There will be a review on that date to see if things have gotten saner.
Tag: god bless the land of the free
Last Trump post, I promise (for a while)
She won, but she didn’t.
Hillary Clinton will become the second presidential nominee to win the popular vote yet lose the electoral college – and thus the White House – in the past five US presidential elections. It would be the fifth time in the nation’s history that such a split has occurred and may be a boon to advocates of reform of the two-century-old system. Other dubious winners include Al Gore (George W Bush, 2000), Grover Cleveland (Benjamin Harrison, 1888), Samuel Tilden (Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876) and Andrew Jackson (John Quincy Adams, 1824).
This tweet will be yuuuuge!
Rule 63 Donald Trump
Oliver Jeffers on Trump
You know you’re being a dick when the pharma bro says whoa…
A growing chorus is calling on the Mylan pharmaceutical company to justify its price hikes on EpiPens, a potentially life-saving medication for children and others facing fatal allergies that has little real competition.
In 2007, a two-pack of the epinephrine-filled devices went for $56.64 wholesale, according to data gathered by Connecture, a health insurance technology and data analytics company. Now it’s jumped to $365.16, an increase of 544.77 percent. Since the end of 2013, the price has gone up by 15 percent every other quarter. (That’s about $600, retail price!)
“Amazing that Epipen prices in CA & EU with prescription are about $85. No govt negotiated buy in US,” said another tweet.
Even Martin Shkreli, the disgraced former chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, has weighed in. “These guys are really vultures. What drives this company’s moral compass?” he said in a phone interview.
A backlash over Mylan’s pricing tactics is shedding light on its grasp of the market. After politicians, physicians and lawmakers criticized the price of EpiPen, Mylan offered to provide more financial help to patients, saying it would cover their insurance out-of-pocket costs up to $300, from $100 previously. It also said it would expand the number of low-income patients eligible to receive company subsidies. But the company didn’t roll back EpiPen’s high list price.
Mylan’s CEO acknowledged that high retail prices of EpiPens in the United States effectively subsidize the cost of the devices when they are sold in Europe, at just $100 or $150. Many of the countries there have government-run health-care systems that limit drug prices charged by manufacturers, unlike the U.S.
Donald and Hobbes
Behold the Donald and Hobbes subreddit, which superimposes Trump’s face on our beloved Calvin, and drops in text inspired by the Republican presidential candidate, bringing a little bit of humour to dark times.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DonaldandHobbes/
The joy of the thing is that Calvin’s dialogue is only edited slightly, or not at all, leaving something that really does sound scarily Trump-ish. Calvin is way more tyrannical than I remember. But this is part of the fun: the rules on the subreddit state that “the strip you paste Trump’s head over has to contain dialogue that Trump might actually say. You can edit dialogue so Calvin’s name is missing or certain words (perhaps too intelligent for Donald) are gone. But just putting Trump’s head on Calvin acting like a kid is missing the point. Have fun and try not to think worse of Calvin. He’s only six. Trump’s going on 70 and still hasn’t grown up.”