Thanks to decades of bad policy – and four years of Bidenomics – America is facing an affordability crisis.
The news media tends to focus on the cost of groceries as the heart of the problem. But high grocery bills are a symptom, not the cause.
The greatest long-term cause of the affordability problem is the cost of health insurance. The Democrats say they want to lower health insurance costs – and they think extending supposedly temporary covid-era subsidies will do the trick.
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