On the Significance of Xi Jinping Thought on China and its Development
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Mao Zedong made the Chinese nation stand up, Deng Xiaoping made the Chinese people rich, and Xi Jinping will make the Chinese people strong.
China’s Quantum Leap Forward
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[2017] Why vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability
In 1986 Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), creating a no-fault compensation program to stabilize a vaccine market adversely affected by an increase in vaccine-related lawsuits and to facilitate compensation to claimants who found pursuing legitimate vaccine-inflicted injuries too difficult and cost prohibitive.
Why vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability
How This Rural Wisconsin County Put Publicly Funded, Non-Profit, National Health Care on the Ballot
Is it possible that the people of these rural communities, under the stress of a broken health care system, can spark a movement to fix health care for the nation?
How This Rural Wisconsin County Put Publicly Funded, Non-Profit, National Health Care on the Ballot
Losing a pregnancy could land you in jail in post-Roe America
Oklahoma AG declares medical boards can’t punish doctor for prescribing ivermectin
LifeSiteNews | February 16, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Doctors in Oklahoma are well within their professional rights to prescribe ivermectin (IVM) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to COVID-19 patients, state Attorney General John O’Connor affirmed, despite the drugs’ disfavored status within the federal health bureaucracy.
Oklahoma AG declares medical boards can’t punish doctor for prescribing ivermectin
Report shows decreases in opioid prescribing, increase in overdoses
CHICAGO—The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a report (PDF) today showing a 44.4 percent decrease in opioid prescribing nationwide in the past decade. At the same time, the country is facing a worsening drug-related overdose and death epidemic.
Report shows decreases in opioid prescribing, increase in overdoses
And We Should Trust ‘The Science’ of the Pharma Industry?
Sanders Demands Reform After CBO Reveals High Drug Prices for Medicare Part D
Trump promises seniors $200 prescription drug gift certificates, but questions abound
Trump promises seniors $200 prescription drug gift certificates, but questions abound
The administration is getting its authority to ship the coupons from a Medicare demonstration program, a White House spokesman told STAT in a statement. The nearly $7 billion required to send the coupons, he said, would come from savings from Trump’s “most favored nations” drug pricing proposal. That regulation has also not yet been implemented — meaning the Trump administration is effectively pledging to spend $6.6 billion in savings that do not currently exist. The cards, he said, would be “actual discount cards for prescription drug copays.”
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Trump’s ‘most favored nation’ executive order on drug prices is a scam for seniors
Yet none of these reference pricing proposals show how they would directly reduce out-of-pocket costs for seniors at the pharmacy counter. For example, an Avalere study found that fewer than 1% of older adults in Medicare Part B would see a reduction in out-of-pocket costs as a result of the international pricing index model. In all likelihood, the prices of drugs in other countries will be more affected by the executive order than U.S. drug prices.
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