If the US can't even fix rampant price gouging in insulin, one of the most commonly used generic drugs in the world, how can we expect it to reform health care?
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This is an old chart. A patient in the US now pays up to 15x more for insulin now than in most other countries.
If you want to put thousands of additional dollars into the pockets of tens of millions of American families this year, in one fast move, end the predatory pricing of insulin, levothyroxine, and the other generics.
Generic Humalog: ~$150-250 per vial
Generic Novolog: ~$350 per vial
As a reference, generic Humalog cost ~$21 a vial in 1996
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I just finished my testimony to the Senate on how to handle Big Data -- thanks to the Senators and the Senate teams (Mark and Avery in particular) for working with me on this, despite the fact that my ideas were waaay outside of the mainstream.
The good news is that I was able to insert two NEW ideas into the mix:
1) Data ownership. You own your data, you should be in control of it.
2) Digital rights. Rights that protect us against a corporate-run surveillance state (there are none right now).
The bad news is: these ideas were so NEW (outside the mainstream), it's going to take some time for people to get their heads around them.
We also need a better spokesmodel than me for this (I'm OK, but there are MANY people much better at this than I am).
What we're seeing in Afghanistan is a great demonstration of how to switch realms of warfare.
From guerrilla warfare fought in the moral realm (and given the rapid collapse of the ANA, a complete success) to maneuver warfare fought in the psychological realm (more success).
Note: Why is maneuver warfare in the psychological realm?
Maneuver warfare uses rapid movements that maximize ambiguity, deception, and novelty in order to disorient, disrupt, and overload an opponent's decision-making.
"they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day."
"They enable extremely centralized command and control (as in: operations can be micro-manged down to the decision to kill). In sum, a small number of people in Washington DC can control and operate a vast 24x7 killing field for very few $$."
'a more interesting idea is how it gets applied to US internal security when... the current system loses much of its remaining legitimacy'
In that scenario:
"even a mildly radical post to a blog, Facebook, or Twitter (particularly if it could lead to a flashmob or an occupy style protest) would invite inclusion on the drone assassination list"