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Chaos set in quite some time ago.

Chaos rocks White House on virus' most tragic day

Trump's wild performance at his daily briefing was a troubling spectacle at a moment when presidents are called to provide leadership

The chaos and confusion rocking President Donald Trump's administration on the most tragic day yet of the coronavirus pandemic was exceptional even by his own standards.

Trump set out Tuesday to cement his image of a wartime leader facing down an "invisible enemy" at a dark moment as the country waits for the virus to peak and with the economy languishing in suspended animation.

"What we have is a plague, and we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel," the President said, on a day when a record number of Americans succumbed to the wicked respiratory disease.

But instead of putting minds at rest, Trump's wild performance instead put on a display many of the personal and political habits that have defined his tumultuous presidency. It was a troubling spectacle coming at such a wrenching chapter of national life, the kind of moment when Presidents are called to provide consistent, level leadership.
 
Everything is hunky dory at hospitals across that country, Trump said so.

Detroit hospital nurses refuse to work without more help, ordered to leave

Emergency room nursing staff at a Detroit hospital were told to leave Sunday night after they refused to work and demanded more nurses be brought into their overrun emergency room, health care workers there told CNN.

The night shift ER nurses at Sinai-Grace Hospital refused to leave the break room until hospital administrators brought in more nurses to help out, a physician at the hospital told CNN.

Hospital administrators decided, after four hours of deliberation, they would not be bringing in any more nurses to help and that the nurses could get to work or leave the hospital, the doctor said.

Some did then leave, said the physician, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity out of concern for their job.

The details provided by the physician were corroborated by ER nurse Sal Hadwan, who discussed what happened in a video livestreamed on Facebook.
 
Hospital administrators decided, after four hours of deliberation, they would not be bringing in any more nurses to help and that the nurses could get to work or leave the hospital, the doctor said.

Trump is the hospital administrator ?

How fsking arrogant is that !
 
Orange Zeus has it all under control.


Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not publicly reporting the acquisitions, despite the outlay of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, nor has the administration detailed how it decides which supplies to seize and where to reroute them.

Officials who’ve had materials seized also say they’ve received no guidance from the government about how or if they will get access to the supplies they ordered. That has stoked concerns about how public funds are being spent and whether the Trump administration is fairly distributing scarce medical supplies.
 
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But I was told that excessive regulations are what drives the high costs of insulin in the USA?

I hate to disappoint, but it is still regulation:
The co-pay cap will cover the majority of the company’s insulin, including the Humalog injection, and is open to the uninsured as well as commercially insured people, but not to Medicaid, Medicare or Medicare Part D patients, Reuters reported.

Why do you think the government programs still have to fork out? It is because of regulations. Changing any form of supplier contract with governments is probably a nightmare.

There is no open market for medication. If a company in one country produces a good generic insulin, they have to jump through billions of hoops to sell it in another. That is an empirical fact. Same thing for companies competing in said countries.

The due diligence should be placed at the point of care for doctors and patients.

If I want a new graphics card, do I need a government agency to tell me that going and buying the cheapest one on Wish.com will be a bad idea? No. I will go to a reputable distributor and get one for a decent price.
 
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