Dems Need to Marshall the Medicare Argument Better
I see evidence that the public in my town is buying into the Republican lie about ACA stealing $716 billion from Medicare. Obama and the Dems need to distill the complicated answer to that into a few...
View ArticleIt's all in the source code
This talk about Romney ties to voting machines is alarming to me and is incompletely assuaged by election officials in Ohio who say, since they own the Hart intercivic machines and the maintenance,...
View ArticleThe Cost of Cancer Drugs Is Unsustainable
http://www.nytimes.com/...The above article, published in the New York Times April 25, references a paper showing that the costs of leukemia drugs are actually harming patients. The paper, authored by...
View ArticlePericles can be an inspiration at this moment
Together with my high school age son I was listening to a Teaching Company World History course lecture by Linwood Thompson in which he quoted from a funeral oration given by Pericles, leader of...
View ArticleFinally the American College of OB/GYN Speaks Up
For years now the strategy of anti-abortion supporters has been to introduce at the state level restrictions which have increasingly intruded on the doctor-patient relationship. These restrictions have...
View ArticleIsn't the Vitter amendment illegal?
I confess immediately that it is offensively nervy of me to write a diary when I don't know anything about the subject matter. But can't one purpose of a diary sometimes be to ask a question?It is...
View ArticleAre You Going to Watch Bill Nye Tonight?
The debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, evolution vs creationism, is being streamed tonight on www.debatelive.org from 7-9:30 ET. Or you could see it onhttps://plus.google.com/... . Apparently on this...
View ArticleOn the Price of Drugs
The NY Times editorial board published an opinion on the price of the new hep C drug yesterday which is very enlightening, but unfortunately it isn't open for comments....
View ArticleThe "Not In Our Town" Town Struggles with Discrimination
Billings, Montana, is known as the "Not In Our Town" town based a 1994 citizen response to efforts of white supremacists to establish a foothold, a response which garnered worldwide approval and put...
View ArticleHere Is Bernie's Hook into the Hearts of Republicans
Here is an issue that all people care about, Republicans and Democrats alike, but one that is avoided by the media and all the other Pharma fueled candidates: the rising prices of medications. In this...
View ArticleWould Hillary raise the age of Medicare?
I am in my early 50’s and trembled with disbelief in 2011 when Obama embraced the idea of raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 so as to have a bargaining chip in a potential...
View ArticleAdvice to Bernie: Talk Drug Prices
As a Bernie supporter, I think Bernie’s messages have been powerful, but he needs to change things up going forward to grab more attention from the news media and older Democrat voters in...
View ArticlePossible Reason Bernie Lost Midwest
Drug prices. I am not a political professional but I would like to put out there second plug for an issue that could help Bernie still win the nomination: drug prices. An article by Annie Karni...
View ArticleCoachella Is Off My Bucket List
www.theguardian.com/…Coachella is in the news. Coachella is the increasingly popular 3 day annual music festival in California. I haven't been but it brings to my mind pleasant visions of what...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Prices: It Is Time To Do Something
The recent dustup over a Senate budget resolution in which 13 Democrats (including Sen Cory Booker) crossed over to the Republicans to vote no on promoting importation of prescription meds should...
View ArticleSo What Is the Secret Deal on Kav?
So Flake, Collins, Murkowski and Manchin met last night after the hearing. Any theories what their secret deal was? My guess is that Flake agreed to send Kav through to the full Senate to force votes...
View ArticleVaginal Estrogen: No Price Too High? or Dreams of a Canadian Pharmacy
I'm a health care provider who has been shocked by the meteoric rise of the cost of vaginal estrogen preparations, which alleviate intense menopausal vulvovaginal dryness and irritation. This is a...
View ArticleTrump’s Bent Knee to Pharma
As reported in a Apr 18 Wash Post article by Christopher Rowland, Trump is actively blocking a way to control runaway drug prices. Amazingly there is a legal provision in the Bayh Dole Act that allows...
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