America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, May 30, 2022
NAFTA JOE BIDEN - FOLKS, MIDDLE AMERICA WILL BE PAYING FOR THE 'FREE' HEALTHCARE OF OUR ILLEGALS - THAT'S HOW WE KEEP THEM COMING AND VOTING DEMOCRAT FOR MORE
Kamala Harris: Medicare for All Includes Illegal Aliens
Harris, a guest on CNN's "State of the Union," said "I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy." She said she supports the bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
20 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absolutely Astonish You
Heritage Action for America Executive Director Jessica Anderson told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Friday that the left is “playing politics” with Americans’ health care by trying to hide the “true cost” of Obamacare.
Anderson spoke to Breitbart News as reports suggest President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats face a ticking “time-bomb” in the form of expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, subsidies.
Last year, Biden and his Democrat majorities passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the Democrats’ coronavirus aid bill. The bill, among other things, enhanced Obamacare subsidies beyond the ACA’s threshold for subsidies, or 400 percent of the poverty line. However, the enhanced subsidies are set to expire as Democrats have yet to pass another reconciliation bill, which can be passed along party lines, to continue funding the American Rescue Plan provision.
Given that Democrats do not appear to be close to passing a reconciliation bill with a provision extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, roughly 13 million Americans could get hit with higher premiums in late October, right before the pivotal 2022 congressional midterms.
Charles Gaba, a healthcare policy analyst, told Business Insider, “There’s no denying that if they are not extended, then there could definitely be a political impact.”
“If Congress lets the ACA premium help in the American Rescue Plan expire at the end of this year, middle-class people buying their own insurance would be hit hardest,” Larry Levitt, vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, wrote in a tweet. “They could face a double whammy of inflation and the loss of premium assistance, costing thousands of dollars.
Anderson blamed the left for setting up an untenable situation that will only make Americans’ lives worse as many families continue to suffer from inflation.
“The Left is once again playing politics with Americans’ health care and livelihoods in an election year. This time, they are trying to buy off voters right before midterms and cover up the true cost of their failed health care policies. The American people are already suffering from historic inflation, and the Left’s answer is to just keep pumping money into the economy,” she said. “Their cynical move won’t work. The American people want leaders who will provide more choices in health care, remove mandates that prevent doctors and patients from working together, and will reform federal health care programs to make them more effective while saving taxpayer dollars.”
Brian Blase, who served as a special assistant to Donald Trump for economic policy at the National Economic Council, explained in an op-ed this week why Congress should let the Obamacare subsidies from the American Rescue Plan expire.
He said:
The expanded subsidies were meant to be temporary relief for the coronavirus pandemic, not a permanent extension of the ACA
Continuing the expanded subsidies would lead to higher healthcare care prices and premiums
The expanded subsidies would lead to loss of employer health insurance coverage
The federal budget cost of the subsidies would only continue as employers drop employees’ coverage
The subsidies are an inefficient way of spending taxpayer dollars
Current healthcare obligations such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare already remain untenable portions of the federal budget
Continuing the subsidies would provide an “unfair benefit for wealthy households
Expanded subsidies would “mostly benefit” insurers
The extended subsidies would reduce work and economic output
Blase concluded his piece, noting that the enhanced Obamacare subsidies would only attempt to paper over the systemic problems with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He said that Congress has to reform the ACA’s regulatory structure, which has only limited Americans’ healthcare options and lowered the quality of health insurance.
The former Trump administration official wrote, “Congress needs to also reform the inherently flawed subsidy structure that wastes so much taxpayer money. These reforms could build on Trump administration actions that expanded options and better targeted taxpayer dollars to those who most needed them.”
He added, “Papering over Obamacare’s problems with additional taxpayer dollars is exactly the wrong approach and reduces Congress’s appetite for actual reforms.”
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3
JOE BIDEN: LOOK, THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT MY LITTLE SIDE GIGS AND BRIBES AND I KEEP THEM HAPPY LOOTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK!
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Ralph Nader: Biden's First Year Proves He Is Still a "Corporate Socialist" Beholden to Big Business
Most recently and dramatically, Biden lied about his knowledge of his son's shady dealings, lied about his own involvement in corruption and ribery, and lied about his current presidential agenda and what he wants to implement in regards to energy, fracking, court-packing, health care, education, and COVID among other issues.
