I miss my fellow writer Maggie Mahar who had an excellent view of what HealthCare should be like. Merrill offers up a similar view. In this review, he takes down “We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care,” by authors Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein. The issue? Proposing the creation of a universal, government-funded health plan […]
This is interesting. Another high-level American seeking wisdom and advice from Vladimir Putin. I guess anyone can to talk to whoever they wish to talk to. But, are there no voices of wisdom in the US for a billionaire who can buy his way into everything??? As the story suggests, this could lead to a […]
This section discusses about immigration to the US and the various nationalities coming to the US. It has changed dramatically from Europeans to accepting more peoples There is more data on nationalities in the Census documents from Asia and eastern Europe as well as Africa and South America. In the beginning of this section, the […]
And quite frankly, Trump is not interested in Americans and Families unless they are a part of the 1-percenters in Income. To be in the top 1% of earners, you’re looking at an average annual income of $819,324. The top 0.1% of Americans earn an average of $3,312,693. These are same people who benefit the […]
Political? No. This group of big time Execs are tough on labor and citizenry. Yet, they are afraid of one man who has displayed himself as a racist, misogynist, bigot, bully, liar, etc. It takes a woman in the form of Kamala Harris to push back on Trump. Trump is afraid of Harris and will […]
During the Trump administration (according to the Migration Policy Institute), the Trump administration signed over four hundred executive actions on immigration between January 2017 and July 2020. These executive action changes limited asylum, banned entry from a list of countries (initially seven, but later expanded to thirteen), sought to deter cross-border immigration from Mexico and […]
Pew Piece on Immigration. The author says it is a short piece. It appears to be much longer than what is claimed. I am going to break this into pieces. It is an update to a post by PEW in 2017. The message in Republicans and Trumps dialogue is the nation is being overrun with […]
Results taken from Company Reports: “GM Releases 2024 First-Quarter Results and Raises Full-Year Guidance,” General Motors Company GM Story Reported by William Gavin at Quartz: beats Wall Street’s expectations again for third-quarter earnings and raised its outlook for the full year GM is having a great year as it posts Q3 earnings beat General Motors […]
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 . . . These increases in Medicare part D premiums are for 2025 Medicare, a federal health insurance program, is vital for […]
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 […]