Medicaid and Opiods?

Is Medicaid worsening the Opiod Crisis? One argument being pushed by a Wisconsin Senator and the WSJ, is that Medicaid, an insurance program that provides low-cost health coverage to some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities delivers the pills and therefore is at fault. Follow the Money: Opiods are a $13-billion-a-year industry for Big Pharma. In 1998 a video was sent to 15,000 primary care doctors by Purdue Pharma, the company that has . . .

One State?

Time For A One State Solution? Israel West Bank & Gaza Population 8.8 million 5 million Median Age 29.9 19 Birth Rate/1000 1.81 2.456 GDP Per Capita $44,019 $1,997 Life Expectancy 82.01 77.17 Literacy 97.8 95.3 Growth Rate 2 2.6 As demonstrated by the 1947 Partition of India, spawning Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1971 this approach can be fraught with internecine trouble with a nasty tendency to linger forever. I think it is time for a democratic solution to the . . .

Nuclear First Use?

2018 Nuclear Posture Review Moving Closer to Earthly Annihilation? The preliminary NPR document is available and the final version is scheduled to be released in February. The tone is obvious and in line with the iron triangle’s major ingestion of blood and treasure – follow the money! Now we want to expand the “first use” of nuclear attack and the trigger finger gets a little itchier. One idea is to develop less potent nuclear bombs that presumably could be used . . .