President Donald Trump - J.D. Vance Administration

[BeardedVol]

Trying to understand the point. Are you posting this because the (somewhat misleading) headline says something about Trump? Or “Big Pharma?”

From the article:

“Dr Cavazzoni held her position at CDER from 2020 until last month, resigning just before President Donald Trump's return to office and the nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as Department of Health and Human Services secretary.

Dr Cavazzoni, who previously worked at Pfizer before joining the FDA in 2018, is the latest in a long line of former health officials jumping ship for Big Pharma.”

Thought MAGA liked "useless federal workers" voluntarily leaving and getting a "real job" in the private sector?

 

[KB5252]

Since when did the Democrats or any party for that matter care about corruption within the FDA and drug companies? It's been business as usual for decades.

And just to follow up on this my wife works in a related industry. She works in the clinical trials industry.

Her position gives her some insight into how things work. Generally multi year trials. But not always. There was virtually no trial period for COVID vaccines. We were the trials.

The money involved and the wheels that are greased throughout multiple countries to get drugs approved to go to market is astounding. And the guinea pigs, who often have nothing to lose. It's really sad.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

And just to follow up on this my wife works in a related industry. She works in the clinical trials industry.

Her position gives her some insight into how things work. Generally multi year trials. But not always. There was virtually no trial period for COVID vaccines. We were the trials.

The money involved and the wheels that are greased throughout multiple countries to get drugs approved to go to market is astounding. And the guinea pigs, who often have nothing to lose. It's really sad.

Preach.

Little known fact about US guinea pigs and the pharma industry?

About 1/3 of drugs approved by the FDA and prescribed to unsuspecting patients are later taken off the market because they are found to be harmful. Often in horrible and life changing or deadly ways.

 

[KB5252]

Preach.

Little known fact about US guinea pigs and the pharma industry?

About 1/3 of drugs approved by the FDA and prescribed to unsuspecting patients are later taken off the market because they are found to be harmful. Often in horrible and life changing or deadly ways.

And big pharma is bailed out with class action lawsuits instead of individual lawsuits. The people affected often die in destitution and their families left to pick up the pieces. Even then they get next to nothing while the attorneys often take the majority from the class action suit.

Just another way lobbyists have created an industry to fleece us and the government is complicent.

 

[jmacvols1]

 

[jmacvols1]

@RockyTop85

You have a view on these judicial decisions surrounding “foreign aid”? Is the administration outside its lane, or are these judges reaching? Or is it something else?

judges do not control the purse string on how money is spent. Executive branch has plenery power (article 2) these judges are breaching.

since when should district low level judge's rulings have an impact on the whole nation?

one judge ordered Trump to let illegals in the country when the president has powers to close the border to stop the invasion and protect the borders. these judges are nullifying the executive branch. the president has no say so on how money is spent by depts that are under the presidents control? the president cannot fire anyone in these depts he controls? can the president stop judges from hiring/firing law clerks that work for these judges? does the president determine how the judicial branch can or cannot spend the money Congress approved for the judicial branch? these rogue judges are trying to wrestle away executive branches powers.

 

[jwells]

I don't agree with the assessment. The answer for increase is railcar. More expensive, riskier, and more pollution (if that's a concern) than pipeline.
The piece reads like a bullet point presentation of what's good for Canadian producers to keep prices inflated. And what's best for Canada's train system.

I agree with it in that the XL benefits one group: TC Energy.
It is not a major economic boost to Canadian or American workers, does nothing for the 'deficit' Trump is so worried about, and leaves the US with all the environmental risk.

They have capacity overhead and will. If anything, keeping those prices higher is more of an economic opening for US drilling and extraction.

 

[jmacvols1]

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal


TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO FORCE HOSPITALS TO SHOW REAL PRICES

President Trump signed an order Tuesday requiring healthcare providers to display actual prices instead of vague "estimates."

The directive tasks Treasury, Labor, and HHS with strict enforcement to ensure compliance.

