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June 18, 2018
Earlier-than-anticipated Medicare bankruptcy date throws cold water on ‘Medicare for All’ proposals
https://www.abqjournal.com/1185638/medicare-for-all-needs-dose-of-economic-reality.html
Med students asking AMA to drop opposition to #SinglePayer
https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/08/american-medical-association-single-payer/
Gubernatorial candidate proposes #SinglePayer in Michigan; plan depends on new payroll taxes, but nary a word about how sky-high payroll taxes sunk Vermont proposal
https://www.arabamericannews.com/2018/06/15/abdul-el-sayed-unveils-michicare-a-single-payer-healthcare-plan-for-michigan/
+ https://michcare-abdulformichigan.com/plan
NHS UK #SinglePayer cutting back on coverage. No more free medicine for cold sores or heartburn. What will they cut next?
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/the-35-medicines-no-longer-available-on-nhs-prescription-from-this-month-1-9209574
Brits flock to other countries for IVF treatment because NHS #SinglePayer cut IVF availability last year
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-travel-abroad-ivf-nhs-12715629
NHS UK #SinglePayer declines to offer drug for phosphate blood disorder; you’re going to suffer irreversible bone damage and hearing loss, oh well
http://www.pharmatimes.com/news/rare_disease_therapy_crysvita_to_be_barred_from_nhs_1240037
NHS #SinglePayer docs tell Scottish farmer to have conventional radiation therapy for prostate cancer, but he opts for better proton beam treatment in Prague and it saved his life
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-cancer-patient-ignored-nhs-12715726
Why the Brits have bad teeth and go to Poland to see a dentist: “Children waiting more than six months for NHS dental treatment soars 52pc in three years”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/15/children-waiting-six-months-nhs-dental-treatment-soars-52pc/
UK NHS #SinglePayer spent 145,354 pounds to make sure Alfie Evans would NOT get care when they could have just put him on a Vatican helicopter as his parents wanted, but noOOoo....
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/cost-alfie-evans-legal-battle-14792403
NHS UK #SinglePayer pays millions to place people in devastating conditions in nursing home. Residents have to bring their own blood pressure monitor.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/nhs-has-paid-more-than-46m-to-dunmurry-manor-home-its-revealed-37012281.html
Secret quality ratings of VA nursing homes finally made public in part; nearly half have lowest ranking of one out of five stars
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/17/secret-va-nursing-home-ratings-hide-poor-quality-care/674829002/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top
VA medical clerk in California steals private data of more than 1,000 veterans including DOBs and SSNs
http://abc7.com/long-beach-va-hospital-clerk-accused-of-stealing-vets-private-info/3607045/
Professor wants ‘VA for All’ despite ‘serious systemic concerns’ and ‘single-incident grievances’. She must really hate people.
http://time.com/4937691/americans-cheap-healthcare-instantly/
Legionnaire’s disease found in California VA hospital water fountains. #RealSinglePayer
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/06/14/legionella-bacteria-va-hospital-loma-linda/
The fight over #SinglePayer is inching closer, with Dems focusing on Medicare For All proposals
https://www.axios.com/health-care-wars-medicare-for-all-insurance-bernie-d91da849-6c0e-4cd0-8662-091cc51676a9.html
Earlier-than-anticipated Medicare bankruptcy date throws cold water on ‘Medicare for All’ proposals
https://www.abqjournal.com/1185638/medicare-for-all-needs-dose-of-economic-reality.html
Med students asking AMA to drop opposition to #SinglePayer
https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/08/american-medical-association-single-payer/
Gubernatorial candidate proposes #SinglePayer in Michigan; plan depends on new payroll taxes, but nary a word about how sky-high payroll taxes sunk Vermont proposal
https://www.arabamericannews.com/2018/06/15/abdul-el-sayed-unveils-michicare-a-single-payer-healthcare-plan-for-michigan/
+ https://michcare-abdulformichigan.com/plan
NHS UK #SinglePayer cutting back on coverage. No more free medicine for cold sores or heartburn. What will they cut next?
