Difference: health & well being of millions of people vs health & well being of millions of women

DAILY TAKEAWAY

D-Day Fast Facts

Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world?

Federal investigators to examine equipment from 2016 N.C. election amid renewed fears of Russian hacking

WHY AMERICANS ARE RETIRING INTO HOMELESSNESS

How Trump's Mexico Tariffs Could Backfire and Increase Immigration

EXPAND YOUR MIND

Can the Science of Purpose Help Explain White Supremacy?

Five Limits Your Brain Puts on Generosity

New evidence that students’ beliefs about their brains drive learning

How to Change Your Mind PODCAST

New test spots ‘hidden consciousness’ in severely injured brains

HEALTHCARE

CVS announces further expansion into health care services

Labor Unions Are Split On Single-Payer Healthcare For NY

Trump takes aim at insurers and hospitals over health care costs

How socialist health care saves lives OPINION

Why 2020 Will Be Another Health Care Election Health care costs are the top financial problem for American families, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday. When asked an open-ended question — “What is the most important financial problem facing your family today?” — 17% of respondents cited health care costs, followed by 11% who said lack of money or low wages and 8% who pointed to college expenses. One in five Americans told the pollsters they do not have a "most important financial problem," the second-highest rate for that response in Gallup’s 14 years of asking the question.

Gallup notes, though, that health care is especially likely to be named as a financial concern by older Americans, with 25% of adults between the ages of 50 and 64 and 23% of those 65 or older raising the issue. “Even in generally good economic times, Americans still face significant personal financial challenges,” Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones noted. “Foremost among these are healthcare costs, which have been a consistent concern over time but currently stand above all other concerns. As such, healthcare will likely continue to be a major focus in national elections, including the 2020 presidential election. Older Americans, who are more likely to need healthcare and who are more likely to vote than younger Americans, may pay special attention to what the candidates' plans are for addressing healthcare costs.”

[The Fiscal Times, May 30, 2019]

What's Doctor Burnout Costing America? 
Doctor burnout is costing the U.S. health care system a lot — roughly $4.6 billion a year, according to a study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. "Everybody who goes into medicine knows that it's a stressful career and that it's a lot of hard work," says Lotte Dyrbye, a physician and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who co-authored the study. [CommonHealth at WBUR, June 1, 2019]

WOMEN’S HEALTH

Sen. Kamala Harris wants to require laws that threaten Roe v. Wade undergo DoJ approval

Revealed: women's fertility app is funded by anti-abortion campaigners

Photos tell a tale of two hearings on women's reproductive health

SPEAKING OUT

“It is an all-out assault,” [Cecile] Richards said, “This is not a drill, this is no longer an intellectual question, Roe is absolutely at risk and so is the healthcare and the wellbeing of millions of women in this country.

VOTER SUPPRESSION

How the GOP's shady plan to help elect white Republicans works

Before we get to 2020 we can’t forget 2019 state contests

READ

Elaine's: The Rise of One of New York’s Most Legendary Restaurants

Death of a Pinehurst Princess: The 1935 Elva Statler Davidson Mystery

Death at the Little Bighorn: A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisions Made at The Last Stand

Mostly Dead Things FICTION

The Body in Question FICTION

Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar FICTION

HUNGARY

Hungary suspends court reform that worried EU, shuns Salvini

7 Dead and 21 Missing After a Sightseeing Boat Capsizes in Hungary



Orban Tasks ‘NY-Based Influencers’ to Repair Anti-Semite Rap

The Hungarian government has hired a public-relations firm to help improve its relations with segments of the American Jewish community. But the firm it’s chosen seems to have a, well, problematic understanding of the proper language to use.

The contract calls for a firm that specializes in Jewish community outreach to make inroads on the government’s behalf with what it calls “New York-based influence groups.”

That line was tucked away in a Justice Department filing last week by the firm Triconsultants, which is assisting the legal and lobbying powerhouse Greenberg Traurig in its work for the Hungarian embassy in Washington.

Greenberg inked that deal a few weeks before Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s swing through D.C. this month.

Orban and his government have faced international criticism for the prime minister’s thinly veiled comments about Jewish political opponents, most notably the Hungarian-born financier George Soros. In one particularly colorful 2018 speech, Orban said he was “fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”

Greenberg’s contract with Hungary’s U.S. embassy, which was signed in late April, calls for the firm to lobby Congress on issues affecting the government. It’s also tasked “with outreach to selected civilian thought leaders”—a term it leaves vague.

Who those thought leaders are came into focus this week, when the Triconsultants subcontractpopped up on the Justice Department’s website. That agreement also included some vague language, saying Triconsultants will “assist GT in providing strategic counsel and strengthening bilateral relations between Hungary and the United States, including New York-based influence groups.”

Who are those “New York-based influence groups”? A clue lies in the expertise of Triconsultants’ sole employee, Liz Alberti, whose LinkedIn page describes her as a “liaison to the Jewish Community.”

Alberti has an “established relationship with pro-Israel political leaders, Jewish philanthropists, business interfaith leaders international influencers,” the page states. It adds that she has a “strong understanding of the role of the American Jewish community as a political constituency with leading members of the U.S. Congress and Senate” and “experience in grassroots advocacy, organized and lead missions with leading philanthropists and Jewish leaders.”

Hungary’s prior D.C. lobbying firm, the SLI Group, also sought to tamp down criticism of Orban as an anti-Semite, even as SLI’s principal, former Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL), routinely issuedpublic communications on his client’s behalf that went after Soros by name.

The Hungarian government no longer employs Mack’s firm. But Alberti’s work appears to be an effort to further insulate Orban from charges of anti-Semitism by conducting outreach on Hungary’s behalf with Jewish community leaders.

Alberti’s LinkedIn page says she previously worked with the Jewish community on behalf of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, whose government was the second to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem after the U.S. did so last year.

Alberti also describes herself as a Jewish community liaison for Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). His campaign has reported paying Triconsultants more than $57,000. Every one of those payments has been itemized as “fundraising.” [Daily Beast "Pay Dirt," May 30, 2019]

MALTA

A Journalist Was Killed in an EU Country. Why Has No One Been Caught?

Magistrate to pass judgment on Liam Debono on 26 June

PN’s pensioners’ branch calls for stop to social media bickering

Armed Forces rescue more than 350 migrants

AUSTRALIA

Police raid on ABC offices sparks firestorm over press freedom and national security

China 'behind' huge ANU hack amid fears government employees could be compromised

Malcolm Turnbull canned any idea of allowing the ASD to spy on Australians

Australia’s new rail projects will deliver $28b+ in property development: CBRE

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