Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to point out glaring problems and inadequacies with the Inflation Reduction Act, which Democratic leaders recently announced after months of negotiations with coal millionaire Joe Manchin.
of the BBBA would have done. And, while it would cap insulin prices at $35 a month for people with health insurance, it would do nothing for those without health insurance, Sanders pointed out.
Though he gave limited praise to provisions of the IRA that would extend and expand the Affordable Care Act, the Vermont senator said that the proposed health care provisions do not go nearly as far as needed to resolve major health care shortages in the U.S. “This bill does nothing – absolutely nothing – to reform a dysfunctional, broken health care system which is based on the greed of the insurance industry, does nothing to address the fundamental crisis of the United States paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for health care, while over 70 million of us are uninsured or underinsured,” he said. “Doesn’t even touch that.”
Sanders also said that, while there are laudable clean energy provisions in the bill, it is far smaller than what the BBBA had proposed to tackle the climate crisis. Worse,large concessions to the fossil fuel industry which climate advocates say would almost completely undermine the provisions aimed at reducing emissions.
“The very bad news that very few people in the media or in Congress want to talk about is that this proposed legislation includes a huge giveaway to the fossil fuel industry – both in the reconciliation bill itself and inThe proposed bill is so friendly to the fossil fuel industry that corporate executives from companies like Exxon
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