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September 14, 2020
Progressives Afraid Trump Will Revive #SinglePayer Talk as October Surprise
Progressives Afraid Trump Will Revive #SinglePayer Talk as October Surprise
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/08/trump-biden-and-possible-october-single-payer-surprise
Advocates in Michigan, Massachusetts, and California still pushing for #SinglePayer
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/09/michigan-democratic-party-embraces-single-payer-health-care-after-dnc-rejection.html
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https://www.recorder.com/Comerford-part-of-Tuesday-panel-on-single-payer-health-care-36169612
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https://www.redlandscommunitynews.com/news/government/medicare-for-all-supporters-parade-through-redlands/article_050478f0-f37b-11ea-b745-2f37cb40cf78.html
Progressives and Muslims make common cause on social justice issues, including “health equity” (Medicare-for-All). #RedGreenAxis
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/03/medicare-all-advocate-finds-universal-healthcare-mandates-islam
Medicare is broke - Medicare-for-All, are you kidding?
https://spectator.org/medicare-for-all-the-country-can-barely-afford-funding-medicare-now/
Public option unaffordable, could push private insurance out of the marketplace
https://jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/2020/09/the-public-option-a-new-unaffordable-government-controlled-health-insurance-system/
Book argues socialized medicine is the linchpin of an authoritarian state, leading to draconian control over the individual and euthanasia
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H56CGC6?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
Britain advised DNR orders (“Do Not Resuscitate”) be placed on all nursing home resident at the height of the pandemic to free up hospital beds. #MentalityOfScarcity
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/31/british-government-had-nursing-homes-put-dnr-orders-on-all-residents-during-coronavirus/
Let’s suppose you believe there’s ‘systemic racism’ in the VA hospital system and you like #SinglePayer. Do you really want a situation where healthcare is doled out to you based on your skin color and you have nowhere else to go?
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/the-vas-problem-with-systemic-racism/
Progressives Afraid Trump Will Revive #SinglePayer Talk as October Surprise
Progressives Afraid Trump Will Revive #SinglePayer Talk as October Surprise
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/08/trump-biden-and-possible-october-single-payer-surprise
Advocates in Michigan, Massachusetts, and California still pushing for #SinglePayer
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/09/michigan-democratic-party-embraces-single-payer-health-care-after-dnc-rejection.html
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https://www.recorder.com/Comerford-part-of-Tuesday-panel-on-single-payer-health-care-36169612
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https://www.redlandscommunitynews.com/news/government/medicare-for-all-supporters-parade-through-redlands/article_050478f0-f37b-11ea-b745-2f37cb40cf78.html
Progressives and Muslims make common cause on social justice issues, including “health equity” (Medicare-for-All). #RedGreenAxis
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/03/medicare-all-advocate-finds-universal-healthcare-mandates-islam
Medicare is broke - Medicare-for-All, are you kidding?
https://spectator.org/medicare-for-all-the-country-can-barely-afford-funding-medicare-now/
Public option unaffordable, could push private insurance out of the marketplace
https://jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/2020/09/the-public-option-a-new-unaffordable-government-controlled-health-insurance-system/
Book argues socialized medicine is the linchpin of an authoritarian state, leading to draconian control over the individual and euthanasia
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H56CGC6?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
Britain advised DNR orders (“Do Not Resuscitate”) be placed on all nursing home resident at the height of the pandemic to free up hospital beds. #MentalityOfScarcity
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/31/british-government-had-nursing-homes-put-dnr-orders-on-all-residents-during-coronavirus/
Let’s suppose you believe there’s ‘systemic racism’ in the VA hospital system and you like #SinglePayer. Do you really want a situation where healthcare is doled out to you based on your skin color and you have nowhere else to go?
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/the-vas-problem-with-systemic-racism/
August 31, 2020
The Lipstick Will Stay on the Pig for Only So Long
#SinglePayer is still government-run medicine with its rigid and inflexible bureaucracy, rationing, and loss of personal control over decisionmaking
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/before-you-support-a-single-payer-health-care-plan-look-again-at-how-government-responds-to-covid
#SinglePayer - even the slow way through a public option or beefing up Obamacare - means higher costs and fewer choices. Because government is the problem, not the solution.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/26/medicare-for-all-is-still-a-threat/
Dems cagey about healthcare at their convention but, make no mistake, the public option would inexorably lead to #SinglePayer (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/08/28/a-look-at-the-democrats-not-so-moderate-healthcare-platform/#40cc99cf2a95
Small business owners can’t afford #SinglePayer or even a public option
https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/montana-s-small-businesses-cannot-afford-medicare-for-all-or-the-public-option/article_90cc88c6-9f82-5eb6-886d-b93ee546a14f.html
Teddy Kennedy’s biggest regret was holding out for #SinglePayer and not working with Nixon to expand subsidies for private health insurance
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/08/25/public-option-obamacare-rich-barlow
Antidote to #SinglePayer - Montana reference-based pricing insurance model has kept lid on prices, produced pay raises for state employees, and improved the state’s financial position
https://thebrunswicknews.com/opinion/editorial_columns/hard-to-have-a-health-care-market-without-knowing-costs/article_769d60fd-425e-53b8-a05e-a0d129e43f1d.html
The Lipstick Will Stay on the Pig for Only So Long
#SinglePayer is still government-run medicine with its rigid and inflexible bureaucracy, rationing, and loss of personal control over decisionmaking
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/before-you-support-a-single-payer-health-care-plan-look-again-at-how-government-responds-to-covid
#SinglePayer - even the slow way through a public option or beefing up Obamacare - means higher costs and fewer choices. Because government is the problem, not the solution.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/26/medicare-for-all-is-still-a-threat/
Dems cagey about healthcare at their convention but, make no mistake, the public option would inexorably lead to #SinglePayer (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/08/28/a-look-at-the-democrats-not-so-moderate-healthcare-platform/#40cc99cf2a95
Small business owners can’t afford #SinglePayer or even a public option
https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/montana-s-small-businesses-cannot-afford-medicare-for-all-or-the-public-option/article_90cc88c6-9f82-5eb6-886d-b93ee546a14f.html
Teddy Kennedy’s biggest regret was holding out for #SinglePayer and not working with Nixon to expand subsidies for private health insurance
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/08/25/public-option-obamacare-rich-barlow
Antidote to #SinglePayer - Montana reference-based pricing insurance model has kept lid on prices, produced pay raises for state employees, and improved the state’s financial position
https://thebrunswicknews.com/opinion/editorial_columns/hard-to-have-a-health-care-market-without-knowing-costs/article_769d60fd-425e-53b8-a05e-a0d129e43f1d.html
August 24, 2020
Wherever Biden is Headed, It’s to the Left on Healthcare
Target moving again - Joe Biden appears to endorse #SinglePayer ‘free healthcare’ in interview: “There’s no reason why we can’t have all of that.”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/17/joe-biden-appears-to-support-socialized-medicine-free-government-run-health-care/
More on Biden’s plans to goose the ACA with public option, expanded subsidies, price controls on drugs
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/biden-if-elected-plans-to-put-obamacare-on-steroids/
Progressive activists mobilizing to push a Biden administration left on healthcare, put #SinglePayer advocates in office
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/biden-progressives-left-no-honeymoon-395778
GOP Doctors Caucus in the House - opponents of #SinglePayer - undergoing leadership changes
https://about.bgov.com/news/gop-doctors-in-the-house-push-for-vaccine-dismiss-single-payer/
Canadian #SinglePayer is death-by-waiting - by the time you get your colonoscopy or scan, it’ll be too late; Canada only has 38 percent as many CT machines per capita as the United States (Sally Pipes)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/canadian-single-payer-health-care-system-slow-inefficient/
Wherever Biden is Headed, It’s to the Left on Healthcare
Target moving again - Joe Biden appears to endorse #SinglePayer ‘free healthcare’ in interview: “There’s no reason why we can’t have all of that.”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/17/joe-biden-appears-to-support-socialized-medicine-free-government-run-health-care/
More on Biden’s plans to goose the ACA with public option, expanded subsidies, price controls on drugs
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/biden-if-elected-plans-to-put-obamacare-on-steroids/
Progressive activists mobilizing to push a Biden administration left on healthcare, put #SinglePayer advocates in office
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/biden-progressives-left-no-honeymoon-395778
GOP Doctors Caucus in the House - opponents of #SinglePayer - undergoing leadership changes
https://about.bgov.com/news/gop-doctors-in-the-house-push-for-vaccine-dismiss-single-payer/
Canadian #SinglePayer is death-by-waiting - by the time you get your colonoscopy or scan, it’ll be too late; Canada only has 38 percent as many CT machines per capita as the United States (Sally Pipes)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/canadian-single-payer-health-care-system-slow-inefficient/
August 17, 2020
The Excruciating Beauty of Kamala Harris’ Contradictory Healthcare Positions
Is Kamala Harris for private insurance or against private insurance? The answer is yes.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/weekly-checkup/the-harris-pick-and-health-policy/
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1293372777244786690
Kamala Harris co-sponsored Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All bill and introduced her own, but there she is, running on a ‘public option’ ticket
https://www.pacificresearch.org/kamala-harriss-harrowing-healthcare-history/
Kamala Harris pick is a boost to Biden’s ‘Medicare at 60’ plan; the 55-year-old Harris can speak to the target market
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/08/13/how-kamala-harris-boosts-bidens-medicare-at-60-plan/#2b31d1f76a26
Civil war looms in the Democratic Party if it wins the presidency and both Houses of Congress - go slow and put points on the board vs. Progressives running flat-out for #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/511909-battle-looms-over-biden-health-care-plan-if-democrats-win-big
It will be the ACA co-op flops on steroids if public option becomes law; would be administered by CMS which knows nothing about the health insurance business
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200812.105438/full/
Single Payer will be wonderful, right? Well, no. “Canadian Father Dies Due To Covid-19 Delays For Single-Payer Elective Surgeries”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/08/17/covid-is-revealing-the-rotten-core-of-single-payer/#14670a927c32
COVID mortality hits minorities and the poor the hardest in.... #SinglePayer France. So much for #SinglePayer giving everyone equal access to healthcare and guaranteeing to wipe out disparities in health outcomes. So take off the rose-colored glasses and #GetReal
https://apnews.com/0c3f1ae72ca05f66f4916d28f0962a87
The Excruciating Beauty of Kamala Harris’ Contradictory Healthcare Positions
Is Kamala Harris for private insurance or against private insurance? The answer is yes.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/weekly-checkup/the-harris-pick-and-health-policy/
- Kamala raised her hand at the debate to abolish private insurance, then walked it back the next day. Just one of her many flip-flops on healthcare
https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/08/kamala-harris-has-had-some-difficulty.html
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1293372777244786690
Kamala Harris co-sponsored Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All bill and introduced her own, but there she is, running on a ‘public option’ ticket
https://www.pacificresearch.org/kamala-harriss-harrowing-healthcare-history/
Kamala Harris pick is a boost to Biden’s ‘Medicare at 60’ plan; the 55-year-old Harris can speak to the target market
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/08/13/how-kamala-harris-boosts-bidens-medicare-at-60-plan/#2b31d1f76a26
Civil war looms in the Democratic Party if it wins the presidency and both Houses of Congress - go slow and put points on the board vs. Progressives running flat-out for #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/511909-battle-looms-over-biden-health-care-plan-if-democrats-win-big
It will be the ACA co-op flops on steroids if public option becomes law; would be administered by CMS which knows nothing about the health insurance business
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200812.105438/full/
Single Payer will be wonderful, right? Well, no. “Canadian Father Dies Due To Covid-19 Delays For Single-Payer Elective Surgeries”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/08/17/covid-is-revealing-the-rotten-core-of-single-payer/#14670a927c32
COVID mortality hits minorities and the poor the hardest in.... #SinglePayer France. So much for #SinglePayer giving everyone equal access to healthcare and guaranteeing to wipe out disparities in health outcomes. So take off the rose-colored glasses and #GetReal
https://apnews.com/0c3f1ae72ca05f66f4916d28f0962a87
August 10, 2020
Public Option Fails Reality Test
Washington state mugged by reality as public option fails to reduce healthcare premiums; public option plans cost 5 percent more than Obamacare
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/public-option-experiment-faces-obstacle-as-premiums-dont-drop
Hawaii state senator who supports Medicare for All wins Democratic primary to replace Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/08/09/hawaii-democrats-tap-kai-kahele-for-tulsi-gabbards-house-seat/
Bernie proposes #EatTheRich billionaire wealth tax to pay for out-of-pocket health-care expenses for all Americans for ONE year. #EatTheSeedCorn
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/socialist-bernie-sanders-proposes-60-percent-wealth-tax-billionaires-fund-healthcare-one-year/
Please deliver us from genius masterminds. This one wants PHO-based ‘single system solution’ because competition supposedly increases costs, capitated rates won’t encourage providers to cut corners, and price-fixing will cure all ills. Oh, but this one is unbelievably smarter than the genius masterminds who brought us Obamacare, causing millions to lose their doctors and their plans.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-team-solution-healthcare.html
Leftists believe the darndest things - like ‘Medicare for All’ will save trillions. Sure. Maybe on paper, if you don’t count half the costs, like collecting taxes, or pensions for all the new bureaucrats who will be processing claims.
