The price of medical insurance in the US has increased 24% in the past year. The cost of actual medical care has not increased anywhere near so much.

This pattern has continued for several years, with 2020 as the sole exception. The insurance companies are gouging.

The article ends with a comparison between this and the low price of a TV set. A modern TV set is a surveillance device — they are cheap because surveillance is part of the price.

Privatized prisons fund lobbying for laws to criminalize homelessness.

Privatization of prisons creates a force that will always lobby for imprisoning more people. This is why we must abolish privatized prisons.

New variants of SARS-Cov-2, descendants of Omicron, are unaffected by the monoclonal antibody treatment. We need to develop a new one, but Republicans won't allow it.

They rejected funding for treatment and prevention of Covid-19.

*Biden implores US oil companies to pass on record profits to consumers.*

How pitiable it is to see the US government reduced by Republicans to begging callous businesses to reduce prices — when it ought to legislate to tax those businesses togive aid to the poor. A few weeks ago he implored Crown Prince Bone Saw to reduce prices. Won't he ever learn that imploring your enemies does not have good results?

An appeals court ruled (at the first level) that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional.

I expect this case will go to the Supreme Court and that the plutocratist majority will wipe out the CFPB.