I know. But the Part D savings offset the Part B increase, which is good. Deductible for B is going up $30 too. The thing is it's all speculative. CMS has not yet determined whether or when they will cover Aduhelm. The increases in the 2022 Medicare Part B premium and deductible are due to: Rising prices and utilization across the health care system that drive higher premiums year-over-year alongside anticipated increases in the intensity of care provided. Congressional action to significantly lower the increase in the 2021 Medicare Part B premium, which resulted in the $3.00 per beneficiary per month increase in the Medicare Part B premium (that would have ended in 2021) being continued through 2025. Additional contingency reserves due to the uncertainty regarding the potential use of the Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, by people with Medicare. In July 2021, CMS began a National Coverage Determination analysis process to determine whether and how Medicare will cover Aduhelm and similar drugs used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. As that process is still underway, there is uncertainty regarding the coverage and use of such drugs by Medicare beneficiaries in 2022. While the outcome of the coverage determination is unknown, our projection in no way implies what the coverage determination will be, however, we must plan for the possibility of coverage for this high cost Alzheimer’s drug which could, if covered, result in significantly higher expenditures for the Medicare program.

Can't we all just get along?

@copper said in $59: Bayonet: Spike Bayonet In case the ducks attack? Also known as a cruciform bayonet. Russian SKS rifles have attached bayonets, but most of the Chinese Type 56 has the spike. My personal SKS wears a synthetic aftermarket stock , because the Chinese issued wood stocks have a short length of pull and no bayonet. The SKS holds 10 rounds in a box magazine and I have used 7 of them at one time. Result was a couple of dead deer (one running). The 7.62x39 is a bit less energy than a 30-30 at the muzzle, but because it uses spitzer bullets, the energy is about the same at 100 yards. It has very little recoil and is more accurate than the AK-47, which uses the same cartridge. I find most will shoot around a two inch group. Some are collectable. The one you really want is a Vietnam trophy return, with the issued synthetic stock. I think one of those with documentation would bring $5000 or so.

@george-k said in RIP Graeme Edge: What struck me was how absolutely bored they all looked, LOL. Like "We're playing this shit again??" That was Steve Miller Band for me. I can honestly say seeing them live was a waste of time.

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McCarthy may be right when he says: Durham appears to be convinced that the Clinton campaign concocted the Trump-Russia narrative and peddled it to an all-too-credulous press and Democratic-controlled government. That has the makings of a damning final special counsel report, but not a large-scale indictment. But maybe the upshot of this is the Democrats find themselves wandering in the wilderness for 40 years once this story is fully known to the American people. Virginia was just the start...

Shared with kiddo, and the response was " The beans, the toe beans! I want all those toe beans!"

@mik said in It's a bad day for spills at TNCR: No, Cats. El Floro No Involvo.

Bwhahahahahahahaha!!!

@taiwan_girl said in Austin, TX doesn't like veterans: What is the slang definition of "woke". I have hear that term alot but am not sure exactly what it means. That makes two of us.

@jolly said in A Great Negro: @mik said in A Great Negro: Lock him up! That's a bit severe. He was trying to heap praise upon African-Americans. It's not like he was being niggardly. Negro, please……

I don't think Congress can generate any more contempt for Bannon, than I already have for Congress.

What scares me is that that restaurant looks exactly like a Mexican restaurant in the town near me...

@doctor-phibes said in History repeating itself?: @larry said in History repeating itself?: @doctor-phibes said in History repeating itself?: @larry said in History repeating itself?: @doctor-phibes said in History repeating itself?: @larry said in History repeating itself?: @jon-nyc said in History repeating itself?: I think slightly younger people will remember. Interest rates peaked in the mid-80s. Yes... Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. It took him a few years to fix the mess made by Carter and the democrats. To hear the democrats and the media tell it, Jimmy Carter was a genius who could do no wrong. Reagan gets elected, fixes the fucked up mess made by Carter, and the democrats vilify him as a doddering old fool, claiming he fell asleep a lot, had dementia, etc. Then after 2 terms, his VP bush the elder wins, riding into office on Reagan's coat tails. The democrats vilify him. Then Bill Clinton takes office, and in spite of numerous, repeated acts of sexual perversions, and criminal conduct, he is declared another genius by the democrats and the media. Then Bush II takes office, and once again, the democrats and the media tell us he's an idiot, a drunk, you name it. The Obama, with literally no experience at anything, takes office, and the media and democrat party tells us he's a genius who can do no wrong. Then Trump, and as usual, he is vilified. Now we have a dementia patient named Biden, and once again, the pattern continues..... according to the democrats and the media, he's a fucking genius.... Carter. Democrat. Fucked up the nation. A genius. Reagan. Republican. Fixed the nation. Hated by the media, a moron. Bush I. Republican. Hated by the media. A moron. Clinton. Democrat. A sexual predator and criminal. A genius. Bush II. Republican. Hated by the media. A moron. Obama. Fucked over the nation. A genius Trump. Fixed the nation. Hated by the media. A moron. Biden. Fucking the nation as we speak. A genius. Every single time a democrat is president the media speaks of him as a genius, but the nation is damaged, every single time a Republican is president the media and the democrats portray him as a moron, but the nation improves. Carter stuck the world with radical Islam, Biden is arming them. According to Donald Trump, the biggest mistake made in the last couple of decades was the Iraq war under Bush Jnr. He must have been brainwashed by the media, too. He was correct. So what's your point? That Bush was a Republican? Both Bushes were RINOS. You'll notice I didn't list any accomplishments. The media wasn't sure how to handle them - they were republicans so they must be vilified. I don't know if you keep missing the point of things on purpose or if you honestly can't think. During the Bush Presidency you were singing a very different song if I remember correctly. Ironically enough, my opinions about the Iraq war were always pretty much in line with what Trump has said. Yes, thats true. I was. But it was because id seen the pictures of saddam feeding people into giant shredders, then there was the report of saddam locking a man uo for a week and not feeding him, then setting him down at a table and feeding him a stew while he watched in horror a video of his wife and kids being killed and then cooked into the stew he was eating. I supported going in, taking out saddam, and then getting the hell out. I did NOT support staying there for years after we won the war engaging in nation building. The exact same thing that Trump didnt agree with, and a fact that you failed to mention. Any rational person will acknowledge that Saddam was a monster. That wasn't really the point of the invasion. He was a monster during the Iran-Iraq was too, arguably far worse than Khomeini, but the West tacitly supported him for its own strategic reasons, in a war that he started. That's true. It still has nothing to do with my supporting the war, but not supporting the nation building that went on after we had won the war. We sliced through that place like a hot knife through butter. We should have blown shit up and destroyed any ability they might have still had to wage a war with anyone, and then gone home. Any support you saw from me was for that, not the rest of it.

$40 lol rube. $20 would be enough to appease God.