I’m very excited the federal government is finally doing its damned job and investigating this shit. It is long, long, LONG overdue. PBMs are a shining example of “if you want to get away with something evil, hide it inside of something boring.”
I hope they government finally gets some traction on it. I also hope some people running these PBMs go to prison. Though that is probably way too much to hope for. Because in the USA, we don’t punish wealthy people like that unless they commit the sin of ripping off other wealthy people (like Madoff or Holmes). Probably the best we can hope for is some heavy fines and tougher regulations. But these snakes almost always find a way to slither through new cracks. Most of these rent-seeking layers of middle-men should not even exist in healthcare.
That’s another thing that’s amazing to me. trump shat on these fuckers for YEARS every. single. day. and made their lives hell and here they are just, “doot doot dee doo oh trump’s an average guy just, uh, runnin’ for president, as one does, uh huh uh huh, yaup” It’s just another reason they’re idiots, like we needed more reasons.
Here’s a thought - maybe defend your profession? A little? Maybe? No? No, he says no.
Edit>> Though now I see you said “politician”. If a judge is a politician (and there are at least five on the Supreme Court who are, due to their politics influencing decisions), then this at least answers in part.
The fact that is a thought that is reasonable to be expressed is part of the problem. Judges (and the justice system in general) should not be political in the slightest.
It’s a shame too as I believe the original intention for judges to have a lifetime position was so they no longer had to be concerned with allegiance in an election.
But I assume those lawmakers didn’t know how fanatical or greedy judges could be lol
Nixon resigned a day(?) after the impeachment articles were filed, because House Republicans told him that he didn’t have enough support in the party to not get convicted.
It couldn’t possibly be that their entire country is basically oriented around one massive Corp that has infamously bad working conditions / office politics.
I’m voting the same way but more because we need to not have the other administration, we need much more that the current admin but we also do not have the luxury of being picky
Yeah, but you know people will throw out misinformation saying she can’t actually become president because she’s 34 and some people will believe them and stick with Biden or someone else who we know for damn sure is over 35 and it’ll just split the vote unless Biden (and any other big names on the left) drop out
Biden is close to senile, and I’m assuming he’ll pass away within the next 4 years. Honestly, I hope he’ll win the elections and then peacefully passes away. Nothing against him personally, he seems like a nice guy but what the US (and by extension, the world, thanks for that) needs is not a narcissistic psychopath, and also not a senile grandfather for president.
If AOC ran, I would not be even a little reluctant to vote for her. She reminds me of Bernie.
same here
i’m struggling to get myself to vote for biden; i vacillate on it every day and i wish my history and future of enduring biden et al.'s policies wasn’t clouding my decision.
The really disturbing part is that he’s technically correct.
At this point in history, supporting democracy really is a partisan position, since the Republicans uniformly and adamantly oppose it, and intend to impose christofascist autocracy in its place.
Yeah - I hesitated to post that, since even with the clearly negative characterization of all of the clearly negative aspects of it, it still sort of sounds as if not defending democracy is the right thing to do, when it’s really only “right” in an extremely narrow, warped, relativistic and brazenly evil sense.
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