HELEN SANTORO—From 2018 to 2022, out-of-pocket costs for Medicare enrollees climbed for nine of the 10 drugs. The average annual out-of-pocket cost for Stelara, an injectable drug that treats autoimmune conditions, rose the most from $709 per enrollee to $2,058. For non-Medicare U.S. patients, Stelara can be considerably more expensive, especially since drugmakers charge far higher prices in the US than they do elsewhere. A 2019 report found that the regular price for Stelara was $16,600 per dose in the United States, compared to $2,900 per dose in the United Kingdom.
CLASS STRUGGLE
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CNN’s CEO Is Making Staff Churn Out Israel Propaganda
26 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—”These are the people who’ve been pulling the wool over the eyes of the mainstream public and manipulating the masses into thinking, speaking, working, consuming, and voting in ways that serve the interests of the ruling power structure. In this way they are able to ensure that revolutionary opposition to that power structure remains a fringe minority position, even as that power structure wages wars, sponsors genocides, destroys the biosphere, and keeps everyone poor, sick, and stupid…”
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WHO FUNDS LABOUR FRIENDS OF ISRAEL – AND WHY WON’T IT SAY?
24 minutes readJOHN McEVOY—One of LFI’s main activities is taking Labour MPs on “fact finding” missions to Israel. According to the Electoral Commission, LFI has spent over £150,000 on such trips since 2002. Over 60 of these delegations were reportedly organised in the past decade. The trips are designed to cultivate support for Israel and build ties between key Labour figures and Israeli politicians and businesspeople.
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AMERICAN FASCISM – BIDEN? TRUMP? THE NEOCONS???
8 minutes readEDITOR—Garland wades into the swamp of misleading political labels and currents agitating Americans, and concludes that the nation is in a fundamental crisis, with the masses of ordinary citizens facing a still largely hidden ruling class whose ability to govern and exercise options has been severely curtailed by the weight of their own arrogance and stupidity. This class faces insurmountable problems on several fronts: (1) I has lost the respect and obedience of a huge segment of the population, especially the younger generations. Any call to arms to fight Russia, China, Iran or someone else in distant lands will be met now with massive refusal and probably rebellion…
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EDITOR—The panel also discusses Biden’s (the Empire’s) options in regard to the Israel/Palestine conflict. It’s clear the Empire, and especially the Biden admin ·from the p.r. standpoint) has only bad options. If Biden allows Netanyahu to go on genociding the Palestinian people, the reputational damage is enormous. If he orders him to stop, and freezes all financial and military support, he gets in trouble with the powerful Zionist lobby. Either way, it’s clear that the US, the EU and Israel have suffered already a major defeat in their propaganda war, with possible lasting consequences, and, despite their arrogant moves to amplify the war, such as in Yemen or Iran, they may end up losing the war or dragging the whole world into a nuclear confrontation.