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Pennsylvania canvassing report - Angry Bear

Oct 22, 2024 | angrybearblog.com | Eric Kramer

I am canvassing near Pittsburgh this week with a group of around 30. The first few days have been relatively uneventful. The weather has been beautiful. A few of my co-canvassers reported useful conversations, like one woman who wanted to vote but wasn't sure who the pro-choice candidate was. I have had one conversation with an undecided voter, a woman who spoke to me from inside her house.
Angry Bear may Be Down for Periods of Time

Oct 22, 2024 | angrybearblog.com | Bill Haskell
Medicare Part D Increases

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.
Opinion Piece "China's One-Child Economic Disaster"

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.
Candidates' Stances on Healthcare Issues, including Drug Pricing, Medicaid and AI

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.
Medicare Doctor Payment System is Not Keeping Up with Inflation

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.
Sites and Claims Creating a False Narrative Attributed Kamala Harris's Campaign

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.
More on Arizona Politics and one particular representative

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.
Reprising Arizona, November's Prop 138, and Driving

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.
California dreaming - Angry Bear

Oct 19, 2024 | angrybearblog.com | Joel C. Eissenberg

I've been to California a few times, for scientific meetings, for vacation and once for a friend's wedding. I've had a good experience each time. It has always struck me as an expensive place to live, though, and I'm definitely not a beach person. Elon Musk is warning us that the nation will become "Californicated" if Harris is elected. Considering that California's per capita GDP has grown faster than the nation's per capita GDP since at least 2011, that seems like a good thing.