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/08/08/democracy-now-medicare-for-all-a-prescription-against-deadly-covid-19-capitalism/
Public Option Fails Reality Test
Washington state mugged by reality as public option fails to reduce healthcare premiums; public option plans cost 5 percent more than Obamacare
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/public-option-experiment-faces-obstacle-as-premiums-dont-drop
Hawaii state senator who supports Medicare for All wins Democratic primary to replace Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/08/09/hawaii-democrats-tap-kai-kahele-for-tulsi-gabbards-house-seat/
Bernie proposes #EatTheRich billionaire wealth tax to pay for out-of-pocket health-care expenses for all Americans for ONE year. #EatTheSeedCorn
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/socialist-bernie-sanders-proposes-60-percent-wealth-tax-billionaires-fund-healthcare-one-year/
Please deliver us from genius masterminds. This one wants PHO-based ‘single system solution’ because competition supposedly increases costs, capitated rates won’t encourage providers to cut corners, and price-fixing will cure all ills. Oh, but this one is unbelievably smarter than the genius masterminds who brought us Obamacare, causing millions to lose their doctors and their plans.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-team-solution-healthcare.html
Leftists believe the darndest things - like ‘Medicare for All’ will save trillions. Sure. Maybe on paper, if you don’t count half the costs, like collecting taxes, or pensions for all the new bureaucrats who will be processing claims.
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/08/08/democracy-now-medicare-for-all-a-prescription-against-deadly-covid-19-capitalism/
August 3, 2020
DNC platform committee rejects Medicare for All
DNC platform committee rejects Medicare for All
https://augustafreepress.com/dnc-rejects-medicare-for-all-and-youre-surprised/
It makes no sense to replace employer and private insurance entirely with Medicare for All just to address the relative handful who have lost employer coverage in the pandemic; for them, there is COBRA, Obamacare, and short duration insurance (Sally Pipes)
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/sally-pipes-dems-use-coronavirus-to-push-medicare-for-all-but-their-ploy-is-based-on-bad-information/
Military healthcare provider TRICARE inaccurately tells 600,000 vets and dependents they were infected with coronavirus, apologizes for the mistake. Big oops, but that’s what you get with #GovernmentRunMedicine
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/military-medical-handler-tricare-claimed-600000-people-covid19-positive-when-they-werent
IG report finds VA at fault in suicide death of vet with suicidal ideation denied hospital admission. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/va-hospital-faulted-in-suicide-of-patient-who-sought-care-11595975872
Two-thirds of Sweden’s COVID deaths “have been among those over age 80, and 97% never received intensive-care treatment. Blame Sweden's socialized health system, which rationed treatment for the elderly even though ICUs were never overwhelmed.” #SinglePayerStinks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worlds-covid-resurgence-11595978652
DNC platform committee rejects Medicare for All
DNC platform committee rejects Medicare for All
https://augustafreepress.com/dnc-rejects-medicare-for-all-and-youre-surprised/
It makes no sense to replace employer and private insurance entirely with Medicare for All just to address the relative handful who have lost employer coverage in the pandemic; for them, there is COBRA, Obamacare, and short duration insurance (Sally Pipes)
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/sally-pipes-dems-use-coronavirus-to-push-medicare-for-all-but-their-ploy-is-based-on-bad-information/
Military healthcare provider TRICARE inaccurately tells 600,000 vets and dependents they were infected with coronavirus, apologizes for the mistake. Big oops, but that’s what you get with #GovernmentRunMedicine
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/military-medical-handler-tricare-claimed-600000-people-covid19-positive-when-they-werent
IG report finds VA at fault in suicide death of vet with suicidal ideation denied hospital admission. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/va-hospital-faulted-in-suicide-of-patient-who-sought-care-11595975872
Two-thirds of Sweden’s COVID deaths “have been among those over age 80, and 97% never received intensive-care treatment. Blame Sweden's socialized health system, which rationed treatment for the elderly even though ICUs were never overwhelmed.” #SinglePayerStinks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worlds-covid-resurgence-11595978652
July 27, 2020
Democratic Platform Praises Single Payer ‘Movement’ - Sandernistas Not Happy (single payer news round-up)
Democratic platform faintly praises single payer ‘movement’, but 360 Bernie delegates poised to oppose platform unless it endorses single payer for real
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-platform-medicare-for-all_n_5f189601c5b6f2f6c9f0c9b7
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/bernie-supporters-medicare-single-payer-381972
Biden-Sanders ‘unity’ proposals grease the skids for single payer with no-deductible public option, automatic enrollment, etc. (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/23/in-unity-platform-with-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-paves-way-for-socialist-medicine/
Libertarian Party presidential candidate: single payer can’t work because monopolies never work
https://www.wsaw.com/2020/07/26/libertarian-party-presidential-candidate-jo-jorgensen-campaigns-in-wisconsin/
To the Left, the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Trump’s Obamacare abortifacient rule is just more evidence why the country needs single payer
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/23/scotus-birth-control-decision-favors-medicare-all
New Jersey town council demands national single payer
http://njtoday.net/2020/07/26/red-bank-demands-national-action-on-medicare-for-all/
ICYMI - Washington state should disband its single payer exploratory committee; it’s a fool’s errand given the astronomical cost, as Vermont discovered when abandoning single payer there
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/its-time-to-disband-the-exploratory-committee-investigating-a-single-payer-health-care-system-for-washington-state
Left-wing Center for American Progress proposes ‘Medicare Extra’ to achieve universal coverage and expand abortion funding; idea is to make Medicare optional for anybody, add dental and vision coverage, etc.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/07/23/488017/medicare-extra-tool-improve-reproductive-health-care-access/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/broad-changes-still-needed-within-u-s-indian-health-service-to-prevent-more-abuse-task-force-finds-11595512801
Democratic Platform Praises Single Payer ‘Movement’ - Sandernistas Not Happy (single payer news round-up)
Democratic platform faintly praises single payer ‘movement’, but 360 Bernie delegates poised to oppose platform unless it endorses single payer for real
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-platform-medicare-for-all_n_5f189601c5b6f2f6c9f0c9b7
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/bernie-supporters-medicare-single-payer-381972
Biden-Sanders ‘unity’ proposals grease the skids for single payer with no-deductible public option, automatic enrollment, etc. (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/23/in-unity-platform-with-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-paves-way-for-socialist-medicine/
Libertarian Party presidential candidate: single payer can’t work because monopolies never work
https://www.wsaw.com/2020/07/26/libertarian-party-presidential-candidate-jo-jorgensen-campaigns-in-wisconsin/
To the Left, the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Trump’s Obamacare abortifacient rule is just more evidence why the country needs single payer
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/23/scotus-birth-control-decision-favors-medicare-all
New Jersey town council demands national single payer
http://njtoday.net/2020/07/26/red-bank-demands-national-action-on-medicare-for-all/
ICYMI - Washington state should disband its single payer exploratory committee; it’s a fool’s errand given the astronomical cost, as Vermont discovered when abandoning single payer there
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/its-time-to-disband-the-exploratory-committee-investigating-a-single-payer-health-care-system-for-washington-state
Left-wing Center for American Progress proposes ‘Medicare Extra’ to achieve universal coverage and expand abortion funding; idea is to make Medicare optional for anybody, add dental and vision coverage, etc.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/07/23/488017/medicare-extra-tool-improve-reproductive-health-care-access/
- It’s crazy to talk about expanding Medicare when Medicare is going broke and everybody knows it
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/21/893321220/another-problem-on-the-health-horizon-medicare-is-running-out-of-money
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https://khn.org/morning-breakout/impending-insolvency-of-medicare-may-hit-sooner-due-to-pandemic/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/broad-changes-still-needed-within-u-s-indian-health-service-to-prevent-more-abuse-task-force-finds-11595512801
July 20, 2020
Don’t Go to Sleep on Single Payer Just Yet
Biden public option moving closer to #SinglePayer under pressure from Progressives - “It is now a ‘no-premium, no-deductible plan’ for families making roughly $52,000 or less”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-progressives-are-moving-Biden-left-on-15417077.php
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-sanders-aoc-progressives-sally-pipes
“The Biden-Sanders unity task force has proposed automatically expanding health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic and all future public health crises.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/13/21323294/coronavirus-democrats-health-care-coverage
Insurers on a Biden White House: Medicaid expansion - yum. Public option - yuk.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/07/19/as-trump-sinks-health-insurers-prep-for-a-biden-white-house/#1ce984955f13
The #SinglePayer fantasy is alive and kicking in New York:
