Ever wonder why these costs are so high? What policies are driving it?
Tune in to the US House hearings Wednesday, 3/18. Link below:
Der Bundesrat, die Kantone, die Wirtschaft und die Gewerkschaften haben die Kampagne gegen die Zuwanderungsinitiative der SVP eröffnet. Ein zentraler Punkt bleibt ungeklärt. https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/streit-um-die-auslegung-der-svp-initiative-keine-10-millionen-schweiz-wie-wuerde-die-kuendigung-der-personenfreizuegigkeit-genau-ablaufen-ld.1929413?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e70c
Colorectal cancer impacts women too. Screening may save your life.
@US_FDA provides information about the different screening options available to you. Learn more: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/colorectal-cancer-what-you-should-know-about-screening
I’m honored to testify before the @HouseCommerce Health Subcommittee on March 18 as Congress examines the background, scale, and consequences of rising health care costs.
Health care affordability is one of the defining policy failures of our time.
Grob verfassungswidriger Wahnsinn:
"Bei der Staatsanwaltschaft führte das in Bewerbungsverfahren zur Benachteiligung von Menschen ohne Migrationshintergrund. Im Gegenzug wurde Bewerbern mit Migrationshintergrund gezielt ein Vorteil gewährt."
@Tagesspiegel
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/vorteil-fur-migranten-bei-jobs-in-behorden-berlins-justizsenatorin-halt-praxis-bei-bewerberauswahl-fur-verfassungswidrig-15360244.html
Hellish day in A&E. The doctors and nurses are working flat out but the constant stream of patients is just too much. When I was a kid if you went to A&E you saw people with broken arms and bloody eye patches, things cut off or sticking out of their head. Today it was just people who couldn't get a GP appointment. Why do we not have enough doctor's surgeries in this country? Is it financially unviable to run one, too expensive to become a GP, or no longer a sought after career? What the hell is going on?
▶️No answer about where those now kept from being referred to hospital are recorded - they won't appear on waiting lists in secondary care, so where will they be?
Simply waiting elsewhere in the system, not showing in stats!
There are many more questions to be answered!
3/3
▶️ No answer about the fact Advice & Guidance will now be mandatory, meaning a GP won't be able to refer directly to a consultant on almost every case, and who is responsible for the care
2/3
Today, I was able to secure an Urgent Question to ask the Primary Care Minister about the GP contract changes.
▶️ Still no answers about what defines "urgent" and "dealt with" on the day
▶️ No answers on how to keep patients safe with uncapped demand
1/3
Frame this one. Frame it.
The Sludging of Rural America https://brownstone.org/articles/the-sludging-of-rural-america/ via @brownstoneinst
.@mattwridley: Interesting parallels come to mind.
1. Malthus published his book on English overpopulation and overconsumption in 1798. Thereafter, the population of England rose, and the prices of wheat fell relative to wages.
2. Marx published Das Kapital in 1867, arguing that workers' wages would be squeezed to zero by capitalist competition (based on a much-debated and probably incorrect "Engels' Pause"). Thereafter, English wages skyrocketed.
3. Ehrlich published his book about coming global famines in 1968. Thereafter, global famines collapsed, and standards of living across much of the world rose.
Exklusiv von @MarcFelixSerrao: Milch-Unternehmer Theo Müller bringt eine schwarz-blaue Regierung für Baden-Württemberg ins Spiel. Die #CDU solle sich gegenüber den Grünen nicht kleinmachen, sondern im Mai einen eigenen Ministerpräsidenten-Kandidaten ins Rennen schicken.
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus69b7da9417184da7cffdb4a8/muellermilch-milliardaer-cdu-koennte-auch-mit-der-afd-regieren-oder-sich-von-ihr-dulden-lassen.html
Ein Chat vor einer Asylabstimmung löst in Deutschland Empörung aus. In Brüssel zeigt der Streit vor allem neue Mehrheiten im Europaparlament. https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-rechte-mitte-im-europaparlament-sucht-neue-mehrheiten-und-deutschland-ist-empoert-ld.1929501?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e70b
LOL if you needed proof there it is.
Translation - Even the taxpayer funded wind companies are begging Ed Miliband to restart North Sea drilling.
