Pharmacies are price gouging Ozempic

The story gets a little worse in some cases. When patients are unable to afford the higher deductible the pharmacy charges the insurance companies anyway without dispensing the medication or trashing it. Yep. It is called fraud. There is one known case with a CVS pharmacy that needed corporate approval to reverse their “take” when the patient then asked for the 28 day supply. Part of the reason these events occur is because of vicious competition with brick and mortar stores and online pharmacies. The online pharmacies, for some reason, are doing it cheaper. In my opinion there is nothing like talking to a pharmacist in person. Why isn’t Big Pharma offering their own online pharmacy? They like that retail merchandise too much. But, this price gouging on Ozempic is highly unethical.

USA southern border…

…it is a divided decision (click here) and the majority provided a political answer not one based in constitutional competency.

From time beginning any arrested at the USA federal sovereign border has always been conducted by the USA Border Patrol. The decision blurs that line seeing confusion. 

Texas law enforcement officers have enough to do and now they are supposed to replace border agents. It is going make the border weaker simply by the confusion that will result. Law enforcement officers have dangerous jobs, they don’t need more confusion to their responsibilities.

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Did I read that right, in that Coney-Barrett punitively stated if the 5th Circuit doesn’t rule soon the Supreme Court will take the Trump immunity case?

Interesting. It sounds like the Supremes on the political right already have their opinions that the President has immunity no matter what, even when criminality is evident.

Ya know, Coney-Barrett, Clarence and Ginny have a lot riding on Trump. Coney-Barrett is protective of her religious supremacy. Clarence has at the very least ethical issues and Ginny was just about as guilty as Trump in inspiring the crimes of January 6th. 

There are strong evangelical undercurrents in this Supreme Court majority. I think we can continue to expect unconstitutional decisions from the Robert’s court.

Israel

I believe both leaders of the USA and Israel are more than capable to secure Israel’s citizens from danger. That is after all the legitimate reason for the war. 

I also think The West has a challenge to protect Israel while at the same time ensuring the lives of the Palestinian people that remain in Gaza. This is not a task for just the USA or Israel alone. I might first qualify this response by saying the Palestinians have been no friend to the American people and absolutely enemies to the citizens of Israel.

As an ally to Israel the USA has a great deal of responsibility to its security. That carries brevity. At the same time President Biden has an affinity with global security and peace as well as great respect for the world courts and rightfully so. Israel’s Mossad and IDF must be consulted regarding the arrival and distribution of humanitarian aid. If that had been done from the beginning rather than confronting Israel’s war theater this may already be over. The profound disrespect for the war theater has resulted in deaths of Palestinians and UN personnel.

There is no doubt to me the IDF moves on the information of intelligence gathering and strategies of commanders. Let me state the obvious, once a war strategy is made it will be put in motion regardless of impulsive movements of civilians. 

Gaza is a war theater and one in which terrorists continue to exist and seek to kill Israelis. That reality is very difficult to secure away from violence and death. Gaza simply is not that big a patch of land to carve out a safety zone. Besides that, it is still a strategy of the terrorists to use the citizens of Gaza as human shields. The terrorists have no respect for the lives of Palestinians. They move into the groups of remaining Palestinians and hide there while carrying out attacks against Israelis. What is the global response to that dynamic? Leave them alone? Accept that as if a measure of peace? 

If President Biden is successful in finding a way forward to protect the Palestinian people that has to be respected by the global community. Hamas and other terrorist groups still remain. They do not and will not respect the Palestinian people. That has to be dealt with if Palestine is to be a sovereign power CAPABLE of maintaining peace and security for its citizens. That means Iran stops its backing of terrorist networks and allows any current military capacity of those networks to be depleted to end their capacity of killing. That in turn means  “Arabia” and communists does a complete about face in ANY support of violent networks and/or individuals. 

So.

The UN needs to join the USA, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority to secure a future for Palestinians. That goes for the global community as well. If the current divisions continue then there is no viable means of securing futures for Palestinian children.

I remind that of the “Palestinians” dead half were Hamas terrorists. Of the other half of the dead were all human shields, including children. There is no secure hospital in Gaza because the terrorists continue to use them as headquarters and arsenals for weapons. That is a greater humanitarian concern than anything Israel can do.

No Western Power wants genocide of any people. That value has been an overriding entity with The West since WWII. Any complaint other than those value systems is nothing but intended to undermine the secure sovereignty of these benevolent and peaceful nations of people.