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Intriguing Twitter exchanges among MDs
After the Alito news, once I was able to think again I started plotting an anti-SCOTUS revolution. Along with my amorphous ideas about court nullification, I began to think about physicians. I often think about physicians, usually for good reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Judiciary, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Alito, AMA, Clintons health care initiative, HMOs, lemons out of lemonade, Medicaid, Medicare, physicians, prosecutors, Rebecca Kleefisch, Roe v Wade, SCOTUS, Twitter, Wisconsin
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This NYT opinion piece makes no sense to me. And I should know
Today, I read the title of Zeynep Tufekci’s opinion piece, “Covid Drugs Save Lives, but Americans Can’t Get Them,” with bewilderment. I then read the piece. Then I read a number of the comments. I became more than bewildered; I … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, The Facts of Life
Tagged bronchiectasis, CMS, COVID, Medicare, Medicare Advantage Plans, New York Times, Paxlovid, Pfizer, pulmonology, Zeynep Tufekci
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Two current TV commercials that are bugging me a lot
Both are posing as “public service” announcements. Neither is, not truly. And neither clearly identifies the promoter/producer of the ad but it’s my guess PACs stoked with dark money are paying for them. One commercial starts with a man who … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Law, suits and order, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, TV commercials
Tagged American manufacturing, antitrust actions, Big Pharma, Big Tech, drug price negotiations, EpiPens, FDA, insulin, Joe Manchin, Medicare, Mylan, Partnership for Chronic Disease, propaganda, Yap
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