Did Joe just get Mexico to pay for a wall??
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More like a bridge than a wall from the sounds of it.
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Oh c’mon, Joe. I understand the need for maintaining diplomatic relations with really bad regimes but this is a case study in terrible optics.
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Very graceful, Mr. President!
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So is this an admission of guilt, using the word “also?”
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The depraved things American Presidents will do in the hopes of lowering the cost of gasoline are truly incredible.
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Apparently, some news outlets are claiming he was rejected because Rand Paul refused to sign off on it (which is apparently common when it’s a judicial appointment for their home state). They do not give a reason why Paul would not sign off, but I’m guessing it’s because it represented a compromise with Biden.
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Another grace to praise?
Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission’s successful challenges to four hospital mergers, the Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.
Although hospital mergers were supposed to improve cost efficiency, experts agree that the creation of huge conglomerates and hospital networks has driven up U.S. medical costs, which are by far the highest in the world. Many enjoy near-monopoly pricing power.
That sounds good to me! But then the next paragraph says:
Last year, President Joe Biden ordered the FTC and other federal agencies to promote market competition in health care and other industries.
which made me go
and reminded me of this:
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Well, at least they are pushing back on late-stage capitalism in healthcare in favor of mid-stage capitalism? The consolidation of hospitals has really gotten to be very bad. Some health systems have expanded just to survive. Small hospital networks and large solo hospitals just can’t fight off the behemoths.
This may seem unimportant, but if we want to progress to single-payer healthcare, we can’t have mega-hospital-groups. The consolidation would yield hospital networks that are that much more difficult to fight in congress.
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He deserves boatloads of personal consequences.
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As democracy is challenged, “Black America is better off than it was 18 months ago,” according to Morial, the self-described O.G. of politics and civil rights. He believes, “with people like [Housing and Urban Development Secretary] Marcia Fudge, with Don Cravins Jr. going to MBDA [Minority Business Development Agency], with the expansion of programs at the SBA [Small Business Administration], that this administration in 18 months has put more stakes in the ground than any prior administration, at least in my history, in my career.”
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Suppose it was inevitable.
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Paxlovid works a treat. Fairly unpleasant side-effects but it does the job!
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For older folks like Biden that certainly seems to be true. A lot less evidence for efficacy among younger, vaccinated folks.
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And the police unions will still vote gQp.
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