# drug prices (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover drug prices. Page: Feed: --- ## [Day 582: ICE Wants Voter Data, Trump Wants Lake America, and the Pentagon Keeps a Journalist Blacklist](https://resistancekitty.com/day-582-ice-wants-voter-data-trump-wants-lake-america-and-the-pentagon-keeps-a-journalist-blacklist/) _2026-08-26 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Wednesday from the country where ICE reportedly wants to buy voter records from every state, the Pentagon has a secret list of journalists it refuses to talk to, and Trump is seriously considering renaming Lake Ontario because apparently the trade war with Canada needed a fucking branding department. Meanwhile, an Army sergeant’s wife was... Read More “Day 582: ICE Wants Voter Data, Trump… ## [Day 582 TRUMP RENAMES CANADA’S POOL](https://resistancekitty.com/day-582-trump-renames-canadas-pool/) _2026-08-26 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ TRUMP RENAMES CANADA’S POOL The post Day 582 TRUMP RENAMES CANADA’S POOL appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [RSG #338: How To Plan, Build, and Accredit a Government SCIF](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg-338-how-to-plan-build-and-accredit-a-government-scif/) _2026-08-26 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, commonly called a SCIF, is an accredited space where authorized personnel may handle Sensitive Compartmented Information. It is not simply a secure conference room with thick walls, stern signage, and a basket where everyone reluctantly abandons a telephone. Planning a government SCIF requires an authorized mission, a government sponsor, qualified...… ## [Day 581: Trump’s Secret Trades, Pardon Money, ICE Profits, and the Mystery Plane in Moscow](https://resistancekitty.com/day-581-trumps-secret-trades-pardon-money-ice-profits-and-the-mystery-plane-in-moscow/) _2026-08-25 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Tuesday from the country where financial disclosure rules apparently have more holes than a dollar store colander. Trump reportedly made more than one thousand securities transactions without timely public disclosure, a private prison company poured $1.4 million into a Trump aligned super PAC after landing enormous ICE contracts, and new reporting is examining millions... Read More “Day 581:… ## [Day 581 MAXWELL’S APPEAL CUSTOMER SERVICE DESK](https://resistancekitty.com/day-581-maxwells-appeal-customer-service-desk/) _2026-08-25 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ MAXWELL’S APPEAL CUSTOMER SERVICE DESK The post Day 581 MAXWELL’S APPEAL CUSTOMER SERVICE DESK appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [Trump's Vaccine Order: What It Means for Your Kids #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/trumps-vaccine-order-what-it-means) _2026-08-24 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Madhury (Didi) Ray, MD, MPH, CEM, Doctors for America ## [Day 580: DOGE Receipts Collapse, ICE Tracks Legal Immigrants, and Trump’s Ballroom Gets Stranger Underground](https://resistancekitty.com/day-580-doge-receipts-collapse-ice-tracks-legal-immigrants-and-trumps-ballroom-gets-stranger-underground/) _2026-08-24 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Monday from the country where DOGE finally got audited and billions in claimed savings apparently evaporated under the terrifying glare of arithmetic. ICE is expanding ankle monitoring to people legally living in the United States, undercover agents reportedly infiltrated churches, and the president’s giant ballroom project now involves a medical facility, classified infrastructure, and...… ## [Day 580 DOGE MEETS MATH](https://resistancekitty.com/day-580-doge-meets-math/) _2026-08-24 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ DOGE MEETS MATH The post Day 580 DOGE MEETS MATH appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [RSG #337: How To Investigate Government Purchases of Commercial Location Data](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg-337-how-to-investigate-government-purchases-of-commercial-location-data/) _2026-08-24 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Your phone knows where you sleep, work, worship, shop, protest, receive medical care, and spend Tuesday evenings when you told everyone you were staying home. That location history can travel through mobile applications, advertising systems, software development kits, data aggregators, and commercial brokers. Government agencies have purchased access to commercially available information rather… ## [RSG#336: How To Investigate Government Use of Social Media Monitoring Tools](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg336-how-to-investigate-government-use-of-social-media-monitoring-tools/) _2026-08-21 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Your local police department may describe social media monitoring as nothing more than checking public posts. That sounds delightfully harmless, rather like saying a surveillance camera is merely enjoying the scenery. Modern social media monitoring can involve keyword searches, location filters, relationship mapping, automated alerts, covert accounts, image analysis, and commercial software that… ## [Every Channel. One Login. 