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/former-kaiser-ceo-george-halvorson-promotes-universal-healthcare-through-medical-advantage-all
Doctor flips, now supports Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/507348-how-i-changed-my-mind-on-medicare-for-all
#SinglePayer isn’t enough, Progressives say, and so the drumbeat starts to eliminate all economic and racial disparities in healthcare
https://www.laprogressive.com/us-healthcare-med-equality-for-all/
Progressive authors admit #SinglePayer will coerce people who don’t need insurance to pay for it and will have to rely on cost controls to cut the incomes of providers for the numbers to add up (p21)
https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publications/HCN-2020/July20HCN%20vweb.pdf
“Former nursing assistant in W.Va. hospital confesses to killing 7 veterans” #RealSinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-nursing-assistant-at-va-hospital-in-west-virginia-to-plead-guilty-in-deaths-of-seven-veterans/2020/07/14/5503359e-c5cc-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html
Don’t Go to Sleep on Single Payer Just Yet
Biden public option moving closer to #SinglePayer under pressure from Progressives - “It is now a ‘no-premium, no-deductible plan’ for families making roughly $52,000 or less”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-progressives-are-moving-Biden-left-on-15417077.php
+ Sally Pipes:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-sanders-aoc-progressives-sally-pipes
“The Biden-Sanders unity task force has proposed automatically expanding health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic and all future public health crises.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/13/21323294/coronavirus-democrats-health-care-coverage
Insurers on a Biden White House: Medicaid expansion - yum. Public option - yuk.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/07/19/as-trump-sinks-health-insurers-prep-for-a-biden-white-house/#1ce984955f13
The #SinglePayer fantasy is alive and kicking in New York:
- “there is a renewed push in New York for the passage of the New York Health Act (NYHA). This is a Medicare for All system for New Yorkers”
https://www.longislandpress.com/2020/07/19/now-is-the-time-for-the-ny-health-act/ - Leftist who campaigned on #SinglePayer unseats 16-term incumbent in New York congressional primary
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/07/17/engel-ousted-in-new-york-primary-after-lengthy-vote-count-1301742 - Majority of Easthampton City Council in New York backs #SinglePayer candidate for Congress
https://www.gazettenet.com/Morse-endorsed-by-majority-of-Easthampton-City-Council-members-35232542 - #SinglePayer supporter wins Democratic House primary in NYC northern suburbs
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/mondaire-jones-house-primary.html
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/former-kaiser-ceo-george-halvorson-promotes-universal-healthcare-through-medical-advantage-all
Doctor flips, now supports Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/507348-how-i-changed-my-mind-on-medicare-for-all
#SinglePayer isn’t enough, Progressives say, and so the drumbeat starts to eliminate all economic and racial disparities in healthcare
https://www.laprogressive.com/us-healthcare-med-equality-for-all/
Progressive authors admit #SinglePayer will coerce people who don’t need insurance to pay for it and will have to rely on cost controls to cut the incomes of providers for the numbers to add up (p21)
https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publications/HCN-2020/July20HCN%20vweb.pdf
“Former nursing assistant in W.Va. hospital confesses to killing 7 veterans” #RealSinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-nursing-assistant-at-va-hospital-in-west-virginia-to-plead-guilty-in-deaths-of-seven-veterans/2020/07/14/5503359e-c5cc-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html
June 22, 2020
‘Moderate’ Joe Biden Has Surrounded Himself with Radical Healthcare Advisors
‘Moderate’ Joe Biden Has Surrounded Himself with Radical Healthcare Advisors (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/06/22/bidens-mask-of-moderation-has-finally-slipped/#78ca7d3a7f51
Medicare for All Congressional Caucus online discussion offers same old blah-blah - healthcare is a human right, America spends twice as much (not true), yada yada yada
https://www.michigandaily.com/section/government/dingell-and-panel-discuss-need-medicare-all
Poor deluded Zeke thinks more government centralization and control over healthcare is the way to go but, don’t worry, you’ll still have a ‘choice’
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ezekiel-emanuels-convoluted-single-payer-health-insurance-scheme/
Group of doctors and other providers wants #SinglePayer to wrest obscene profits away from insurance companies but, you’ll notice, they don’t offer to cut their own obscene pay
https://riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-ed-healthcare-providers-of-ny-17-for-medicare-for-all/20510/
Group of doctors and other providers asserts #SinglePayer would solve narrow networks problem, but Obamacare caused that problem and they’re assuming doctors would stay in practice when their pay is slashed
https://riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-ed-healthcare-providers-of-ny-17-for-medicare-for-all/20510/
The COVID antics of the so-called public health ‘experts’ - the virus goes to large gatherings but not left-wing protest marches - show what will happen if #SinglePayer politicizes all of healthcare (Betsy McCaughey)
https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/public-health-professionals-keep-showing-how-unprofessional-they-really-are/
Steve Forbes proposes getting to universal health coverage by expanding Medicare Advantage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2020/06/11/medicare-advantage-for-all-can-save-our-health-care-system/#6adb18014d12
Op-edder proposes undoing Medicare Advantage as first step to #SinglePayer
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/06/15/douglas-rooks-how-to-get-to-medicare-for-all/
‘Moderate’ Joe Biden Has Surrounded Himself with Radical Healthcare Advisors
‘Moderate’ Joe Biden Has Surrounded Himself with Radical Healthcare Advisors (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/06/22/bidens-mask-of-moderation-has-finally-slipped/#78ca7d3a7f51
Medicare for All Congressional Caucus online discussion offers same old blah-blah - healthcare is a human right, America spends twice as much (not true), yada yada yada
https://www.michigandaily.com/section/government/dingell-and-panel-discuss-need-medicare-all
Poor deluded Zeke thinks more government centralization and control over healthcare is the way to go but, don’t worry, you’ll still have a ‘choice’
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ezekiel-emanuels-convoluted-single-payer-health-insurance-scheme/
Group of doctors and other providers wants #SinglePayer to wrest obscene profits away from insurance companies but, you’ll notice, they don’t offer to cut their own obscene pay
https://riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-ed-healthcare-providers-of-ny-17-for-medicare-for-all/20510/
Group of doctors and other providers asserts #SinglePayer would solve narrow networks problem, but Obamacare caused that problem and they’re assuming doctors would stay in practice when their pay is slashed
https://riverjournalonline.com/letters/op-ed-healthcare-providers-of-ny-17-for-medicare-for-all/20510/
The COVID antics of the so-called public health ‘experts’ - the virus goes to large gatherings but not left-wing protest marches - show what will happen if #SinglePayer politicizes all of healthcare (Betsy McCaughey)
https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/public-health-professionals-keep-showing-how-unprofessional-they-really-are/
Steve Forbes proposes getting to universal health coverage by expanding Medicare Advantage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2020/06/11/medicare-advantage-for-all-can-save-our-health-care-system/#6adb18014d12
Op-edder proposes undoing Medicare Advantage as first step to #SinglePayer
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/06/15/douglas-rooks-how-to-get-to-medicare-for-all/
June 8, 2020
The Hardest Choices in Life are Between Nirvana and Bliss
Medicare for All would be nirvana. No, make that bliss. No, forget all that and go straight to utopia! Cheerleader article fans discontent with the current system, but does not say one word about the problems #SinglePayer would create.
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/commentary/sanders-proposed-medicare-for-all-would-cover-care-beyond-covid-says-dan-brook/article_51a5f467-3bb7-5fdf-82e8-bc1d5f411240.html
Bernie’s Medicare for All would lead to overuse and rationing, but Laurence Kotlikoff’s “Competitive Medicare for All” would properly align all incentives and usher in healthcare bliss
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2020/06/05/competitive-medicare-for-all---its-time-has-come/#65fedbb06091
https://www.businessinsider.com/ezekiel-emanuel-healthcare-plan-to-replace-aca-with-medicare-2020-6
Poll: Pandemic not moving the needle on desire for big changes to healthcare system. #BlissFatigue
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/08/us/politics/ap-us-ap-poll-health-care.html
Consultants preliminarily find $7 billion shortfall in New Mexico #SinglePayer plan despite assumed cost reductions; employers, patients, and providers would all have to be gouged to make up the difference.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/new-mexico-studies-single-payer-care-amid-pandemic
Biden Medicare buy-in plan for ages 60-64 getting more attention as the COVID jobless lose employer coverage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/05/31/bidens-medicare-at-60-gains-momentum-in-coronavirus-era/#252e6f2849eb
#NeverWasteAGoodCrisis - Progressive newspaper calls for #SinglePayer in New York in midst of pandemic; casually mentions a new payroll tax would be needed, but conveniently forgets to say how big it would have to be (a new 11 percent payroll tax sank the #SinglePayer proposal in Vermont)
https://indypendent.org/2020/06/now-is-the-time-to-pass-the-new-york-health-act/
The Hardest Choices in Life are Between Nirvana and Bliss
Medicare for All would be nirvana. No, make that bliss. No, forget all that and go straight to utopia! Cheerleader article fans discontent with the current system, but does not say one word about the problems #SinglePayer would create.
