"The sheer amount of deaths per terawatts put out by nuclear can give anyone pause on that. "
That would be a grand world total of 51, since the beginning of nuclear as an energy source. No other source, even solar with its distributed installation accidents, has a safety record approaching this.
And the cost picture? If you get to cite a blatantly antinuclear site, I get to pick a site of my own too: http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
Because the costs of nuclear are all up front, the most effective strategy for preventing nukes from being built is to impose construction delays.
I'm talking about electric car tech as a whole, not that early-adopter wonder, the Tesla. Electric motors can make the automobile simpler and cheaper by replacing the maze of mechanics that IC involves. It will be the same revolution that the jet engine brought to aviation.
But while there are already a number of low-end electric cars out there that are designed for the urban commuter market, adoption is being held up by the lack of charging stations.
It forbids Earthly nations from extending their sovereignty out into space. It does not forbid private entities from exploring and exploiting asteroids and other resources, and it does not prevent them from establishing their own sovereignty by custom of usage as this process develops.
Your big problem with driving electric in Africa is going to be the fueling infrastructure. The whole reason that electric in the US has an upper-class image is that right now, only wealthier neighborhoods have charging stations. Electric cars will get cheap long before it becomes practical to drive them everywhere.
I recently hiked across the UK at your 300 km point. I saw a lot of interest in wind power across this expanse, but nobody wanted turbines in their little village. My hike started at Windscale, a large nuclear reprocessing plant that has been there for years. Putting in a few gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity at this site would power the whole region, at the cost of a NIMBY battle that need only be fought once, and at a place where the nuclear industry is already an entrenched part of the economy.
This is a great example of why we need to make FDA approvals advisory, rather than mandatory. Your Voltaren went through the European approval system, which is just as good as the US system. Japan has another perfectly good approval regime. Patients should have the option of trusting any of these foreign systems as an alternative to our own.
"Or alternatively, a company could possibly run "treatment tours" to the UK with complete packages"
Medical tourism is still legal, and many Americans are indeed going to India for major surgeries. Here in Arizona, bus tours from retirement communities to get prescriptions filled in Mexico are big business. If you drive I-8 between Tucson and San Diego, you will see a small exit called Algodones, leading to a single large hotel. Another casino in the middle of the desert? No, it's a place where you stay overnight, then stroll across the adjacent border to an entire town of dentists, who will do a great job on your teeth for a fraction of the US price.
But the medical tourism model is inapplicable to patients who need a long-term supply of a medication. You can visit another country for gallbladder surgery, but you're not going to live there so you can take one medication for the rest of your life.
IP is not at issue here, because the drug is already generic. Manufacturability is not the issue either, because it is already made and sold cheap all over the world. The issue is that laws the Shkrelis of our pharma business had passed prevent Americans from shopping the world market.
Some patients are allergic to the binders and coatings used in a given generic, and so have to take the branded version. Just as often, it's the other way around.
Make sure you have a doctor who keeps current on all of this. For all of you out there who have no such choice, keep lobbying for a system that allows you to shop around for medicine.
No, we would still have the FDA labeling of the product. If someone else advertised rat poison as "my new and approved aspirin" the lack of FDA approval would keep most of us away. A false claim of FDA approval would be fraud, an entirely different offense under current law.
"You can also find it at Canadian pharmacies for $2.51 per tablet"
Were you aware that in 2011 the FDA fined Google half a billion dollars - billion with a B - for the crime of pointing this out. We need to make the FDA give Google every stolen dime back, and then slash its budget until it can't hurt us any more.
That's why we have insurance and other prepayment schemes. Of course a given single payment with a medical crisis has an inflexible demand. So in anticipation of possible future need, you make arrangements with an organization that contracts for medical services, devices and drugs on your behalf so you can be supplied in times of need. Such an organization can be an insurance company or a government agency like the VA. If we had a free market, worldwide, in medicine, it is these organizations who would be able to save on medical costs. Through competition in a free market, these savings are passed down to the customer.
This is the medical system we could have if the ACA and other government medical buyers were allowed to shop the worldwide market, and if insurance companies were allowed to shop around, and if patients were allowed to form buyers clubs to shop around.
"You are not allowed to sell a generic equivalent unless you can prove it is as effective as the nongeneric version"
This is why my remedy, if elected, for this situation would be to strip the FDA of all powers to regulate the market for drugs. Let it have proposed new drugs tested for safety and efficacy, as it does now, but let its findings be advisory only. Doctors, patients and insurance companies would generally follow its recommendations as a "gold standard," but absent any power to prevent consumers from shopping around on the world market for cheaper subscription fills and absent any power to enforce sweetheart deals with pharma, the free market would bring the US prices of medications into line with worldwide prices.
given such a reform, abominations like the colchicine deal and the Daraprim deal would a footnote in the "Communism" chapter in our history books.
