During an appearance on The View earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new plan to expand home care for elderly and disabled Americans through Medicare. While Harris' campaign did not provide a budget, similar proposals have been estimated to cost about $40 billion per year. Harris says that her plan would be funded by redirecting wasteful Medicare spending, but experts warn that it would create further inefficiencies in the system and cost taxpayers billions.
Harris marketed the plan as a "historic new Medicare at Home benefit" meant to ease the stress on those she calls the "sandwich generation," referring to millennials caught in between having to care for both their aging parents and their children.
