Why is the lib-media hiding this?-----Trump issues executive order increasing transparency in hospital prices, doctor fees

Trump issues executive order increasing transparency in hospital prices, doctor fees
"KEY POINTS:

• President Trump issued an executive order that would pressure insurers, doctors and other providers to disclose more information about health-care prices.
• High health costs have become a rare bipartisan issue with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle demanding something be done.

"...The executive order will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to require hospitals and insurers to disclose negotiated rates for services, as well as provide patients with out-of-pocket costs before their procedures.
“We are fundamentally changing the nature of the health care marketplace,” Trump said before signing the order.
Trump said the lack of price transparency has benefited industry giants “greatly” and has cost Americans millions of dollars in health care costs.
Price transparency can “empower” patient choice, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a call Monday with reporters..."
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Over 200 New 2019 Papers Support Skeptical View On Alarmism | Climate Dispatch

Over 200 New 2019 Papers Support Skeptical View On Alarmism | Climate Dispatch
"In the first 5½ months of 2019, over 200 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources.

These 200+ new papers affirm the position that there are significant limitations and uncertainties inherent in our understanding of climate and climate changes, emphasizing that climate science is not settled.

More specifically, the papers in this compilation support these four main skeptical positions — categorized here as N(1) – N(4) — which question climate alarm.

• N(1) Natural mechanisms play well more than a negligible role (as claimed by the IPCC) in the net changes in the climate system, which includes temperature variations, precipitation patterns, weather events, etc., and the influence of increased CO2 concentrations on climatic changes are less pronounced than currently imagined.
• N(2) The warming/sea levels/glacier and sea ice retreat/hurricane and drought intensities…experienced during the modern era are neither unprecedented or remarkable nor do they fall outside the range of natural variability.
• N(3) The computer climate models are neither reliable or consistently accurate, and projections of future climate states are little more than speculation as the uncertainty and error ranges are enormous in a non-linear climate system.
• N(4) Current emissions-mitigation policies, especially related to the advocacy for renewables, are often ineffective and even harmful to the environment, whereas elevated CO2 and a warmer climate provide unheralded benefits to the biosphere (i.e., a greener planet and enhanced crop yields).

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Rapid DNA testing reveals a THIRD of migrants faked family relationship with kids | Daily Mail Online

Rapid DNA testing reveals a THIRD of migrants faked family relationship with kids | Daily Mail Online
Rapid DNA testing reveals a THIRD of migrants faked family relationship with children to claim asylum during ICE pilot of the procedure in Texas

• ICE ran the pilot for a few days this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas
• About 30% of migrants tested with rapid DNA were lying about familial relations
• Migrants with children can claim asylum and avoid detention in most cases

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And the media repeats the lies.

Caravans to U.S. Included 1.5K Deported Criminals, 30 Sex Offenders

Caravans to U.S. Included 1.5K Deported Criminals, 30 Sex Offenders:

Recent caravans of foreign nationals included more than 1,500 previously deported convicted criminal illegal aliens, nearly 30 of which were convicted of sex crimes, federal officials say.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data provided to the House Oversight and Reform Committee this week reveal that two recent caravans of about 11,300 nationals that flooded the United States-Mexico border in October 2018 and January 2019 included about 1,520 previously deported illegal aliens who had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

YouTube Looks To Demonetization As Punishments For Major Creators...

YouTube Looks To Demonetization As Punishments For Major Creators, But It Doesn't Work - Slashdot
"YouTube is looking to send a message to content creators who step out of line by disabling ads on videos that infringe on the site's policies. 
The punishment is meant to revoke a key source of income, presenting a strong incentive for users to change their behavior. 
But, as Julia Alexander writes via The Verge, many creators make money through other platforms, rendering YouTube's punishment largely ineffective. 
From the report:
...For up-and-coming YouTubers reliant on that revenue, it can pose a huge problem. Many people just entering YouTube's Partner Program, a threshold that signifies a creator can start earning ad revenue, may rely on that advertising money as they start their career. Channels that face day-to-day monetization issues, one of the biggest issues within the community, are struggling to understand what works and what doesn't. But for larger creators, who still keep their ability to reach a huge number of subscribers, the punishment doesn't necessarily accomplish YouTube's goals."YouTube isn't likely to ban high-profile channels, either," Alexander writes. 
"If a channel's content is borderline, meaning that it doesn't violate YouTube's rules but is considered harmful, moderators will allow videos to remain up. 
Demonetizing a channel's videos allows YouTube to appear to have taken a strong action, even if that action isn't always effective."
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History for June 28

History for June 28 - On-This-Day.com
Henry VIII 1491 - King of England from April 21, 1509 until his death, known for his six marriages and his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - Philosopher, writer, composer, Richard Rodgers 1902 - Composer


Mel Brooks 1926 - Writer, director, actor, Gilda Radner 1946, Kathy Bates 1948 - Actress


1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.


1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.

Mexico Has Deployed 15,000 Troops To The Border, Is Now Detaining Illegal Migrants | The Daily Caller

Mexico Has Deployed 15,000 Troops To The Border, Is Now Detaining Illegal Migrants | The Daily Caller:

Mexico has deployed 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen at the U.S.-Mexico border and is detaining migrants who attempt to illegally cross.
The Mexican government’s actions aim to meet President Donald Trump’s demands that the country help slow the influx of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico, AFP reports.

