The analysis comes after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to Director Phillip Swagel of the CBO questioning the budgetary impact of this new demonstration program.

A release from Swagel’s department said the increase in federal spending would range from $10 billion to $20 billion in 2025 compared to earlier projections.

“As predicted, the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act not only quelled investment for new cures, but caused Medicare prescription drug plan premiums to skyrocket, and Democrats are scrambling to cover it up before the election,” Arrington said in a press release. “In July, the Biden-Harris CMS scrambled to create a new federal program that will send billions of tax dollars to large health insurance companies to cover up a massive flaw in their so-called Inflation Reduction Act.”

The new average plan bid for a standard Part D coverage increases by 179% for 2025 partly due to an underestimation of federal attributions to the Part D changes, according to the analysis.

Arrington continued, “Today, CBO confirmed that the administration’s election year Hail Mary will cost taxpayers an astounding $7 billion next year alone, and $21 billion over the planned three-year demo, adding to the more than $2 trillion in Biden-Harris executive spending.”

These plans typically expect monthly reinsurance, which means Medicare payments cover part of the costs of prescription drugs when the catastrophic threshold is reached.

Almost 60% of Part D enrollees are through Medicare Advantage plans and receive coverage through MA-PD plans. The rest are covered through what’s known as stand-alone prescription drug plans.

CBO expects the following changes for prescription drug plans in 2025:

• A $15 reduction for monthly PDPs. This would cost a total of $2.9 billion in federal funding.
• Increases in PDPs will be capped at $35 in 2024 and 2025, totaling $1.8 billion in federal funding.
• Risk corridor subsidies will increase for PDPs that have more than 2.5% of bids in 2025, resulting in $250 million of federal funding.

The budget office said the changes to temporary subsidies, combined with risk corridors, will increase federal spending by $5 billion in 2025, with $2 billion in net spending interest until 2034.

Policies included in the $891 billion Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 have changed the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit that was originally estimated to be $30 million over 10 years beginning in 2025.

This resulted in the sponsors of the Medicare prescription drug plan increasing plan bids and base beneficiary premiums for 2025 while reducing the number of plans that would be available to seniors in 2025.

“When Democrats unilaterally enacted major changes to Medicare two years ago, they set seniors up for new expenses and fewer options,” Grassley said in a release. “This nonpartisan CBO analysis confirms CMS’s cost-shifting plan is a dishonest election year gimmick to cover up those consequences.”

CMS is an acronym for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The program would send federal money to large health insurance companies while falsely lowering the cost for seniors Part D premiums and potentially costing $7 billion in 2025, according to the analysis.

Grassley continued, “Rather than coming to the table and legitimately addressing its partisan mistakes, the Biden-Harris administration threw taxpayer dollars at the problems it created, putting Americans on the hook for tens of billions more dollars.”

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a release, “Today’s final guidance for the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program builds off the success of the first 10 negotiated drug prices and continues the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to provide millions of people with Medicare affordable access to innovative therapies.”

This is a contradiction from the reported number taxpayers will pay that was stated in the analysis.

Brooks-LaSure continued, “While saving Medicare and taxpayers billions of dollars, the negotiated prices will also provide people with Medicare a better deal on some of Medicare’s costliest prescription drugs, promoting necessary competition in the market, and ensuring Medicare is strong today and into the future.”

The temporary subsidies, announced in July, affect both those enrolled and the federal payments to Plan D premiums in 2025, 2026 and 2027, though certain policies have yet to be announced for 2026-27, meaning no budgetary estimation for both years.

The budget office said it expects $100 million in 2025 from each organization that controls and collects payments from the government on behalf of Part D plans.

Continuing that most of that would have been paid for by enrollees in the Part D program through premiums, “For that reason, the effect of CMS’s subsidies on plans’ revenues is much smaller than the federal cost. By providing larger federal subsidies to prescription drug plans, the federal payments to Part D plans effectively cover costs that would have been borne by Part D enrollees.”

Langston and his co-conspirators orchestrated a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing for medical equipment and services that were never delivered. This fraudulent activity spanned several years and involved multiple shell companies to launder the illicit proceeds.

The case has drawn significant attention due to Langston’s connections to James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden. Critics argue that this incident raises questions about the Biden family’s business ethics.

Langston faces substantial penalties, including prison time and hefty fines. His guilty plea may also lead to further investigations into the network of associates involved in the scheme.

This high-profile case highlights the ongoing issues of fraud within the Medicare system and the importance of stringent oversight. As the investigation continues, it remains to be seen what additional revelations may emerge regarding the Biden family’s business connections.

Editor’s Commentary: As expected, this story is getting minimal play in corporate media. It’s barely being mentioned and when it is, they’re playing it off as a nothingburger.