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/the-35-medicines-no-longer-available-on-nhs-prescription-from-this-month-1-9209574
Brits flock to other countries for IVF treatment because NHS #SinglePayer cut IVF availability last year
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-travel-abroad-ivf-nhs-12715629
NHS UK #SinglePayer declines to offer drug for phosphate blood disorder; you’re going to suffer irreversible bone damage and hearing loss, oh well
http://www.pharmatimes.com/news/rare_disease_therapy_crysvita_to_be_barred_from_nhs_1240037
NHS #SinglePayer docs tell Scottish farmer to have conventional radiation therapy for prostate cancer, but he opts for better proton beam treatment in Prague and it saved his life
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-cancer-patient-ignored-nhs-12715726
Why the Brits have bad teeth and go to Poland to see a dentist: “Children waiting more than six months for NHS dental treatment soars 52pc in three years”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/15/children-waiting-six-months-nhs-dental-treatment-soars-52pc/
UK NHS #SinglePayer spent 145,354 pounds to make sure Alfie Evans would NOT get care when they could have just put him on a Vatican helicopter as his parents wanted, but noOOoo....
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/cost-alfie-evans-legal-battle-14792403
NHS UK #SinglePayer pays millions to place people in devastating conditions in nursing home. Residents have to bring their own blood pressure monitor.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/nhs-has-paid-more-than-46m-to-dunmurry-manor-home-its-revealed-37012281.html
Secret quality ratings of VA nursing homes finally made public in part; nearly half have lowest ranking of one out of five stars
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/17/secret-va-nursing-home-ratings-hide-poor-quality-care/674829002/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top
VA medical clerk in California steals private data of more than 1,000 veterans including DOBs and SSNs
http://abc7.com/long-beach-va-hospital-clerk-accused-of-stealing-vets-private-info/3607045/
Professor wants ‘VA for All’ despite ‘serious systemic concerns’ and ‘single-incident grievances’. She must really hate people.
http://time.com/4937691/americans-cheap-healthcare-instantly/
Legionnaire’s disease found in California VA hospital water fountains. #RealSinglePayer
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/06/14/legionella-bacteria-va-hospital-loma-linda/
The fight over #SinglePayer is inching closer, with Dems focusing on Medicare For All proposals
https://www.axios.com/health-care-wars-medicare-for-all-insurance-bernie-d91da849-6c0e-4cd0-8662-091cc51676a9.html
June 11, 2018
Hundreds go blind because of UK NHS #SinglePayer healthcare; long waits ruining lives
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/06/hundreds-going-blind-year-amid-nhs-delays-research-shows/
Majority of New Yorkers oppose #SinglePayer with its $226 BILLION annual tax hike; ‘politicians in Albany in charge of my healthcare – no way!’
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180605/OPINION/180609964/new-yorkers-dont-want-to-pay-for-single-payer
Support for #SinglePayer in California drops dramatically when people are reminded they have to pay for it with higher taxes.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/06/07/most-californians-support-single-payer-unless-they-have-to-pay-for-it/
Exiting Starbucks CEO Schultz blasts Democrat focus on #SinglePayer as fiscally irresponsible and unrealistic
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391339-sanders-starbucks-chairman-dead-wrong-on-healthcare
Wake up, Docs! They admit #SinglePayer is a trick that will boil you slowly and cause you to lose ground financially.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/would-a-single-payer-system-require-painful-sacrifices-from-doctors.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer logs 374,000 pieces of undelivered clinical correspondence; millions of pounds wasted dealing with misdirected correspondence; patient harm cannot be ruled out. #FirstPutYourUnderwearOnStraight
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/06/nhs_england_blamed_for_failure_to_forward_patient_correspondence_pac/
“Long waits, cuts and rationing: happy 70th birthday NHS”. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/05/waiting-times-cuts-rationing-70th-birthday-nhs
UK NHS gets record number of complaints (almost 50,000) in 4Q 2017, staff behavior and inadequate food and drink chief among them, #ButSinglePayerWillBeWonderful
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5816895/What-NHS-people-complain-about.html
The price of ‘free’ #SinglePayer healthcare in Cuba: unsanitary conditions, “gruesome” sheets, foul-smelling bathrooms, no water in sinks, supply your own needles. #WhatMichaelMooreDidNotTellYou
https://www.havanatimes.org/?p=133432
Preventable serratia marcescens outbreak kills 11 children in Venezuela #SinglePayer hospital
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/venezuela-serratia-marcescens-kills-11-children-barquisimeto-hospital-98992/
VA bungling private choice program (long waits). Can’t wait to see how the government screws up #SinglePayer
https://apnews.com/d54896b1876341ca9ebf8f7a165c7059/APNewsBreak:-Long-waits-under-VA's-private-health-program
Inspector General finds safety gaps, dirty conditions at Phoenix VA hospital
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/oig-dirty-conditions-gaps-in-safety-revealed-at-phoenix-va-hospital.html
“Lawsuit: Missouri VA hospital improperly inflated patient's catheter, causing fatal sepsis case”; infection causes “large amounts of blood and clotting at the end of his penis”.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/missouri-va-hospital-improperly-inflated-patient-s-catheter-killed-him-lawsuit-claims.html
Hundreds go blind because of UK NHS #SinglePayer healthcare; long waits ruining lives
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/06/hundreds-going-blind-year-amid-nhs-delays-research-shows/
Majority of New Yorkers oppose #SinglePayer with its $226 BILLION annual tax hike; ‘politicians in Albany in charge of my healthcare – no way!’
