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arstechnica.com

Drug makers have tripled the prices of top Medicare drugs

In 2021, Medicare spent nearly $81 billion on these 25 drugs.
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For nearly all the drugs, the price hikes far outstripped the rate of inflation, with increases ranging from 20 percent to 739 percent during the drugs' lifetimes on the market. Only one of the top 25 drugs—Trelegy Ellipta, an inhaler for asthma and chronic lung conditions—had price increases that were below the rate of inflation during its time on the market. Since its initial release in 2017, Trelegy Ellipta's price increased only 20 percent, compared with a general inflation rate of 23 percent.
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avecigrec said:
RICO charges!!
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The deliciousness of Rudy Giuliani, one of the guys who really pioneered using RICO, being charged under RICO, is just ooh. Yes I will help myself to another slice of this schadenfreude pie, thank you.

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Giuliani charged with breaking the type of law he helped innovate as a prosecutor

Giuliani made groundbreaking use of racketeering laws when he was a federal prosecutor in the 1980s. Now, he faces a similar charge himself along with former President Trump.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has sided with a Catholic School over the firing of a teacher.

Essentially, the teacher was fire for having premarital sex. When she became pregnant she was fired by the Catholic School for violating their code of ethics for having premarital sex.

Her defense that she was unlawfully fired alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, court documents say. She argued her firing was a “‘mere pretext’ for pregnancy and marital-status discrimination,”.
 
RenegadeMonster said:

Purported names, photos and addresses of Fulton County grand jurors circulate on far-right internet​



Fuck. This wont end well. I hope US Marshals are providing security for these grand jurors.
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And then there is this... WTAF?

A Texas woman is charged with threatening the judge overseeing Trump's Jan. 6 trial​

 
Indymisanthrope said:
Sadly, the irony of threatening acts of domestic terrorism to subvert the criminal trials of the putative 'law & order' candidate will be lost on these chumps.
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Honestly, it’s should just be part of the case for that trial. He knows his supporters are like this and that telling them to March was an order to do what happened.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
The contortions you have to put yourself through to think that a) killing a judge is good, and that b) killing a judge will somehow free the defendant from his legal jeopardy, is...

...well, I daresay it's not completely rational.
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But they’re not just gonna kill that judge but any judge that decides to prosecute, along with all the democrats and all the ltgbq+
 
Indymisanthrope said:
that right there reveals a major flaw in choice of targets, since judges by definition do not prosecute.
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You and I know this, but these folks are truly of the belief that they are right here to a degree that they are pretty much willing to ruin everything in the process of asserting their belief. Logic fails them in merely wanting to protect this individual.
 
Lee Newman said:
You and I know this, but these folks are truly of the belief that they are right here to a degree that they are pretty much willing to ruin everything in the process of asserting their belief. Logic fails them in merely wanting to protect this individual.
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It's really quite discouraging. Fox news has dumbed down those who are poorly educated even more.
 
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