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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I’m very excited the federal government is finally doing its damned job and investigating this shit. It is long, long, LONG overdue. PBMs are a shining example of “if you want to get away with something evil, hide it inside of something boring.”

    I hope they government finally gets some traction on it. I also hope some people running these PBMs go to prison. Though that is probably way too much to hope for. Because in the USA, we don’t punish wealthy people like that unless they commit the sin of ripping off other wealthy people (like Madoff or Holmes). Probably the best we can hope for is some heavy fines and tougher regulations. But these snakes almost always find a way to slither through new cracks. Most of these rent-seeking layers of middle-men should not even exist in healthcare.



  • The Democrats and Republicans mostly despise each other, but the establishment from each naturally have a few things in common. I am not a centrist “both sides” guy. However, with rare exceptions, members of both major parties are pro-capitalism, just for starters.

    They are not secretly working together, but they do have somewhat overlapping goals. And some of those goals do screw over working people. Private health insurance tied to your employer is something both parties praise and support. That’s one easy example.

    And some of them cross the aisle and openly work together on bipartisan issues.

    Finally, the “left” in the United States is really not left. Both parties pull rightward. The Republicans pull rightward much harder than the Democrats. A few progressives and democratic socialists try to pull us left.