But we've come a long way since medieval times. The penalties for Blatant Heresy used to be similar to those in the Muslim world. In our enlightened society, we no longer torture or behead heretics. We strip them of their wealth and academic credentials.
Go ahead and RICO climate skeptics, so long as we get to RICO climate fans who try to stand in the way of the massive nuclear program it will take to go carbon free.
So long as there are laws around homicide, the state needs to define when life begins. But our secular legal code needs a secular definition of life, not the one that Christian moralists extract from Catholic canon law.
Since we legally define life as ending with brain death, why not the beginning of brain activity as the start of life? That would be at about six weeks term.
No, they will have had time for more stellar generations than our own. Not only will they have richer periodic tables than the one we know, but there will be time for longer development of living worlds
For years, thuggish police activity like property seizure without due process, wrong-house raids, use of SWAT teams for routine civic disputes and killing nonviolent dogs during raids as a matter of policy had been carped at in obscure online discussion forums by "constitutionalists" and other people who the major media could easily ignore as nutjobs. With Ferguson and the Garner case, the stories went racial, and so it was at this point that liberals decided to become involved. Now police malpractice is a mainstream cause, and everybody is taking pictures of cops to uncover the latest case of bad behavior. Last week when New York was full of tennis stars for the US Open, the James Blake case brought it all to our attention again.
Meanwhile, brain-dead political correctness and high-handedness by pubic schools in suspending students for such crimes as wearing a political T-shirt or chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun have been complained about in the same obscure and non-PC corners of the online world for years. Just last week, a young boy was arrested for stealing a kiss.
Is the Mohamed case the Ferguson of public school systems, the case that finally blows the problem out into the open? Now that race is involved, the same liberals who kiss the feet of school boards after their every authoritarian ukase have suddenly Become Concerned. Perhaps now the battle will be joined.
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It may push even Congress to allow us access to our own cars' ECM and diagnostic systems.
"The sheer amount of deaths per terawatts put out by nuclear can give anyone pause on that. "
That would be a grand world total of 51, since the beginning of nuclear as an energy source. No other source, even solar with its distributed installation accidents, has a safety record approaching this.
And the cost picture? If you get to cite a blatantly antinuclear site, I get to pick a site of my own too:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
Because the costs of nuclear are all up front, the most effective strategy for preventing nukes from being built is to impose construction delays.
I'm talking about electric car tech as a whole, not that early-adopter wonder, the Tesla. Electric motors can make the automobile simpler and cheaper by replacing the maze of mechanics that IC involves. It will be the same revolution that the jet engine brought to aviation.
But while there are already a number of low-end electric cars out there that are designed for the urban commuter market, adoption is being held up by the lack of charging stations.
It forbids Earthly nations from extending their sovereignty out into space. It does not forbid private entities from exploring and exploiting asteroids and other resources, and it does not prevent them from establishing their own sovereignty by custom of usage as this process develops.
Your big problem with driving electric in Africa is going to be the fueling infrastructure. The whole reason that electric in the US has an upper-class image is that right now, only wealthier neighborhoods have charging stations. Electric cars will get cheap long before it becomes practical to drive them everywhere.
I recently hiked across the UK at your 300 km point. I saw a lot of interest in wind power across this expanse, but nobody wanted turbines in their little village. My hike started at Windscale, a large nuclear reprocessing plant that has been there for years. Putting in a few gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity at this site would power the whole region, at the cost of a NIMBY battle that need only be fought once, and at a place where the nuclear industry is already an entrenched part of the economy.
This is a great example of why we need to make FDA approvals advisory, rather than mandatory. Your Voltaren went through the European approval system, which is just as good as the US system. Japan has another perfectly good approval regime. Patients should have the option of trusting any of these foreign systems as an alternative to our own.
"Or alternatively, a company could possibly run "treatment tours" to the UK with complete packages"
Medical tourism is still legal, and many Americans are indeed going to India for major surgeries. Here in Arizona, bus tours from retirement communities to get prescriptions filled in Mexico are big business. If you drive I-8 between Tucson and San Diego, you will see a small exit called Algodones, leading to a single large hotel. Another casino in the middle of the desert? No, it's a place where you stay overnight, then stroll across the adjacent border to an entire town of dentists, who will do a great job on your teeth for a fraction of the US price.
