Ads warn that the Senate Democrats’ “reconciliation” bill “will strip $300 billion dollars from Medicare.” That’s wrong. The reduction stems from the cost of drugs becoming cheaper once the bill allows Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers over prices.
Here’s the narration of one"Higher gas prices, higher grocery bills, everything today is costing too much. Now, Congress is considering a bill that will strip $300 billion dollars from Medicare, money older Americans rely on for their medicine, their treatments, their cures. We are all paying more today, but stripping $300 billion from Medicare? It’s simply too much. So call Congress and tell them to oppose Biden's reckless spending package.
The ad misleadingly paints what is more accurately characterized as nearly $300 billion in savings for consumers and taxpayers.provides only a link to the ad, and no identifying information or even any pages beyond the homepage. When we asked a better-known group with a similar name, Americans for Prosperity, whether the American Prosperity Alliance was an affiliate, a spokesman, Bill Riggs, said,"This is NOT our ad and we are not affiliated with this group.
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