We’re still going to be paying too much for the wrong drugs.

Until 2003, Medicare covered most hospital and doctor visits for the elderly, but it did not cover the ever-growing costs of prescription medications. Former President George W. Bush changed that when he signed a law adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare.

But there was a catch… Continue reading →

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” ~ H.L. Mencken

First came 9/11, which the government used to transform itself into a police state.

Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, which the police state used to test out its lockdown powers.

In light of the government’s tendency to exploit crises (legitimate or manufactured) and capitalize on the nation’s heightened emotions, confusion and fear as a means of extending the reach of the police state, one has to wonder what so-called crisis it will declare next.

It’s a simple enough formula: first, you create fear, then you capitalize on it by seizing power.

Frankly, it doesn’t even matter what the nature of the next national emergency might be (terrorism, civil unrest, economic collapse, a health scare, or the environment) as long as it allows the government to lockdown the nation and justify all manner of tyranny in the so-called name of national security. Continue reading →

Optimism must be balanced with conservative expectations given the unknown nature of the cost impact.

This week, the Biden-Harris administration announced the first 10 drugs that Medicare will be allowed to negotiate prices for beginning in 2026 – the list contains many medications that cardiologists commonly prescribe for their patients.

The drugs are part of the first wave of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which aims to reduce prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries while cutting drug spending by the federal government. Already, the IRA has lowered the cost of insulin to $35 or less, and out-of-pocket spending by Medicare beneficiaries is set to be capped at $2,000 per year beginning in 2025. Continue reading →

For the last several years, my friends in public health and science have expressed astonishment and professional disorientation at the behavior and messaging of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The scientific journals are part of this.

They simply could not believe the brazen manipulation of science for political purposes. They could not believe that so many people within these agencies and journals went along with it for reasons of career protection. They have been appalled that science and public health have been deployed in this way.

They worry about the future with this level of corruption. And they have been quite passionate in decrying it, while paying a professional price for not going along. Continue reading →

People see but they do not understand. People hear but they do not comprehend. In the meantime, politicians both see and hear, but ignore. It is treason by omission

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited. ~ Proverbs 24

Millions of people around the world are beginning to figure out that there is a force, an evil cabal trying to take over the entire planet. This force has influenced leaders of every persuasion, in every country, and has been remarkably successful in putting a vast amount of governmental, religious, educational, medical, corporate and institutional leaders in a sort of trance…zombie like, to do their will. Continue reading →

A surveillance photo of the Weavers with guns on the property in Ruby Ridge, 1992. Photograph: PBS

It’s been 31 years since the beginning of the FBI’s murderous siege on the home of the Weaver family. The deadly incident prompted enough outrage to spur Congressional hearings, protests from across the political spectrum, several dramatized TV portrayals and a promise from the FBI and Department of Justice that they would revise the reckless tactics used at Ruby Ridge to avoid future tragedies (this was six months before the Waco massacre).

Fast forward to 2023, and the only difference in relation to federal law enforcement behavior is the disappearance of journalists and politicians willing to demand accountability from the FBI. Continue reading →

The ruling class and Pfizer have leaked documents showing that their COVID-19 vaccines are being used as a tool for depopulation and genocide. If a vaccine were to be developed and distributed that could cause heart and immune system dysfunction, it could potentially lead to depopulation due to increased mortality and decreased fertility.

Is there such a “vaccine on the market?” Perhaps… Continue reading →

In an editorial, The New York Times called for an investigation into the attack on Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny, who was recently transported to Germany in a coma after apparently being poisoned.

