There was the generic adrenepak and another whose name escapes me at the moment (it was the subject of an FDA recall), so it is *not* a single-source drug so the higher Medicaid rebate amount is not called for.
It seems the real problem isn't the price of the epipen, it's that doctors are writing name-brand epipen prescriptions, locking patients into the higher-priced product. In most states pharmacists can not supply generic equivalents when provided with a name brand-specific prescription.
According to the New York Times, Trump "declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years..."
Are we now taking the position that deducting losses is somehow 'Un-American'? Are going to eliminate medical deductions? Is the deductibility of interest paid on your mortgage at risk?
This is just like when GM event bankrupt and Team Obama 'saved it', and allowed GM to 'avoid' paying any federal taxes for years as it also wrote off it's losses, which was in the billions as I recall. (BTW, by declaring bankruptcy GM should NOT have been able to retain the deduction from it's losses, but hey, that law only applies to the little people, not companies saved by Democrat politicians for the sake of a political meme - "We killed Osama Bin Laden and saved GM"
Companies can pick whoever they want so long as they obey the law, one of which is not discriminating against gender, race, and other factors, because to let them pick whoever they want would be stupid enough to think that a "leave the companies alone" market discourages or prevents discrimination. Never has, never will.
The issue here is the gov't decided that every applicant was qualified for software engineer positions at this well-regarded company, then it determined that 85% of the qualified applicants were Asian. Then the gov't decided that if freezer than 85% of the hires are Asian that in and of itself was proof of discrimination.
Second, hiring by quotas IS discrimination - forcing an employer to 'fill out' their Latino quota and reject better qualified Asian, black or white applicants is rightly seen as discrimination by the better qualified Asian, black, and white applicants.
Trump's possible offering of perks to the Russians should he become POTUS.
You mean like when SITTING PRESIDENT Obama promised 'perks' to the Russian President (on a 'hot mic' back in 2012)? Funny that ACTUAL promise meant nothing, yet the POSSIBILITY that Trump MAY have promised something to the Russians is enough to disqualify Trump for President?
Let's also remember how everyone on the left just LAUGHED when then candidate Rombey said that Russia was our biggest foreign policy threat looking forward? Now Democrats are wetting themselves because they think the Russians are going to invalidate the Presidential election...
Oh, because she was transparent in all her dealings as SoS, turning over her hand-picked emails while she was in office, and only deleting personal emails... Right.
Would you like a link to the emails sent to all staff workers at State under Hillary's name that directed them to not use private email for work-related communication?
Not true... The actual facts are that over 1000 documents were RETROACTIVELY marked as classified by the State Department. They were not marked classified at the time. The agent investigating this issue had to get top secret clearance because of the retroactive classification.
There were emails that contained classified information when they were sent to/from Hilary's server.
There were a few emails that containe partial classification markings sent to/from Hilary's server.
The state department maintains two email systems, one for classified communications, the other for non-classified communications. It is impossible to communicate between those two systems, the classified email system does not connect to the public internet - it is a private, closed email system.
There is at least one email sent by Hillary to a staffer that directs the staffer to explicitly copy some classified documents from the classified email system to the insecure public email system so it could be sent to Hilary's unsecured email server.
The 'markings' you obsess about - 'they weren't MARKED as classified at the time' is a silly childish attempt to deflect responsibility. As Secretary of State, HRC should have known what is and is not classified.
Hillary had her lawyers review each of her 60,000 emails, about half of which they deleted - tell me about the security clearances of the individuals she hired to review those emails?
Oh, and while we are at it, are you really arguing that in her 4 years as Secretary of State HRC never ever received any classified emails? How did she do her job? How did her support staff know never to send her classified materials?
So, this person who was impersonating him had the forethought to create a reddit posting history for him before the Clinton server was even widely known?
Or, you know, guessed the password on the existing account.
If you knew your history well enough, you'd understand that those same Democrats left the party after Truman and the other Democrats successfully pushed Civil Rights expansions for african americans.
That's a neat trick - the Klan was founded around the turn of the century, and your claim that 'those same democrats' left after Truman (in 1945, I assume) and 'the other Democrats pushed civil rights expansion for African Americans' (in 1964, after blocking the Republican's efforts to pass it for years) - THAT'S when those turn of the century, hood wearing, black killing klansmen from the turn of the century suddenly became Republicans?
