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"Not a single other trustee has ever received compensation from an insurance company while acting as a Medicare trustee," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
"Let's be clear," the senator added. "If Mr. Kouzoukas ignores the fraud, he helps Clover. If he focuses on the fraud, he hurts Clover. The conflict of interest here is so big and so pervasive that there is no action that Mr. Kouzoukas can take that doesn't either help or hurt Clover, the company that pays him $100,000 a year to sit on its board and watch out for the company.", but the positions have been vacant for nearly a decade.
Progressives on Tuesday sounded alarm over a proposal tucked into a new House GOP budget blueprint that would establish a bipartisan commission to review and propose legislative changes to Social Security and Medicare.
The resolution urges Congress to "carefully consider the composition of the commission" so as to maximize the likelihood of producing legislation that can become law, lamenting that past commissions "included private-sector representatives from academia, economics, labor, and consumer interests."In the years since, lawmakers have occasionally dredged up the idea of creating a new bipartisan commission to examine and reform Social Security.
Next time you see a Republican crying crocodile tears about the deficit, remember that they voted against legislation that will save Medicare nearly $100 billion in the next decade. Not only will Medicare negotiation save the government money, it will also allow Medicare beneficiaries to keep more of their hard-earned Social Security benefits in the form of lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs. A separate provision of the Inflation Reduction Act, scheduled to begin in 2025, will cap out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries at $2,000 a year.
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