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The linked article is from 2016 so I'm not sure why you're complaining about a single figure which was presumably correct in 2016. Your complaint doesn't even make sense since the conclusion still holds: "So good work, Britain. You’re paying $15,813 instead of $???? for a $100 pill." The...

This is address in the very same essay: "Vox gives the example of Harvoni costing $32,000 in the United States, but only $22,000 in the United Kingdom. This is supposed to be an example of the United Kingdom’s drug price regulation system working. I guess this is good, but you may notice that...

You need to educate yourself. The FDA creates incentives for insurance companies only to cover FDA-approved drugs even when there are cheap generic versions of the same compound available, and it creates incentives for pharma to cease production of formerly-approved compounds in favour of...

That is primarily because of the existence of the FDA which makes onerous demands on the drug companies and insurance providers, creating a very expensive system of bureaucracy and litigation, i.e admin. Again, a failure (interference) of government, not markets.

Are you suggesting the government will never allow a risk-taking AOC to fail? If the government decides it will not allow a private business to fail, even when it ought to fail, then that is a problem with the government, not with the market. You have just proven you don't understand how markets...

Silicone? It comes in every possible colour.

Useless forecasting logic. The NHS has always been public/private since the start (GP surgeries are private, as are many other parts of the NHS) so by your logic these mercenary businesses should have turned the NHS into the US system decades ago. Besides, you can make precisely the same form of...

Indeed. But that still does not make it anything remotely like the US system.

What US model? "Plans have been tabled to convert the NHS into a public/private enterprise, which critics say is based upon the US private health insurance-based system" Note that it's only (UK-centric) critics who claim it is a US model, notably Allyson Pollock: "Pollock said...proposals were...

Don't worry, we'll never the adopt the American system. There's a whole world of functioning healthcare models out there, and nobody wants the American system. Besides, the principle problem with the American system is the existance of the FDA, which makes drug production and provision...

Shot in the dark but the historic tall ship Zebu (in Liverpool) is desperate for a qualified electrician to install wiring ready for a new eco-powered electric motor and sailing sundries. It needs to be signed off so they can get further lottery funding. Thought I'd spread the word...

It's machining and assembling on a production line. It's your father's sort of job. What's next, bemoaning the loss of the steam engine industry? Um, all the food the rest of the planet produces... There are countries out there with farms the size of Wales.

Manufactuing big steel objects is a 19th-20th century anachronism. This is 21st century Britain, we should be doing 21st century jobs with 21st century technology. Leave the mining, smelting, dying, harvestings and machining to developing countries.

How can you tell the difference?

FYI you can tile on top of tiles.

I want to make a short of pneumatic spud gun / pop gun thing, so I'd like to find a plastic pipe that will fit snugly inside another pipe to create a piston. I'm not very knowledgeable about what sorts of pipe are available (and suppliers websites never give exact internal and external...

I wonder if you could find a cheap powered PC speaker with a mic input? Kinda like a really cheap little PA system!

What are cafe curtains? Goole doesn't help me.

That was exactly my point. If it's protected from rain on one side and sitting above dry air on the other, then it's not outdoors, it's part of an indoor structure.

I doubt it, unless it has some sort of attachment that allows it to be used like a router/trimmer.