Let me guess, this fantasy was shared with you by your democrat teachers or your democrat politicians?
It isn't true - as an example, Al Gore Sr. Filibustered Civil Rights for years and stayed a Democrat until his death.
100% of Republicans voted for Civil Rights in 1964, about 40% of Democrats supported civil rights... It's an easily provable/dos-provable fact, I encourage you to look it up.
So Amazon lists items with zero shipping ahead of similarly-priced items that have shipping charges? So what? They are cheaper!
Are they listing their house/preferred seller items before indentically-priced (including shipping costs) items? So what? Somebody has to go first!
Dear lord, are we heading towards a 'retailer neutrality' movement where all items offered up get precisely equal ranking? How stupid.
Did you know that supermarkets get paid for their premium shelf space (end cap, eye level)? Are we going to have a tizzy over your grocery store preferring one detergent over another through premium placements?
What is the issue, really - what is it?
The problem with your idea is that literally none of the BLM land which is not desert is untouched wilderness. It's all been logged, and it's still used for logging and for cattle grazing.
Logging is sustainable, cattle grazing is too.
47% of all land in the west is not being drilled, mined, etc - take a good look at the land the federal government has in Utah, some of it is a datacenter, most of it is untouched wilderness.
The answer to H1-B problems is painfully simple - double the minimum allowed wage to $120K/yr from $60K and have the amount track the economy. Oh, and of course, actually prosecute companies and organizations that fire employees to create a false need for immigrant visa workers.
$11,880 is simply a calculated number used as a benchmark for purposes of qualifying for government assistance. No one believes you can live comfortably on that amount, someone earning that amount of money qualifies for a myriad government programs (section 8 housing assistance, SNAP benefits, free healthcare, etc.).
As of last year, Democrats have suspended the debt ceiling Through the end of Obama's second term (March, 2017, aprox.), effectively removing the credit limit on our 'Bank of China Credit Card' as then-Senator Obama said when campaigning for President in 2008...
ISPS want to charge me for having the data I requested delivered to me, and to charge the people providing the data I want for having it cross their network as it is delivered.
George W. Bush opened torture chambers across the world and collected photographs for a sick sexual thrill. Yet nobody ever talks about that.
Really, George Bush personally collected torture photographs? Care to prove that assertion with a credible citation?
None of the people complaining about Hilary ever complained about GWB refusing to comply with Congressional investigation or the deletion of 5 million emails.
If no one talks about them, how do you know about them?
What "5 million emails" are you talking about? The Private, non-government emails from an RNC server established specifically to COMPLY with federal laws regarding doing 'political party business' on government equipment? You may want to look a little deeper - no one talks about the 5M 'deleted' emails because A) they weren't deleted, they were lost backup tapes; B) there were 20M emails, not 5M; and C) Because they were ultimately found and handed over to the government by the RNC when the backup tapes were found.
...there is going to be a new civil rights act that prohibits Republican voter suppression tactics
Like thinking proving identity when someone votes is just as valid a demand as requiring state-issued IDs to buy certain cold medicines?
and the gerrymandering that give them a 5% advantage in elections.
You do know that Democrats gerrymander voting districts also, right? Of course you do.
And by the time it is all done the Republican party will have two choices, either boot the racist conspiracy theorists and Trumpists out or face two decades in the wilderness.
That's one opinion, I personally can't wait to see how Democrats are going handle watching "The most qualified candidate for Predident of the United States" (according to the candidate that called her corrupt and a liar back in 2008 - then-Senator Obama) gets charged with purjury for lying to Congress. There are 14,900 emails Hillary didn't turn over to Gov't, want to guess how many were wrongly-deleted by team Hillary?
Hillary lied repeatedly about her email server, she lied about why she did it (claimed simplicity, but used multiple devices), she lied about her predecessors doing same thing, she lied about it being approved/legal, she lied abou classified material on the server, she lied about turning over all work-related emails, etc... Why are her lies accepted/dismissed by Democrats?