This is NOT a nothingburger. It’s a huge story that centers around the Biden Crime Family itself. To pretend that Langston was acting alone and neither James nor Joe Biden were involved is ludicrous. The family has demonstrated over the decades that they are neck-deep in every illicit business dealing but have established levels of separation to allow for plausible deniability. The Clinton and Bush families need to be held accountable for their actions, but the Biden family is by far the worst of the clan.

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I doubt anything can wake up the ignorant insouciant American population, but perhaps the Biden regime’s rip-off of Medicare in the interest of Big Pharma profits can introduce some reality into American consciousness.

Recently I have had physical therapy for a shoulder injury hoping to avoid an operation and received two Medicare “summary notices” setting out the charges and payments.  Incidentally, Medicare cost me annually  five to ten times more in Medicare taxes than I receive in Medicare payments to providers.  This is because I am still working despite being well passed retirement age and am subject to the Medicate tax on income.  Then there is the surcharge for Medicare part B that is income based, and then there is the cost of the private supplement to Medicare as Medicare never pays the full cost of the bill.  On me, Medicare makes a large annual profit.

To get back to the subject: I noticed on my Medicare summary statement a charge of $96 dollars paid by Medicare for a March 23, 2023 billing by Mars Lab Services Inc, in Chicago Illinois for “provision of Covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fad approved, (K1034).” I was expecting no such tests.  None of my doctors had ordered such tests, and shortly afterwards a package of 8 tests appeared in my mail.

Apparently 8 tests were not enough.  Medicare paid $96 to Covigen Medtox Lab Inc. in Linden NJ for a May 2, 2023 billing of “provision  of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fad approved, (K1034).”

I now have 16 tests at Medicare’s expense for which I have no use. All of the tests came with expired dates, but with a notice that the FDA had conveniently extended the shelf-life of the expiration date.

Initially, I suspected fraud based on a previous experience (more below) and reported to an uninterested Medicare fraud division the mysterious receipt of covid tests.  However the second batch of tests came with a note that said “tests are totally free, paid for by the Government,” and “please do not return.”

Free to me but not to Medicare.

Why is Medicare paying for expired  covid tests to be sent to those on Medicare?  Is the Biden regime using scarce Medicare funds to buy up Big Pharma’s surplus covid supplies?  What else could it be?  Am I going to catch Covid 16 times?  How many tests will arrive on my next Medicare summary statement?

My suspicion of fraud or perhaps just a mistake of some sort was aroused by an earlier Medicare summary notice that reported that my Medicare account had been charged $1,994 for a billing from Alexandria DME, in Alexandria KY, Ordered by Edgar Bustamante  for 8 monthly shipments to me beginning July 14, 2022 and ending February 13, 2023 for “1 supply allowance for non-adjunctive, non-implanted continuous glucose monitor (cgm) includes all su (A4239-KFKXCG). 1 non-adjunctive, non-implanted continues glucose monitor or receiver (E2103-KFNUKXCG).”

None of my doctors ordered this for me.  I never received these items. My glucose has never been monitored.  I don’t know who Edgar Bustamante is.  I reported this as possible fraud.  It took about two hours to convince Medicare that I wasn’t forgetful or senile.  I have never heard from Medicare any explanation for why $1994 was charged to my Medicare account, leaving me with an amount “you may be billed,” which means my Medicare supplement, AARP, of $508.64.

Someone needs to investigate why Medicare is paying for expired covid products to be sent to those on Medicare.  Is this a Biden regime payoff to Big Pharma?  But who is to investigate?  CNN? NPR? The New York Times?  It will never happen.

The Republican House?  They are already buried in myriad investigations of the most utterly corrupt administration in American history.

Wherever you look in America, you see nothing but corruption.  Our totally corrupt country will not last much longer.

Article cross-posted from Paul’s blog.

At a recent health symposium, Biden HHS director Xavier Becerra announced: “We have issued some guidelines that say that a provider who receives Medicare and Medicaid funding, must be prepared to offer “gender affirming care.”

“If you want that Medicaid dollar to come to your state, we’re gonna make sure you check the box,” Becerra demanded.

Biden regime to force genital mutilation of children by leveraging Medicare and Medicaid programs

The 10th annual Aspen Ideas: Health symposium just concluded in Colorado, with various corporate media, Big Tech, and Big Government figures providing insight into their plans and motivations. The symposium featured medical correspondents from CNN, ABC, and NBC News and other health personalities like Chelsea Clinton from the Clinton Foundation. Anthony Fauci was there, too, along with Vivek Murthy, the disgraced US Surgeon General who also worked unconstitutionally with the Big Tech companies to censor dissent against COVID origins, lockdowns, and unlawful vaccine mandates.

Of note at the symposium was Biden’s Director of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, who sat down in a speech and threatened to cut Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals if they don’t allow for the hormonal castration and genital mutilation of children. Becerra refers to these gross violations of children as “gender affirming care” and is now pursuing a communist approach to enforcing these needless procedures on children across the United States.