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Read More “Day 576: CIA Drone… ## [Day 576 THE NUCLEAR BUTTON GETS PARENTAL CONTROLS](https://resistancekitty.com/day-576-the-nuclear-button-gets-parental-controls/) _2026-08-20 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ THE NUCLEAR BUTTON GETS PARENTAL CONTROLS The post Day 576 THE NUCLEAR BUTTON GETS PARENTAL CONTROLS appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [RSG#335: How To Audit Predictive Policing Systems and Their Hidden Feedback Loops](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg335-how-to-audit-predictive-policing-systems-and-their-hidden-feedback-loops/) _2026-08-20 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Predictive policing systems promise to help police anticipate where crime might happen or who might become involved. The sales pitch usually arrives carrying words such as objective, efficient, intelligent, and data driven. Nothing says impartial justice quite like a vendor presentation with a glowing heat map. The problem is that these systems do not observe... Read More “RSG#335: How To Audit… ## [RSG #334: How To Investigate Parallel Construction and Intelligence Laundering](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg-334-how-to-investigate-parallel-construction-and-intelligence-laundering/) _2026-08-19 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ A criminal case may appear to begin with a traffic stop, an informant, or one officer experiencing a miraculous burst of curiosity. Sometimes that visible beginning is not the beginning. Parallel construction occurs when investigators protect an original source by creating a separate path to the same evidence. Civil liberties advocates sometimes call the abusive... Read More “RSG #334: How To… ## [Day 575 THE REAL SISTER WIVES OF MAR A LAGO](https://resistancekitty.com/day-575-the-real-sister-wives-of-mar-a-lago/) _2026-08-19 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ THE REAL SISTER WIVES OF MAR A LAGO The post Day 575 THE REAL SISTER WIVES OF MAR A LAGO appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [Day 575: DHS Spies on Protesters, ICE Targets Children, and Voters Hand Trump Another Bad Night](https://resistancekitty.com/day-575-dhs-spies-on-protesters-ice-targets-children-and-voters-hand-trump-another-bad-night/) _2026-08-19 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Wednesday from the nation where DHS apparently names domestic surveillance operations like rejected Jason Bourne movies, local governments are spending opioid recovery money on license plate cameras, and the administration wants to spend billions encouraging migrant children to leave the country. Meanwhile, Florida voters bounced scandal plagued Congressman Cory Mills, Angie Nixon pulled… ## [Day 574: Trump’s Family Bank, DHS Surveillance, Big Bend Bulldozers, and a Navy Destroyer Dead in the Water](https://resistancekitty.com/day-574-trumps-family-bank-dhs-surveillance-big-bend-bulldozers-and-a-navy-destroyer-dead-in-the-water/) _2026-08-18 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Tuesday from the nation where the president’s family is moving closer to operating its own federally regulated bank, DHS allegedly treated lawful Minnesota protesters like members of a terrorist financing network, contractors are being hired to chase deported immigrants through foreign countries for money, and bulldozers are chewing into Big Bend National Park. Meanwhile,... Read More “Day… ## [Day 574 DHS FINANCIAL COLONOSCOPY](https://resistancekitty.com/day-574-dhs-financial-colonoscopy/) _2026-08-18 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ DHS FINANCIAL COLONOSCOPY The post Day 574 DHS FINANCIAL COLONOSCOPY appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [RSG#333: How To Audit Secret Government Watchlists and Risk Scores](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg333-how-to-audit-secret-government-watchlists-and-risk-scores/) _2026-08-18 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Secret government watchlists and risk scores can influence who gets stopped, searched, questioned, investigated, denied a benefit, or quietly assigned extra scrutiny. Yet the affected person may never see the record, learn the rule, or receive a useful explanation. Nothing says procedural fairness quite like being judged by a spreadsheet nobody admits exists. Auditing these... Read More “RSG#333:… ## [What's Safe to Eat? Cyclospora, Salmonella & the Food Safety Crisis #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/whats-safe-to-eat-cyclospora-salmonella) _2026-08-17 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Dr. Janet Krommes of Doctors for America ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/04xyQnEYXFcX) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [RSG #332: How To Trace Public Money Through Pass Through Nonprofits and Fiscal Sponsors](https://resistancekitty.com/rsg-332-how-to-trace-public-money-through-pass-through-nonprofits-and-fiscal-sponsors/) _2026-08-17 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Public money rarely travels in a straight line. Congress funds an agency. The agency awards a state, city, university, or nonprofit. That recipient sends part of the award to another organization. A fiscal sponsor may then hold the money