They know perfectly well their subsidised contracts won’t be paid if Britain collapses
I’ve made myself laugh 😂
A 19-year-old Royal Holloway student — Brodie Mitchell — was suspended after a Freshers’ Fair exchange with an anti-Zionist activist who called him a “wannabe Jew”.
He responded by asking why she was wearing a “tea towel” — referring to the keffiyeh-style head-dress she was wearing.
The university suspended Brodie, locked him out of campus and his accommodation — despite having no contractual right to do so — and launched major misconduct proceedings that could have led to his expulsion.
While Brodie faced disciplinary action and serious disruption to his studies, the other student continued attending campus as normal.
The process was deeply unfair and a blatant example of double standards for speech on campus. Royal Holloway was allowed legal representation at the hearing — but Brodie was not.
Now the university is spending vast sums on lawyers to defend its actions in the High Court — wildly disproportionate to the case and seemingly designed to bully a 19-year-old student out of the litigation. Royal Holloway’s conduct is, in our view, disgraceful and intolerable. The Free Speech Union is proud to stand by Brodie in fighting back against this attempt to bully him.
With the support of the Free Speech Union, Brodie is now back on campus — but under onerous conditions restricting who he can talk to and what he can say. Royal Holloway proposes that Brodie face expulsion for any further breach of university rules, no matter how minor.
The enactment of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 was a step-change in the protection of freedom of speech on English campuses. ‘Business as usual’ is no longer good enough – universities need to get serious about tolerating their students’ free speech. Royal Holloway, however, does not seem to have received the memo. It is time to remind them, forcibly, of their duties.
We are challenging the restrictions and asking the regulator to investigate. To help Brodie, and other FSU members in similar predicaments, please give to our legal defence fund. Any donation you make will go into a general fund which will pay for the best legal representation for members under threat.
Serious question.
Is Israel our only ally who isn't a complete wimp?
I haven't been here much lately (thanks be to writing) but that whole Epstein thing seems to be lagging in attention behind "other stuff". 🤔
Die Schweiz hat seit knapp einer Woche keinen Vertreter mehr in Iran. Was bedeutet das für die Schweizer Staatsbürger vor Ort und das Schutzmachtmandat für die USA? https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/der-schweizer-botschafter-aus-teheran-weilt-nun-in-bern-die-intensitaet-der-angriffe-ist-aussergewoehnlich-ld.1929423?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e70a
Trump will Kriegseintritt der NATO
Beim Irakkrieg weigerte sich Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder mitzumachen. Wie @_FriedrichMerz sich verhält, ist unklar. Bisher haben Kanada, Japan, Italien und Australien eine Kriegsteilnahme abgelehnt.
Hintergrund: 2003 wollte Merkel in den Irakkrieg eintreten. Gottlob war sie in der Opposition. Merkel fiel damals auf die Lüge der „Weapons of Mass Destruction” herein. Als die Lüge von den USA zugegeben wurde, war Deutschland froh, dass Schröder uns den Irakkrieg erspart hat.
Video von @MarioNawfal.
"Vor drei Jahren wurde Ann-Marie Kyrath von einem palästinensischen Asylbewerber in einem Zug bei Brokstedt getötet. Ihr Vater, Michael Kyrath, ist zur Stimme der Hinterbliebenen von Attentats-Opfern geworden. Denn die sollen schweigen..."
@EMMA_Magazin
https://www.emma.de/artikel/der-vater-der-nicht-schweigt-342331
Apoorva Mandavilli was Jay Varma’s contact at the NYT to push his Monkey Pox fear porn. https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/nyc-law-firm-probes-pharma-company-over-potential-security-violations-wolf-haldenstein-adler-freeman-herz-jay-varma-siga-tpoxx-monkeypox-drug-mpox
Die Kirchensteuerkirchen werden weiter schrumpfen - und zwar drastisch. Sie wollen links-grün-woke Zeitgeistkumpane sein und werden mit diesem links-grün-woken Zeitgeist das Zeitliche segnen. Doch ein christlicher Glutkern bleibt bestehen.
