Odinfjodi, Ph.D in Kid Rock

My profession: Secundum Artem. Family motto: Asperas Non Spernit. Japanese name: 風間 野兎. (Nousagi Kazama). Hobbies: Gaming, SW, D&D, Comics, Music, Books, Anime.

[Odinfjodi, Ph.D in Kid Rock @odinfjodiVIP]

Glock G19 finished product after grip plug install and Slide Cover Plate swap. Total cost: $30 including Punch tool.

[Happy Motorhead @HappyMotorhead]

For when you need to change your oil at 2 PM, but have to invade a small country at 3 PM. 🪖🛠️

​This 3-ton floor jack literally has tank treads.

​COOL OR NOT? 👇

​#CarMods #GarageLife #Mechanic #Tools #OReillys #TankJack

[Odinfjodi, Ph.D in Kid Rock @odinfjodiVIP]

@kpharmd12 Insanity.

[PharmacyPhunQuiz @PhunQuiz]

Bits and Pieces:

Today we know the harm of lead exposure, but just 150 years ago, we did not. Physicians freely prescribed lead acetate—sugar of lead—as a sedative, cough suppressant, muscle relaxant, as a gargle for throat lesions, and externally as an astringent.
#PhunQuiz

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“Hi everybody, Joe Dimaggio here. I used to sleep with Marilyn Monroe but now the highlight of most of my days comes at 7:00 am thanks to this piece of shit.”

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

US Megaregions - more than 50% of people live in these 7 areas

[machineviolence @machineviolence]

Testing firepower, cycling through settings
🔊

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Countries that have legislated against werewolves

[Odinfjodi, Ph.D in Kid Rock @odinfjodiVIP]

@KDKA There is no “giving”, just a redistribution of funds provided from taxation.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

😂😂😂

[Odinfjodi, Ph.D in Kid Rock @odinfjodiVIP]

@exQUIZitely Deus Ex.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Nuclear power is the safest energy source ever built.
The fear of it has cost more lives than the technology ever has.

Deaths per terawatt-hour of energy produced:

Coal: 24.6
Oil: 18.4
Gas: 2.8
Hydro: 1.3
Wind: 0.04
Nuclear: 0.03

Nuclear is safer than wind.
Safer than solar (rooftop installation deaths).
60x safer than natural gas.

Chernobyl killed 31 people directly.
The WHO estimates fewer than 4,000 long-term deaths, in the absolute worst nuclear accident in history.

Meanwhile, air pollution from coal kills 800,000 people every year.

[𝕭𝖚𝖌𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝕭𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘 @BugbearBrothers]

Pharaoh, written by Tracy and Laura Hickman, with art by Jim Holloway, 1982. In the first module of the Deserts of Desolation trilogy of Egyptian-themed adventures, the characters are tasked with robbing an impenetrable tomb in order to free the spirit of Amun-Re. This module revolutionized dungeon design, incorporating plot and architectural theory, as opposed to the odd, sprawling non-sensical mazes that preceded it.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

Eli Lilly just told hospitals: hand over your patient claims data, or lose your discounts.

Here's the mess.

340B is a federal program. It forces drugmakers like Lilly to sell to certain hospitals at roughly half price. The idea was simple: take profit from big pharma, give it to safety-net hospitals.

Then the hospitals turn around and bill you and your insurer full price. They keep the spread.

So hospitals made 340B their whole identity. Look how it grew:

2010: $3.8B
2024: $81.4B

That's not a typo. The program is now bigger than Medicaid's entire drug spend. Hospitals are 87% of it.

That infuriates pharma. They even ran ads about it.

But here's their real problem. On the same prescription, a drugmaker can get hit twice: forced to sell cheap under 340B, AND forced to pay a big rebate to the insurer/PBM. Sometimes they lose money on their own product.

So Lilly wants claims-level data to prove they aren't being double-dipped. Hospitals call it illegal and want the feds to step in. Deadline to comply: 5 business days, or pricing gets pulled June 8.

And the middlemen are in it too. Michigan hospitals just sued CVS for allegedly keeping ~$240M in 340B money.

Get it now?

Pharma. Hospitals. PBMs. Insurers. They're all fighting over one pile of money. It's YOUR money. They're just arguing over who gets to keep what they overcharged you.

That's exactly why we opted out. No PBMs. No insurance games. Transparent cost-plus pricing.

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

Well my day could be worse

[Odinfjodi, Ph.D in Kid Rock @odinfjodiVIP]

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