By Rick Manning
Kamala Harris still clings to the disastrous idea of imposing price controls as a response to inflation at the grocery store, blaming farmers and grocers for the Biden-Harris administration’s failed farm and inflation policies.
As Vice President, after Harris cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote in the Senate causing the falsely labelled Inflation Reduction Act to become law, she should be acutely aware of the failure of price controls in controlling costs.
Hidden away in the law, was a disastrous change in our nation’s Medicare laws which purported to cap prescription drug costs, while instead causing prescription drug prices to skyrocket.
Seniors are old enough to remember when doctors wrote prescriptions based upon the patients specific circumstances, but the Harris Medicare debacle has caused drug costs to increase 20 percent this year with an estimated 50 percent increase in 2025.
But the Harris-passed law is slicker than a 3-card monte player on the streets of New York, when it comes to hiding the cost increases past election day having temporarily subsidized the big insurance companies to pay for it.
And where did they get the money, you ask?
That’s right, you guessed it, right from the very Medicare Trust Fund which is already perilously close to collapsing.
Talk about bait and switch, all to keep the big insurance companies quiet until they can raise senior’s prescription drug costs in 2025, free from the protests of pesky voters.
But wait, there’s more!
The Harris IRA scam also created a new $3 billion bureaucracy at the very time it should be cut. Because the issue has never been about drug costs, but instead it is about power and control. Lots of new bureaucrats hired specifically to get between you and your doctor. Does anyone besides Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders actually believe that having more government bureaucrats making health care decisions from Washington, D.C. rather than individual doctors in conjunction with their patients, will end up being good for patient health?
But if that doesn’t make you mad enough to spit nails, get this – Biden-Harris have also transferred about $300 billion from the Medicare Trust Fund to pay for Electric Vehicle subsidies and health care for illegal aliens.
Let me repeat that, Kamala Harris’ vote to pass the fake Inflation Reduction Act into law, allowed the already struggling Medicare Trust Fund to be raided so that the wealthiest Americans can pay less for their electric vehicles and people who the left for years insisted would never benefit from Obamacare, have their health care subsidized by the Medicare contributions taken from our paychecks through payroll taxes.
Remember when Representative Joe Wilson shouted, “You Lie” at then President Obama when he claimed that illegals would not have access to Obamacare? Well, not only do they have access to the government health care system, but Kamala Harris has made it so your Medicare payroll tax is paying for it.
One has to wonder when Representative Wilson will receive his apology after being proven right repeatedly over the past decade?
So, bottom line, be aware when a politician like Kamala Harris promises that she can control prices with the wave of her broomstick. In the case of Medicare, she merely stole money from the Medicare Trust Fund to pay big insurers before election-day, and will let the prices go through the roof once the voting is done. After all, in 2025, she can pretend it is someone else’s fault.
The author is president of Americans for Limited Government.
