I started writing this a while back. Never put it up, was too busy doing other things like writing about healthcare and trying to finish a long post on pharmaceutical pricing replete with how the PBMs function and the kickbacks, discounts, chargebacks or rebates, cash discounts, free goods contingent on a purchase agreement, upfront payments, […] The post Duplicity in The Court’s Rulings appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Age of Warfare is Changing
Not quite star wars yet. The past and old age of warfare is changing as we watch the conflict in the Ukraine between one ill equipped small defender and the more modern equipped large attacker. It is only because of NATO and the US equipping Ukraine has the stubborn resistance held up. The lessons to […] The post Age of Warfare is Changing appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
LBJ, a man with gargantuan appetites and ambitions
I stole this comment from a place from I read on a regular basis. An Incredible commentary. Having grown up in that era, I felt it had merit and believe the commenter gets it right. The programs mentioned here are under attack by Republicans. SCOTUS is using nondelegation as the basis to dismantle programs. Congress […] The post LBJ, a man with gargantuan appetites and ambitions appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Your Subsidy Expires? What You Will Pay for Healthcare Insurance
As is typical, Charles Gaba at ACA Signups.net has the answers to the question. Charles does a lot more of this type of analysis such as the Healthcare’s Three – Legged Stool, ACA Enrollment, Risk Pools, etc. All three of these are at Angry Bear. I am not sure why Michigan state and federal legislators […] The post Your Subsidy Expires? What You Will Pay for Healthcare Insurance appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Not the Proud Ones or the Oathers this time
Amazing Republicans are trying to skew the peaceful (so far) protests of pro-choice consisting mostly of women as being violent. Not that they never get angry . . . they can and will. They are not happy with SCOTUS and are making it known peacefully. Cruz and others are trying to make this into something […] The post Not the Proud Ones or the Oathers this time appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Medicaid Estate Recovery imposed on Medicaid enrollees
; Andrew writes on healthcare, mostly the PPACA plan and the various metal plans, and the latest gig (ARPA) resulting in lower costs for anyone under 250% FPL and lower costs for anyone higher than 400% FPL. All made possible due to Biden and Democrat’s American Rescue Plan Act ;of 2021. It will expire EOY 2022 […] The post Medicaid Estate Recovery imposed on Medicaid enrollees appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes
In April 2019, “I finished an article entitled A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes.” I spent six weeks reading about this for a group which asked me to write on it from a male’s perspective. It took me all of that time. I could have doubled the size of the article I wanted to […] The post A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Political Supreme Court takes away the rights of Citizens
Who is Alito or the conservative court majority to decide what is best for women? The court is engaging in a pattern and practice of discrimination against a group of citizens which is of ‘general public importance (related directly or indirectly with the interest of citizens).’” I expected Prof. Chemerinsky to write on the SCOTUS intention […] The post Political Supreme Court takes away the rights of Citizens appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Dow Jones plunges 1,100 points today . . .
In midday trading, the Dow Jones industrial average slumping 3.3 percent. The S&P 500 index sinking 165 points, or 3.8 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was losing biggly, giving back 651 points, or 5 percent. I am not looking at investments today. The drop was wiping out the gains from the previous session’s massive rally. All […] The post Dow Jones plunges 1,100 points today . . . appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Leaking Alito’s draft overturning Roe v. Wade
Letters from an American May 4, 2022, Prof. Heather Cox Richardson Overturning Roe v. Wade The uproar over the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning ;Roe v. Wade ;continues. You can tell just how furious the reaction has been by the fact that establishment Republicans are desperately trying to turn the public conversation to the […] The post Leaking Alito’s draft overturning Roe v. Wade appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]