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/commentary/sanders-proposed-medicare-for-all-would-cover-care-beyond-covid-says-dan-brook/article_51a5f467-3bb7-5fdf-82e8-bc1d5f411240.html
Bernie’s Medicare for All would lead to overuse and rationing, but Laurence Kotlikoff’s “Competitive Medicare for All” would properly align all incentives and usher in healthcare bliss
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2020/06/05/competitive-medicare-for-all---its-time-has-come/#65fedbb06091
- Have I lived too long when all I want to know are the problems whiz-bang proposals like this are going to create and how I’m going to get shafted?
https://www.businessinsider.com/ezekiel-emanuel-healthcare-plan-to-replace-aca-with-medicare-2020-6
Poll: Pandemic not moving the needle on desire for big changes to healthcare system. #BlissFatigue
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/08/us/politics/ap-us-ap-poll-health-care.html
Consultants preliminarily find $7 billion shortfall in New Mexico #SinglePayer plan despite assumed cost reductions; employers, patients, and providers would all have to be gouged to make up the difference.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/new-mexico-studies-single-payer-care-amid-pandemic
Biden Medicare buy-in plan for ages 60-64 getting more attention as the COVID jobless lose employer coverage
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/05/31/bidens-medicare-at-60-gains-momentum-in-coronavirus-era/#252e6f2849eb
#NeverWasteAGoodCrisis - Progressive newspaper calls for #SinglePayer in New York in midst of pandemic; casually mentions a new payroll tax would be needed, but conveniently forgets to say how big it would have to be (a new 11 percent payroll tax sank the #SinglePayer proposal in Vermont)
https://indypendent.org/2020/06/now-is-the-time-to-pass-the-new-york-health-act/
May 26, 2020
Biden Healthcare Policy Task Force Tilts Left
Rep. Jayapal, other hair-on-fire #SinglePayer pushers appointed to Biden’s healthcare policy task force
https://prospect.org/politics/bidens-new-pressure-from-progressives/
Tigress Elizabeth Warren turns into kitty-cat on #SinglePayer, signaling she wants to be Biden’s VP pick
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/warren-vice-president-271938
Here are the lies - ahem ‘talking points’ - Dems are using to sell Medicare for All in red states - you can keep your doctor (not if low reimbursement forces them out of business), your providers will be private not government (in name only), your coverage will be better (try tell that to unions and government workers), and you will pay less (studies show most people will pay more).
https://times-herald.com/news/2020/05/democrats-on-selling-medicare-for-all-in-georgia-texas-and-red-states
Communist-tied PNHP doctors group demands American Hospital Association leave coalition fighting #SinglePayer
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/21/doctors-group-demands-american-hospital-association-leave-anti-single-payer-dark
Trump campaign tweet series: “Joe Biden’s government-run health care proposal would slash payments to hospitals, costing them billions.”
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539793440448513
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539795789307905
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539794996531200
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539794212270087
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539790873604096
Colorado lawmakers drop push for public option (government-run insurance) plan for now
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/05/26/colorado-gets-a-reprieve-from-the-public-option-all-americans-should-be-so-lucky/#ef844ae37377
Washington state hems and haws on start date for public option; hospitals facing pay cuts are pushing back and low pay is also the reason provider networks are not getting built
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/washington-states-public-option-launch-is-uncertain
Even left-leaning Brookings can see through the hype that #SinglePayer would supposedly save oodles of money - “cost reduction would likely be smaller than some envision, especially in the price area because of the need for a long process to gradually allow providers to adjust to lower prices”
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/commentary-on-health-spending-under-single-payer-approaches/
British pols congratulate foreign NHS COVID hero workers, but oppose bill to exempt non-EU migrants from UK health immigration surcharge. Why? Because, well, the NHS needs the money. #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52754903
Biden Healthcare Policy Task Force Tilts Left
Rep. Jayapal, other hair-on-fire #SinglePayer pushers appointed to Biden’s healthcare policy task force
https://prospect.org/politics/bidens-new-pressure-from-progressives/
Tigress Elizabeth Warren turns into kitty-cat on #SinglePayer, signaling she wants to be Biden’s VP pick
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/warren-vice-president-271938
Here are the lies - ahem ‘talking points’ - Dems are using to sell Medicare for All in red states - you can keep your doctor (not if low reimbursement forces them out of business), your providers will be private not government (in name only), your coverage will be better (try tell that to unions and government workers), and you will pay less (studies show most people will pay more).
https://times-herald.com/news/2020/05/democrats-on-selling-medicare-for-all-in-georgia-texas-and-red-states
Communist-tied PNHP doctors group demands American Hospital Association leave coalition fighting #SinglePayer
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/05/21/doctors-group-demands-american-hospital-association-leave-anti-single-payer-dark
Trump campaign tweet series: “Joe Biden’s government-run health care proposal would slash payments to hospitals, costing them billions.”
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539793440448513
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539795789307905
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539794996531200
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539794212270087
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1263539790873604096
Colorado lawmakers drop push for public option (government-run insurance) plan for now
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/05/26/colorado-gets-a-reprieve-from-the-public-option-all-americans-should-be-so-lucky/#ef844ae37377
Washington state hems and haws on start date for public option; hospitals facing pay cuts are pushing back and low pay is also the reason provider networks are not getting built
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/washington-states-public-option-launch-is-uncertain
Even left-leaning Brookings can see through the hype that #SinglePayer would supposedly save oodles of money - “cost reduction would likely be smaller than some envision, especially in the price area because of the need for a long process to gradually allow providers to adjust to lower prices”
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/commentary-on-health-spending-under-single-payer-approaches/
British pols congratulate foreign NHS COVID hero workers, but oppose bill to exempt non-EU migrants from UK health immigration surcharge. Why? Because, well, the NHS needs the money. #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52754903
May 11, 2020
The Left Never Sleeps
Left-wing National Nurses United exploiting pandemic to push Medicare for All
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/nurses-union-using-coronavirus-chaos-to-promote-medicare-for-all
Sanders remnant forms PAC to promote Medicare for All, other left-wing causes
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/06/movement-still-here-sanders-allies-chart-next-steps-fight-medicare-all-green-new
New Orleans City Council passes unanimous resolution supporting Medicare for All; Bernie ecstatic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/08/huge-moment-movement-new-orleans-city-council-unanimously-backs-medicare-all
Canadian Leftist: “We need universal housing.... Like health care, housing is a right.” By your logic, is there anything that’s NOT a ‘right’? And, oh by the way, Canada’s Supreme Court has explicitly ruled healthcare is NOT a right; you don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/11/opinion/health-care-housing-right
Unusual alliance (employers, unions, healthcare industry, and Democrats) moving to shore up employer-based insurance to stave off #SinglePayer
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/washington-groups-fight-for-bailout-employee-health-insurance-215981
Study: incentive structure in government-run medicine inexorably leads to “expensive, poor quality, health care that is unresponsive to patient needs” (Linda Gorman)
https://i2i.org/evaluating-health-care-reform-proposals-a-primer/
The Left Never Sleeps
Left-wing National Nurses United exploiting pandemic to push Medicare for All
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/nurses-union-using-coronavirus-chaos-to-promote-medicare-for-all
Sanders remnant forms PAC to promote Medicare for All, other left-wing causes
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/06/movement-still-here-sanders-allies-chart-next-steps-fight-medicare-all-green-new
New Orleans City Council passes unanimous resolution supporting Medicare for All; Bernie ecstatic
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/08/huge-moment-movement-new-orleans-city-council-unanimously-backs-medicare-all
Canadian Leftist: “We need universal housing.... Like health care, housing is a right.” By your logic, is there anything that’s NOT a ‘right’? And, oh by the way, Canada’s Supreme Court has explicitly ruled healthcare is NOT a right; you don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/11/opinion/health-care-housing-right
Unusual alliance (employers, unions, healthcare industry, and Democrats) moving to shore up employer-based insurance to stave off #SinglePayer
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/washington-groups-fight-for-bailout-employee-health-insurance-215981
Study: incentive structure in government-run medicine inexorably leads to “expensive, poor quality, health care that is unresponsive to patient needs” (Linda Gorman)
https://i2i.org/evaluating-health-care-reform-proposals-a-primer/
April 27, 2020
U.S. sending ventilators to #SinglePayer France, Italy, Spain
U.S. sending ventilators to #SinglePayer France, Italy, Spain
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-cheers-americas-production-of-ventilators-sending-them-to-other-countries-hit-hard-by
“New Poll Shows Nearly 90 Percent of Democratic Voters Support Medicare for All”
https://truthout.org/articles/new-poll-shows-nearly-90-percent-of-democrat-voters-support-medicare-for-all/
Biden’s ‘public option’ - higher costs, slow road to #SinglePayer, death spiral for private insurance
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/justin-haskins-bidens-health-care-plan-heres-how-its-just-as-radical-and-dangerous-as-bernies/
Medicaid provisions in pandemic relief bill suspend eligibility checks; if the emergency declaration Is left in place and no one is disenrolled during an entire Biden presidency, the nation would be that much closer to #SinglePayer (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/27/how-congress-coronavirus-legislation-could-pay-millionaires-bills-with-medicaid/
Hospital bankruptcies under #SinglePayer one reason why Medicare for All would not have been able to handle the pandemic better (Sally Pipes)
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/sally-pipes-coronavirus-fight-would-medicare-for-all-have-improved-us-response-to-covid-19/
“The Economic Case against Medicare for All”
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2020/04/21/jay-bhattacharya/economic-case-against-medicare-all
Webinar - Tues 4/28 2 p.m., Heritage will host a webinar on why more government control in health care is not the answer. Featured speakers include Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of "False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All,” and Robert E. Moffit, a senior research fellow in Heritage’s Health Policy Center. Register for the webinar.
U.S. sending ventilators to #SinglePayer France, Italy, Spain
U.S. sending ventilators to #SinglePayer France, Italy, Spain
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-cheers-americas-production-of-ventilators-sending-them-to-other-countries-hit-hard-by
“New Poll Shows Nearly 90 Percent of Democratic Voters Support Medicare for All”
https://truthout.org/articles/new-poll-shows-nearly-90-percent-of-democrat-voters-support-medicare-for-all/
Biden’s ‘public option’ - higher costs, slow road to #SinglePayer, death spiral for private insurance
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/justin-haskins-bidens-health-care-plan-heres-how-its-just-as-radical-and-dangerous-as-bernies/
Medicaid provisions in pandemic relief bill suspend eligibility checks; if the emergency declaration Is left in place and no one is disenrolled during an entire Biden presidency, the nation would be that much closer to #SinglePayer (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/27/how-congress-coronavirus-legislation-could-pay-millionaires-bills-with-medicaid/
Hospital bankruptcies under #SinglePayer one reason why Medicare for All would not have been able to handle the pandemic better (Sally Pipes)
https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/sally-pipes-coronavirus-fight-would-medicare-for-all-have-improved-us-response-to-covid-19/
“The Economic Case against Medicare for All”
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2020/04/21/jay-bhattacharya/economic-case-against-medicare-all
Webinar - Tues 4/28 2 p.m., Heritage will host a webinar on why more government control in health care is not the answer. Featured speakers include Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of "False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All,” and Robert E. Moffit, a senior research fellow in Heritage’s Health Policy Center. Register for the webinar.
April 20, 2020
Chronically Inadequate Canadian #SinglePayer System Smashed by Pandemic
Canadian #SinglePayer experiences chronic shortages in the best of times, and simply has no capacity to handle the surge of a pandemic; the government is deregulating like mad to draw private medicine back in, but it’s too little, too late
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/15/canadas-government-run-health-care-buckles-under-covid-19/
https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/april-2020/why-not-have-medicare-all?
