Some "insurance" companies charge patients a lot more for CPAP machines and supplies than the machines and supplies actually cost.

I suspect that these "insurance" companies are the ones that employers use to provide coverage to their employees.

A national health system would put an end to these swindles.

US citizens: call on the Senate to block and resist Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on the Senate to reject Thomas Farr as a judge.

If you sign, please spread the word!

The fire in Northern California may have been caused by a faulty transmission line that the electric company was trying to repair as soon as it could get permission to enter the private land where the problem had occurred.

It appears that PG&E was not ignoring the problem. I suspect it was following its established procedures for dealing with such problems, in accord with the facts it had at the time. Perhaps those procedures need to be updated, due to global heating, to treat all transmission-line problems more urgently. But all this doesn't necessarily mean negligence.

The name "camp fire" seems silly, and there seems to be no particular sense in it, so I would rather not use it.

The Food and Drug Administration has been captured by the drug companies it is supposed to protect the public from, as a result of depending on them for its funds.

The safe and ethical way to use their money to support government activities is to tax their income.

[US] Parents Deliver Ashes of Diabetic Children to Price-Gouging Insulin Manufacturer.

The high price of insulin is due to badly designed government policies towards the drug industry, together with the loss of its ethic of service to humanity, which I suspect a general increase in the level of greed that businesses in general think is acceptable.