“The answer to monopolistic costs imposed upon consumers is competition. With these three major corporations turning their attentions to providing just that, it may be possible to get genuine reform.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/can-amazon-fix-american-health-care/
“Rubin’s order shows that board staff were tracking blogs and news articles chronicling Geier’s downfall, mocking him and his son in emails and reveling in their humiliation. When they got a tip that Mark Geier may have still been prescribing medication, they vowed to look into it. Before holding an evidence hearing, board attorney Victoria Pepper drafted the cease-and-desist order.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Regulators-who-targeted-anti-vaccine-physician-12549294.php
“For those suffering from severe depression or PTSD, suicide is often just one dark thought away. But these souls are told they must suffer lest they be thrown in jail for using something as ‘evil’ as marijuana or psychedelics, both illegal in the eyes of the state.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/support-the-troops-with-peace-and-the-right-to-try/
“At least 13 companies, most recently 7-Eleven, have settled with the Council for Education and Research on Toxics (CERT) after its 2010 lawsuit, and promised to add warnings to served coffee, CNN reports. The suit asks for the warning to say this is a ‘chemical known to cause cancer’ or ‘chemical that causes cancer’ in a label at least 10 inches by 10 inches in the establishment.”
“Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement Tuesday that the agency was taking the ‘novel’ action because of growing concerns that abuse of Imodium A-D and similar medications was adding to the death toll of the nation’s opioid epidemic.”
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“Army regulations ban the use of so-called CBD oil or any products derived from marijuana, so some soldiers are using synthetic replacement oil.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/Army-60-hospitalizations-2-deaths-blamed-on-12542767.php
“The 2016 Senate appropriations bill forbids the use of federal funds, which many law enforcement agencies receive and rely on, to prohibit the growing, processing or distribution of properly licensed industrial hemp.”
“Thomas’ case wasn’t the only time an inmate was punished by being deprived of water. Prosecutors presented jurors with jail logs documenting two cases in which disobeying inmates had water to their cells turned off — both within a month of Thomas dying. One of the cases happened a week after Thomas’ death.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/12/milwaukee-prosecutors-charge-jail-staff-in-inmates-death.html
“Mader said his Marine Corps and police training taught him to assess a threat level. He said Williams was visibly upset but not aggressive or violent. When the two other officers arrived, one of them fatally shot Williams in the head after he raised his gun. An investigation found the officer did nothing wrong.”
“The government has big plans and the most outrageous part about this entire scheme is you don’t have a choice – your data is entered.”
