Health Insurance, Baseball Caps, and Pardons

Healthcare Insurance

My United Healthcare Supplemental Healthcare Insurance Plan took a 21% increase in monthly cost. The customer service person admitted Arizona was seeing a larger of the increases in the United States. I will have to see if it makes sense to go 100% VA.

• Some Causes:
  • Factors can influence premium increases nationally and affect Medicare supplement rates in Arizona.
  • Demographics, including age and location, can play a role in premium rates.
  • UnitedHealthcare, like other insurance providers, adjusts its rates based on these factors. 

Baseball Caps

Don’t where your Chicago Bulls cap anywhere soon. Supposedly such apparel displays a connection to the MS crowd. As a result, T—p may shuffle you off to El Salvador. Wearing a Chicago Bulls hat triggered a man’s deportation, Chicago Tribune. Guess I should check on my Patagonia cap and what it makes me a member.

Pardon to Prison the January 6th attack.

• Jonathan Braun was granted clemency during the last hours of T—p’s first term as president. He is one of many recipients of a T—p pardon. He finds himself back in trouble with the law. Braun is now back in prison after seven violations of his federal supervised release, which continued after his release from prison in 2021.
  • Arrested on allegations of shoving a 3-year-old, “causing a red mark on his back and substantial pain.
  • Banned by federal and New York State judges from working in debt collection.
  • Accused of punching his wife and father-in-law.
  • Groping a nanny, and attacking a nurse with an IV-bag holder.
• Eli Weinstein, a convicted Ponzi schemer who received a last-minute 2021 commutation, was  convicted  on March 31 in a $41 million fraud case.
• Philip Esformes, whose sentence for his role in a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud was commuted in 2020, was arrested last year on domestic-violence-related charges,
• Rapper Kodak Black has also been repeatedly arrested since receiving a commutation.
• Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested for assault just a month (after being pardoned)at the Capitol.
• Matthew Huttle, an Indiana man who received a pardon for entering the Capitol on January 6, was  fatally shot by a deputy on January 27 after reaching for a gun.
• Emily Hernandez, a Missouri woman, was convicted for causing a fatal drunk-driving crash in 2022;  the sentencing came days after her pardon for January 6 offenses.
• Andrew Taake of Texas was pardoned in January, then arrested in February on an outstanding charge for allegedly sending explicit messages to an undercover cop he believed was an underage girl.

Contrast the above with statements from administration officials claiming Maryland resident living under protected legal status Kilmar Abrego Garcia being deported to El Salvador. No evidence of his being a terrorist. Deported despite the fact the government previously acknowledged his deportation being “an administrative error.” Other than wearing a Chicago Bull cap, the kidnapping of Abrego Garcia being done to make a political point. If T—p is eager to find dangerous criminals, he could do so more easily by looking at his pardon list.

Should I be care of wearing my Patagonia Cap with the metal USMC insignia pined to it?

“The Pardon-to-Prison Pipeline,” The Atlantic

“Judge jails T—p clemency recipient Jonathan Braun after child assault arrest.” NBC10 Philadelphia