Reports of possible collusion between the Trump administration and the Kremlin have led to a political storm in the US.
Credit: Elaine Thompson/AP
The UK government was given details last December of allegedly extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow, according to court papers.
Reports by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, on possible collusion between the the Trump camp and the Kremlin are at the centre of a political storm in the US over Moscow’s role in getting Donald Trump elected.
It was not previously known that the UK intelligence services had also received the dossier but Steele confirmed in a court filing earlier this month that he handed a memorandum compiled in December to a “senior UK government national security official acting in his official capacity, on a confidential basis in hard copy form”.
The court papers […]
Express Scripts is losing a big customer. Anthem, the big health insurer, is ending its contract with the company following a 2016 lawsuit.
Anthem claimed Express Scripts overcharged the insurer by billions of dollars. Anthem contracts with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) like Express Scripts to help negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs. Anthem accused Express Scripts of not passing along those savings, claiming Express Scripts overcharged the insurer by billions of dollars. Anthem is responsible for roughly 18% of Express Scripts’ revenue.
The relationship between Anthem and PBMs like Express Scripts shows that it’s not just drugmakers that are to blame for the rising price prescription prices.
For a single prescription drug, there are often five companies involved, from development all the way to your medicine cabinet. Each company makes a tidy profit along the way. And as prices increase, so do those profits.
“The current model is costing health plans, employers, and consumers much more money than it needs to,” said Michael Rea, the CEO of Rx Savings Solutions, which works with consumers and employers that are paying for healthcare understand their drug prices.
Let’s […]
Danish waste plant that generates more energy than it consumes Credit: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON — Since a Danish wastewater plant produced more energy than it needed last year, becoming a “green power station,” engineers from Serbia to China have been lining up to learn how it has managed to turn wastewater into a valuable energy source.
Most water treatment plants – which convert wastewater and sewage into something that can go back into the water cycle – are energy hogs, with the race on to find technologies to cut electricity usage to save costs and the environment.
So international interest was piqued when the Marselisborg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city, generated nearly 70 percent more energy than it needed in 2016 following a 3 million euro ($3.2 million) upgrade.
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
