Biden had CMS (The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) negotiate some drug prices with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of Medicare recipients. This is entirely legal, because the federal government is the payer for people with Medicare. Pharmaceutical companies want Medicare to keep covering their drugs, so they’re willing to come to the table. Again, this is for Medicare only.

What’s harebrained, blatantly not legal, and unimplementable is, “I hereby order all drug prices in the US to be the lowest in the world!”

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This is rich, coming from someone actively demonstrating they lack a basic understanding of what Biden did despite providing a link to it

And when did Biden and Obama try to unilaterally and unconstitutionally dictate pharmaceutical prices

“Presidents have done this for a long time?” Name one and what they did

I don’t think we can say this will be a positive for the middle class because there’s absolutely no actual plan for implementation here

“I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World,” Trump said. “Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”

The president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally dictate pharmaceutical prices. The federal government has some power to set the prices paid by Medicare/Medicaid recipients, but let’s be very clear that reform in this regard has been blocked by Republicans for decades. When the Biden Admin did it for just a handful of medications, the screeching was deafening.

Anyway, my point is that as usual, this is bluster with no actual implementable policy behind it

The picture is split in half.

Mephistopheles is Hell’s Messenger, you’re thinking of malaria

He’s discussing his book because it’s directly related to the topic being discussed. He doesn’t need to plug his book here, it’s spent much of the last year and a half on the NYT bestseller list

I think it’s because they mentioned trees improve air quality right there in their comment, and then you responded like you didn’t read it

The Austin Chronicle has reliably good content. Lots of local stuff, but also commentary on the state of Texas, and a ton of arts pieces

We can traverse space because it’s space. Everything in the universe can traverse space. Similarly, the entire universe experiences time in only one direction. Time and space are the same thing. The movie Arrival is fiction and has nothing to do with the physics here

Humans perceive time…

Isn’t one of those dimensions time? There do be time in chess

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job

You can gain confidence by doing it

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The more complex the design, the more expensive it’s going to be, even with this construction method. Starbucks is looking to do this as cheaply as possible.

I would argue this extends way beyond gender into every facet of someone’s life, achieving one’s goals and desires

Who said perishable items were “strictly prohibited?” Slapping a stamp on a kraft single would not meet the criteria laid out in the second half of the sentence you left out of your quote.