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Biden-Harris administration using taxpayer money to mask Medicare premium hikes before election: critics
'The program is in a death spiral,' former domestic policy advisor to former President Trump says
By
Jamie Joseph
Published
Maya
MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget, discusses concerns about the future of Social Security and
Medicare on 'Special Report.'
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.
Medicare health care card.(iStock)
Former
President Trump advisor 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.
Research
shows that a 65-year-old retiring today can expect to spend $165,000 on
health care in retirement, a 5% increase from last year and more than
double the estimate from 2002.(iStock)
"Fearing
the premium increases that the IRA redesign will impose on Part D
plans, CMS has now launched a new voluntary, nationwide demonstration
program that is neither a demonstration nor voluntary. Unlike this
massive subsidization scheme, demonstrations are supposed to be limited
in nature and test alternative features of program design," the
institute wrote. "As a result of the IRA changes, insurers that don’t
participate are expected to either be uncompetitive from a price
perspective or face significant losses – hardly a choice for insurers."
Research published by Fidelity,
an investment research group, shows that a 65-year-old retiring today
can expect to spend $165,000 on health care in retirement, a 5% increase
from last year and more than double the estimate from 2002.
Yet,
there appears to be a disconnect for many Americans between the actual
projected cost of health care in retirement and how much they expect to
spend on those expenses. The average American thinks they will spend
about $75,000 on health care and other medical expenses, less than half
of Fidelity's calculation, according to the research.
Hundreds
of New York City retirees protest outside City Hall on Broadway while
waiting to gain access to a City Council hearing on the matter.(Photo by Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
The
estimate assumes that an individual is enrolled in Medicare – including
Part A and Part B, which cover most hospital care and doctor's visits –
and Part D, which covers prescription drugs. Other expenses such as Medicare premiums,
over-the-counter medications, dental and vision care and other costs
typically not covered by Medicare are "left to retirees to manage on
their own," the report said.
As of April 2024, about 67.3 million
Americans were enrolled in Medicare, according to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. Of those, about half were enrolled in a
Medicare Advantage plan, while about 80% were covered by Medicare Part
D.
"They just want to get through the election," Grogan said.
"They're hoping after the election they can face it, but its gonna need
to be dealt with in the next 12–18 months. They did not believe it would
be this bad and its only gonna get worse."
Americans
are also dealing with a spike in the cost of prescription drugs, which
has surged nearly 40% over the past decade, easily outstripping the pace
of inflation.
Fox News Digital has reached out to CMS for comment.
Fox Business' Megan Henney contributed to this report.
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris Cast the Tie-Breaking Vote to Let the IRS Track Workers’ Tips to be Taxed (VIDEO)
by Cristina Laila109 Comment
Kamala Harris shamelessly stole President Trump’s ‘no tax on tips’ idea.
Harris has zero policies on her campaign website because the majority
of the American people are unhappy with crippling inflation and open
borders thanks to the Biden-Harris Regime.
What the fake news media is not reporting is that Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to let the IRS track workers’ tips to be taxed!
“Two years ago today, I proudly cast the tie-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act,” Kamala Harris boasted last week on Facebook.
The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ added more than 80,000 new
IRS agents to the agency to track tipped workers and $600 Venmo
payments.
“On this vote, the yay’s are 50, the nay’s are 50. The Senate being
equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the
bill as amended is passed,” Harris said in the August 7, 2022, video.
WATCH:
The media is covering Trump’s ‘no tax on tips’ proposal a lot more favorable now that Kamala Harris stole the idea.
As much as you hate the media, it’s not enough.
Only sharp-eyed readers will be able to spot the difference in the coverage of the two proposals. pic.twitter.com/h9PMWCZzDX
(Please read every word. then go to the link at the top and read more TRUE stories that they don't want you to see)
Minnesota Bar Owner Forced
into Bankruptcy By ‘Evil’ Tim Walz- “Watch the Fall of Minneapolis, and
You’ll See Who This Man Is” (Video)
by Margaret Flavin63 Comment
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz forced bar owner Lisa Zarza into bankruptcy over COVID policies./Image: Video screenshot.
Lisa Zarza ran several successful bars in Minnesota before Tim Walz’s draconian COVID rules forced her into bankruptcy.
Walz was such a tyrant that during the pandemic, he ordered police to shoot residents with paintballs if they dared to leave the confines of their homes to sit on their porches.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the hundreds of millions of dollars scammed from taxpayers under Walz’ watch.
Walz bragged about leaving his 87-year-old mother, who had just undergone heart surgery, alone in her home to fend for herself.
He even set up a snitch hotline for neighbors to report their neighbors for violating his draconian COVID restrictions.
According to The New York Post,
when shelter-in-place and business closures first went into effect in
March 2020, Lisa said she did everything she was supposed to.
But as the months wore on and the state slowly reopened, salons, bars and restaurants remained closed under Walz’s orders.
In October 2020, Zarza and a group of fellow bar owners defied the
order, an uprising that was quickly crushed by the Walz regime.
