And is that
44% of all new useful drugs
44% of all new “just different enough to extend the patent” drugs
44% of drugs that primarily help rich people with insurance drugs
Of the 44% are they exclusively developed in the US, or heavily dependent on research and testing in jurisdictions with different health and funding regimes?
Got a letter from Vanguard that said there was a change to my security code settings. A secondary phone number was added to my account on 2/1 - apparently it’s a possible number that a security code could be sent to. Well, I don’t know that number and I certainly didn’t add it, so I called them.
They showed me how to remove it and when I asked how the fuck it was possible for it to be there in the first place, they said that there had been some system updates and there were some “glitches” that added numbers to accounts.
Hard to believe, but I just overheard the loudest right wing trumper in the cigar lounge proclaim he likes Bill Maher and watches him regularly. “He’s a really smart guy.”