🔴 18/20: Das Abendjournal – live mit Florian Machl https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKkOybjZyoKj
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister tells Sky News US boots on the ground would be 'reckless', in exclusive interview https://news.sky.com/video/irans-deputy-foreign-minister-tells-sky-news-us-boots-on-the-ground-would-be-reckless-in-exclusive-interview-13520589
Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit:
Police forces located fragments of missiles and interceptor debris, some of significant size, at multiple sites in the Old City, including the Temple Mount complex, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre complex, and the Jewish Quarter.
This incident underscores that the enemy does not distinguish between religions or places of worship: synagogues, mosques, or churches, and highlights the importance of police decisions to enforce Home Front Command directives, including the temporary closure of holy sites to worshippers and visitors.
These operational decisions are based on thorough risk assessments, with the overriding goal of saving lives.
🚨 Breaking: Fragments of an Iranian ballistic missile landed adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
None of this "Free Palestine” activism in Hollywood is sincere. They do it because it’s an “in thing” and wins approval from the young crowd.
Don’t believe me? A reminder from recent history helps. In the 1990s and early 2000s, “Free Tibet” had an even bigger celebrity endorsement machine. Hollywood stars, musicians, concerts, award speeches, support for Tibet and the Dalai Lama was loud across the entertainment industry.
And now, Free Tibet is nowhere discussed. Not because the issue was resolved. It went silent because China became an indispensable economic power and market for films, music, and brands. Angering China carried real financial consequences, movies banned, concerts cancelled, market access lost. So the moral fervor disappeared.
That should tell us something about celebrity activism. Today they say “Free Palestine” because there are no financial consequences. The day that changes, it will fade like “Free Tibet.” What looks like moral conviction is just aligning with whatever cause is trending.
Der Fernsehrat des #ZDF hat den amtierenden Intendanten Norbert Himmler wiedergewählt, der die Probleme des ZDF zu verantworten hat. Die Wahl war eine Farce: Es gab keine Gegenkandidaten. Das oberste Kontrollgremium des Senders versagt, schreibt @NeBoehme. https://www.cicero.de/kultur/wiederwahl-des-intendanten-norbert-himmler-der-zdf-fernsehrat-erfullt-seine-aufgabe-nicht
Turns out the woke generation is in fact the most racist generation since the 1930s.
I hate to say it but I think this is true. But this ain't the half of it. The people with land off-grid will be fine.
CIA Chief of Station in Beirut William F. Buckley was brutally tortured at the hands of Hezbollah for fifteen months. In early June of 1985, he was buried in a shallow grave on the side of the road in the Shiite section of the city. His body would not be returned to the United States until December 1991.
"Mahmoud Jaraba: Politikwissenschaftler warnt vor Clan-Kriminalität durch syrische Zuwanderer"
@welt
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article69b66ed4fc05063917a4bd7b/mahmoud-jaraba-politikwissenschaftler-warnt-vor-clan-kriminalitaet-durch-syrische-zuwanderer.html
France: PLEASE USE MORE ENERGY – WE HAVE TOO MUCH.
UK: If you reduce your boiler temperature, you can save £100 a year.
Martina Klement wollte der Berliner Verwaltung die Schwerfälligkeit austreiben. Sie digitalisierte Dienstleistungen und brachte eine Verwaltungsreform auf den Weg. In Potsdam wird mit ihr erstmals eine Christlichsoziale in der Regierung sein. https://www.nzz.ch/international/berlins-oberste-digital-managerin-wird-wirtschaftsministerin-in-brandenburg-ihr-weggang-wird-parteiuebergreifend-bedauert-ld.1929454?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e709
The bottom of scientific trustworthiness. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has published 138 fake case reports with learning points for 25 years without stating anywhere that the cases are fictional. https://bit.ly/4bethC7. Unbelievable.
Perspective by @AbbasHassanMD, PhD, and Jennifer F. Waljee, MD, MPH: Valuing Care Provided by Residents and Fellows — Toward Competency-Based Billing https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514693
#HealthPolicy #MedEd
I'm shocked. A UN body called CEDAW used the term "minor sex workers" in an official document! The use of this term is the acceptance and normalization of the sexual exploitation of children, which is forbidden under international law.
Tesla reports another 'Robotaxi' crash, still only has a single unsupervised car https://electrek.co/2026/03/16/tesla-robotaxi-15th-crash-fewer-incidents-but-no-mileage-data/ by @fredlambert