for a project that has no separate tax exemption, public filing, or obvious legal identity. By... Read More “RSG #332: How To Trace Public Money Through Pass… ## [Day 573 TRUMP FACT CHECKS HIMSELF](https://resistancekitty.com/day-573-trump-fact-checks-himself/) _2026-08-17 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ TRUMP FACT CHECKS HIMSELF The post Day 573 TRUMP FACT CHECKS HIMSELF appeared first on Resistance Kitty . ## [Day 573: Trump Loses at the Supreme Court, Blanche Won’t Promise DOJ Independence, and the Family Crypto Bank Gets Real](https://resistancekitty.com/day-573-trump-loses-at-the-supreme-court-blanche-wont-promise-doj-independence-and-the-family-crypto-bank-gets-real/) _2026-08-17 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Monday from the country where the president’s family crypto company is one regulatory step away from operating a federally chartered trust bank, the Attorney General will not promise independence from the White House, intelligence hubs want more power to investigate Americans, and the Supreme Court just told Donald Trump no again in the E.... Read More “Day 573: Trump Loses at the Supreme… ## [The U.S. Wanted Switzerland’s Drug Prices. Switzerland Is Starting to Lose Drug Launches.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/the-us-wanted-switzerlands-drug-prices) _2026-08-15 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Seven of 22 innovative medicines were not submitted for Swiss reimbursement over U.S. MFN concerns. The deeper issue: what happens when a national price stops being national. ## [Day 570: ICE Death Loopholes, Secret CIA Strikes, Vanishing Criminal Cases, and Another Very Normal Friday](https://resistancekitty.com/day-570-ice-death-loopholes-secret-cia-strikes-vanishing-criminal-cases-and-another-very-normal-friday/) _2026-08-14 · Dr. Harmony · Resistance Kitty_ Happy Friday from the nation currently running secret maritime operations, rewriting immigration rules in obscure PDFs, threatening television licenses over news coverage, dismantling financial transparency, and somehow finding time to redesign aircraft carriers because Donald Trump still has feelings about steam. Meanwhile, ICE detention deaths are raising horrifying questions, 23,000 federal… ## [Corporate Health Care Crimes: Wendell Potter on the Real Waste, Fraud & Abuse #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/corporate-health-care-crimes-wendell) _2026-08-10 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ Health Insurance Insider: The Waste, Fraud & Abuse You Don't See ## [Europe Created a Joint Assessment to Reduce National Methodology. Every Agency Answered by Building More of It.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/europe-created-a-joint-assessment) _2026-08-09 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ The method that binds twenty-seven countries is written by whoever staffs the room. ## [The 100% Drug Tariff Took Effect on Friday. Thirteen of the Seventeen Companies It Names Don’t Pay It.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/the-100-drug-tariff-took-effect-on) _2026-08-07 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ It was never meant to be collected. It was meant to be signed away. ## [Unbiased Science's Jen Bordenick on How Wellness Influencers Scam Patients #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/unbiased-sciences-jen-bordenick-on) _2026-08-03 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ Grifters and the Wellness Industry ## [Medicare Put an Algorithm in Charge of Saying No. Its Vendors Are Paid a Share of What It Refuses.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/medicare-put-an-algorithm-in-charge) _2026-08-02 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Coverage policy didn’t change. Access did. That distinction is the entire business. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z1VvyxcCQAIX) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Medicare and Medicaid Anniversary: Can We Protect Both Programs? #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/medicare-and-medicaid-anniversary) _2026-07-27 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Margarida Jorge of Health Care for America Now ## [The MFN Exposure Map: How to Score a Market Before You Launch In It](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/the-mfn-exposure-map-how-to-score) _2026-07-25 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Six variables. One grid. And the launch call nobody wants to put in writing. ## [Markets cut rate-hike odds on a number that expired six days earlier.](https://theindependenttraders.substack.com/p/markets-cut-rate-hike-odds-on-a-number) _2026-07-20 · Daniel Cross · The Independent Traders_ June CPI fell 0.4% on a 5.7% energy drop. The truce that lowered gasoline was declared over on July 8. ## [Big Medicine's Monopoly Problem: Corporate Consolidation Is Costing You Everything #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/big-medicines-monopoly-problem-corporate) _2026-07-13 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Emma Freer of American Economic Liberties Project ## [Enhertu Was Too Expensive to Fund in 2024. It Isn't in 2026 — and the Drug Never Changed.