RFK Jr. joined Trump in the Oval Office during the signing.

The move aims to make healthcare costs comparable across hospitals and insurers.

Source: White House, ABC
@RobertKennedyJr

 

[LouderVol]

And just to follow up on this my wife works in a related industry. She works in the clinical trials industry.

Her position gives her some insight into how things work. Generally multi year trials. But not always. There was virtually no trial period for COVID vaccines. We were the trials.

The money involved and the wheels that are greased throughout multiple countries to get drugs approved to go to market is astounding. And the guinea pigs, who often have nothing to lose. It's really sad.

I know about a dozen or so people either directly employed in the health care industry or working at the CDC here in Atlanta.

everyone one of them said the same thing if they said anything. the efficacy and safety of the RNA shots were published before any of the trials were finished.

Multiple said the reports were finished within days of the last group getting theirs. basically long enough to see if would immediately kill anyone.

they also didn't control the groups very well. none were asked about prior exposure or illness from Covid. which if you think about a bunch of people in healthcare they all probably had Covid.

 

[jwells]

We dont have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem

Yes, there are issues with preferences in the tax code but our deficit issues get solved the moment we properly address the spending....

We can cut to the bone, but if we keep offering tax cuts to people who decidedly don't need the money at the expense of the working poor and the elderly, that's not right.
We have a both problem. Every spending cut = tax cut to the GOP. They just borrow more and more and more and more. The last fiscally conservative Congress/Pres years we had was under Clinton, for God's sake.

 

[LouderVol]

We can cut to the bone, but if we keep offering tax cuts to people who decidedly don't need the money at the expense of the working poor and the elderly, that's not right.
We have a both problem. Every spending cut = tax cut to the GOP. They just borrow more and more and more and more. The last fiscally conservative Congress/Pres years we had was under Clinton, for God's sake.

so you think the feds are just going to take the money they need from the poor and elderly?

its not at the expense of the poor and elderly. the poor and elderly are just getting what THEY paid for. they WANT more than they paid for, at the expense of the rich. but its ok to take from someone as long as the victim can afford it.

 

[McDad]

I agree with it in that the XL benefits one group: TC Energy.
It is not a major economic boost to Canadian or American workers, does nothing for the 'deficit' Trump is so worried about, and leaves the US with all the environmental risk.

They have capacity overhead and will. If anything, keeping those prices higher is more of an economic opening for US drilling and extraction.

I agree with your last sentence. The more valuable the product the more viable the expensive extraction.

The issue of pipelines (keystone in this case) is that it is the most efficient way to move liquids and gases over long distances. There is infrastructure expense and maintenance on a pipeline. But there is that on oil tanker and trains, too. There is no foolproof way to move oil. Tankers run aground. Trains derail. Pipelines leak. But the operational risk for pipelines is advantageous.
For some reason Keystone became political on a national stage. Even though there are currently hundreds of thousands of miles of pipes carrying all sorts of stuff crisscrossing America and Canada. If the experts at moving oil say Keystone is needed and it is privately financed, the Fed government should have stood down.

 

[Orangeslice13]

so you think the feds are just going to take the money they need from the poor and elderly?

its not at the expense of the poor and elderly. the poor and elderly are just getting what THEY paid for. they WANT more than they paid for, at the expense of the rich. but its ok to take from someone as long as the victim can afford it.

None of that ******** heart strings pulling matters thill there’s a balanced budget and accountability.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

We can cut to the bone, but if we keep offering tax cuts to people who decidedly don't need the money at the expense of the working poor and the elderly, that's not right.
We have a both problem. Every spending cut = tax cut to the GOP. They just borrow more and more and more and more. The last fiscally conservative Congress/Pres years we had was under Clinton, for God's sake.

We would be roughly breakeven from annual perspective now if Trump and Biden only increased spending at rate of inflation......

