With friends like these, who needs enemies? That’s perhaps the most charitable way to describe a report released by the Joint Economic Committee regarding Medicare Advantage last week.
Lest readers make the same mistake that multiple reporters did last week, the “joint” in the JEC’s name means the committee is bicameral — i.e., composed of members of the House and Senate — not bipartisan. Last week’s report was released solely by JEC’s Republican staff, supervised by Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., a fact that makes it all the more inexplicable.
