Democrats Plan To Snatch Medicare Dollars From Seniors To Subsidize Their Rich Friends
By: Christopher Jacobs
July 19, 2022
You really can’t make this stuff up. After Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he opposed a massive new tax-and-spending bill, how did Democrats respond? Beyond throwing bile at Manchin for nixing the latest version of Build Back Better, reporters said that “Democrats’ remaining best-case scenario is passing drug price reforms and a temporary extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies.”
Translation: A dozen years after Democrats raided Medicare to pay for Obamacare, lawmakers want to go back to the well again, plucking money from seniors to fund an extension of Obamacare insurance subsidies to the wealthy. It sounds like a line from a Democratic attack ad against Republicans — but it’s what Democrats want to ram through Congress in the weeks ahead.
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https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/19/democrats-plan-to-snatch-medicare-dollars-from-seniors-to-subsidize-their-rich-friends/