We got rid of 2 wars and those two still nearly doubled federal spending (over a bloated Obama era baseline)

 

[LSU-SIU]

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal


TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO FORCE HOSPITALS TO SHOW REAL PRICES

President Trump signed an order Tuesday requiring healthcare providers to display actual prices instead of vague "estimates."

The directive tasks Treasury, Labor, and HHS with strict enforcement to ensure compliance.

RFK Jr. joined Trump in the Oval Office during the signing.

The move aims to make healthcare costs comparable across hospitals and insurers.

Source: White House, ABC
@RobertKennedyJr

This is HUGE. Now go after all these people (medical industry) for criminal anti-trust and RICO violations, this is where the big savings and where Americans have been really been ripped off.

 

[LouderVol]

None of that ******** heart strings pulling matters thill there’s a balanced budget and accountability.

a little bit of suffering now to stop or minimize suffering later. its a shame that we are at a point where that is political suicide.

its all about what happens right now. no long term planning. even though that same short term thinking from years ago is what caused the issues we are seeing today, we won't break the cycle.

 

[luthervol]

a little bit of suffering now to stop or minimize suffering later. its a shame that we are at a point where that is political suicide.

its all about what happens right now. no long term planning. even though that same short term thinking from years ago is what caused the issues we are seeing today, we won't break the cycle.

Had people been willing to think long term and suffer a little in the short term for long term benefit, then Carter would have been the most successful president ever.

 

[LSU-SIU]

Had people been willing to think long term and suffer a little in the short term for long term benefit, then Carter would have been the most successful president ever.

Or you do both i.e. big picture.

 

[hog88]

I agree with it in that the XL benefits one group: TC Energy.
It is not a major economic boost to Canadian or American workers, does nothing for the 'deficit' Trump is so worried about, and leaves the US with all the environmental risk.

They have capacity overhead and will. If anything, keeping those prices higher is more of an economic opening for US drilling and extraction.

Keystone was going to carry Bakken crude in addition to Canadian oil sands oil. So it would have been a huge benefit to the US.

Your arguments are rooted in lies.

 

[hog88]

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal


TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO FORCE HOSPITALS TO SHOW REAL PRICES

President Trump signed an order Tuesday requiring healthcare providers to display actual prices instead of vague "estimates."

The directive tasks Treasury, Labor, and HHS with strict enforcement to ensure compliance.

RFK Jr. joined Trump in the Oval Office during the signing.

The move aims to make healthcare costs comparable across hospitals and insurers.

Source: White House, ABC
@RobertKennedyJr

I guess he can do that for providers who take Medicaid/Medicare but POTUS has no authority to make this requirement to anyone not taking taxpayer money. Which I'll admit is probably very few.

 

[LouderVol]

Had people been willing to think long term and suffer a little in the short term for long term benefit, then Carter would have been the most successful president ever.

you are going to have to explain. I wasn't alive during his time, so I am not much aware of what he did to make you say that.

 

[hog88]

Had people been willing to think long term and suffer a little in the short term for long term benefit, then Carter would have been the most successful president ever.

LOL

 

[LSU-SIU]

you are going to have to explain. I wasn't alive during his time, so I am not much aware of what he did to make you say that.

He thinks the People are wrong and Carter was a good President if they thought longer term. Carter was probably the nicest President but he was not equipped for the job, of course, I wasn't too tall at the time.

Hey, Hitler was probably a swell guy, if we just waited another 20 years to see the results.

 

[OrangeTsar]

I think only government affiliated organizations like schools, Feds, etc. get the day off.

Many companies stopped celebrating President‘s Day when they had to begin supporting Juneteenth. We traded a rare early spring holiday for yet another midsummer holiday. As a result; many of us now go from New Years to Memorial Day with zero paid holidays

 

[LSU-SIU]

I guess he can do that for providers who take Medicaid/Medicare but POTUS has no authority to make this requirement to anyone not taking taxpayer money. Which I'll admit is probably very few.

Actually they can under anti-trust law (and other consumer law), its a shot across the bow. Something I have been talking about in part.