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Posted: Mar 11, 2025 - 2:24pm

Volunteers are re-creating the CDC website from the before times: https://restoredcdc.org/www.cd...
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Posted: Feb 16, 2025 - 2:53pm

IGMFU
Aging Members of Congress Refuse to Disclose Details of Their Top Secret Hospital
The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.
After a presidential election that saw an 82-year-old commander in chief unable to complete sentences in a debate or instill confidence in the public that he could carry out his duties, elected leaders in Congress are faring no better.

In the past two months alone, 82-year-old Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) was discovered to be living in an assisted-living facility with a dementia ward in her final months in office; 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) won a high-profile leadership position on the House Oversight Committee after revealing he is battling highly terminal esophageal cancer; 82-year-old Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fell twice on Capitol Hill just months after blacking out during a press conference; 84-year-old former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fell and broke her hip in Luxembourg; and 76-year-old Rep. John Larson (D-CT) appeared to suffer a stroke on the House floor. (Larson’s staff has said it was a bad reaction to a new medication.)

What has eluded attention is the highly secretive hospital, housed on Capitol Hill and funded by taxpayers, that provides both emergency and primary care to an aging political class, which some have come to describe as a gerontocracy. It also runs classified programs known only to some members of Congress. (...)

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Posted: Jan 31, 2025 - 3:39pm

Man’s asthma inhaler cost went from $66 to $539, then he died, Wisconsin lawsuit says





Social murder
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Posted: Oct 22, 2023 - 3:41pm

Pfizer doing Pfizer things...
Pfizer hikes price of COVID antiviral Paxlovid from $530 to nearly $1,400
Yes. But... can they simply do it like that? Of course!
A Pfizer spokesperson told the Journal that "pricing for Paxlovid is based on the value it provides to patients, providers, and health care systems due to its important role in helping reduce COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths."
The market takes care of itself, you know...
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Posted: Aug 23, 2023 - 6:25am

before i go here is a bit of good news...


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Posted: May 13, 2023 - 9:48am

 miamizsun wrote:
the goal and where it is going?
widely available and very inexpensive

Absurdly cheap!
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Posted: May 13, 2023 - 7:44am

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 "Will it become for the benefit for the masses?" 




yes, this is a one and done base editing treatment
heart disease is one of the killers
essentially turns off some of the major ldl pathways
the goal and where it is going?
widely available and very inexpensive
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Posted: May 12, 2023 - 3:58pm

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brilliant people working to build solutions
worth your time...




Baby I'm Amazed.
But the seminal question is "Will it become for the benefit for the masses?"  My bet is it won't.
Science advancement is a feel good concept, but in structural and financial realities, it becomes a commodity like everything else.
Future advancement is a warm fuzzy, but the now in this fragile nation, is fraught with real terrors.

Once I celebrated innovation and discovery in the U.S. Now I wonder which angle from the right will shoot it down.


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Posted: May 12, 2023 - 11:37am

brilliant people working to build solutions
worth your time...


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Posted: Aug 13, 2022 - 6:37am

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 Steely_D wrote:
My previous boss, Robbie Pearl, has talked about this at length. He saved a failing Kaiser Permanente and now is an author and podcaster and Forbes contributor. His stuff is worth reading if the topic interests you. Brilliant guy, and I owe him my successful career.
thanks! i just subbed to his podcast
will give it a spin
 

update: let it rip in the background while driving and eating lunch - pretty solid stuff  
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Posted: Aug 10, 2022 - 9:11am

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My previous boss, Robbie Pearl, has talked about this at length. He saved a failing Kaiser Permanente and now is an author and podcaster and Forbes contributor. His stuff is worth reading if the topic interests you. Brilliant guy, and I owe him my successful career.


thanks! i just subbed to his podcast
will give it a spin
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Posted: Aug 10, 2022 - 9:05am

 miamizsun wrote:

My previous boss, Robbie Pearl, has talked about this at length. He saved a failing Kaiser Permanente and now is an author and podcaster and Forbes contributor. His stuff is worth reading if the topic interests you. Brilliant guy, and I owe him my successful career.
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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?

    Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.by Max RoserOctober 29, 2020

    Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?

    The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths. In addition to this, deeper poverty and less access to healthcare mean Americans at lower incomes die at a younger age than poor people in other rich countries.




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    Posted: Aug 9, 2022 - 6:34pm

    America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
    As Bor and his researchers note, inequality is surely a big part of the picture. In 2017, economist Peter Temin described how America began to diverge into what are essentially two separate nations in the 1970s. One nation – around 20% of the total population — boasts college educations, good jobs, and access to quality healthcare. The other nation, where the 80% majority resides, is stuck with low wages, insecure jobs, fewer education opportunities, and unaffordable and inadequate healthcare. These are the people getting sicker and dying younger than they used to. Temin observes that the US economic structure now looks a lot more like that of a developing nation than a wealthy superpower, which may help explain why the country’s mortality rates as a whole can’t compete with peer countries where such bifurcation is less pronounced. Thomas Ferguson, Director of Research at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), has studied America’s increasing turn to money-driven politics, which has resulted in public-minded policies giving way to free market-driven policies that do not consider the needs of the majority.
    "Human flourishing" in practice.

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    Posted: Aug 1, 2022 - 11:10am

    Monkeypox Is About to Become the Next Public Health Failure
    The outbreak doesn’t bode well for America’s response to future pathogens.
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    Posted: Dec 10, 2021 - 4:38pm

     Red_Dragon wrote:

    Once again, I hate for-profit health care. My mental health providers are no longer "in network". So now I have to locate and start all over again with a new shrink and therapist. jfc



    As long as you can get your meds - if you take any. That's my nightmare about losing my medi-cal, which could happen any day. Good luck!
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    Posted: Dec 10, 2021 - 4:36pm

    Once again, I hate for-profit health care. My mental health providers are no longer "in network". So now I have to locate and start all over again with a new shrink and therapist. jfc
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    Posted: Oct 14, 2021 - 9:03am

     Steely_D wrote:


    As long as health care companies are profit-driven, it'll keep happening. They have shareholders to answer to, so they have to figure out how to make money off your illnesses.


    Eggzactly. Which is why profit and healthcare don't mix.
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