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Oh ffs 🤦‍♂️ Pelosi reincarnate. “we got to pass it to see what’s in it”, amiright? Since when did the government ever fix anything that was bad when it started? They tend to always make everything worse mostly due to mismanagement.
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: FlyersFan
From the charts I am looking at from 2020 to 2023, you are right, it goes up and down. Isn't the prudent thing to do is at least give it a try and work out the kinks along the way?
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.
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.Â
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."
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."
originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: nugget1
If what you were saying was true it should be reflected in life expectancy, but it's not. The life expectancy in countries with healthcare systems that rank above the US tend to be higher.
originally posted by: Boomer1947
a reply to: Threadbarer
Or the French, or the Italian, or the Spanish, or the Japanese.
After traveling to countries that provide better health care than in the US at lower costs, it continues to blow my mind that Americans think it's impossible to do better than our current system. That idea is just based on ignorance and arrogance.