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The U.S. health care industry has become a massive money-making scam, and in today's video, we are going to show the statistics that prove it. The United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the entire world, and even though we are the most medicated population on the planet, we are also one of the sickest. Amongst developed countries, we have the worst life expectancy and the highest infant mortality despite having to pay the highest prices for health care services by far. While millions of Americans are drowning in medical debt, big pharmaceutical corporations are recording billions of dollars of profits every year, but the quality of the health care that the U.S. population receives in return is rather quite poor.
Right now, health care bills cause more bankruptcies than anything else does. Millions of people are afraid to go to the hospital because they know that even a short visit could result in a gigantic financial burden that could devastate them for decades. Meanwhile, rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes continue to rise all over the nation. Considering the gigantic piles of money we shell out for health care, we should have the greatest system in the entire world. But we definitely don't, and this is a major indication that something has gone horribly wrong.
According to Brookings data, spending on health care in the United States has grown steadily over the past two decades, rising from $2,900 per person in 1980 to $11,200 per person in 2020, marking a staggering 290% increase.
With each passing year, health bureaucrats and greedy corporations get increasingly richer with the demise of the U.S. health care system while the rest of us go broke trying to pay for our health care. Over the past three decades, Americans had to face an absurd rise in medical bills and deal with insane levels of medical debt.
According to estimates released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2021 alone, 70% of Americans with medical bills had to lower their spending on food to avoid bankruptcy, while 59% had to dig into their savings, using most or all of it to cover an unexpected health expense, 41% were forced to take a second job to be able to pay their debt, and 37% had to borrow money.
Rather than doing something to address the abuses of the health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations, over the past two decades, U.S. politicians have actually come up with policies that gave these companies even more power. Under the current policies, our health care costs will go up even faster, and the quality of health care services will continue to go down.
Right now, the health care system in the United States is so broken that it probably cannot be repaired. The entire structure needs to be dismantled and completely reinvented if we want to see actual improvement. But considering that the wealthy bureaucrats are pretty confortable with their billion dollar profits, most of us won't likely see such a change happening in the U.S. health care system in our lifetime.
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Biden Continues Exempting China-Made Medical Supplies from U.S. Tariffs
President Joe Biden’s administration will continue exempting a number of China-made medical products from United States tariffs even as the Chinese coronavirus crisis exposed the nation’s over-reliance on foreign countries for vital supplies.
Late last week, the Biden administration announced that certain medical products made in China would continue to be exempted from U.S. tariffs. The tariff exclusion would have ended at the end of May but now they will be in place until at least the end of November.
The announcement means the Biden administration will allow China-made surgical gloves, face masks, hospital gowns, and medical devices to be sold in the U.S. market, free of charge.
Decades-long U.S. free trade with China, which continues gutting America’s working and middle class communities, has ensured the American economy relies on China and many other foreign countries for key supplies in medicine, tech, minerals, and other industries.
For instance, in 2020, the U.S. imported nearly $300 million worth of hospital and sanitary supplies made of paper — about 51 percent of which was made in China. Likewise, in 2020, the U.S. imported $470 million worth of rubber surgical gloves. More than 70 percent of those gloves arrived from Thailand and Malaysia while over 15 percent were imported from China.
Also in 2020, the U.S. imported over $7 million worth of clothing and accessories made of paper, including paper face masks that were used in the midst of the pandemic and continue to be used by medical professionals in hospital settings. Nearly 60 percent of those imports were made in China.
As Breitbart News reported, in the midst of the pandemic, small-t0-medium American manufacturers said they were not only not being awarded federal contracts to produce these vital medical supplies but that they were not even being contacted.
Though Biden has touted his infrastructure bill as a boost to American manufacturing, the legislation includes huge carve-outs where federal agencies can bypass “Buy American” rules for any infrastructure project.
From 2001 to 2018, U.S. free trade with China eliminated 3.7 million American jobs from the economy — 2.8 million of which were lost in American manufacturing. During that same period, at least 50,000 American manufacturing plants closed down.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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