easyt65
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For all their talk about protecting seniors and Medicare, the progressive left views the program as a slush fund they can raid to pay for their big government scheme du jour.
Among the many, many policy feuds currently engulfing Democrats in Congress as they try to ram through a $3.5 trillion spending blowout, one holds particular irony. The progressive left—which has nailed its mast to the principle of “Medicare for All”—appears outraged that “moderate” Democrats object to raiding Medicare.
These “moderate” Democrats object to drug pricing “negotiation”—in truth a mechanism to impose government-dictated price controls—because they believe, rightly, that those price controls will reduce innovation. But the left, not to mention Democratic leaders in the House, want to ride roughshod over those objections because they need to raid Medicare to pay for the rest of their spending spree.
Remember how Barry told Americans Obamacare would do something no other government program in history had ever done - NOT COST A DIME and that it would PAY FOR ITSELF?
- Sounded good...until they started raiding Medicare
Hey, good news - Pelosi says the Democrats' self-serving, pork-filled, 'Infrastructure' deficit bomb costs absolutely NOTHING.
thefederalist.com
Among the many, many policy feuds currently engulfing Democrats in Congress as they try to ram through a $3.5 trillion spending blowout, one holds particular irony. The progressive left—which has nailed its mast to the principle of “Medicare for All”—appears outraged that “moderate” Democrats object to raiding Medicare.
These “moderate” Democrats object to drug pricing “negotiation”—in truth a mechanism to impose government-dictated price controls—because they believe, rightly, that those price controls will reduce innovation. But the left, not to mention Democratic leaders in the House, want to ride roughshod over those objections because they need to raid Medicare to pay for the rest of their spending spree.
Remember how Barry told Americans Obamacare would do something no other government program in history had ever done - NOT COST A DIME and that it would PAY FOR ITSELF?
- Sounded good...until they started raiding Medicare
Hey, good news - Pelosi says the Democrats' self-serving, pork-filled, 'Infrastructure' deficit bomb costs absolutely NOTHING.
Left Demanding Congress Raid Medicare To Pay For Obamacare Again
For all their talk about protecting seniors and Medicare, the left views the program as a slush fund they can raid to pay for anything under the sun.
thefederalist.com
