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

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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?

Has anyone told you that inflation spiked under Biden/Harris and prices have never come down?

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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?

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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......

Read the headline on the (Murdoch owned) newspaper

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vances-investment-firm-narya-got-canceled-by-the-state-of-delaware

https://ohiodems.org/j-d-vance-got-caught-lying-about-his-business-record/

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/jd-vance-venture-capital-career


But I'll bet Trump thought he is another great businessman.

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🔥🚨HAPPENING NOW: This 20-year-old Black woman shocked MSNBC after she exposed how Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s economy has failed young Americans:

“Why is a one bedroom apartment $1600? Rent prices are outrageous. And these jobs?! They're bare minimum jobs..I really waited my whole life to do THIS?”

Nobody on MSNBC expected this, they select people they believe will support their candidates, this also proves that they believe they have every Black woman brainwashed, they thought wrong.

So, the president is responsible for what a landlord wants to charge for rent? Didn't the agriculture discussion just establish market forces set prices and people are free tot take it or leave it? No one is forcing this person into a low paying job or a high rent apartment.

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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?

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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?

They feel America is headed in the wrong direction because Trump and the MAGAs are trying to recreate something between the 1850's and 1950's.

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I dislike Vance but if he talks like this during a TV debate, Walz will be in big troubles. Vance had a great press interview in WI as well. Vance makes every sentence count, while Walz rambles on like old fashion labor union activist.

JD Vance's Senate record: No new laws, but a platform to spread ideas
By Harri Leigh Washington, D.C.
PUBLISHED 4:00 PM ET Jul. 19, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his 19 months in the Senate, vice presidential candidate JD Vance has not sponsored or co-sponsored any legislation that became law. He used his platform, however, to spread his ideas, which in some cases differ from those of fellow Republicans in the chamber.

What You Need To Know
JD Vance has not sponsored or co-sponsored any bills that became law

Vance has introduced measures countering culture war issues like mask mandates, diversity initiatives and sanctuary cities

Vance has gone against most in his party to support some measures, such as to provide more funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program
As a freshman senator in the minority party, none of the 57 bills Vance sponsored since entering office last year passed the Senate. Of the 288 he has co-sponsored, 37 passed the chamber. Two resolutions he co-sponsored made it past the House, but were then vetoed by President Joe Biden.

Vance has said passing legislation takes time.

🔥🚨HAPPENING NOW: This 20-year-old Black woman shocked MSNBC after she exposed how Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s economy has failed young Americans:

“Why is a one bedroom apartment $1600? Rent prices are outrageous. And these jobs?! They're bare minimum jobs..I really waited my whole life to do THIS?”

Nobody on MSNBC expected this, they select people they believe will support their candidates, this also proves that they believe they have every Black woman brainwashed, they thought wrong.

We're back on inflation given the stock market narrative dried up?

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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......

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?

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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.

So when COVID happens and the same milk or egg price triples, there is nothing that should be done about it?

Y'all been complaining about "inflation" for 3 years. The inflation passed, this is price gouging the consumer.

Nope. Nothing can be done.

If you tell me I have to sell X for $Y, I'll walk away and sell somewhere else. You'll create black markets and shortages.

Uh no. That's only if there are supply constraints. If you're a monopoly, then you can dictate the price and create excess profits. Those monopolies can be broken up or regulated. You can also tax excess profits. That won't create shortages and will be hard to create black markets.

Uh no. I've have the subject matter expertise to produce and distribute the product. I'll just put it on a boat and move it overseas OR offshore altogether. Half of the companies you are talking about are not monopolies and the other half aren't even in the U.S.

Don't know why you suddenly went to "monopolies". Was that easy thinking for you?

You are going to offshore milking cows or chicken-laying-eggs?

Well, we send a huge amount of water to Saudi Arabia in the form of alfalfa from Arizona (farms often Saudi-owned) for their cows. Not as if Arizona doesn't need it, either.

^^ fyi the marketing boards don't buy or sell stuff, they just promote products.