GOP House Members Push Back On Biden Administration's Continued Efforts to Force 'Medicare for All'

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Radicals within the Biden administration's bureaucratic state are out of control. We've got Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission harassing businesses with frivolous and poorly-thought-out lawsuits, Rohit Chopra at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau worrying about "junk fees" and overstepping his authority, Julie Su at the Department of Labor pushing through a rule that will outlaw independent contracting nationwide, and Chiquita Brooks-Lasure at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gutting the popular Medicare Advantage program as part of an attempt to drive the country toward "Medicare for All."

 

As we've written about before, CMS is proposing to lower the insurer reimbursement rate for Medicare Advantage for the second year in a row - despite insurers and providers, like every sector in this economy, seeing huge increases in cost. In the opinion of some members of Congress and industry observers, these cuts are intended to weaken the popular program and eventually do away with it.

Why would radical progressives feel the need to do away with Medicare Advantage since it's still part of the government plan? Well, because the government doesn't fully run it, and bureaucrats have a slightly more difficult time making healthcare choices for individauls than they do in traditional Medicare, and because in that Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mindset the plebes all have to share the same miserable existence.