Russian #SinglePayer unprepared to deal with pandemic - “lacking basic personal protection equipment. Masks were in short supply. Gloves, hand sanitizer and respirators were virtually non-existent.” Only one testing lab. In the provinces, no test tubes, masks, goggles, gowns, or lab supplies; entire hospitals now under quarantine. Meanwhile, Pravda (“The Truth”) says ‘everything’s fine’. (long article, lots of telling detail)
https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/11/coronavirus-and-medicare-for-all-the-russian-version/
Medicare For All isn't the answer to coronavirus (Sally Pipes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJXxvzeVKuc
Portable HSA-funded individual insurance, not government-run medicine, is the answer to the loss of employer coverage (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/20/yes-we-should-move-away-from-employer-tied-health-insurance-but-not-into-single-payer/
“you can’t simultaneously a) argue that Medicare for All is good because it would induce more people to use coronavirus-related medical services and b) ignore that increased demand for medical services of all kinds when promising savings that can be used to improve public health.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/single-payer-and-the-coronavirus-ctd/
“Unless a single-payer healthcare system can force Americans to exercise more and eat better, it will not lower healthcare costs or improve health outcomes.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/sorry-med-students-covid-19-doesnt-justify-single-payer-healthcare/
“Boris Johnson Won't Have To Pay A Penny For His Coronavirus Care—And It's Not Because He's Prime Minister” - That’s ridiculous and deceitful. He never paid taxes? “Publicly-funded #SinglePayer” - where do you think the public funding comes from? Does it just fall out of the sky? #NoFreeLunch
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/boris-johnson-wont-have-pay-penny-his-coronavirus-care%E2%80%94and-its-not-because-hes-prime
Chronically Inadequate Canadian #SinglePayer System Smashed by Pandemic
Canadian #SinglePayer experiences chronic shortages in the best of times, and simply has no capacity to handle the surge of a pandemic; the government is deregulating like mad to draw private medicine back in, but it’s too little, too late
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/15/canadas-government-run-health-care-buckles-under-covid-19/
- It’s OK, though, because Canadians (and U.S. social justice warriors) actually like authoritarian government, even if it drives them off a cliff.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/april-2020/why-not-have-medicare-all?
Russian #SinglePayer unprepared to deal with pandemic - “lacking basic personal protection equipment. Masks were in short supply. Gloves, hand sanitizer and respirators were virtually non-existent.” Only one testing lab. In the provinces, no test tubes, masks, goggles, gowns, or lab supplies; entire hospitals now under quarantine. Meanwhile, Pravda (“The Truth”) says ‘everything’s fine’. (long article, lots of telling detail)
https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/11/coronavirus-and-medicare-for-all-the-russian-version/
Medicare For All isn't the answer to coronavirus (Sally Pipes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJXxvzeVKuc
Portable HSA-funded individual insurance, not government-run medicine, is the answer to the loss of employer coverage (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/20/yes-we-should-move-away-from-employer-tied-health-insurance-but-not-into-single-payer/
“you can’t simultaneously a) argue that Medicare for All is good because it would induce more people to use coronavirus-related medical services and b) ignore that increased demand for medical services of all kinds when promising savings that can be used to improve public health.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/single-payer-and-the-coronavirus-ctd/
“Unless a single-payer healthcare system can force Americans to exercise more and eat better, it will not lower healthcare costs or improve health outcomes.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/sorry-med-students-covid-19-doesnt-justify-single-payer-healthcare/
“Boris Johnson Won't Have To Pay A Penny For His Coronavirus Care—And It's Not Because He's Prime Minister” - That’s ridiculous and deceitful. He never paid taxes? “Publicly-funded #SinglePayer” - where do you think the public funding comes from? Does it just fall out of the sky? #NoFreeLunch
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/boris-johnson-wont-have-pay-penny-his-coronavirus-care%E2%80%94and-its-not-because-hes-prime
April 13, 2020
Bernie Exit Shows Medicare for All a Political Loser
Bernie drops out, proving Medicare for All is a political loser (for now)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/watch_live_bernie_sanders_expected_to_announce_hes_dropping_out_of_presidential_race.html
Bernie still plugging Medicare for All - ‘temporary’ emergency version for pandemic. #CamelsNose
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-coronavirus_n_5e91c9dac5b69d650629de7d
Pandemic not an argument for #SinglePayer - “the most egregious errors have actually been made by government organizations, from the FDA to the CDC to FEMA, while many of the breakthroughs that we’ve seen, such as rapid tests, potential treatments, and possible vaccines, have originated in the private sector.” #LessGovernmentPlease (Michael Tanner)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-crisis-not-argument-single-payer-health-care/
Stupid commentators can’t tell the difference between emergency COVID care funding and socialism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-trump-paying-for-coronavirus-treatment-isnt-a-slow-walk-toward-single-payer
When health insurance is tied to the job and the job vanishes, the answer is not #SinglePayer, it’s expanding HSAs and letting employees buy their own policies with the money
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pandemic-shows-danger-of-job-based-health-insurance
Colorado’s ‘public option’ massively coercive - “The government forces hospitals to offer patients a service—even if the government’s price for that service could lead them to incur financial losses—and threatens to take away their license to do business if they refuse.” Plus, it forces private insurers to become the ‘public’ option. (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/08/colorados-experiment-proves-single-payer-doesnt-offer-any-public-options/
Tweet from registered nurse a not-so-subtle hint COVID patients who support Trump should be left to die
https://summit.news/2020/04/08/registered-nurse-threatens-to-deny-trump-supporter-coronavirus-treatment/
Bernie Exit Shows Medicare for All a Political Loser
Bernie drops out, proving Medicare for All is a political loser (for now)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/watch_live_bernie_sanders_expected_to_announce_hes_dropping_out_of_presidential_race.html
Bernie still plugging Medicare for All - ‘temporary’ emergency version for pandemic. #CamelsNose
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-coronavirus_n_5e91c9dac5b69d650629de7d
Pandemic not an argument for #SinglePayer - “the most egregious errors have actually been made by government organizations, from the FDA to the CDC to FEMA, while many of the breakthroughs that we’ve seen, such as rapid tests, potential treatments, and possible vaccines, have originated in the private sector.” #LessGovernmentPlease (Michael Tanner)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-crisis-not-argument-single-payer-health-care/
Stupid commentators can’t tell the difference between emergency COVID care funding and socialism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-trump-paying-for-coronavirus-treatment-isnt-a-slow-walk-toward-single-payer
When health insurance is tied to the job and the job vanishes, the answer is not #SinglePayer, it’s expanding HSAs and letting employees buy their own policies with the money
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pandemic-shows-danger-of-job-based-health-insurance
Colorado’s ‘public option’ massively coercive - “The government forces hospitals to offer patients a service—even if the government’s price for that service could lead them to incur financial losses—and threatens to take away their license to do business if they refuse.” Plus, it forces private insurers to become the ‘public’ option. (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/08/colorados-experiment-proves-single-payer-doesnt-offer-any-public-options/
Tweet from registered nurse a not-so-subtle hint COVID patients who support Trump should be left to die
https://summit.news/2020/04/08/registered-nurse-threatens-to-deny-trump-supporter-coronavirus-treatment/
- This is a perfect example of why we don’t want #SinglePayer - it will get politicized, you won’t get care if you’re on the political outs, and you won’t have any alternative.
April 6, 2020
U.S. outperforming #SinglePayer countries in coronavirus statistics
U.S. outperforming #SinglePayer countries in coronavirus statistics - death rate, death as percentage of population, confirmed cases per 100,000 people, and preparation for pandemic
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/03/27/covid-19-is-killing-the-case-for-socialized-medicine/
“MSNBC Wrongly Hints UK's NHS Handling COVID-19 Better Than U.S.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2020/04/04/msnbc-wrongly-hints-uks-nhs-handling-covid-19-better-us
“Joe Biden rejects Medicare for all, says it wouldn’t have slowed coronavirus spread”
https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/joe-biden-again-rejects-medicare-for-all-despite-coronavirus-crisis/
“No, We Wouldn’t Be Better Off Fighting Coronavirus If We Had Medicare For All”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/no-we-wouldnt-be-better-off-fighting-coronavirus-if-we-had-medicare-for-all/
Support for Medicare for All rising amid pandemic
https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/01/medicare-for-all-coronavirus-pandemic/
Plenty of government screw-ups cascaded through this crisis - including the institutional arrogance of the CDC (FDA staffer said CDC lab should be shut down because it isn’t sterile). And you want the government to take over all healthcare? You’re crazy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true
Ohio threatens to sue FDA for delaying a mask-sanitizing technology that would make masks safe for re-use
https://pjmedia.com/trending/unreal-fda-sits-on-critical-mask-sanitizing-technology-leaving-the-job-up-to-grandmas-with-sewing-machines/?mid=41748&id=T15OuHulZKxtwhqSTA
FDA still impeding the production of masks, ventilators, and drugs needed by coronavirus patients
http://thebullelephant.com/red-tape-and-bureaucratic-mistakes-thwart-fight-against-coronavirus/
New York City officials screw up, transfer COVID patients to COVID-free hospital ship. And you put your faith in government? Why?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/oops-several-coronavirus-patients-accidentally-transferred-usns-comfort-ny-city-mistake/
Pentagon accurately outlined shortages of beds, masks, and ventilators in 2017 pandemic report, but governments did next to nothing to prepare. #MoreGovernmentPlease
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/05/827692672/report-pentagon-aware-of-possible-coronavirus-threat-for-years
U.S. outperforming #SinglePayer countries in coronavirus statistics
U.S. outperforming #SinglePayer countries in coronavirus statistics - death rate, death as percentage of population, confirmed cases per 100,000 people, and preparation for pandemic
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/03/27/covid-19-is-killing-the-case-for-socialized-medicine/
“MSNBC Wrongly Hints UK's NHS Handling COVID-19 Better Than U.S.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2020/04/04/msnbc-wrongly-hints-uks-nhs-handling-covid-19-better-us
“Joe Biden rejects Medicare for all, says it wouldn’t have slowed coronavirus spread”
https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/joe-biden-again-rejects-medicare-for-all-despite-coronavirus-crisis/
“No, We Wouldn’t Be Better Off Fighting Coronavirus If We Had Medicare For All”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/no-we-wouldnt-be-better-off-fighting-coronavirus-if-we-had-medicare-for-all/
Support for Medicare for All rising amid pandemic
https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/01/medicare-for-all-coronavirus-pandemic/
Plenty of government screw-ups cascaded through this crisis - including the institutional arrogance of the CDC (FDA staffer said CDC lab should be shut down because it isn’t sterile). And you want the government to take over all healthcare? You’re crazy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true
Ohio threatens to sue FDA for delaying a mask-sanitizing technology that would make masks safe for re-use
https://pjmedia.com/trending/unreal-fda-sits-on-critical-mask-sanitizing-technology-leaving-the-job-up-to-grandmas-with-sewing-machines/?mid=41748&id=T15OuHulZKxtwhqSTA
FDA still impeding the production of masks, ventilators, and drugs needed by coronavirus patients
http://thebullelephant.com/red-tape-and-bureaucratic-mistakes-thwart-fight-against-coronavirus/
New York City officials screw up, transfer COVID patients to COVID-free hospital ship. And you put your faith in government? Why?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/oops-several-coronavirus-patients-accidentally-transferred-usns-comfort-ny-city-mistake/
