BY TED SLAFSKY Merrill Matthews’ Nov. 16 opinion column on the 340B drug discount program, “Congress Tries to Lower Drug Costs and Raises Health Premiums Instead,” arrives at a myriad of wrong conclusions. Mathews has a long history with the insurance industry that routinely raises health care costs and points the finger elsewhere. It would […]
BY MERRILL MATTHEWS If regulators seem confused about how to implement a health care program as vast and sweeping as ObamaCare, maybe, just maybe, it’s because they know how badly they’ve bungled smaller and simpler health care reform efforts — especially a particular drug discount program. Prior to 1990, many drug manufacturers voluntarily discounted their […]
BY DIANE DIMOND So, George Orwell was off by 29 years. In 1949, Orwell’s masterpiece novel, “1984,” wove a tale about a fictitious shadowy world in which government surveillance was ubiquitous, public mind control was an open secret and independent thinking was labeled and prosecuted as a “thought crime.” The tyrant in control was the mysterious being called Big […]
ALBANY, NY… NYGOP Chair Ed Cox today released the following open letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo: Dear Governor Cuomo, Yesterday, you stated that you intend to make a decision on New York’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing before Election Day. This is a decision you should have made on Day One of your administration. It’s a […]
To the Editor, Many years ago William Ernest Henley, in the poem Invictus, wrote that we are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls. Republicans must heed that wisdom today. The Cuomo SAFE Act infringement “big mistake” has given Republicans an enormous opportunity to capture and use the wave of outrage it […]
Dear Dylan, Someone once said “public office is the rent you pay for living in a democracy.” By running for Stony Point supervisor you have embraced this ideal and for that you have my sincere appreciation. I know how difficult it is to put your life on hold, to balance the family, the job, and […]