Joe Biden has made a career out of making Republicans’ dreams come true. From opposing racial school integration in the 1980’s, to helping usher in extremist Supreme Court Justices like Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, to helping design and implement the new Jim Crow system to writing what would become the sprawling attack on civil liberties and freedom called The USA Patriot Act, to pushing for the illegal and genocidal war on Iraq that has killed over one million people, mostly women and children, to making it harder for people to seek bankruptcy relief, Joe Biden’s right-wing bona fides are beyond reproach.
The current President of the United States is not one to rest on his reactionary laurels, however, and he’s currently in the midst of continuing George W. Bush’s mission of privatizing Medicare. Lever News has the report.
Last week, the Biden administration quietly reaffirmed its decision to enact the highest Medicare premium hikes in history right before this year’s midterm elections. At the same time, President Joe Biden is endorsing a plan to funnel significantly more Medicare money to insurance companies and further privatize the government insurance program for older Americans and those with disabilities.
In effect, the higher premium increases will subsidize the larger payments to — and profits for — private insurance corporations. This comes after Biden raked in roughly $47 million from health care industry executives during his 2020 campaign.
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