Pentagon accurately outlined shortages of beds, masks, and ventilators in 2017 pandemic report, but governments did next to nothing to prepare. #MoreGovernmentPlease
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/05/827692672/report-pentagon-aware-of-possible-coronavirus-threat-for-years
March 30, 2020
More Observers Agree: #SinglePayer Not the Answer to Pandemic (single-payer news round-up)
#SinglePayer countries have insanely high coronavirus fatality rates - 6-11%
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/medicare-for-all-wouldnt-have-better-prepared-us-for-the-coronavirus
Rationing underway in coronavirus #SinglePayer countries
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/28/medicare_for_all_scares_me_more_than_coronavirus_142779.html
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/medicare-for-all-wouldnt-have-better-prepared-us-for-the-coronavirus
Let’s put the government in charge of all healthcare - good idea! “Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus”
https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus
Bernie can chirp all he wants, but “we struggle to recall any evidence suggesting a massive government-run program would be either efficient or cost-effective”
https://www.sbsun.com/2020/03/20/no-single-payer-isnt-more-credible-now-because-of-coronavirus/
Sorry, Bernie, but “on a per-patient basis, Medicare administrative costs are no better than those of private insurance”
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/richard-kocur/medicare-all-simply-bad-medicine
Beloved UK NHS #SinglePayer dragging its feet on asking companies to make protective gear for desperate healthcare workers; hospitals going around NHS and calling factories direct
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52082248
More Observers Agree: #SinglePayer Not the Answer to Pandemic (single-payer news round-up)
#SinglePayer countries have insanely high coronavirus fatality rates - 6-11%
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/medicare-for-all-wouldnt-have-better-prepared-us-for-the-coronavirus
Rationing underway in coronavirus #SinglePayer countries
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/28/medicare_for_all_scares_me_more_than_coronavirus_142779.html
- Reports from #SinglePayer Spain: “Senior Patients Left Abandoned, Dead Bodies In Beds, Chinese Made Virus Test Kits Failing”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/reports-from-spain-senior-patients-left-abandoned-dead-bodies-in-beds-chinese-made-virus-test-kits-failing/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/medicare-for-all-wouldnt-have-better-prepared-us-for-the-coronavirus
Let’s put the government in charge of all healthcare - good idea! “Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus”
https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus
Bernie can chirp all he wants, but “we struggle to recall any evidence suggesting a massive government-run program would be either efficient or cost-effective”
https://www.sbsun.com/2020/03/20/no-single-payer-isnt-more-credible-now-because-of-coronavirus/
Sorry, Bernie, but “on a per-patient basis, Medicare administrative costs are no better than those of private insurance”
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/richard-kocur/medicare-all-simply-bad-medicine
Beloved UK NHS #SinglePayer dragging its feet on asking companies to make protective gear for desperate healthcare workers; hospitals going around NHS and calling factories direct
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52082248
March 9, 2020
The False Allure of Canadian Healthcare
watch video above
The False Allure of Canadian #SinglePayer Healthcare (Kibbe on Liberty)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/canadian-health-care-warning-not-beacon
UK NHS #SinglePayer hysteroscopies giving women PTSD and pain “worse than childbirth”. Thousands of women affected. Most of NHS has no plans even to give patients a leaflet warning the procedure can cause severe pain and they can request a general anesthetic. #HeartlessSinglePayer https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8067739/Grandmother-three-67-left-PTSD-routine-NHS-medical-check.html
“Health insurers surge as Bernie Sanders' Super Tuesday defeat dims the prospect of Medicare for All”
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/health-care-stocks-gained-sanders-super-tuesday-defeat-biden-victory-2020-3-1028965084
Biden wants to ‘build on Obamacare’ by spending $750 billion to, among other things, increase insurance subsidies to make up for the cost of imposing Obamacare’s regulations. #ExactlyTheWrongDirection
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/03/04/joe-bidens-health-care-plan-would-spend-750-billion-more-on-obamacare-and-cap-drug-price-inflation/#5b70e37f7251
“The Dangers of Medicare for All - It is pure fantasy to believe that the access and quality Americans enjoy today would hold if private insurance were abolished.” #SinglePayer systems hold down costs by limiting access to doctors, treatments, and advanced drugs. (Scott Atlas)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/medicare-for-all-cost.html
Bernie’s claim Medicare for All would increase life expectancy is specious because #SinglePayer wait times kill people and people die from all sorts of things insurance doesn’t address (e.g., obesity, suicide) (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/03/government-controlled-health-care-wont-help-us-live-longer/
Medicare for All would mean saying goodbye to your freedom to choose better private health coverage
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/04/liberals-medicare-for-all-plans-reject-americans-preferences/
The False Allure of Canadian Healthcare
watch video above
The False Allure of Canadian #SinglePayer Healthcare (Kibbe on Liberty)
- the system is hopelessly politicized - you can jump the line if you have friends in high places or can make some noise
- got a problem with your care? ‘Go talk to your legislator.’ Not your doctor. Your legislator. ‘Or go to court, stop bothering us.’
- ‘you should have the same right as your cat’ - You can take your cat to the vet and pay out of pocket for what the cat needs. But you can’t take people outside the system for something the system supposedly provides.
- Death by waiting - ear infections turn into brain infections and kill people
- it’s a two-tier system, a new inequality: the 50,000 Canadians a year who can afford to go outside the country for medical services and those who can’t. ‘Poor people can’t leave; they’re made to suffer the most in the name of equality.’
- ‘no amount of money can fix the system’
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4deVNg-Xsk
- more real-life stories about Canadian healthcare at
https://www.secondstreet.org/
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/canadian-health-care-warning-not-beacon
UK NHS #SinglePayer hysteroscopies giving women PTSD and pain “worse than childbirth”. Thousands of women affected. Most of NHS has no plans even to give patients a leaflet warning the procedure can cause severe pain and they can request a general anesthetic. #HeartlessSinglePayer https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8067739/Grandmother-three-67-left-PTSD-routine-NHS-medical-check.html
“Health insurers surge as Bernie Sanders' Super Tuesday defeat dims the prospect of Medicare for All”
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/health-care-stocks-gained-sanders-super-tuesday-defeat-biden-victory-2020-3-1028965084
Biden wants to ‘build on Obamacare’ by spending $750 billion to, among other things, increase insurance subsidies to make up for the cost of imposing Obamacare’s regulations. #ExactlyTheWrongDirection
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/03/04/joe-bidens-health-care-plan-would-spend-750-billion-more-on-obamacare-and-cap-drug-price-inflation/#5b70e37f7251
“The Dangers of Medicare for All - It is pure fantasy to believe that the access and quality Americans enjoy today would hold if private insurance were abolished.” #SinglePayer systems hold down costs by limiting access to doctors, treatments, and advanced drugs. (Scott Atlas)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/medicare-for-all-cost.html
Bernie’s claim Medicare for All would increase life expectancy is specious because #SinglePayer wait times kill people and people die from all sorts of things insurance doesn’t address (e.g., obesity, suicide) (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/03/government-controlled-health-care-wont-help-us-live-longer/
Medicare for All would mean saying goodbye to your freedom to choose better private health coverage
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/04/liberals-medicare-for-all-plans-reject-americans-preferences/
March 2, 2020
UK #SinglePayer doctors virtually unanimous: NHS not ready for coronavirus
UK #SinglePayer doctors virtually unanimous: NHS not ready for coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/02/coronavirus-just-eight-out-of-1600-doctors-in-poll-say-nhs-is-ready
UK #SinglePayer patient pays for cancer operation out of pocket after being given unacceptable wait time by NHS
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/katie-investigates/spent-16k-private-cancer-operation-nhs-wait-long-insurance-wouldnt/
UK NHS #SinglePayer ordered to pay nurse who was unfairly fired after 38 years of exemplary service for blowing the whistle on system overworking nurses; she was vindicated after a preventable death occurred
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8064985/Whistleblower-NHS-nurse-unfairly-sacked-workload-warning.html
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/27/what-bernie-sanders-isnt-telling-you-about-canadian-health-care/
“Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Would Force Americans to Fund Abortions”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/02/26/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan-would-force-americans-to-fund-abortions/
Left-wing PAC and nurses union spending hundreds of thousands on ad blitz for Medicare for All ahead of Super Tuesday. #FollowTheMoney
https://www.thedailybeast.com/progressive-groups-launch-medicare-for-all-ad-blitz
Unfunny John Oliver trivializes objections to Medicare for All - cost, taxation, wait times, etc. - but cannot refute them (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/27/hbo-comedians-ill-informed-support-of-medicare-for-all-is-no-laughing-matter/
Small businesses supporting Medicare for All are in for a rude awakening - taxes will eventually have to rise to keep #SinglePayer afloat. Meanwhile, their employees will get shafted by more paperwork, long waits, treatment and drug denials, and new payroll taxes (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/03/02/small-businesses-are-making-a-big-mistake-by-supporting-single-payer/#150026a64e80
Ignorant Medicare for All supporters think they will be able to keep their current plans. Joke’s on them.
https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-supporters-medicare-for-all-44b8e5bd-45b6-4a91-bcb9-856265b48706.html
UK #SinglePayer doctors virtually unanimous: NHS not ready for coronavirus
UK #SinglePayer doctors virtually unanimous: NHS not ready for coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/02/coronavirus-just-eight-out-of-1600-doctors-in-poll-say-nhs-is-ready
UK #SinglePayer patient pays for cancer operation out of pocket after being given unacceptable wait time by NHS
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/katie-investigates/spent-16k-private-cancer-operation-nhs-wait-long-insurance-wouldnt/
UK NHS #SinglePayer ordered to pay nurse who was unfairly fired after 38 years of exemplary service for blowing the whistle on system overworking nurses; she was vindicated after a preventable death occurred
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8064985/Whistleblower-NHS-nurse-unfairly-sacked-workload-warning.html
- Think these NHS stories are unusual? You can find horror stories about the NHS like this every single day. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/27/what-bernie-sanders-isnt-telling-you-about-canadian-health-care/
“Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Would Force Americans to Fund Abortions”
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/02/26/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan-would-force-americans-to-fund-abortions/
Left-wing PAC and nurses union spending hundreds of thousands on ad blitz for Medicare for All ahead of Super Tuesday. #FollowTheMoney
https://www.thedailybeast.com/progressive-groups-launch-medicare-for-all-ad-blitz
Unfunny John Oliver trivializes objections to Medicare for All - cost, taxation, wait times, etc. - but cannot refute them (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/27/hbo-comedians-ill-informed-support-of-medicare-for-all-is-no-laughing-matter/
Small businesses supporting Medicare for All are in for a rude awakening - taxes will eventually have to rise to keep #SinglePayer afloat. Meanwhile, their employees will get shafted by more paperwork, long waits, treatment and drug denials, and new payroll taxes (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/03/02/small-businesses-are-making-a-big-mistake-by-supporting-single-payer/#150026a64e80
Ignorant Medicare for All supporters think they will be able to keep their current plans. Joke’s on them.
