If you have ever filed for a loan with the US Dept of Ed....

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It's been a minute since I've posted anything relevant.

Back in August, we made a recommendation to our leadership to realign our teams so we could better support our internal customers. As a result, on Jan 1st I picked up two more engineers on my team and took over our Cloud Security operations. We're still doing a lot of traditional AppSec work from an advisory and/or training perspective, but now we get to play in the Cloud space.

Its been a wild ride, gutting and building out a whole new program. Hopefully by end of the fiscal year, we'll have a solid new program built to scale with all processes at least partially automated.

#appsec #cloudsec

So I am not a financial person, but I was thinking of what could happen if the Federal government could
1. establish a list of the top 10 most critical medications from a health and cost perspective under patent,
2. buy out the remaining patent using the present value of the sum of profit to the company patent holder.

This could potentially
1. allow immediate generic production
2. reduce the cost of medication to individuals, insurers, and Medicare/Medicaid
3. transfer money spent on medication directly or copays back to the economy in the form of discretionary spend. Meds aren't subject to sales tax, but other purchases are so States with sales tax would benefit.
4. give drug manufacturers a larger amount of money up front.

I'd think the shift in money would offset the government buyout over time through additional taxes paid from the extra money in the economy instead of being paid to purchase meds.

I'd love to see this investigated and beta tested on one medication to see if it's a viable idea.

Three loops of Climb Practice Route #5 today

20.9mi 1,729ft 1hr47min

Fun short climb ride for Labor Day. I normally ride 30-70mi for endurance training, so this was my first dedicated climbing ride. It was fun and challenging. There will be more.

#BicyclePittsburgh #BikePittsburgh #Bicycling412

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