As I read Dean Baker’s perspective on Low Income families, I find it hard to believe. The market in the Southwest has dried up due to high prices and interest rates. One or the other has to be lower to attract buyers. Builders have not lower prices and bank rates have remained high. One builder […] The post Census and WaPo at Odds Over Effect of Inflation on Low-Income Families appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Five Stats making ASC Healthcare execs nervous
As I have said before, I get many things in my In-Box. Beckers Healthcare ASC News Review is one of them. If you do not know what an ASC is, I have included a definition. U of M Hospital has a few of the around Ann Arbor. Ambulatory Surgery Center = modern health care facilities […] The post Five Stats making ASC Healthcare execs nervous appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Don’t Cry for Arizona Yet, We Are Getting There
I am sitting here in Arizona in Pinal County. Pinal County is a small and rapidly growing county. The small city I live-in is growing with leaps and bounds. Builders are adding homes with a rapidity I have never seen before. Or at least they were. Mortgage rates and greedy builder’s prices has caused the […] The post Don’t Cry for Arizona Yet, We Are Getting There appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Wages versus Product Markup
Courtesy of EMicheal in comments. Kind of the point, I have been making for a while now. Labor wages are not the big driver of inflation. Corporations are increasing non-cost related prices and blaming it on inflation. But it’s not because of inflation. It is a cause of inflation. The public newscasters are selling their wares, ignorance, or lies […] The post Wages versus Product Markup appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Assessment: President Biden’s First Year, Successful? You decide.
As we hear how poorly the economy has been doing, I thought I might review Biden’s first year in office using six graphs from CEPR. I only wish the economy was this poor in 2008 when I forced to seek jobs out of state and work out of state for four years. I was good […] [Read More...]
Aggregate Medicare payments to Medicare Advantage plans
Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans were to be the private plans able to deliver more and better healthcare than FFS Medicare. MA plans does offer more services than FFS Medicare. It offers similar services at a higher cost than ordinary Medicare costs. This is accomplished by over coding healthcare issues of participants which in turn […] The post Aggregate Medicare payments to Medicare Advantage plans appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
“Whacking Labor” to Fight Inflation and Fix the Economy
It is refreshing to see Dean Baker using one of the words I use to describe what the FED does when they are hiking Interest Rates. Those FED actions do not create results over night. Because they can’t, read on. Powell appears to be frustrated by the lack of economic slowing. Maybe there are other […] The post “Whacking Labor” to Fight Inflation and Fix the Economy appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
What the IRA could mean for PBMs
“What the Inflation Reduction Act means for PBMs” Times of News This is a strange little article trying to fill a gap in knowledge. The italicized sentences are mine. It does make some sound points on PBMs so I kept it. If you can get into Seeking Alpha or Modern Healthcare, you may find a […] The post What the IRA could mean for PBMs appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
$1.6 billion to Right-Wing Org. – Marble Freedom Trust
Ninety year-old electronics company executive Barre Seid donates his funds to a new right-wing organization. Marble Freedom Trust, is controlled by Leonard A. Leo, the co-chair of the Federalist Society, who has been instrumental in the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court. Leo has also been prominent in challenges to abortion rights, voting rights, climate […] The post $1.6 billion to Right-Wing Org. – Marble Freedom Trust appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Ridding the Post Office of Louis DeJoy
David Dayen: The president may soon have an opportunity to remove Louis DeJoy. Later in December of this year, two postal governor spots will be open. The terms of Republican William Zollars and Democrat Donald Lee Moak will expire then. Both Zollars and Moak are allies of Postmaster General DeJoy. At that time, Biden could […] The post Ridding the Post Office of Louis DeJoy appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Reverse Logic?
This showed up on Facebook. Some guy by the name of Daniel Becker posted it as a commentary there. It is actually pretty good. A type of reverse logic. There is probably a name for this writing style, It eludes me right now. Enjoy on a Saturday . . . yes? It is simple, no […] The post Reverse Logic? appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
New tax law to help fund the United States government during the Civil War
I subscribe to Prof. Heather Cox’s site. I pick the posts I believe might be interesting to AB readers. This one fits the spirit of the day. August 5, 2022, Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax law to help fund […] The post New tax law to help fund the United States government during the Civil War appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Simone Gold Goes to Jail
Interesting story popped up on MedPage Today. “America’s Frontline Doctors’ Simone Gold Gets Prison Time” On March 3, 2022 Ms. Simone Gold filed a brief confessing (line 10) in United States of America v Simone Gold to being inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and regretting going inside. In a story run on January […] The post Simone Gold Goes to Jail 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...]
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...]
Medicare vs Commercial Insurance Pricing 2012 – 2019
Copy and Paste for now until I can get into the Health Affairs article. Hospitalization averages a third of all healthcare costs. The pricing (Pricing equals costs in this instance) varies by region which kind of tells me there “may” be variation due to the strength of ACOs in regions. Trends in Hospital Prices Varied […] The post Medicare vs Commercial Insurance Pricing 2012 – 2019 appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment
Congressional Representative Marjorie Green is playing cat and mouse with an Administrative Judge who took to questioning her as her memory keeps failing on certain things she has said in the past. Green was continuously reminded of past comments to the point of her being declared a “hostile witness.” CNN — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of […] The post Section 2 of the 14th Amendment appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Happy Easter & Hello Spring
For those up north in the hinter lands of the US. Nineties today in AZ and more of the same tomorrow. Have some dinner with family and friends. Give to those who need help. Practice the religion of your choice, if you have one you favor. Say hello to neighbors. Color some eggs. Easter baskets […] The post Happy Easter & Hello Spring appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
US Oil Supplies, Crude, SPR at New Lows . . . Imports and Exports Down
RJS, Focus on Fracking US ;oil supplies are at a 14 – year low; ;commercial crude supply at a 42 month low, ;SPR at a 19½ year low; ;total oil + products supplies at a 95 month low The Latest US Oil Supply and Disposition Data from the EIA US oil data from the US Energy Information Administration ;for the […] The post US Oil Supplies, Crude, SPR at New Lows . . . Imports and Exports Down appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Healthcare Reads and News
The not – so – latest healthcare articles to arrive in my inbox. Pay attention to the xpostfactoid piece. What Andrew is detailing is there is assistance in getting better plans offering lower cost as defined by President Joe Biden’s Rescue Plan. People are not taking advantage of those discounts for lower cost healthcare insurance. […] The post Healthcare Reads and News appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
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