Russia does a lot of terrible things. Invading countries. Killing POWs and civilians.
Domestically they have assassinated opposition leaders, tortured prisoners to death and persecuted members of the LGBT+ community.
But criminalizing being an asshole? I don’t really care that much.
Even though Russia pretends it isn’t, it is a country at war. Censorship is pretty normal during wartime.
And making fun of disabled people isn’t okay. Whether the country is at war or not. Maybe not quite not-okay enough for prison. But I can’t say that I’m terribly upset
And perhaps one of our states leaves the country.
Hosting with close allies shouldn’t be a problem.
Within the EU, I still don’t care in which country the data is hosted
I wouldn’t say forever. But it will take a long time to rebuild.
Universal healthcare providers sometimes choose to cover drugs or treatments that have slightly worse outcomes instead. The treatment that was state of the art 10 years ago probably still works just fine.
Patents last 20 years. But most of that time, a drug is in trials.
Providers can also choose not to cover other drugs by the same company, if they refuse to budge. Not being able to sell any drugs across an entire country would be a big problem for companies.
I thought generics were handled relatively similarly in the EU and the US, but apparently the US does grant a bunch of exclusivities, on top of patents.
However the biggest difference between those health systems still seems to be how providers bargain for lower prices.
In the US, insurances bargain for rebates. That means that if you buy a drug with insurance the insurance only pays a small percentage of the drug price. They are still allowed to demand copay on the list price. So often the insurance makes a profit in that transaction. But if you try to go around insurance you have to pay the full list price and will pay even more.
Over here, the universal healthcare providers bargain with the pharma companies to lower the list price. And with a much greater bargaining power to boot.
High prices are due to a lack of government regulations.
Pharma companies can set the prices according to what people are willing to pay. And people are willing to pay everything if it will save their lifes.
It doesn’t have to be. Here we have mandatory insurance. So it’s still called a premium.
I have, or well from other doctors at least. Our universal healthcare doesn’t pay things they don’t consider important. Paying everything would undermine their bargaining power.
But those bills are always itemized.
I don’t think that would have prevented migration. People have always migrated and always will.
They aren’t going to manufacture there. Chip manufacturing happens almost exclusively in Taiwan. That new building is just an office to design those chips.
A lot of maths goes into designing computer chips. You need an army of highly trained mathematicians and engineers for that.
And Israel is a really rich country that gets a lot of gifts and “investments” from people who want to show they aren’t antisemitic. They invest a lot of that money into the education of their citizens.
Israel’s universities are some of the best in the world. While US universities are on a steep downhill.
Did they stop paying his bribes or something?
It’s mostly so that it’s news and not a mere opinion piece. I don’t think they fear retribution.
Only in matters where they can’t get a federal majority
Btw. It just says people on social media have likened the outfit to Nazis.
20° is close to the temperature where it doesn’t matter
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How is chromium “not well known”? It’s a pretty well known fact that most popular browsers (except for safari and Firefox) use chromium