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180605/OPINION/180609964/new-yorkers-dont-want-to-pay-for-single-payer
Support for #SinglePayer in California drops dramatically when people are reminded they have to pay for it with higher taxes.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/06/07/most-californians-support-single-payer-unless-they-have-to-pay-for-it/
Exiting Starbucks CEO Schultz blasts Democrat focus on #SinglePayer as fiscally irresponsible and unrealistic
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391339-sanders-starbucks-chairman-dead-wrong-on-healthcare
Wake up, Docs! They admit #SinglePayer is a trick that will boil you slowly and cause you to lose ground financially.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/would-a-single-payer-system-require-painful-sacrifices-from-doctors.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer logs 374,000 pieces of undelivered clinical correspondence; millions of pounds wasted dealing with misdirected correspondence; patient harm cannot be ruled out. #FirstPutYourUnderwearOnStraight
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/06/nhs_england_blamed_for_failure_to_forward_patient_correspondence_pac/
“Long waits, cuts and rationing: happy 70th birthday NHS”. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/05/waiting-times-cuts-rationing-70th-birthday-nhs
UK NHS gets record number of complaints (almost 50,000) in 4Q 2017, staff behavior and inadequate food and drink chief among them, #ButSinglePayerWillBeWonderful
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5816895/What-NHS-people-complain-about.html
The price of ‘free’ #SinglePayer healthcare in Cuba: unsanitary conditions, “gruesome” sheets, foul-smelling bathrooms, no water in sinks, supply your own needles. #WhatMichaelMooreDidNotTellYou
https://www.havanatimes.org/?p=133432
Preventable serratia marcescens outbreak kills 11 children in Venezuela #SinglePayer hospital
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/venezuela-serratia-marcescens-kills-11-children-barquisimeto-hospital-98992/
VA bungling private choice program (long waits). Can’t wait to see how the government screws up #SinglePayer
https://apnews.com/d54896b1876341ca9ebf8f7a165c7059/APNewsBreak:-Long-waits-under-VA's-private-health-program
Inspector General finds safety gaps, dirty conditions at Phoenix VA hospital
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/oig-dirty-conditions-gaps-in-safety-revealed-at-phoenix-va-hospital.html
“Lawsuit: Missouri VA hospital improperly inflated patient's catheter, causing fatal sepsis case”; infection causes “large amounts of blood and clotting at the end of his penis”.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/missouri-va-hospital-improperly-inflated-patient-s-catheter-killed-him-lawsuit-claims.html
June 4, 2018
Financially self-interested California Nurses Association pours $1 million into California Governor’s race in bid to get #SinglePayer
https://californiahealthline.org/news/single-payer-issue-drives-dollars-into-gubernatorial-campaign/
Ottawa hospitals are maxxed out, so ambulance crews treat patients waiting to get into ER as best they can but, hey, #SinglePayer is GREAT!
