What The Lever Reported This Week:
• Internal Doc Reveals Biden’s Troubling Climate Summit Plan — Government memo suggests the Biden administration is angering allies by undermining strict standards for a new global carbon market.
• Why Drugs Are Disappearing From Your Insurance Coverage — Powerful companies are removing hundreds of medicines from insurance plans — and they’re spending millions to stop attempts at reform.
• “Life-Threatening” Failures To Communicate — Public advocates say telecom companies aren’t meeting standards designed to keep phones and internet working during disasters.
• The King Of Wall Street B.S. — A new biography of Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, offers a damning indictment of the elite compulsion to conflate wealth with genius.
• YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Mining Towns Get Clean Energy Boost — Plus, California farmworkers leverage new labor bill, New York will seal criminal convictions, regulators aim to crack down on overdraft fees, and workers strike on Cyber Monday.
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Stuff To Watch Or Listen To:
• LEVER TIME: Artificial Intelligence Is Denying Americans Health Care — The Lever breaks down how the country’s largest health insurer uses artificial intelligence to deny rehabilitation services for older and disabled Americans.
• LEVER TIME PREMIUM: Affordable Housing Is Saving Paris — The Lever speaks with journalist and author Cole Stangler about his new book, which explores how housing affects the economic and cultural character of Paris.
• MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: Ask MVC Anything — The MVC team answers questions from listeners about the inner workings of Hollywood.
• MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM PREMIUM: The Killer, The Curse, Rustin, Britney Spears, Band Of Brothers — The MVC team chat about David Fincher's new film The Killer, and other media-related topics.
With regard to drugs being removed from insurance plans--The exploitation and commodification of citizens unfortunately it's bound to continue. However there is a defense to make making one less vulnerable. Be proactive about your health. A healthy plant-based diet lowers blood pressure, lowers cholesterol, has actually been proven to reverse cardiovascular disease, greatly reduces your risk of type two diabetes, is better for your health, is less expensive, and you will need way less or even no pharmaceutical intervention to support your Health. It's just a fact!
When the market for statins, antihypertensives, stents, cardiac bypass surgery, equates to about $1 trillion a year alone in the US. Hundreds of millions will be spent to preserve a $1 trillion market. This includes more than one pharmaceutical lobbyist for each member of Congress, greasing political wheels so the truth does not come out about diet. The animal agriculture industry and pharmaceutical industry gives hundreds of millions of dollars to the American diabetes Association and the American heart Association and in return for their sponsorship they get to control content . So little suprise they have recipes on their websites containing meat and dairy which are the foods that are incriminated in causing cardiovascular disease and type two diabetes!
If anybody is interested in learning more:
read the China Study-data from 880 million people written by PhD nutritionist from Cornell University. Or if one is not much of a reader consider watching the following:
Forks over Knives on YouTube,
Cowspiracy on Netflix,
Game changers on Netflix,
What the Health on Netflix.
If you do this the end result will be better health for you and your loved ones.
Cheers Dr J Clark