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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017 Gearhart: Social media has been integral Medicare: Clatsop County had seven plans in 2009 Continued from Page 1A On the community page “A Million Friends of Gearhart,” political posts have erupted into debates about community character and property rights. “The proponents of yes on 4-188 are a well-financed group of non-resident inves- tors who want to destroy the residential quality of Gearhart and then (turn) it into their own totally resort commercial com- munity,” Widdop, the former mayor, posted. “We do not make a profit on our rental home,” short- term rental property owner Jim Whittemore said. “I need about 120 rental nights to break even. Last year we had about 93 nights and this year we will be below 90. You do the math. Nobody is trying to ‘buy’ any- thing. We just want our prop- erty rights restored. It is that simple.” Like Widdop, many voting “no” have taken issue with the number of out-of-state inves- tors financing the proponents. Proponents have $25,000 in donations, many from out- side the area, compared to the $12,000 opponents have raised so far, according to reports available from the Oregon Sec- retary of State. Both campaigns have spent roughly between $10,000 and $11,000 on campaign materi- als, according to the secretary of state’s website. Election a crossroads “No” voters started the Facebook page “Keep Gearhart Residential” — out of neces- sity, they say. “We have little money, few resources, but big community,” said Lisa Cerveny, a part-time resident who runs the page. “We’re making the most of what we have.” This is the first time Cer- veny has participated in a polit- ical campaign in Gearhart. She decided to get involved after she saw this election as a cross- roads for a town she’s lived in for 20 years. “We bought here because of the unique quality that Cannon Beach and Seaside don’t have,” Cerveny said. “I don’t want to see this town be replaced with a resort mentality.” This election is more than about rentals, she said. “The town is choosing to exist one way or the other.” Developing the page, which now has almost 200 followers, was a grassroots effort, Cer- veny said. It started as a venue to share information about the city’s ordinance, but as it gained traction, a local videog- rapher recorded, edited and circulated residents talking about why they love Gearhart — and why they oppose the measure. Berg, who has lived in Gear- hart since the 1970s, was one of the residents featured. For him, voting to keep the city’s ordi- nance intact is a question of pre- serving a diverse community. Continued from Page 1A private insurers such as Care- Oregon, Moda Health and FamilyCare. Insurers nego- tiate with private health care providers to find the low- est-cost options. Beazely, 71, has been covered through CareOre- gon’s Star Medicare Advan- tage plan for the past year and a half, since he and his wife, Jan, moved to Can- non Beach. The couple uses providers in the Providence Health & Services network, the primary health care pro- vider in South County. Out of town, out of luck R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian Polling sign in front of Gearhart City Hall. “Rich and poor, whether you have an income in four fig- ures like me, or seven figures, we’re all a part of the commu- nity when the summer season comes. To have us turn into a Seaside, where every perma- nent resident is surrounded by virtual motels, you tend to take that personally,” Berg said. “We don’t want the housing stock to be converted (to short- term rentals). You lose friends that way.” Cerveny said while their campaign has had success with traditional techniques, social media has been integral to get- ting their message out. “The videos that have been produced, which are getting thousands of hits, are proving to be very effective in com- municating to a broader audi- ence,” Cerveny said. “We’re finding the format wonderfully flexible … And it appears to be successful in reaching more and more people as the weeks go on.” ‘It just doesn’t seem American’ Those in favor of the mea- sure, however, remain skeptical of social media’s impact in this election. “In Gearhart, 90 percent of voters are 50 or older. For- ty-nine percent of voters are 65 or older,” said Townsend, a major voice of Gearhart Cit- izens for Fair and Reason- able Government. “Those ain’t social media people.” Proponents of the measure have a website called Gear- hart For All, Yes on 4-188 cam- paign manager Larry Taylor said, where information about the measure is listed alongside names of those who support it. A Facebook page has existed since May, but as of Monday only had 20 followers. Instead, Townsend, who has worked on 185 campaigns nationally, has been focusing on direct mail. To him, the battleground of the debate is happening on front lawns, neighbor to neighbor, and in “letters to the editor.” “If (the measure) fails, it’s not going to be because of the vehicle in which the informa- tion traveled. It will be the fact (the opposition) scared peo- ple,” Townsend said. “The great irony of all this, we’re not affected by this. We have our permit. We have off-street park- ing. There’s nothing in it for us at all. But thinking of people like Sarah Nebeker, who has lived and given so much to the community, thinking that they can’t keep their house to use as a rental — it just doesn’t seem American.” With the election a week away, both sides are still fight- ing to educate voters. 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You can see it in the Facebook posts,” Tay- lor said. “People are formed into two camps, and there’s not a lot of discussion happening.” For Jeanne Mark, a longtime resident and vocal opponent of the measure, that emotionalism comes from how universal the issue has become. “This is not just our lit- tle community — it’s a world issue,” Mark said. “But either way, we all have to be neigh- bors after this is over.” Michelle Lewis, a local representative of the Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance program, helps seniors find health care cov- erage along with volunteer counselors during the open enrollment period from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. Lewis has seen a continu- ing trend of rural areas los- ing their plan options. Clat- sop County had seven plans in 2009, compared to two as of next year, she said. “It doesn’t surprise me,” Lewis said. “You have to have a certain number of patients to make a profit.” A report in August by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on health care issues, found that 147 mostly rural counties across 14 states have no Medicare Advantage plans, includ- ing Washington’s Pacific County. “It is not entirely clear why insurers are not offering Medicare Advantage plans in these mostly rural coun- ties, but it could be because they have less leverage to negotiate rates with hospi- tals and other health care providers, making these counties potentially less profitable than others,” the report said. The lack of counties offering Medicare Advan- tage is about eight times that of counties that might lack insurance carriers under the federal Affordable Care Act next year. But unlike people relying on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare Advan- tage customers like Beazely can always fall back on tra- ditional Medicare, although he said that option would be too expensive for him and his wife. Beazely can also switch to Moda Health or Fami- lyCare, the two Medicare Advantage plans left in Clat- sop County next year. But he is not a fan of Moda Health, he said, and FamilyCare’s provider network is 20 miles north in Astoria. Beazely attended a recent town hall by U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici to voice his concerns, and said he recently sat down with exec- utives at Providence Sea- side Hospital, who are try- ing to work out a deal with FamilyCare to expand its provider network in Clatsop County. 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