Kamala Harris is well known for her confusing, inconsistent, and tragically hilarious word salads. Her most frequent trip back to the salad bar is when she asks her supporters to imagine, “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
Two years ago, Harris exercised her one constitutional responsibility as vice president and broke the 50-50 tie on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a seminal part of the Biden-Harris administration’s “Investing in America agenda.” She owns responsibility for the damage to Medicare that it has done.
Among the more damaging provisions the Biden-Harris regime snuck into the IRA were measures to expand the federal healthcare bureaucracy by $3 billion. Every clear-thinking person on the planet knows that healthcare dollars should be spent on healing patients rather than hiring bureaucrats or on enriching middlemen, like massively wealthy pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Yet under the aegis of “reducing inflation,” the Democrats have sought to drown patients and providers in a sea of restrictions, regulations, and waste. Indeed, as one expert sounded the alarm before Congress, the IRA law empowers politicians and bureaucrats – many without any medical expertise at all – to rule on healthcare policy in secret, bypassing public notice and accountability.