Thursday, February 20, 2025

MARCIE FALLEK: there is no reason to bring your pets in for a yearly visit unless they’re actually sick.

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KEVIN MCKERNAN: If it’s a Gateway Drug, why do states that legalize cannabis see both a drop In Alcohol consumption and prescription pain meds?

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PIRFENIDONE: Medicare filled it 85,000 times in 2022 at an average cost of $8,000 per prescription [= $680 million]. Normal cost without insurance ONLY $200 TO FILL

It looks like Mark Cuban owns the Cost Plus Pharmacies.  

Grok tells us,

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC), operating under the name Cost Plus Drugs, is the entity behind Cost Plus pharmacies. It was co-founded in 2022 by billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and radiologist Alex Oshmyansky, with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Oshmyansky, who initially pitched the idea to Cuban in 2018, serves as the CEO, while Cuban is a prominent investor and public face of the company. As a public benefit corporation, its mission focuses on providing affordable generic drugs by eliminating middlemen and using a transparent cost-plus pricing model. While Cuban’s exact ownership stake isn’t publicly specified, he has described the venture as a personal mission to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, suggesting significant involvement rather than full ownership. The company isn’t a traditional pharmacy chain but operates as an online pharmacy and wholesaler, partnering with entities like Truepill Pharmacy for prescription fulfillment and expanding through initiatives like the Team Cuban Card network with independent pharmacies.

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Only two brave souls that tried to take on the US Government in 2007: Dr. Morgan Reynolds and Dr. Judy Woods

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ZOE HARCOMBE: [Fruit has] got nothing in the form that the body needs, because it's not an animal food

Dates, more sugar than toffee.  --Zoe Harcombe

But in terms of the glucose and the fructose, to the body it's the same thing.  Now the fruit will come with a little bit more than the sugar, but nowhere near as much as people think.  So fruit is essentially sugar and water,  like watermelon.  And I said this on Twitter recently and oh my goodness, the replies that you get, "fruit is really healthy," and all the rest of it. Oh, why did I do that?  I forgot that Twitter gets really upset when you say the absolutely nutritional fact that fruit is essentially water and sugar.  And it's got a couple of nutrients or whatever but far from fewer than people think.  It's got nothing in the form that the body needs because it's not an animal food.  Yeah, it's got vitamin C but yellow peppers have got more.  It's just nothing to write home about.  I would really struggle to think of another thing other than vitamin C that fruit has got, and again yellow peppers would be better.  I love it.  I love fruit. That would be my binge food.  If I had a binge food, it would be fruit.  Dates, more sugar than toffee.  I could eat fruit all day long.  It's absolutely delicious.  It's crunchy.  It's sweet.  It's refreshing.  It's absolutely fantastic, but it isn't the healthiest choice that you can make.  And the body knows not where the sugar came from . . .

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