Sacrilege, I suggest you find a dominatrix to give you a good flogging. The crazy frog or baby shark might be more appropriate.

Speaking of loops...

So, one of the first Presidential actions has been to reverse all the medicine cost discounts negotiated by Biden, so Insulin will go from $30 to $4200, Good news for all Diabetics.

I haven't heard that. Where did you read it?

Google <price of insulin> and filter for news hits.

I don't think that the change will put the price of insulin fully back to what it was as Biden's 2022 executive order included several "soft" instructions to find ways to reduce costs of various medications (including insulin), and, contrary to how it was reported, didn't directly involve Biden or his team negotiating anything. It is possible, though probably not likely, that reversing Biden's executive order will have no impact at all.

It has been on the news, but the price is expected to do to $1500 not as I first posted, actual cost of production of a dose is $2 so no profiteering there.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ers-healthcare

It is a confused picture, especially since we are still just in the initial “attention grabbing” Executive Order phase. As always, trying to get an overall picture of any changes is hard in the US situation, since everyone’s health insurance situation is different -

I suspect it may remain that way for the next four years.

Here’s a specific type of lack of clarity though. I read quite a good listing of the President’s recent health insurance-related Executive Orders, with some preliminary analysis, on The Contrarian. It was certainly clearer and less muddled than the Guardian article.

When I read it, there were several hundred comments attached. The vast majority were “I have such-and-such a type of health insurance, or Medicare Advantage, or original Medicare plus my insurance from the agency I used to work for. But my friend has this slightly different kind. I think this new rule, or that one, will or won’t affect me. But I’m not sure about my friend..” Others agreed/disagreed, this went on for hundreds of comments.

Current reports from places like California is that on Tuesday some 25% of migrant workers working the fields and orange groves failed to turn up to work, Wednesday the figure went up to 75% staying away, comments from the group representing California orange growers is that this is a disaster, and likely to cause price increases. I thought one of Trump's platforms was about his policies keeping the price of eggs down, but this may, or may not happen.

Retry of the last one, putting it in spoiler tags because the subject matter could be classed as 'sensitive' by some.



It seems the state senator is a democrat, so I assume he’s trolling the republicans with this piece of proposed legislation. Taking the sanctity of life argument to absurd lengths - and highlighting that men are responsible for their actions, as well as women?

Agriculture has the potential to turn into a complete cluster, coast to coast. From apples to zucchini, crops may be left to rot in the fields if all the "illegals" are rounded up, or otherwise induced to leave. Farmers with animals are going to have a worse crisis as animals have to be fed and tended, cattle milked, pigs and chickens fed (or at least the auto feeders refilled), eggs collected etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...by-free-donuts

Alabama baby born at Krispy Kreme will get free donuts for a year.

At least they do a basic jam (or jelly) donut.

And free insulin shots for life too? Or is it Ozempic now?

Big pharma + junk food. Win-win. The American way.