As The New York Times explained, if you like Ben and Jerry's Facebook page and most of the other people that like that page identify as liberal, Facebook might assume you too are liberal.
I think it is a PR move designed to prevent the line item fees that so many industries love to tack onto bills, like the airlines, cable companies, Ticketmaster, and so on, so they can claim it costs $9.99 but with fees it's really $15.99.
The federal government tried to do this to the telephone companies in the late nineties, they passed a raft of new taxes, and 'forbid' the telcos from passing cost on to consumers. Didn't work, now you have a half-dozen new line-items on your phone bill.
"Ever recorded" does not, in any way equate to "Ever" - "Ever Recorded" should always be followed by a phrase indicating how far back those records go...
Will the unmanned über vehicles be able to drive with no humans on board once the trials are over? Will we see swarms of driverless cabs outside airports and train stations?
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There was the generic adrenepak and another whose name escapes me at the moment (it was the subject of an FDA recall), so it is *not* a single-source drug so the higher Medicaid rebate amount is not called for. It seems the real problem isn't the price of the epipen, it's that doctors are writing name-brand epipen prescriptions, locking patients into the higher-priced product. In most states pharmacists can not supply generic equivalents when provided with a name brand-specific prescription.
Are we now taking the position that deducting losses is somehow 'Un-American'? Are going to eliminate medical deductions? Is the deductibility of interest paid on your mortgage at risk? This is just like when GM event bankrupt and Team Obama 'saved it', and allowed GM to 'avoid' paying any federal taxes for years as it also wrote off it's losses, which was in the billions as I recall. (BTW, by declaring bankruptcy GM should NOT have been able to retain the deduction from it's losses, but hey, that law only applies to the little people, not companies saved by Democrat politicians for the sake of a political meme - "We killed Osama Bin Laden and saved GM"
"if freezer than 85%" should read "if fewer than 85%" Damn autocorrect...
The issue here is the gov't decided that every applicant was qualified for software engineer positions at this well-regarded company, then it determined that 85% of the qualified applicants were Asian. Then the gov't decided that if freezer than 85% of the hires are Asian that in and of itself was proof of discrimination. Second, hiring by quotas IS discrimination - forcing an employer to 'fill out' their Latino quota and reject better qualified Asian, black or white applicants is rightly seen as discrimination by the better qualified Asian, black, and white applicants.
You mean like when SITTING PRESIDENT Obama promised 'perks' to the Russian President (on a 'hot mic' back in 2012)? Funny that ACTUAL promise meant nothing, yet the POSSIBILITY that Trump MAY have promised something to the Russians is enough to disqualify Trump for President? Let's also remember how everyone on the left just LAUGHED when then candidate Rombey said that Russia was our biggest foreign policy threat looking forward? Now Democrats are wetting themselves because they think the Russians are going to invalidate the Presidential election...
"Wink and a nod?" You like whispering to the Russian President that he'll have ?
Oh, because she was transparent in all her dealings as SoS, turning over her hand-picked emails while she was in office, and only deleting personal emails... Right.
Would you like a link to the emails sent to all staff workers at State under Hillary's name that directed them to not use private email for work-related communication?
There were emails that contained classified information when they were sent to/from Hilary's server. There were a few emails that containe partial classification markings sent to/from Hilary's server. The state department maintains two email systems, one for classified communications, the other for non-classified communications. It is impossible to communicate between those two systems, the classified email system does not connect to the public internet - it is a private, closed email system. There is at least one email sent by Hillary to a staffer that directs the staffer to explicitly copy some classified documents from the classified email system to the insecure public email system so it could be sent to Hilary's unsecured email server. The 'markings' you obsess about - 'they weren't MARKED as classified at the time' is a silly childish attempt to deflect responsibility. As Secretary of State, HRC should have known what is and is not classified. Hillary had her lawyers review each of her 60,000 emails, about half of which they deleted - tell me about the security clearances of the individuals she hired to review those emails? Oh, and while we are at it, are you really arguing that in her 4 years as Secretary of State HRC never ever received any classified emails? How did she do her job? How did her support staff know never to send her classified materials?
Or, you know, guessed the password on the existing account.