https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-supporters-medicare-for-all-44b8e5bd-45b6-4a91-bcb9-856265b48706.html
February 24, 2020
Dem candidates hack away at each other’s health plans in Nevada debate
Dem candidates hack away at each other’s health plans in Nevada debate
https://khn.org/news/scalpels-out-democrats-make-slashing-attacks-on-health-care-plans/
Bernie rejects AOC suggestion for a public option compromise, says 4-year transition period to Medicare for All is already a compromise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-rejects-ocasio-cortezs-suggestion-on-health-care-compromise/2020/02/18/113c9ff4-52c6-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
Yale study Bernie touted as proving Medicare for All would save money was written by a Sanders associate for the explicit purpose of promoting his plan. Study flawed because, among other things, it fails to account for the fact there would be no more cost-shifting from privately insured patients to subsidize government patients (Betsy McCaughey)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/betsy-mccaughey-sanders-gets-wrong-medicare-all
Bernie’s promise to ease the employment transition for private health insurance workers displaced by Medicare for All rings hollow for older ones who, evidence shows, will not benefit from job retraining
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404907/its-not-clear-what-single-payer-health-care-would-mean-for-older-workers
Buttigieg wants to give healthcare to illegal aliens
https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-illegal-immigrants-should-have-access-to-obamacare
Buttigieg: “I don’t care” if 180 million Americans lose their private health coverage under Medicare for All
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/pete-buttigieg-on-millions-of-americans-possibly-losing-their-private-health-insurance-i-dont-care-video/
Buttigieg plan not really ‘Medicare for All Who Want It’; it’s more like ‘I’m going to slam you into my health plan with automatic enrollment and bill you retroactively at the end of the year if you don’t pay your premiums.’ Support for public option crashes from 63 to 24 percent when Buttigieg riders added
https://morningconsult.com/2020/02/19/pete-buttigieg-medicare-for-all-who-want-it-poll/
Bloomberg talked in 2011 about cutting the aged off of public healthcare. #Rationing #SoulOfAnAuthoritarian
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2020/02/17/bloomberg-said-us-should-deny-treatment-to-old-people-with-chronic-disease/#7b447ca63005
Interview with Sally Pipes, whose ‘False Premise, False Promise’ book, among other things, contains “vignettes of real people and the horrors they've experienced through socialized medicine”
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/the-disastrous-reality-of-medicare-for-all-guest-sally-pipes
John Oliver monologue admitted some trade-offs in #SinglePayer, but did not mention free-at-the-point-of-care would artificially inflate demand for medical services by $1 trillion a year. “...Oliver admits that he doesn’t really want to give Americans a choice at all. He would rather use government to impose his beliefs on others, and force them to comply.” (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/18/what-john-oliver-didnt-mention-about-single-payer-health-care/
“Canadians pay up to 51 percent more in taxes, yet out-of-pocket health costs are close to Americans’” - the answer is not to our north as shown by rationing, waiting lists, staff shortages, substandard equipment and outdated drugs
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/how-socialized-medicine-hurts-canadians-and-leaves-them-worse-financially
Canadian with severe back pain told to wait for 2 years for treatment, travels to Germany instead
https://www.secondstreet.org/2020/01/14/two-years-for-back-surgery-patient-travels-to-germany-instead/
9 mayors in France ban falling ill in symbolic protest over lack of doctors. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51558340
Dem candidates hack away at each other’s health plans in Nevada debate
Dem candidates hack away at each other’s health plans in Nevada debate
https://khn.org/news/scalpels-out-democrats-make-slashing-attacks-on-health-care-plans/
Bernie rejects AOC suggestion for a public option compromise, says 4-year transition period to Medicare for All is already a compromise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-rejects-ocasio-cortezs-suggestion-on-health-care-compromise/2020/02/18/113c9ff4-52c6-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
Yale study Bernie touted as proving Medicare for All would save money was written by a Sanders associate for the explicit purpose of promoting his plan. Study flawed because, among other things, it fails to account for the fact there would be no more cost-shifting from privately insured patients to subsidize government patients (Betsy McCaughey)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/betsy-mccaughey-sanders-gets-wrong-medicare-all
Bernie’s promise to ease the employment transition for private health insurance workers displaced by Medicare for All rings hollow for older ones who, evidence shows, will not benefit from job retraining
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404907/its-not-clear-what-single-payer-health-care-would-mean-for-older-workers
Buttigieg wants to give healthcare to illegal aliens
https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-illegal-immigrants-should-have-access-to-obamacare
Buttigieg: “I don’t care” if 180 million Americans lose their private health coverage under Medicare for All
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/pete-buttigieg-on-millions-of-americans-possibly-losing-their-private-health-insurance-i-dont-care-video/
Buttigieg plan not really ‘Medicare for All Who Want It’; it’s more like ‘I’m going to slam you into my health plan with automatic enrollment and bill you retroactively at the end of the year if you don’t pay your premiums.’ Support for public option crashes from 63 to 24 percent when Buttigieg riders added
https://morningconsult.com/2020/02/19/pete-buttigieg-medicare-for-all-who-want-it-poll/
Bloomberg talked in 2011 about cutting the aged off of public healthcare. #Rationing #SoulOfAnAuthoritarian
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2020/02/17/bloomberg-said-us-should-deny-treatment-to-old-people-with-chronic-disease/#7b447ca63005
Interview with Sally Pipes, whose ‘False Premise, False Promise’ book, among other things, contains “vignettes of real people and the horrors they've experienced through socialized medicine”
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/the-disastrous-reality-of-medicare-for-all-guest-sally-pipes
John Oliver monologue admitted some trade-offs in #SinglePayer, but did not mention free-at-the-point-of-care would artificially inflate demand for medical services by $1 trillion a year. “...Oliver admits that he doesn’t really want to give Americans a choice at all. He would rather use government to impose his beliefs on others, and force them to comply.” (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/18/what-john-oliver-didnt-mention-about-single-payer-health-care/
“Canadians pay up to 51 percent more in taxes, yet out-of-pocket health costs are close to Americans’” - the answer is not to our north as shown by rationing, waiting lists, staff shortages, substandard equipment and outdated drugs
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/how-socialized-medicine-hurts-canadians-and-leaves-them-worse-financially
Canadian with severe back pain told to wait for 2 years for treatment, travels to Germany instead
https://www.secondstreet.org/2020/01/14/two-years-for-back-surgery-patient-travels-to-germany-instead/
9 mayors in France ban falling ill in symbolic protest over lack of doctors. #RealSinglePayer
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51558340
February 17, 2020
Big Nevada union blasts Medicare for All
Nevada’s influential Culinary Union warns members mandatory Medicare for All would destroy union’s healthcare plan
https://apnews.com/947b78053ef5b284f69c99009a68f6a9
https://twitter.com/theeandroidrulz/status/1226345981547028480?s=21&fbclid=IwAR1TPuwEgsXfTT-cZ9gKI1qoEUGbajOG8sfKX_aWr3lj5LoMxVXC5g8EHmQ
Bernie’s #SinglePayer plan already failed in his home state of Vermont. Why? Because there’s nothing like a new 11.5 percent payroll tax to focus the mind.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-single-payer-healthcare-system-failed-in-his-own-state
https://www.axios.com/aoc-medicare-for-all-public-option-bernie-sanders-6f94493e-96d3-4329-8c29-d17891d43fc9.html
Buttigieg plan would slam the unwilling into the public option as a “glide-path” to Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/483317-medicare-for-all-will-turn-into-health-care-for-none
AMA president warns against #SinglePayer, calling it a one-size-fits-all proposition that destroys patient and doctor choice
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/482797-american-medical-association-president-warns-of-one-size-fits-all-single
Nationalized healthcare kills - forced sterilizations in the early 20th century, experimentation on black syphilitic males mid-century, and the swine flu vaccine that killed people in the ‘70s. (John Goodman)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2020/02/12/the-dangers-in-nationalizing-health-care/#154cd0bf2c8b
Second U.S. Indian Health Service doctor indicted on 8 counts of sexually abusing patients. #SinglePayer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-indian-health-service-doctor-indicted-on-charges-of-sexual-abuse-11581640397
Big Nevada union blasts Medicare for All
Nevada’s influential Culinary Union warns members mandatory Medicare for All would destroy union’s healthcare plan
https://apnews.com/947b78053ef5b284f69c99009a68f6a9
- Left all aflutter when NPR reporter accurately calls Medicare for All “mandatory”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/12/npr-mara-liasson-mandatory-medicare-all-and-ramped-attack-single-payer
https://twitter.com/theeandroidrulz/status/1226345981547028480?s=21&fbclid=IwAR1TPuwEgsXfTT-cZ9gKI1qoEUGbajOG8sfKX_aWr3lj5LoMxVXC5g8EHmQ
Bernie’s #SinglePayer plan already failed in his home state of Vermont. Why? Because there’s nothing like a new 11.5 percent payroll tax to focus the mind.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-single-payer-healthcare-system-failed-in-his-own-state
- Financing Medicare for All with a payroll tax is a bad idea - it’s regressive and discourages hiring
https://www.lenconnect.com/opinion/20200215/paul-f-delespinasse-dont-finance-medicare-for-all-with-payroll-tax
https://www.axios.com/aoc-medicare-for-all-public-option-bernie-sanders-6f94493e-96d3-4329-8c29-d17891d43fc9.html
Buttigieg plan would slam the unwilling into the public option as a “glide-path” to Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/483317-medicare-for-all-will-turn-into-health-care-for-none
AMA president warns against #SinglePayer, calling it a one-size-fits-all proposition that destroys patient and doctor choice
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/482797-american-medical-association-president-warns-of-one-size-fits-all-single
Nationalized healthcare kills - forced sterilizations in the early 20th century, experimentation on black syphilitic males mid-century, and the swine flu vaccine that killed people in the ‘70s. (John Goodman)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2020/02/12/the-dangers-in-nationalizing-health-care/#154cd0bf2c8b
Second U.S. Indian Health Service doctor indicted on 8 counts of sexually abusing patients. #SinglePayer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-indian-health-service-doctor-indicted-on-charges-of-sexual-abuse-11581640397
February 10, 2020
Trump Blasts Free Single Payer Healthcare for Illegal Aliens in State of the Union Address
Trump Blasts Free Single Payer Healthcare for Illegal Aliens in State of the Union Address
https://www.mrt.com/business/article/Biden-Sees-Problem-With-Running-Mate-Who-Backs-15043003.php
“Iowa Caucus Goers Strongly Support Single-Payer Health Care”
https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/iowa-caucus-goers-strongly-support.html