“I was threatened with arrests, I was threatened with
fines. At the end of the entire lawsuit, my lawsuit including Attorney
General fees was over $300,000. I filed personal bankruptcy,” she said.
Meanwhile, it was business as usual around much of the state, the bar owner raged.
“Everything else, literally Target, Walmart, Home Depot. Everyone was
open 100 percent. The same exact order that shut us down, opened them
all up,” Zarza recalled.
“He took away rights from the American people and from Minnesotans that he did not have a right to take.”
She said she was stripped of her licenses to operate and has moved her business to Wisconsin.
Zarza spoke to Fox & Friends First about the evil Walz deployed on Minnesotans.
Todd Piro: Meantime, Democrats are hoping that
putting Tim Walz on the ticket will be a way to reach out to rural
America. But instead, Walz is being deployed to a bunch of big-money
solo fundraisers this week, starting with the Newport Beach today before
hitting big cities like Boston and Denver and swanky neighborhoods like
the Hamptons.
But our next guest says Walz will only hurt the working class after
forcing her to close down her business and forcing her into bankruptcy
because of COVID lockdowns. Lisa Zarza is a former Minnesota bar owner,
and Lisa joins me now.
Lisa, in a New York Post article, you refer to Tim Walz as evil. Evil is a pretty strong word. Why do you call Tim Walz evil?
Lisa Zarza: I definitely think that Tim Walz is
evil. He closed down our state not one time, but two times. In November
of 2020, he decided that all bars and restaurants in our state needed to
close down, and he opened up all big stores, big box stores, Target,
Walmart, Fleet Farm, they were all opened up 100% a week before Black
Friday.
He was looking out for the big people. He wasn’t looking out for the
small businesses of Minnesota. He talks about being so small-minded for
small businesses. That’s not who this man is.
Todd Piro: You actually defied his orders, kept your
business open. What did the state under Tim Walz do to you when you did
that, when you fought back?
Lisa Zarza: They took my food service license,
essentially, and they suspended my food license, and then they revoked
my right to have a food license in the state. They revoked my right to
have a liquor license in my state for five years, which was later
overrun, but I lost two restaurants because of it. I owned two different
restaurants, and I was fined over $300,000 for it, lost two
restaurants, and bought a bar in Wisconsin.
Todd Piro: Okay, so you hear what happened last week
when they announced Tim Walz is going to be Kamala Harris’ running
mate. What’s going through your mind based upon Tom, your experience
with Tim Walz and being there for the common man, the bar owner like
you.
Lisa Zarza: That’s not who he is. It’s not who he was as a governor.
When I heard the news, I started crying and thought I was going to
maybe have a heart attack, the fact that not only did destroy the state
of Minnesota, but he was now going to have a hand in destroying our
country.
He doesn’t look out for the citizens. He doesn’t look out for us. He
looks out for big corporations, the big stores, the people feeding his
pockets. That’s not who Tim Walz is. He’s not some local farmer from
Minnesota.
Todd Piro: One thing Democrats are pretty good at,
especially during campaign season, is when they do X, they accuse the
Republican of doing X. Here’s what Tim Walz had to say about Trump’s
presidency during COVID. Listen.
(Tim Walz) “He froze in the face of the COVID crisis. He drove our
economy into the ground. And make no mistake, violent crime was up under
Donald Trump.”
Todd Piro: What’s your response? What goes through your mind when you hear that?
Lisa Zarza: This man left the city many Minneapolis
burn. He left our police officers in the city of Minneapolis. He left
them there while the George Floyd riot went on. This man, everything he
stands for on the media, if you look at his record in Minnesota, that’s
not who this man is.
Watch the fall of Minneapolis, and you’ll see who this man is.
Watch what he did to our state, to our children. Our kids were locked
down for longer than almost any other state. Our restaurants, our small
businesses were locked down longer than almost any state in the
country. What he’s saying on his platform, it’s not how he ran our
state, and it’s not how he’s going to run our country.
And you want to give him some kind of power in the white house?
Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME ??
“Get in the House!” – Tyrant Tim Walz Ordered Police to Shoot Residents on Their Porches with Paintballs During COVID (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft272 CommentsTim Walz ordered police to shoot residents on their porches with paint balls during COVID.
This guy is not only Stolen Valor, he’s a complete nutcase.
Governor Tim Walz ordered police to shoot residents on their porches with paint balls during the COVID pandemic.
In the video you can see police officers walking the streets of
Minneapolis on May 30, 2020, screaming at residents and shooting
paintballs at anyone who is sitting on their porch.
They called this ‘science.”
The man is crazy. That’s why they picked him for VP.
Via Midnight Rider.
Walz deployed 11,000 National Guard members to the city.
The Independent reported on this at the time.
Police officers and National Guard forces in Minneapolis
shot paintballs at residents standing outside on their porch, as a
curfew was enforced throughout the city.
A video posted on Twitter on Saturday night appears to show the
Minnesota National Guard and state police ordering the residents of one
street to go inside, before they turn their weapons on a group of
residents.
The footage captures people rushing inside the property after shots
are fired and shows where one member of the public has been hit by a
paintball.