That's a neat trick - the Klan was founded around the turn of the century, and your claim that 'those same democrats' left after Truman (in 1945, I assume) and 'the other Democrats pushed civil rights expansion for African Americans' (in 1964, after blocking the Republican's efforts to pass it for years) - THAT'S when those turn of the century, hood wearing, black killing klansmen from the turn of the century suddenly became Republicans? Let me guess, this fantasy was shared with you by your democrat teachers or your democrat politicians? It isn't true - as an example, Al Gore Sr. Filibustered Civil Rights for years and stayed a Democrat until his death. 100% of Republicans voted for Civil Rights in 1964, about 40% of Democrats supported civil rights... It's an easily provable/dos-provable fact, I encourage you to look it up.
So Amazon lists items with zero shipping ahead of similarly-priced items that have shipping charges? So what? They are cheaper! Are they listing their house/preferred seller items before indentically-priced (including shipping costs) items? So what? Somebody has to go first! Dear lord, are we heading towards a 'retailer neutrality' movement where all items offered up get precisely equal ranking? How stupid. Did you know that supermarkets get paid for their premium shelf space (end cap, eye level)? Are we going to have a tizzy over your grocery store preferring one detergent over another through premium placements? What is the issue, really - what is it?
Logging is sustainable, cattle grazing is too. 47% of all land in the west is not being drilled, mined, etc - take a good look at the land the federal government has in Utah, some of it is a datacenter, most of it is untouched wilderness.
By 'helping' you mean retard their progress?
Thank god all the polar ice is melting, the we can grow some foliage and survive!
The answer to H1-B problems is painfully simple - double the minimum allowed wage to $120K/yr from $60K and have the amount track the economy. Oh, and of course, actually prosecute companies and organizations that fire employees to create a false need for immigrant visa workers.
$11,880 is simply a calculated number used as a benchmark for purposes of qualifying for government assistance. No one believes you can live comfortably on that amount, someone earning that amount of money qualifies for a myriad government programs (section 8 housing assistance, SNAP benefits, free healthcare, etc.).
As of last year, Democrats have suspended the debt ceiling Through the end of Obama's second term (March, 2017, aprox.), effectively removing the credit limit on our 'Bank of China Credit Card' as then-Senator Obama said when campaigning for President in 2008...
It's called 'peering'
Really, George Bush personally collected torture photographs? Care to prove that assertion with a credible citation?
If no one talks about them, how do you know about them?
What "5 million emails" are you talking about? The Private, non-government emails from an RNC server established specifically to COMPLY with federal laws regarding doing 'political party business' on government equipment? You may want to look a little deeper - no one talks about the 5M 'deleted' emails because A) they weren't deleted, they were lost backup tapes; B) there were 20M emails, not 5M; and C) Because they were ultimately found and handed over to the government by the RNC when the backup tapes were found.
Like thinking proving identity when someone votes is just as valid a demand as requiring state-issued IDs to buy certain cold medicines?
You do know that Democrats gerrymander voting districts also, right? Of course you do.
That's one opinion, I personally can't wait to see how Democrats are going handle watching "The most qualified candidate for Predident of the United States" (according to the candidate that called her corrupt and a liar back in 2008 - then-Senator Obama) gets charged with purjury for lying to Congress. There are 14,900 emails Hillary didn't turn over to Gov't, want to guess how many were wrongly-deleted by team Hillary?
Hillary lied repeatedly about her email server, she lied about why she did it (claimed simplicity, but used multiple devices), she lied about her predecessors doing same thing, she lied about it being approved/legal, she lied abou classified material on the server, she lied about turning over all work-related emails, etc... Why are her lies accepted/dismissed by Democrats?
"Assume" is not the same as "know".
The federal government tried to do this to the telephone companies in the late nineties, they passed a raft of new taxes, and 'forbid' the telcos from passing cost on to consumers. Didn't work, now you have a half-dozen new line-items on your phone bill.
What, like the dinosaurs? I'd love a list of the 'big animals' we've 'already extincted'...
"Ever recorded" does not, in any way equate to "Ever" - "Ever Recorded" should always be followed by a phrase indicating how far back those records go...
Will the unmanned über vehicles be able to drive with no humans on board once the trials are over? Will we see swarms of driverless cabs outside airports and train stations?