The way we were-----Lincoln Park Pirates

Boob-tube-----TV show "Harbor Command" Yacht Club" episode, (1957)

Joe Biden is contractually obligated to receive angel hair pomodoro at every paid speech

Joe Biden is contractually obligated to receive angel hair pomodoro at every paid speech
"Joe Biden is a candidate of habit.
When Biden was in the Senate, he was often its poorest member — a designation he's proudly touted even on the 2020 campaign trail. 
Yet Biden turned his finances around after his time as vice president, and seemingly hasn't figured out a creative way to use his fortune.
Since leaving office, the 2020 frontrunner has pulled in "millions of dollars largely from book deals and speaking fees that ranged to as much as $200,000 per speech," The Washington Post reports via public documents. 
And at every one of those events, Biden has maintained one very major demand: Pasta. Contracts required that his speech hosts serve him "angel hair pomodoro, a caprese salad, topped off with raspberry sorbet with biscotti," the Post reports. 
He'd wash it down with "Coke Zero, Regular Coke, Orange Gatorade and black coffee," all of which had to be in his dressing room, the Post continues.

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Sarah Westwood

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It's in Biden's paid speaking contracts that his hosts must serve him Italian meals and stock his dressing room precisely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-the-poorest-senator-middle-class-joe-biden-has-reaped-millions-in-income-since-leaving-the-vice-presidency/2019/06/25/931458a8-938d-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html?utm_term=.c6ae7256c960 …

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE

Instapundit Blog Archive HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE
Busting the college-industrial complex.

"Yet even as reformers have pushed to remove a variety of barriers to employment, the biggest and most significant barrier to employment in American life — the use of the college degree as a default hiring device — has gone blithely unremarked. Indeed, even as reformers target employment obstacles for felons and florists, the pervasive use of college-degree requirements, despite its dubious legality and profound costs, has bizarrely escaped serious consideration.
At its best, higher education can be a powerful engine of opportunity and socioeconomic advancement. And that’s the way it’s almost universally described — at least in college brochures, think-tank reports, campaign stump speeches, and legacy media. Nevertheless, for too many Americans, the truth is that post-secondary education is principally a toll: an ever-more-expensive, increasingly mandatory, two-, four-, or, more accurately, six-year pit stop on the way to remuneration.

Which is profitable for the toll-takers.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

‘Time Is Running Out’: Schiff Hopes To Decide On Mueller Subpoena Soon | The Daily Caller

‘Time Is Running Out’: Schiff Hopes To Decide On Mueller Subpoena Soon | The Daily Caller:

Mueller’s team concluded its 22-month investigation of President Trump and his associates on March 22. A report of the investigation said that prosecutors were unable to establish that Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russia government. Prosecutors were less definitive on the question of whether Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation. Mueller neither cleared Trump nor exonerated him on the obstruction question.

Trump's Policy "Magic Wand" Boosts Manufacturing Jobs 399% In First 26 Months Over Obama's Last 26

Trump's Policy "Magic Wand" Boosts Manufacturing Jobs 399% In First 26 Months Over Obama's Last 26:
"During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump consistently promised to revive America’s manufacturing economy.
Trump’s focus on manufacturing brought out high-profile critics who scoffed at the notion.
President Obama notably said in June 2016 that manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back.” 
He said this at a time when manufacturing job growth had flatlined, falling by 31,000 from January of 2016 to when he delivered his pessimistic comments in June of that year.
...But comparing the nation’s most-recent economic recovery from the trough in June 2009, the pace of job growth was slower in Obama’s tenure than in any past recovery—except for the rebound from the mild eight-month recession in 2001, following the deflation of the dot-com bubble..."
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Comparing Baseball Player Salaries to Teacher Pay Reveals Confusion on Basic Economics - Foundation for Economic Education

Comparing Baseball Player Salaries to Teacher Pay Reveals Confusion on Basic Economics - Foundation for Economic Education
"Bernie Sanders is confused. 
Again. 
He recently took to Twitter to opine that:

Bernie Sanders

✔@BernieSanders

If we are a nation that can pay baseball players hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we can't afford to pay teachers the salaries they deserve.

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As is often the case, the senator from Vermont was partially correct. 

Baseball players do, in some cases, get paid hundreds of millions of dollars. 

Where he is confused, and this is a very typical confusion for Sanders, is as to the source of that money.

• Fans, Not The Nation, Pay Baseball Players

“The nation” doesn’t pay baseball players. 

Fans pay baseball players by buying tickets, merchandise, and products whose sellers advertise at games. 

Importantly, each person who contributes to paying the baseball players decides for himself whether the product baseball players are offering is worth the price.

And that individual choice is what keeps the entire industry consistently focused on satisfying the fans..."

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Lunch video-----Economic Freedom of the World | Learn Liberty

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Chip Roy Proposes Obama’s Border Policy As Democrats Postpone Vote Indefinitely | The Daily Caller

Chip Roy Proposes Obama’s Border Policy As Democrats Postpone Vote Indefinitely | The Daily Caller:

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy offered former President Barack Obama’s border supplement on Monday evening as an amendment to the Democrat-backed border supplemental appropriations bill.
“I am asking you to consider an amendment that reflects the language that President Obama sent of $762.8 million to fund [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] so they can do their job, provide beds, so we can drop the pressure valve down and ensure that Border Patrol can do its job, ICE can do its job,” Roy said while speaking to the House Committee on Rules.