https://wheelgun.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/i-cant-wait-until-we-have-socialized-medicine-like-canada/
‘Medicare-for-All’ branding is deliberate attempt to deceive people into thinking #SinglePayer will allow private insurance and be just as popular as Medicare
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/voters-who-like-medicare-for-all-may-not-like-single-payer.html
Medicare for All? Medicare only works because it shifts costs onto people with private insurance.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/388565-judd-gregg-medicare-for-all-means-rationing-for-everyone
Medicare-for-All is in the Bible. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/the-downside-to-medicare-for-all/article_8f07057c-5f6c-11e8-ab87-2f116538cfa5.html
#SinglePayer NHS diverts £100m into union activism. #ScrewThePeople
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6432142/nhs-taxpayers-money-trade-unions/
NHS #SinglePayer abandons many cancer patients, fails to provide nearly enough years of follow-up monitoring when disease could return
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/02/nhs-cancer-patients-failing-to-be-correctly-monitored
#SinglePayerQuagmire - “NHS hospitals ended the financial year almost £1bn in the red”
https://www.ft.com/content/4d199fc0-6409-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56
Percentage of NHS Scotland #SinglePayer patients treated on time falls to record low. Which would you rather have – medical care or a ‘legally binding guarantee’ of medical care?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-44290082
NHS guilty of 'ridiculous waste of resources' and could improve care without spending a penny more, top medic says
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/28/nhs-guilty-ridiculous-waste-resources-could-improve-care-without/
Durham VA hospital bought $1 million in equipment it didn’t use. #SureThatMakesSense
https://www.stripes.com/news/va-hospital-in-nc-purchased-more-than-1m-in-supplies-that-it-didn-t-use-1.530362
Vet: ‘rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated’ after VA sends condolence letter to dead wife saying he had passed away. #PutYourUnderwearOnStraight
https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/breaking-news/vietnam-veteran-wrongly-marked-deceased/g7jdeBAaNSWaFKOOCf8HBL/
Indianapolis VA doesn’t have enough stents, heart valves, knees, other implants because of accounting error. #ButSinglePayerWillBeWonderful
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/accounting-errors-could-harm-patient-care-indiana-va-hospital-manager-says.html
Vet avoids “mediocre” VA; #SinglePayer won’t solve anybody’s problem.
http://www.fosters.com/news/20180601/to-editor-single-payer-healthcare-will-not-fix-our-problems
Financially self-interested California Nurses Association pours $1 million into California Governor’s race in bid to get #SinglePayer
https://californiahealthline.org/news/single-payer-issue-drives-dollars-into-gubernatorial-campaign/
Ottawa hospitals are maxxed out, so ambulance crews treat patients waiting to get into ER as best they can but, hey, #SinglePayer is GREAT!
https://wheelgun.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/i-cant-wait-until-we-have-socialized-medicine-like-canada/
‘Medicare-for-All’ branding is deliberate attempt to deceive people into thinking #SinglePayer will allow private insurance and be just as popular as Medicare
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/voters-who-like-medicare-for-all-may-not-like-single-payer.html
Medicare for All? Medicare only works because it shifts costs onto people with private insurance.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/388565-judd-gregg-medicare-for-all-means-rationing-for-everyone
Medicare-for-All is in the Bible. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/the-downside-to-medicare-for-all/article_8f07057c-5f6c-11e8-ab87-2f116538cfa5.html
#SinglePayer NHS diverts £100m into union activism. #ScrewThePeople
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6432142/nhs-taxpayers-money-trade-unions/
NHS #SinglePayer abandons many cancer patients, fails to provide nearly enough years of follow-up monitoring when disease could return
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/02/nhs-cancer-patients-failing-to-be-correctly-monitored
#SinglePayerQuagmire - “NHS hospitals ended the financial year almost £1bn in the red”
https://www.ft.com/content/4d199fc0-6409-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56
Percentage of NHS Scotland #SinglePayer patients treated on time falls to record low. Which would you rather have – medical care or a ‘legally binding guarantee’ of medical care?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-44290082
NHS guilty of 'ridiculous waste of resources' and could improve care without spending a penny more, top medic says
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/28/nhs-guilty-ridiculous-waste-resources-could-improve-care-without/
Durham VA hospital bought $1 million in equipment it didn’t use. #SureThatMakesSense
https://www.stripes.com/news/va-hospital-in-nc-purchased-more-than-1m-in-supplies-that-it-didn-t-use-1.530362
Vet: ‘rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated’ after VA sends condolence letter to dead wife saying he had passed away. #PutYourUnderwearOnStraight
https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/breaking-news/vietnam-veteran-wrongly-marked-deceased/g7jdeBAaNSWaFKOOCf8HBL/
Indianapolis VA doesn’t have enough stents, heart valves, knees, other implants because of accounting error. #ButSinglePayerWillBeWonderful
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/accounting-errors-could-harm-patient-care-indiana-va-hospital-manager-says.html
Vet avoids “mediocre” VA; #SinglePayer won’t solve anybody’s problem.
http://www.fosters.com/news/20180601/to-editor-single-payer-healthcare-will-not-fix-our-problems