12 February 2024

Senators ask CEOs why their drugs cost so much more in the U.S.  The answer is simple – it's what the market will bear. Lowering the price of a drug is leaving money on the table. And CEOs have to act in the best interest of their shareholders.

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So mifepristone may not be that dangerous, after all. The main paper that scared the FDA about mifepristone has been retracted. So then they should allow it, with misoprostol.

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Emergency rooms are mess. It seems to have started right around the time the COVID-19 vax products were released. Hospitals started to go on divert status so often, because everyone was turning COVID-positive and demanded to be seen. Then they instituted COVID protocols, and everyone had to get vaxxed or quit. So many DID quit. Then the remaining staff were so stressed that many of them left anyway. And hospitals shut down elective procedures and lost money. And they spent money on expensive traveling nurses and lost money. Then the nurses went on strike, and they had boost pay. Then as people got poorer and had to go on Medicaid, hospitals saw loss reimbursement and decreased revenue. And nursing homes lost staff, so that they couldn't accept patients from hospitals as much as before, so hospitals were stuck with patients they couldn't release, and so the EDs couldn't admit as much, and so the EDs became jammed. And hospital EDs became such dismal overcrowded places to go, that people started avoiding them as much as possible, and so money was lost as well. It was a slow process for unnecessarily harsh COVID protocols to be relaxed in the Blue states, which suffered the most.

The solution I would offer: Open up a supplementary ED somewhere and sent all the drug overdoses there. No need to make the rest of the city suffer from the policies of Oregon legislature. Set up a secondary ambulance system just for the drug overdoses, too. Incentivize nursing homes to start taking in those needing their services.

Here's another solution – micro-hospitals. Pennsylvania is doing it. Build it, and send the overdose cases there. Don't let the rest of Portland suffer.

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The Chinese are creating publication farms, as only they can, do juice up the rankings of their mathematicians. Seems like everything that was once nice and reputable is no more. Take newspapers, for example. They used to be essential to stay abreast of what was going on. Then they became editorial centers, spewing out opinionated narratives. CNN used to be great, for example, Yeah, enshittification is coming to everythingLet the news media die.

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Good idea. Midjourney is going to ban political images for 2024. But people will just use DALL-E, or roll their own.

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Does Brilliant Labs have the best A.R. glasses?

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5 Famous Solopreneurs Who Had Accomplished Nothing By Age 40.  Never too late to try something.

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Magic mushroom seizures are up in Oregon. Oregonians never miss a chance to f*ck their brains up. The United States in general has so many with mental illness.
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Oregon business have finally realized that the state's tax policy is going to hurt them.

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The Internet used to be fun. Why you should start your own blog. Like this ronin.

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Whoa. It's been a while since I set foot in Burien. Man, has it changed. It's become Homeless Central.
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