John Thune: “later today, we will vote on the Democrats' partisan messaging bill, which is a clean, 3-year extension of the Biden…”

“later today, we will vote on the Democrats' partisan messaging bill, which is a clean, 3-year extension of the Biden COVID bonuses. And when I say ``clean,'' all that I mean by that are no reforms, straight-up extension--3 years of a program without any reforms, any revisions, any changes that would actually help drive down healthcare costs instead of increasing healthcare costs and get rid of the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse in this program. The Democrats' plan--that the Democrat leader called it on the floor the other day. It is their ``plan.'' Apparently, they think that a 3-year extension with no reforms to try and disguise the real impact of ObamaCare's spiraling costs is actually a plan. I don't know how you can call it a plan. I came down here yesterday to talk at length about some of the many problems with ObamaCare and the perverse incentives it provides to move employees off of employer-provided insurance and into taxpayer-subsidized plans that have rampant year-over-year increases in premiums; the perverse incentives it provides to insurance companies to enroll Americans--some of whom don't even know that they have been enrolled--so that the insurance companies can rake in even more subsidies. And then this so-called plan is rampant--and I say ``rampant''--with fraud and abuse.”