Health Care in America: Searching for Ways to Make $2 Million Seem Less Like $2 Million
The Wall Street Journal reports that health insurers are desperately searching for ways to make expensive treatments somehow seem less expensive: Insurers are scrambling to blunt the expense of new drugs that can carry prices of more than $2 million per treatment, offering new setups aimed at making the cost of gene therapies more manageable…
Trump Refuses to Drop False Claim That Alabama Was in Hurricane’s Path
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to insist that “certain models” had once projected Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama, extending a now four-day obsession despite official contradictions from the state’s National Weather Service. “What I said was accurate!” Trump complained on Twitter. “All Fake News in order to demean!” ….Instead it turned North…
Kamala Harris Gets a D- For Her Climate Plan
Paul Kitagaki Jr./ZUMA Kamala Harris has released her climate plan, and I’m sorry to say that it’s a dog’s breakfast. I don’t really even want to evaluate it, but I suppose I have to. Here are the highlights: I have no idea how big it is. Harris says her plan calls for “$10 trillion in…
Trump Holds Up a Doctored Chart to Try to Show Hurricane Dorian Hitting Alabama
Evan Vucci/AP Who needs memory holes when you can alter the truth with a stroke of black Sharpie? A White House video released Wednesday shows President Donald Trump holding up a chart of the trajectory of Hurricane Dorian. But there’s one problem: Added onto the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of uncertainty” forecast, outlined in white on the map,…
These 127 Military Construction Projects Will Lose Funding Because of Trump’s Border Wall
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border in February, we’ve known that the US military would bear the majority of the cost for Trump’s vaunted border wall. Now the Pentagon has figured out which programs will be stripped of their funding, according to a document sent by Defense…
“Our President Is Unstable”: Sen. Jeff Merkley Makes the Case That “It’s Getting Worse”
© Zach Roberts/ZUMA Wire Senator Jeff Merkley has witnessed some atrocious scenes at migrant detention centers along the Texas-Mexico border. He described one where “hundreds” of children were ripped out of their parents’ arms and sorted into chain-link cages, standing in single-file lines from shortest to tallest. “The shortest one was in front and he…