Bill Gates, Doing His Part to Increase the Price of Healthcare




He invested 10 billion in the development and delivery of new medicines and got back 30X more.

Let's assume his "philanthropic" foundation got the 290 billion dollars. Great, you say, his foundation can put that money into Covid research and we can have a hundred labs developing the vaccine instead of the dozen or so we have now. Fat chance, no billionaire puts all his money into one basket.

But that's not the issue I bring to your attention. By "making money" on any investment,  you will increase the cost of goods and services and that increased cost WILL BE PASSED DOWN to the consumer. For example, I just saw what my shingles vaccine cost the government: $250. Influenza vaccines are just $50 but many more are administered year after year.

Where is Congress or Mnuchin on this? Why haven't they seen the obvious way that the government can save money on healthcare by running their own Global-health groups?

Finally, do we the people understand that the true purpose of a foundation is to pass the wealth down to the heirs? Philanthropy is just a front to put the foundation in a favorable light.

Media Notes: Thanks to John King for that interview with a former W.H. doctor (Dr. William Lang) who said that a doctor prescribing hydroxychloroquine would order an EKG looking for a "long QT" wave segment which would tell the physician that arrhythmias are a potential problem with that particular patient. This explains that the President is taking the drug safely and it explains all the sweating he's been doing. As I've said in previous posts, the drug is pyrogenic and fevers are therapeutic against pathogens. However, the drug is also known to prevent endocytosis from going to completion and releasing the virus' genome into the cell. I like the pyrogenicity angle but only because body temperature fits the puzzle vis-a-vis the senior's lower body temps and their higher susceptibility to covid-19. I've got to run a quickie experiment taking temperature readings post ingestion of quinine (Tonic) water because I often feel flushed after drinking Gin and Tonic cocktails.

Hey Kaitlan Collins, you KNOW where my lips where yesterday on the W.H. Lawn. To bad the CNN video editors where so sharp and puritanical. Brianna's back at 1PM and D.B. looked like she was out for blood.

So, I guess it's useful to know when a news venue has paid its contributors but how many of us know what "thanks for having me" really means? I want to see the Capitalist News Network act more like newspapers and NOT pay their small time contributors. It's UNSAVORY, to say the least! For God's sake, you can just hear the contributor varying their responses so as not to insult the host--give me a fucking break! That's not journalism, that's National Inquirer and not at their best.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

On the Causes of Nocturia

If  you ask a urologist to explain nocturia, or excessive urination at night, chances are you will hear, "it's your enlarged prostate not allowing your bladder to empty." I think women are told that it's an overactive bladder. I asked Goggle's Gemini to write a report on the latest findings. It spewed out an excellent report in a few minutes. What it told me was that "contemporary research has firmly established nocturia as a distinct clinical entity with a diverse range of underlying causes extending beyond the urological system . " The full report follows. Read it all because nocturia is associated with higher overall mortality.: Modern Theories Concerning the Cause(s) of Nocturia Nocturia, characterized by the need to wake during the night to urinate, is a prevalent condition affecting individuals across all age spectra, with its frequency tending to increase with advancing years. 1 This seemingly benign symptom can significantly impair an individual...
Read more

New Jersey's Department of Personnel

I'm 57 years old. That alone makes it very hard to penetrate the job market. However, NJDOP has a website where you can browse available jobs and submit an application along with $15. I did that and I waited and waited for the process to reach the stage where the actual hiring agency would give out interviews for the position. 2 months into that last stage (the DOP said that the hiring agency had 90 days in which to interview candidates), I got anxious and decided to call the municipality. They were supposed to pick from the top 3 candidates but they told me in no uncertain terms that they were going to give it to "the person who was already doing the job." When I questioned the ethics and legality of their decision, I was told that they really hadn't finalized things. This person was hoping that I would go away but, sadly, NJ is a state where ageism and/or crony-ism is condoned. Stay tuned, I'm waiting to see if I get an interview and if I don't get the job,...
Read more

Size and other Characteristics Matter in Trumpville

Why was Comey fired? He towered over Trump, that's why. It's a no-no. That other dude that knew his job well was tall, and I suspect the administration knew all the time of his spousal abuse history but it only became a problem for him when his height got on the president's nerve, OUT. This height obsession is a conflation of the President's own tallness and NY real estate where the bigger the edifice, the bigger your status. Look at whom he holds on to--Sessions, plenty of reason to fire him but he's all so diminutive that Mr. Trump feels he might be charged with child abuse if he were to act against him; besides, Sesssions takes it on the chin and will forever hold the distinct "honor" of being the first mainstream Republican to embrace the President's candidacy. This represents two pluses. The short and tough-looking General Mattis stays while the bigger and better looking Tillerson goes. Mustaches: if you have one, you're out but a whit...
Read more