Friday, May 4, 2018
Jobs...
The unemployment rate is now 3.9 percent, the lowest rate since 2000 and a sign that the job market has become even more competitive. It had been 4.1 percent since October 2017.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
KickBack...
In a speech at the Food and Drug Law Institute Annual conference, FDA commissioner, Gottlieb said the U.S. doesn't have a "truly free market" when it comes to drug prices.
He suggested that the federal government should re-examine whether drug rebates, which manufacturers pay to pharmacy benefit managers and insurers in exchange for more favorable coverage of their products, should be exempt from an anti-kickback law.
He suggested that the federal government should re-examine whether drug rebates, which manufacturers pay to pharmacy benefit managers and insurers in exchange for more favorable coverage of their products, should be exempt from an anti-kickback law.
"Such a step could restore some semblance of reality to the relationship between list and negotiated prices, and thereby boost affordability and competition," Gottlieb said.
The anti-kickback statute makes it illegal to offer remuneration in exchange for health-care services or products reimbursable by a federal health-care program. A change along the lines of what Gottlieb suggested could mean the government could impose fines or threaten other legal action "to force changes in the rebate system."
That is one step.
F...
A BBC investigation has found that YouTube stars are being paid to advertise academic cheating, with more than 250 channels promoting a Ukraine-based site that allows students to buy essays.
Purchasing ghost-written essays is not illegal and does not pose plagiarism risks since it is brand-new content. But, it does raise questions about academic fraud, since students submit them as their own work.
Some YouTube personalities as young as 12 were being paid to personally endorse EduBirdie's services. in some of the videos, the YouTube personality has suggested to have a "super smart nerd" to the work, according to BBC.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
PrePay...
A Chinese restaurant in Toronto has been ordered to pay a black customer $10,000 after a government human rights tribunal found the establishment discriminated against him by making him and three friends pay for their food before being served.
Emile Wickham, 31, filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against the Hong Shing Chinese restaurant, where he and his friends, all black, dined on his birthday on May 3, 2014, and discovered that they were likely the only party asked to prepay for their order.
It seems that this is a set up. If the service is bad, go to another restaurant.
Ripped...
By Sunday night, the drumbeat of criticism had grown so loud that Margaret Talev, the head of the White House Correspondents' Association, released a follow-up statement saying Michelle Wolf whose name she didn't repeat undercut the point of the dinner.
Wolf delivered harsh and stinging remarks about Democrats, Republicans, President Donald Trump's adult children, Kellyanne Conway and WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
C-SPAN radio stopped broadcasting her performance more than halfway through Saturday night and replayed an episode of "Washington Journal," instead.
It wasn't funny at all.
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