When is it okay to “heighten the contradictions”, to allow bad things to happen for the sake of instigating political change? I’ve been noodling on this problem for decades without making much progress, and Trump’s victory has forced me to dig in once again. This is my current thinking, for what it’s worth. Democrats have […]
The way to make money in America’s private health insurance industry is to deny coverage. There’s no question about that. The question is whether the denials are valid. According to one long-time doc, industry is valorizing speed over accuracy. “In late 2020, Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning. […]
“Specialty Generic Drugs: A Growing Profit Center for Vertically Integrated Pharmacy Benefit Managers,” Federal Trade Commission A brief post or commentary on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). For the Big 3 PBMs and their affiliated pharmacies during our study period from 2017 through part of 2022 specialty generic drugs represented a growing profit center. FTC analyses […]
Canada here we come California, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts to the United States of MAGA: “Canada here we come.” The Civil War is over; the South finally won (in their minds, it was never going to be over until they did). In the halftime, they corrupted a dozen […]
Still attempting to make sense of what happened in election of 2024. By all expectations, rights, etc. Kamala Harris should have won. She handily outshone Donald Trump in the debate. I fully expected her to do so. There were things working against her such as the late start in campaigning. I believe Democrats did not […]
One Hour until the dread January 20th. 23 hours into the strange TikTok banned January 19th. Trump says he will delay the law banning TikTok by executive order. Can he do that???? Don’t ask me. I’m not a lawyer. However, I do have a first amendment right to play a lawyer on the web. Do […]
And I do not mean Poltergeist II “TikTok’s back: App thanks Trump as it returns for US users” As taken from POLITICO‘s Christine Mui AB: Can Trump legally turn this around. There can be legal liabilities to users of Tik Tok. Trump’s proposal exerted pressure on the entire tech ecosystem that makes TikTok available to […]
– by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big news this week was the continued surge in commodity prices, normally a sign of tight demand (but sometimes a shortage of supply, that does not seem to be the case now); and also higher interest rates showing up in corporate […]
The reality, America has a love affair with bullet spewing weapons. The fallback is to the wild west when men were packing a six shooter to shoot snakes or fend off others. I am not sure all of this exists as shown on the theater screen. It does sell movie tickets and people flock to […]
An acquaintance or a friend who I have known for years on and off when our paths have crossed from time to time. Now at least I know why he stopped posting on his site. Thought maybe he moved on . . . wish it had been such. He tells a story of being cancer […]