“We have issued some guidelines that say that a provider who receives Medicare and Medicaid funding, must be prepared to offer “gender affirming care,” he demanded. “We unfortunately ran into a couple of circuit courts that said differently, and so we are now in the process of having to work under those rulings, but we are not going to stop – everywhere we have an opportunity at the federal level.”

Using classic doublespeak, he said: “Again, I go back to yesterday’s conversation. We do not control healthcare. We do not control how gender affirming care is provided or if it is provided. But where we have laws that require you to fulfill your obligations, if you want that Medicaid dollar to come to your state, we’re gonna make sure you check the box.”

Just like that, the US federal government announced their plans to coercively experiment on children’s psychology, pump them full of hormones that destroy their development, and push forth the mutilation of their private parts. This is the federal government plan to pushback against hospitals like the Texas Children’s Hospital, which recently announced they will stop mutilating children.

Over the last few years, the most macabre forms of child molestation have been incorporated into standard medical practices all across the United States. These practices are marketed as “gender affirming care” and are referred to as gender transitions that are necessary to save the lives of children who are on the verge of suicide. Now, in the spirit of communism, the federal government is threatening to withhold Medicaid and Medicare tax dollars from states if they do not go along with the psychological abuse, hormonal torture, and castration of children’s private body parts.

Where is the law and order on this issue that impacts the future generations? Will the courts hold the government accountable for leveraging these programs in a coercive and harmful manner?

Sources include:

• Twitter.com
• AspenIdeas.org
• NaturalNews.com
• Gender.News
• NATURAL NEWS

Why, then, do Democrats continue to claim Republicans are going after the two massive entitlement expenditures? At Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech, Joe Biden continued to gaslight over the issue. Thankfully, some Republicans pushed back. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene went so far as to scream out “liar” when Biden brought it up.

"Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I'm not saying it's the majority," Biden says.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Biden a "liar!" pic.twitter.com/zMO3M2IiBz

— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) February 8, 2023

Biden at least acknowledged that it’s not “most” Republicans. He said he had the receipts in the form of a proposal that was sent to him, likely by a handful of Republican lawmakers who rightly pointed out that Medicare and Social Security are unsustainable if reforms are not made immediately. But it’s toxic… and that’s the point.

Why do even lucid and otherwise fiscally responsible Republicans shy away from the important issue? It’s because Democrats desperately NEED them to fail. They NEED the burden of entitlements to cripple American taxpayers and lead this nation towards the inevitable forced adoption of Modern Monetary Theory.

There are only two possible ways to continue Medicare and Social Security. Either we make massive cuts across the board or we print money to cover the expenses. That’s it. The former will be unpopular among lawmakers who know cuts are the easiest way for them to lose elections. The latter would be pure devastation that prompts a complete economic collapse as more nations abandon the U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency.

I talked about all of this on today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show. I referenced this article below by Mary Margaret Olohan from Daily Signal.

Republicans Erupt, Call Biden ‘LIAR’ Over Medicare Claims

House Republicans booed President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening over the president’s claim that the GOP wants to cut Medicare and Social Security.

“Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years,” Biden said. “That means if Congress doesn’t vote to keep them, those programs will go away.”

“Other Republicans say if we don’t cut Social Security and Medicare, they’ll let America default on its debt for the first time in our history,” he added. “I won’t let that happen.”

His remarks elicited a strong reaction from the assembled lawmakers—many of whom can be heard loudly booing.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who had leapt to her feet, can be seen giving the president a thumbs-down.

“Liar,” she yelled.

The House Republicans’ Twitter account similarly denounced Biden’s claim, noting that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said that “cuts to Medicare and Social Security, they are off the table.”

“Joe Biden is LIAR,” the House Republicans account said on Tuesday evening. And the Republican National Committee’s Twitter account reminded users that “a decade ago, Biden repeatedly stressed the importance of NEGOTIATING the debt limit.”

And former President Donald Trump similarly slammed Biden in a Truth Social post, saying, “He’s lying so much about Social Security, Medicare, and so many other things!”

Joe Biden is LIAR. #SOTU

"Cuts to Medicare and Social Security they are off the table." – @SpeakerMcCarthy pic.twitter.com/DamVCUFkz7

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 8, 2023

“Social Security and Medicare are a lifeline for millions of seniors,” Biden continued. “Americans have been paying into them with every single paycheck since they started working. So tonight, let’s all agree to stand up for seniors. Stand up and show them we will not cut Social Security. We will not cut Medicare.”

“Those benefits belong to the American people,” Biden said. “They earned them. If anyone tries to cut Social Security, I will stop them. And if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I will stop them. I will not allow them to be taken away. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.”

Alternative Video Sources:

Hate of the Union: The REAL Reason Biden and Democrats Continue Gaslighting About Medicare and Social Security https://t.co/PD8gwYkQxV

— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) February 8, 2023