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End The Raid On Florida Seniors’ Medicare

In 2022, the Biden-Harris administration and their liberal allies in Congress forced the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) onto the American public despite unified resistance from the GOP. The Republicans were right then, and they are right now. Democrats’ empty promises of reduced Medicare costs and better health care for seniors have been fully exposed. Older Americans nationwide, including Florida’s five million Medicare enrollees, are now feeling the impact. Liberals rallied behind the Biden-Harris IRA…

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Commitment to Seniors Unveils New Digital Video Advertisements Following Additional Biden-Harris Raid on Medicare

CONTACT: Michael DeSantis michael@americancommitment.org Washington, D.C. — August 14, 2024 — American Commitment’s Commitment to Seniors project has unveiled new digital video advertisements for its national and multi-state “End the Raid” on Medicare petition, grassroots mobilization, and paid media campaign. The advertisements, running in nine states and nineteen districts, underscore the adverse impacts of the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Medicare beneficiaries and taxpayers. Watch two of the ads here: Representative Tom Emmer…

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Commitment to Seniors Launches National “End the Raid” on Medicare Petition Campaign Urging Congress to Address Failures of the IRA Spending Bill

CONTACT: Michael DeSantis michael@americancommitment.org Biden-Harris Administration claimed the IRA would lower inflation and health care costs for older Americans; instead, it spiked premiums by 20% or more and raided an est. $260 billion in Medicare “savings” to help pay for costly special interest handouts like electric vehicle tax credits and subsidies paid to big insurers Washington, D.C. — August 1, 2024 — American Commitment’s Commitment to Seniors project has launched a national and multi-state “End…

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New Poll Shows Majority of Older Americans Say Democrats’ IRA Spending Bill Increased Health Insurance and Prescription Drug Costs

CONTACT: Stephen Manfredi smanfredi@manfredistrategygroup.com Just 12% say the IRA benefited consumers, patients, and families & nearly 80% want increased Congressional oversight on big health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers Washington, D.C. — June 26, 2024 — As part of its Commitment to Seniors initiative, American Commitment released a comprehensive poll conducted by KA Consulting, LLC. that explores ongoing concerns over healthcare costs held among Americans leading into the 2024 elections. Despite continued praise from…

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The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs

Americans are paying too much for prescription drugs. It is a common, longstanding complaint. And the culprits seem obvious: Drug companies. Insurers. A dysfunctional federal government. But there is another collection of powerful forces that often escape attention, because they operate in the bowels of the health care system and cloak themselves in such opacity and complexity that many people don’t even realize they exist. They are called pharmacy benefit managers. And they are driving…

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What Happens When Your Insurer Is Also Your Doctor and Your Pharmacist

America’s health insurers don’t say this openly, but it isn’t a secret that many of them would like to be a little more like UnitedHealth Group. Just as Amazon is the e-commerce industry’s 800-pound gorilla, UnitedHealth has built a sprawling health services company that shows no sign of slowing down. With annual revenue of $372 billion in 2023, it ranks among the five largest companies in the U.S. on that measure. Its stock, meanwhile, has…

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Biden’s War on Medicare

President Joe Biden’s full-frontal assault on Medicare is becoming visible to America’s seniors. It will result in fewer patient choices, reduced benefits, and ultimately worse health outcomes. Biden’s efforts, assisted by Congressional Democrats, are destroying Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage. Medicare Advantage was originally created as Medicare Part C in 1997 when I was Speaker of the House. It was introduced to create more comprehensive health plan options for seniors that…

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UnitedHealth’s Harms Reach Far Beyond Recent Cyberattack

This month, two committees in Congress hosted Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, to discuss the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of the health conglomerate. That attack crippled claims processing across the country for weeks. The head of the American Hospital Association declared it “the most significant and consequential incident of its kind against the U.S. healthcare system.”

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