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‘What Should I Do With My Insurance Coverage?’

Question: What should I do with my insurance coverage? I have Medicare and a Medicare Advantage Plan. My doctor is running some tests and I may have some serious decisions to make in the coming weeks. Answer: Medicare Coverage and the options available with it are very useful and comprehensive. As you move through this process it is important to understand you have opportunities to evaluate your insurance coverage and make changes that reduce your exposure to big medical costs. I have talked often about Enrollment Periods, which are the periods of time that you are allowed to change ...

Parents’ Anti-Drag Queen Hour Resistance Rises

The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy this week amid a deluge of sex-abuse lawsuits. The Catholic clergy’s pedophilia conspiracies have cost the church more than $3 billion and countless followers. Scandal after scandal shows how cunning child predators have exploited trusted civic institutions under cover of “diversity,” “inclusion” and “progressivism.” Now more than ever, parents across the country are rising up to protect their local public schools and public libraries from turning into the next pedo playgrounds that will steal innocence, ruin lives, ravage ...

Baseball’s Failure To Exact A Price For Cheating Could Destroy The Game

Nothing creates a moral hazard more than exposing corruption and yet failing to punish those responsible. That’s what happened in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, and that’s what’s happening in baseball today. The rationale for failing to punish Wall Street corruption in 2008 was that big banks were “too big to fail” and had to be propped up — executive bonuses and all — to save the world economy. The rationale in professional baseball in the aftermath of the Houston Astro’s sign-stealing scandal is that by fully exposing the scandal and holding those ...

The Gov’t Does Not Grow The Economy

The economy might be thought of as a farm, where seeds are planted, and water, fertilizer, and other nutrients are added as needed. The politician, as the farmer, grows the crop and creates prosperity. Another popular analogy is that of a machine. If only the right people in power with their technical know-how pull the right levers and press the right buttons, the machine will pump out gross domestic product. Both analogies are seriously wrong. The government is not a farmer and GDP is not it’s crop, nor is it a machine to be fined-tuned by experts or politicians. President Trump is ...

Finding Something Good About February Is Tricky

Well, February might be the shortest month of the year, but it always feels like the longest. And it might not surprise you to find that it is the most disliked month of the year, according to a Gallup poll. February is still far enough away from spring and still solidly winter to make it the least popular of all of our calendar’s 12 months. But that doesn’t bother February. It still shows up every year with no intention of changing its tune. And nothing good ever happened in February. There are few historic moments that grace mankind’s timeline in these 28 or 29 days. If it ...

Westminster Show Still Delights

Except for the combination of an error in my reservation (my fault) and weather delays leaving me to wander the airport for six hours, my trip to New York City and the Westminster Kennel Club dog show was wonderful, and went by too fast. There was much chatter on Facebook and Twitter, and even national news, about the failure of the judge to give Best in Show to the crowd favorite, the Golden Retriever, GCHP CH Hillock’s Jack Daniel’s RA JH CA RATN CGC, aka Daniel. (I explain all those initials below). My first choice is always the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, but since they rarely make ...