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[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Democratic Reps that voted for this bill.
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Don Davis (N.C.)
Jared Golden (Maine)
Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Adam Gray (Calif.)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.)

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

This vote is truly astonishing.
The overwhelming majority of the American people, the military and government agencies do not want this and yet it is passed by Congress?

[Tennis Kitty @mikey274]

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[DavidSaysStuff_ @davidsaysstuff_]

It's all connected. Every American should understand what Congress is doing in your name, with your tax dollars, before it's too late to do anything about it. @TrackAIPAC @cenkuygur @AnaKasparian @hasanthehun @mehdirhasan

[Tennis Kitty @mikey274]

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[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

The House just passed an additional $60 billion for the war in Iran.

This money could fund free public college and free childcare for every American while expanding health care coverage for seniors.

It’s time to end the war and focus on investment here at home.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

The vote on merging our militaries is happening today in the House. Here is what it is and what happens if it passes the house. Call your Senators because we can still stop this!
TikTok gave me a violation for this one. In case you wonder why I don’t say “Israel” in my videos.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 JAPAN IS BANNING AMERICAN CEREALS BECAUSE THEY CAUSE CANCER — AND KIDS IN THE U.S. ARE STILL EATING THEM

Japan is considering banning popular American cereals like Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, Honey Bunches of Oats, and snacks like Wheat Thins.

Why?

Because they contain BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene), a chemical used as a preservative and flavor enhancer that Japan considers too dangerous.

While other countries are rejecting these products over cancer concerns, they’re still widely sold in American stores.

If Japan doesn’t want it in their country… why are we still feeding it to our kids?

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

UnitedHealth stock is soaring. They just beat earnings, raised guidance for the year, and boosted their share buyback plan to at least $5 billion. Profit per share jumped 56 percent, mostly from expanding margins.

Unless you own a lot of that stock, this is probably not news that makes you happy. And that reaction is completely fair. Dealing with them feels awful. Considering how much of your money goes to them every year, you would think customer service is something they would care about.

Here is the thing. They do care about customer service. They are excellent at it. They deliver attentive, responsive, white-glove service every single day.

Just not to you. Because you are not their customer.

Think about how this actually works. Your employer or the government picks your insurance company. You did not choose them. Then that same employer or government pulls a large amount of money right out of your paycheck and deposits it with the insurer. So who is the customer in that transaction? Your employer. Or the government. That is who they listen to, because that is who selects them and hands over the money.

Now guess where else you are not the customer. Everywhere you actually use the insurance. The hospital. The doctor's office. The pharmacy. If you walk in and let the insurance company pay for the service, the insurance company becomes their customer too. That is exactly why administrators run healthcare instead of clinicians. Administrators manage the entity paying the bills. Your doctor answers to a form, the form answers to an insurer, and the insurer answers to a shareholder. Nobody in that chain answers to you.

And here is the part that should make everyone furious. At every single stage of this, there is only one actual source of money. Not the employer. Not the government. Not the insurer. You. Your paycheck and your taxes fund the entire machine, top to bottom.

So we built a system where the one person powering all of it is treated as completely unimportant. You pay the bill, you receive the service, and your opinion is the least relevant input in the whole process. That is how much control we have handed over. They took the customer relationship right out from under the only person actually paying.

If you are tired of draining your bank account to satisfy shareholders, so were we. So we fired the insurance companies. We took them out of the equation entirely.

Which means when you fill a prescription with us, you are the customer. That is the whole reason we can offer fair and transparent pricing.

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Campbell’s soups is trying to salvage their brand

The new Campbell’s “High Quality Ingredients” soup line features “no artificial meat”

This comes in response to an executive calling company products "shit for poor people" and claiming they contain 3D-printed bioengineered meat

I would personally never trust Campbell’s again after that admission. It’s only a matter of time until they change the formula to make it cheaper for them to produce

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

The city of Denver signed a pharmacy contract with UnitedHealth and got absolutely taken to the cleaners. To United, it was candy from a baby. And the wild part is Denver posted the whole thing online, so you can watch exactly how it happened.

The contract is 131 pages of traps, and Denver stepped right into them. It is a reminder that the people choosing our health plans are often completely outmatched by the companies on the other side of the table. They are the sucker in the room. We are the ones who pay for it.

Here is the clearest example. Denver based the entire drug-pricing formula on something called AWP, average wholesale price. Denver fell for it because "average wholesale price" sounds fair and official. It is not. AWP is a number they buy from a firm called Medispan, and it is completely fictional. It has no real connection to what a drug actually costs.

How fictional? In the contract, generic drugs are priced at AWP less 87 percent. Think about that. If your real price is 87 percent below the number you are building everything on, some alarm bells should be going off. A couple of examples: dofetilide actually costs about $5.65, but its AWP is $584. Rosuvastatin costs about $28, but its AWP is $8,944. Why would anyone build a pricing system on numbers this detached from reality?

Because someone wants it that way. The party on the other side of the contract. UnitedHealth. AWP is the Trojan horse. Once that fake number is inside the walls, they can wreak havoc. United also steers Denver's members to United's own pharmacy, so they actually want the AWP higher than the rate Denver signed. They keep the spread, and Denver cannot complain, because it is right there in the contract.

And drug manufacturers are happy to play along. They are basically required to. If a manufacturer lists a low, honest AWP, United can drop them from the plan. Zero sales. So every maker faces the same choice: inflate the fake price and make a fortune, or list the real price and sell nothing.

Denver got embarrassed here, but they are not special. Almost anyone using a major insurer is running on these same fake numbers, quietly inflating what you pay in premiums. You never see the fake price. You just feel it.

So how do you fix it? Fire the middleman. They cannot be trusted. Step out of the teeth of the monster entirely. That is exactly what we did, and it is why we can price on the real, actual cost of the medication.

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[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

WTF? This guy is taking money out of the pockets of corporate millionaires and spending it on preschoolers' education and making ordinary people's lives better. How can that be a thing in the United States of America??

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

These 50 GOP Senators just voted to merge the U.S. military with Israel’s military. Every single one of them should be tried for treason.