the Democrats to deflect from the fact that is was the policies of the Biden/Harris administration that caused the inflation - namely, out of control spending, over regulation, and higher fuel prices.

Haha. These things rich people hate must be the cause of all our problems!

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Anonymous wrote:People saying stuff like there is no such thing as price gouging refuse to believe that anyone could use their property rights and an urgent need to leverage profits well in excess of anything resembling reasonable compensation for the labor, cost, innovation, and risk the owner undertook to create the product.

They'll say government has no business regulating the transactions while completely ignoring government's role in creating the property right in the first place - never mind the extensive government infrastructure in place to protect and enforce property rights.

There is no "reasonable". There's supply and demand. If I don't sell enough, I lower the price. If too many people want the product, I raise it.

You sweet summer child.

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Anonymous wrote:Daily reminder that nothing will improve if Kamala Harris is elected president. In fact, things will get worse due to her general incompetence, and on top of it, we'll all have to spend years listening to her moronic statements. Vote with your brain. Not for the "vibes."

My brain is never going to tell me to vote for a dude that hallucinates helicopter rides with the mayor of San Francisco. Is yours?

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+1 Harris and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years and things have progressively gotten worse for Americans.

It was all unicorns and roses four years ago. Headlines from The New York Times for Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020:

Postal Service Warns States It May Not Meet Mail-In Ballot Deadlines
State and Local Budget Pain Looms Over Economy’s Future
Families Priced Out of ‘Learning Pods’ Seek Alternatives
When Trump Calls a Black Woman ‘Angry,’ He Feeds This Racist Trope
Clinical Trials of Coronavirus Drugs Are Taking Longer Than Expected
Obesity Raises the Risk of Death From Covid-19 Among Men

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Anonymous wrote:Daily reminder that nothing will improve if Kamala Harris is elected president. In fact, things will get worse due to her general incompetence, and on top of it, we'll all have to spend years listening to her moronic statements. Vote with your brain. Not for the "vibes."

+1 Harris and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years and things have progressively gotten worse for Americans. When polled a majority of Americans feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. What do people think is going to happen with 4 more years of this?

And, Harris is trying to distance herself from these policies that are supposedly just great......

Has anyone told "RNC Research" about the actual inflation rates?

What are the actual inflation rates? Whatever the Bureau of Labor Statistics decides to put in their "basket of goods" this month and revising numbers downward later on?

The inflation rate pre- and post- pandemic are about the same. The period from 2021-2023 was largely caused by the pandemic, which shut down production, manufacturing and shipping. It created a massive shortage of goods world-wide that has caused inflation on a global scale. The US did not suffer nearly as much inflation and recovered better than virtually all of the rest of the world.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/244983/projected-inflation-rate-in-the-united-states/

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Anonymous wrote:Daily reminder that nothing will improve if Kamala Harris is elected president. In fact, things will get worse due to her general incompetence, and on top of it, we'll all have to spend years listening to her moronic statements. Vote with your brain. Not for the "vibes."

+1 Harris and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years and things have progressively gotten worse for Americans. When polled a majority of Americans feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. What do people think is going to happen with 4 more years of this?

Source?

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OMG 😂

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Anonymous wrote:OMG 😂

Conservatives have reached the points where they think sounding happy means you are drunk or high.

Weird.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG 😂

Conservatives have reached the points where they think sounding happy means you are drunk or high.

Weird.

No she sounds like she is drunk. Maybe she took something to ease her nerves.

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Anonymous wrote:Daily reminder that nothing will improve if Kamala Harris is elected president. In fact, things will get worse due to her general incompetence, and on top of it, we'll all have to spend years listening to her moronic statements. Vote with your brain. Not for the "vibes."

+1 Harris and Biden have been in office for 3 1/2 years and things have progressively gotten worse for Americans. When polled a majority of Americans feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. What do people think is going to happen with 4 more years of this?

And, Harris is trying to distance herself from these policies that are supposedly just great......

Has anyone told "RNC Research" about the actual inflation rates?

What are the actual inflation rates? Whatever the Bureau of Labor Statistics decides to put in their "basket of goods" this month and revising numbers downward later on?

The inflation rate pre- and post- pandemic are about the same. The period from 2021-2023 was largely caused by the pandemic, which shut down production, manufacturing and shipping. It created a massive shortage of goods world-wide that has caused inflation on a global scale. The US did not suffer nearly as much inflation and recovered better than virtually all of the rest of the world.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/244983/projected-inflation-rate-in-the-united-states/

The Republicans in the previous admin did a great job of setting us up to succeed!

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Anonymous wrote:OMG 😂

Conservatives have reached the points where they think sounding happy means you are drunk or high.

Weird.

No she sounds like she is drunk. Maybe she took something to ease her nerves.

Agree— plus I think she resents having to appear with Biden.