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Oct 22, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
A heads up on changes to Part D in 2025. Some you already know as a $2000 cap on Meds Part D. Premiums may increase. There is a chance for subsidies. Read on . . . Medicare, a federal health insurance program, is vital for Americans 65 and older. It is also for younger individuals with disabilities or severe illnesses. Established in 1965, it has evolved to provide essential medical coverage to millions.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
Recent WSJ subscription article on China and it trying to reverse its one-child per couple policy. Evidently the policy is leaving the country with a growing elderly population with no younger replacements to follow. It will now implement subsidies to encourage larger families to reverse the demographic decline of its own design. The Communist Party owns this one for a successful policy in reversing population growth.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
The article is talking around the issues. The country is calling on former drug company management to assist in taking down an industry giant. It probably will not succeed as many of these experts still have ties to the industry and the companies employing them. Think Azar . . . Pharma companies were using "value-based" analysis to determine old drug pricing even without improvement. This is precisely what HHS Alex Azar did at Eli Lilly with Humalog a decades old drug used to treat diabetes.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
There is a story here somewhere, I have to look at it a bit closer in what Medicare is doing. As you can see expenditures in the US are double or more than what occurs in other countries. Yet, the US life expectancy is less than other countries. It appears there is a cut which is largely the result of the expiration of a 2.93 percent temporary update to the CF at the end of 2024 and a zero percent baseline update for 2025. This is the current issue doctors are taking to task.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
Josh Marshall at TPM gives the details on an Elon Musk-funded PAC targeting Jewish and Arab communities. Elon Musk's Fake Sites and Fake Texts Impersonating the Harris CampaignI can see this type of targeting playing well in the city of Detroit where there are large communities of both Jewish and Arab communities . . . Dearborn being one such community. One action is to target a community with your support for a candidate.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
And Arizona has its share of nut-jobs too. One representative is more interested in controlling the lives of others. In particular those being the lives of women. And yes, one representative is making the right of women to control their lives an issue in Arizona. This is much like those creatures of control found in other states too. Arizona is a state where others can decide for you what the better course in life is to take.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
Living in Arizona has been a different experience than what we experienced in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Avoiding Winter is pleasant, but the heat of the summer keeps you inside. I believe it was a record year for the number of days above a certain temperature. Winter is shorter in comparison. Would I do the move knowing what I know now. The temperature is a factor we did not take much into consideration. A record year for temperatures being over 100 was not a thought.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
Please excuse two paragraphs of a personal insight up front here. I think it's pertinent. What follows are some serious research results, just out, that I think are hugely revealing about the ways of the (economic) world. I had a visit from an old and good friend recently: dad of one of my kids' best childhood friends, and in more recent years a business/investing colleague.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
I am very tired as of late. Having been working with our old server partner and getting prepared to go to a new server partner. The new partner appears to be more astute. Also working with our advertising partners to get better ads. Got a meeting with the VA next week to discuss my two years in and out of Lejeune and the water. Going through rehab the second time for my back. before they cut into it. Upcoming operation. Physical therapy going on also. Subscriber status to Civil Discourse.