No one knows who did the poisoning but Times has strong suspicions:

A hit on so prominent a figure, with the inevitable eruption of global and domestic fury, would presumably require sanction from the highest echelons of power…. Mr. Putin has certainly shown no qualms about striking at foes at home and abroad. But it is equally possible that some other shadowy figure in the Russian kleptocracy decided to silence him. Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman of the Chechen Republic within Russia, for one, is believed to be responsible for several assassinations, most likely without approval from the Kremlin…. Given the murky politics of the Kremlin, it may indeed be that Mr. Putin and his lieutenants did not order the hit on Mr. Navalny, who stands to become a bigger problem as a martyr than he was as a gadfly. But, as the Russian expression goes, “You cooked the kasha, you eat it.”

Unfortunately, however, the Times fails to address a major issue involved here: The power of a national-security state to engage in assassination at all. Continue reading →

It’s getting crazy out there – and I am doing all I can to stop it!

More and more of the policy proposals put out by the Green activists reveal their movement is actually about forcing radical changes to our lifestyles and not about climate science or the environment.

It’s like a religion where infidels have to conform to their rites and rituals and heretics must be silenced.

Each day they are pushing harder and faster to implement it all. They are moving to eliminate cheap, reliable energy and gain control over our food supply, ability to travel, housing choices, available jobs, and our personal life-style choices. Continue reading →

Burn Baby – BURN!

August 24, 2023, was a sad day for all Americans who love their country and cherish their individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. For the first time in America’s history, a president has been arrested, fingerprinted, and had a mug mug shot taken in a county jail. All this was done to him because he dared to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election that he believed was stolen from him, and with assistance of some of his staffers was seeking lawful remedies for this perceived or real theft.

Here is some wider perspective. Continue reading →

Taxpayer cash to be used to bankroll MORE Covid vaccines
Biden Administration will use $1.4BILLION to develop new virus drugs and shots

Officials said the funding – to be awarded in grants – will be used to develop ‘a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come’.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – the branch of government tasked with bankrolling health initiatives – announced the move Tuesday as part of its ‘Project NextGen.’

This initiative adds to the $30 billion the government has already spent on Covid vaccines and $4.6trillion in overall Covid relief… (Continue to full article)

Source: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

Mask mandates reemerge amid upturn in COVID-19 cases
The recent upturn in COVID-19 cases in some regions has spurred a handful of entities around the country to reinstate mask mandates, reigniting the debate over what place masking requirements have in an era of living with the coronavirus.

Earlier this week, Hollywood movie studio Lionsgate asked its employees to wear masks on certain floors of its facilities in Santa Monica, Calif., in response to a few staff members testing positive for COVID-19.

Kaiser Permanente began to require staff, patients and visitors to wear masks at its facility in Santa Rosa, Calif., this week in response to a spike in cases. Upstate Medical University in New York announced a similar decision last week for two of its hospitals… (Continue to full article)

Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid – according to ONE report
Measures taken during the Covid pandemic such as social distancing and wearing face masks “unequivocally” reduced the spread of infections, a report has found.

Experts looked at the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) – not drugs or vaccines – when applied in packages that combine a number of measures that complement one another.

The report, called Covid-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, reviewed the evidence gathered during the pandemic for six groups of NPIs and their effectiveness in reducing transmission.

These included masks and face coverings, social distancing and lockdowns, test, trace and isolate, travel restrictions and controls across international borders, environmental controls, and communications.

Frankly – I am sick of this SHIT… (Continue to full article)

Schools Already Closing Due to COVID — Just Weeks After Starting
The BS begins. Go to school or stay home with your children’s cold. Jesus, they aren’t going to die from the flu or cold. So ridiculous. America will have the most uneducated kids. No chance to ever catch up. Parents should consider homeschooling.

Just two weeks into the start of their school year, officials in Kentucky have called off school for the rest of the week “due to student and staff illness.”

The district of Lee County announced on Tuesday, August 22 that in-person classes, extra-curricular practices and games in the district had been canceled for the remainder of the week.

Public Health Director for the Kentucky River District, Scott Lockard, told news outlets local to the area that there has been an increase in COVID-19 cases throughout the district.

But COVID was not the singular driving factor in the district’s decision to temporarily close their doors… (Continue to full article)