But the medical tourism model is inapplicable to patients who need a long-term supply of a medication. You can visit another country for gallbladder surgery, but you're not going to live there so you can take one medication for the rest of your life.
IP is not at issue here, because the drug is already generic. Manufacturability is not the issue either, because it is already made and sold cheap all over the world. The issue is that laws the Shkrelis of our pharma business had passed prevent Americans from shopping the world market.
Some patients are allergic to the binders and coatings used in a given generic, and so have to take the branded version. Just as often, it's the other way around.
Make sure you have a doctor who keeps current on all of this. For all of you out there who have no such choice, keep lobbying for a system that allows you to shop around for medicine.
No, we would still have the FDA labeling of the product. If someone else advertised rat poison as "my new and approved aspirin" the lack of FDA approval would keep most of us away. A false claim of FDA approval would be fraud, an entirely different offense under current law.
Autocorrect got creative: "payment" -> "Patient"
"You can also find it at Canadian pharmacies for $2.51 per tablet"
Were you aware that in 2011 the FDA fined Google half a billion dollars - billion with a B - for the crime of pointing this out. We need to make the FDA give Google every stolen dime back, and then slash its budget until it can't hurt us any more.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/...
That's why we have insurance and other prepayment schemes. Of course a given single payment with a medical crisis has an inflexible demand. So in anticipation of possible future need, you make arrangements with an organization that contracts for medical services, devices and drugs on your behalf so you can be supplied in times of need. Such an organization can be an insurance company or a government agency like the VA. If we had a free market, worldwide, in medicine, it is these organizations who would be able to save on medical costs. Through competition in a free market, these savings are passed down to the customer.
This is the medical system we could have if the ACA and other government medical buyers were allowed to shop the worldwide market, and if insurance companies were allowed to shop around, and if patients were allowed to form buyers clubs to shop around.
Has Trump, whose wealth comes in part from gaming the federal bankruptcy laws, rendered an opinion on this case?
"You are not allowed to sell a generic equivalent unless you can prove it is as effective as the nongeneric version"
This is why my remedy, if elected, for this situation would be to strip the FDA of all powers to regulate the market for drugs. Let it have proposed new drugs tested for safety and efficacy, as it does now, but let its findings be advisory only. Doctors, patients and insurance companies would generally follow its recommendations as a "gold standard," but absent any power to prevent consumers from shopping around on the world market for cheaper subscription fills and absent any power to enforce sweetheart deals with pharma, the free market would bring the US prices of medications into line with worldwide prices.
given such a reform, abominations like the colchicine deal and the Daraprim deal would a footnote in the "Communism" chapter in our history books.
Just run Windows on it.
It wasn't in the old days. It is now.
But we've come a long way since medieval times. The penalties for Blatant Heresy used to be similar to those in the Muslim world. In our enlightened society, we no longer torture or behead heretics. We strip them of their wealth and academic credentials.
Go ahead and RICO climate skeptics, so long as we get to RICO climate fans who try to stand in the way of the massive nuclear program it will take to go carbon free.
So long as there are laws around homicide, the state needs to define when life begins. But our secular legal code needs a secular definition of life, not the one that Christian moralists extract from Catholic canon law.
Since we legally define life as ending with brain death, why not the beginning of brain activity as the start of life? That would be at about six weeks term.
OR...until it gets done privately.
Just search through the sewers until you start hearing loud music. There, right in your flashlight beam, will be the bad guy.
No, they will have had time for more stellar generations than our own. Not only will they have richer periodic tables than the one we know, but there will be time for longer development of living worlds
For years, thuggish police activity like property seizure without due process, wrong-house raids, use of SWAT teams for routine civic disputes and killing nonviolent dogs during raids as a matter of policy had been carped at in obscure online discussion forums by "constitutionalists" and other people who the major media could easily ignore as nutjobs. With Ferguson and the Garner case, the stories went racial, and so it was at this point that liberals decided to become involved. Now police malpractice is a mainstream cause, and everybody is taking pictures of cops to uncover the latest case of bad behavior. Last week when New York was full of tennis stars for the US Open, the James Blake case brought it all to our attention again.
Meanwhile, brain-dead political correctness and high-handedness by pubic schools in suspending students for such crimes as wearing a political T-shirt or chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun have been complained about in the same obscure and non-PC corners of the online world for years. Just last week, a young boy was arrested for stealing a kiss.
Is the Mohamed case the Ferguson of public school systems, the case that finally blows the problem out into the open? Now that race is involved, the same liberals who kiss the feet of school boards after their every authoritarian ukase have suddenly Become Concerned. Perhaps now the battle will be joined.