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/enhertu-was-too-expensive-to-fund) _2026-07-11 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ The medicine didn't change. The price barely did. What moved was the line that defines value. ## [Big Pharma Charges the World's Highest Prices - Here's the Public Fix #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/big-pharma-charges-the-worlds-highest) _2026-07-06 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Alejandro Molina at Groundwork Collaborative ## [Colorado Declared a Drug Unaffordable. Federal Law Says That's the One Thing It Can't Fix.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/colorado-declared-a-drug-unaffordable) _2026-07-05 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ The same patent that made Enbrel unaffordable is why Colorado can't touch the price. ## [Anthropic Built an AI to Invent Cures Faster. It Still Can't Invent a Payer.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/anthropic-built-an-ai-to-invent-cures) _2026-07-01 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ The molecule was never the bottleneck — the payer is. And no AI is pointed at the gate where patients actually wait. ## [Screwworm Crisis: What They're Not Telling You About Food Safety #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/screwworm-crisis-what-theyre-not) _2026-06-29 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ with Dr. Carrie McMahon of Unbiased Science ## [France Spent €13.5 Billion Making Its Medicines Cheap. That’s Now the Reason It Will Get the New Ones Last.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/france-spent-135-billion-making-its) _2026-06-28 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ A 60% tax rate on operating income. A 523-day wait for new medicines — the longest in Western Europe. And 64% of companies that now expect Washington’s pricing policy to cut their French launches... ## [Japan Built a Machine to Cut Drug Prices. It Just Found Out There's No Reverse Gear.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/japan-built-a-machine-to-cut-drug) _2026-06-24 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Price reviews every year since 2021 that only ever move in one direction. Now Tokyo needs drug prices to rise to survive Washington's MFN — and discovers it never built the lever. ## [Medicaid Work Requirements: Will the Medical Frailty Exemption Protect You? #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/medicaid-work-requirements-will-the) _2026-06-22 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Nicole Jorwic of Caring Across Generations ## [Approval Is Not Access. Now Europe Has a 20-Page Document That Proves It.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/approval-is-not-access-now-europe) _2026-06-18 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ The EMA approved it. The EU’s first Joint Clinical Assessment could not say whether it beats the option already in use... ## [Hospital Mergers Are Making Your Healthcare Bills Explode #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/hospital-mergers-are-making-your) _2026-06-15 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ with Natasha Murphy of Center for American Progress ## [The First JCA Didn’t Assess a Drug. It Documented an Absence.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/the-first-jca-didnt-assess-a-drug) _2026-06-14 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Eight PICOs. Three populations. Seven questions answered with nothing — and the eighth resting on an effective sample of six to fourteen patients... ## [Pascal Soriot's Threat Is Theatre. AstraZeneca's Arithmetic Is Real.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/pascal-soriots-threat-is-theatre) _2026-06-11 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ AstraZeneca wants the United States to be half its revenue by 2030. When a chief executive threatens to walk away from Europe, the skill is reading which half of the sentence is the negotiation. ## [Big Pharma Sued to Block Lower Drug Prices? Here's Why They Lost #CareTalk](https://laurapackard.substack.com/p/big-pharma-sued-to-block-lower-drug) _2026-06-08 · Laura Packard · Laura Packard_ With Merith Basey of Patients for Affordable Drugs ## [Approval Is Not Access. Access Is Not Adoption.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/approval-is-not-access-access-is) _2026-06-07 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Regulators decide whether a medicine can be sold. Payers decide whether it can be funded. Systems decide whether it is ever used. ## [Your Dossier Has 300 Pages. The Payer Has Four Questions.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/your-dossier-has-300-pages-the-payer) _2026-06-05 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ Because payers do not read your value story in the order pharma writes it. They ask four questions — and every weak answer changes the price. ## [France Just Became the First EU Country to Reimburse GLP-1s for Obesity. The Cascade Has Begun.](https://beyondapprovalpharma.substack.com/p/france-just-became-the-first-eu-country) _2026-06-03 · Beyond Approval · Beyond Approval_ €195 per month. One million eligible patients. Nineteen countries reference French prices. The first domino in European obesity access just fell.