Medicare for All’s destruction of all other coverage would mean being stuck with poiticized government care, higher medical bills, longer waits, more denials of care, etc. (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/29/the-cost-of-sacrificing-public-private-health-insurance-for-medicare-for-all/
The public option is #SinglePayer the slow way - would drive out private coverage, corral healthcare providers (Nina Owcharenko Schaefer and Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/the-public-option-single-payer-the-installment-plan
Answer to the claim ‘single payer means bigger paychecks’ - 73.5 percent of the population “would pay more in taxes than they would save from no longer paying health insurance premiums and the absence of out-of-pocket medical spending”
https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/SR219.pdf
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/upshot/wages-medicare-for-all.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer staffing shortages leave patients in the dark about cancer treatments and side effects. Who in their right mind would want that for their own family? #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51439146
Trump Blasts Free Single Payer Healthcare for Illegal Aliens in State of the Union Address
Trump Blasts Free Single Payer Healthcare for Illegal Aliens in State of the Union Address
- “Over 130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer-funded healthcare to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-state-union-address-3/
https://www.mrt.com/business/article/Biden-Sees-Problem-With-Running-Mate-Who-Backs-15043003.php
“Iowa Caucus Goers Strongly Support Single-Payer Health Care”
https://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2020/02/iowa-caucus-goers-strongly-support.html
Medicare for All’s destruction of all other coverage would mean being stuck with poiticized government care, higher medical bills, longer waits, more denials of care, etc. (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/29/the-cost-of-sacrificing-public-private-health-insurance-for-medicare-for-all/
The public option is #SinglePayer the slow way - would drive out private coverage, corral healthcare providers (Nina Owcharenko Schaefer and Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/the-public-option-single-payer-the-installment-plan
Answer to the claim ‘single payer means bigger paychecks’ - 73.5 percent of the population “would pay more in taxes than they would save from no longer paying health insurance premiums and the absence of out-of-pocket medical spending”
https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/SR219.pdf
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/upshot/wages-medicare-for-all.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer staffing shortages leave patients in the dark about cancer treatments and side effects. Who in their right mind would want that for their own family? #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51439146
February 3, 2020
Democrat Poll Shows Medicare for All Unpopular in Key Battleground States
Democrat Poll Shows Medicare for All Unpopular in Key Battleground States
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480537-centrist-poll-medicare-for-all-underwater-in-key-battleground-states
Dem rivals tell Bernie to stop hiding the ball on Medicare for All funding
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480401-sanders-under-increasing-pressure-on-funding-for-medicare-for-all
California ‘healthcare for all’ study commission gets to work, but not every commissioner thinks single payer is the answer - final recommendations not due until a year from now
https://californiahealthline.org/news/california-reopens-the-single-payer-debate/
“'Free' Healthcare Isn't Free”; it involves trade-offs - destruction of popular private insurance and consumer choice, more delays and coverage denials, higher costs, politicized healthcare decision-making, etc. (Robert Moffit and Doug Holtz-Eakin)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/sorry-bernie-and-aoc-free-healthcare-isnt-free-118606
March for Life is a reminder #SinglePayer is a threat to the unborn (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2020/01/24/march-for-life-highlights-threat-of-medicare-for-all/#e27391b608be
Personal responsibility and lifestyle choices explain lower healthcare spending in Singapore - they eat less, smoke less, drink less and are healthier for it https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/12/31/responsible-national-health-insurance-part-4-why-singapore-has-superior-health-outcomes/#40c9ee9a5edd
#SinglePayer is not just wrong and inhumane, it’s criminal - “Grand jury convened in probe of 11 deaths from insulin injections at W.Va. Veterans Affairs hospital”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grand-jury-convened-in-probe-of-11-deaths-thought-to-involve-insulin-injections-at-wva-veterans-affairs-hospital/2020/01/29/9911cdc2-4200-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html
Family fighting to end deadly #SinglePayer waits in Canada after daughter dies waiting for a bone marrow transplant despite donors being available - Ontario hospital can only do 5 a month and 30 people were ahead of her in line. #CanadaWaits
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3435131/Friends-girl-18-leukemia-sign-casket-loving-messages-final-goodbye-died-waiting-hospital-bed-shortage-Canada.html
Democrat Poll Shows Medicare for All Unpopular in Key Battleground States
Democrat Poll Shows Medicare for All Unpopular in Key Battleground States
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480537-centrist-poll-medicare-for-all-underwater-in-key-battleground-states
Dem rivals tell Bernie to stop hiding the ball on Medicare for All funding
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480401-sanders-under-increasing-pressure-on-funding-for-medicare-for-all
California ‘healthcare for all’ study commission gets to work, but not every commissioner thinks single payer is the answer - final recommendations not due until a year from now
https://californiahealthline.org/news/california-reopens-the-single-payer-debate/
“'Free' Healthcare Isn't Free”; it involves trade-offs - destruction of popular private insurance and consumer choice, more delays and coverage denials, higher costs, politicized healthcare decision-making, etc. (Robert Moffit and Doug Holtz-Eakin)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/sorry-bernie-and-aoc-free-healthcare-isnt-free-118606
March for Life is a reminder #SinglePayer is a threat to the unborn (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2020/01/24/march-for-life-highlights-threat-of-medicare-for-all/#e27391b608be
Personal responsibility and lifestyle choices explain lower healthcare spending in Singapore - they eat less, smoke less, drink less and are healthier for it https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/12/31/responsible-national-health-insurance-part-4-why-singapore-has-superior-health-outcomes/#40c9ee9a5edd
#SinglePayer is not just wrong and inhumane, it’s criminal - “Grand jury convened in probe of 11 deaths from insulin injections at W.Va. Veterans Affairs hospital”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grand-jury-convened-in-probe-of-11-deaths-thought-to-involve-insulin-injections-at-wva-veterans-affairs-hospital/2020/01/29/9911cdc2-4200-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html
Family fighting to end deadly #SinglePayer waits in Canada after daughter dies waiting for a bone marrow transplant despite donors being available - Ontario hospital can only do 5 a month and 30 people were ahead of her in line. #CanadaWaits
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3435131/Friends-girl-18-leukemia-sign-casket-loving-messages-final-goodbye-died-waiting-hospital-bed-shortage-Canada.html
January 27, 2020
Unpopularity of Medicare for All could sink Dems in the suburbs
Unpopularity of Medicare for All could sink Dems in the suburbs
https://freebeacon.com/politics/health-care-overhaul-unpopular-suburban-districts/
Bernie says the cost of his Medicare for All plan is “impossible to predict”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sanders-cost-for-medicare-for-all-is-impossible-to-predict
Warren’s numbers don’t add up - her new taxes would not come close to paying for her Medicare for All plan; she also assumes ridiculously low provider reimbursement and slow growth in health spending (Sally Pipes)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/22/elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-isnt-affordable/
Doctors group (ACP) endorses #SinglePayer, but it would mean rationing, diverting medical dollars to social services, price controls, new bureaucracies, government control over the medical arts, etc. (CCHF)
https://www.facebook.com/cchfreedom/posts/2769769049736897?__tn__=K-R
“Why the road to universal health care in America looks rocky - Implementing a single-payer system could be costly and disruptive”
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2020/01/24/why-the-road-to-universal-health-care-in-america-looks-rocky
“The Myth of the ‘Moderate’ Public Option - The Biden and Buttigieg plans would bust federal budgets, hurt patient care and gut private insurers.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-the-moderate-public-option-11579824695?reflink=share_mobilewebshare
UK NHS #SinglePayer paying out billions for malpractice claims
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51180944
Unpopularity of Medicare for All could sink Dems in the suburbs
Unpopularity of Medicare for All could sink Dems in the suburbs
https://freebeacon.com/politics/health-care-overhaul-unpopular-suburban-districts/
Bernie says the cost of his Medicare for All plan is “impossible to predict”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sanders-cost-for-medicare-for-all-is-impossible-to-predict
Warren’s numbers don’t add up - her new taxes would not come close to paying for her Medicare for All plan; she also assumes ridiculously low provider reimbursement and slow growth in health spending (Sally Pipes)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/22/elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-isnt-affordable/
Doctors group (ACP) endorses #SinglePayer, but it would mean rationing, diverting medical dollars to social services, price controls, new bureaucracies, government control over the medical arts, etc. (CCHF)
https://www.facebook.com/cchfreedom/posts/2769769049736897?__tn__=K-R
- ACP is a primary care-focused organization. It proposes cutting health care spending in a lot of areas, but - surprise! - wants “increasing investment in primary care.” #PigsAtTheTrough
http://r.mail.acpmembership.org/mk/mr/qF9teYJKl3m7rul4nBcWvnjHsEtfBVtiDdOr9AroU7FhZHKDhvWvYfGfnIHo_GiF57m2o_7gMR1ddwvN9x6vTX3zhEYPvuq-yOPnwcR6x19E8PY6zv3v
“Why the road to universal health care in America looks rocky - Implementing a single-payer system could be costly and disruptive”
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2020/01/24/why-the-road-to-universal-health-care-in-america-looks-rocky
“The Myth of the ‘Moderate’ Public Option - The Biden and Buttigieg plans would bust federal budgets, hurt patient care and gut private insurers.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-the-moderate-public-option-11579824695?reflink=share_mobilewebshare
UK NHS #SinglePayer paying out billions for malpractice claims
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51180944
January 20, 2020
Progressive pro-Medicare for All groups working primary states
Progressive pro-Medicare for All groups working primary states
https://apnews.com/7ce1b64bf750606a2df91798148dda23
Bernie won’t tell you how much his Medicare for All plan would cost because he doesn’t want you to think about the crippling tax increases it requires(Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-bernies-medicare-for-all-misinformation-learn-these-facts-before-this-weeks-debate
Sure, Bernie, let’s adopt Taiwan’s #SinglePayer system if you want hospital overcrowding, long lines, access problems, and financial struggles. Oh, BTW, the designer of Taiwan’s system said he would not recommend #SinglePayer for the U.S. because the government is “too corrupt” and providers have too much political power.
https://reason.com/2020/01/14/sorry-bernie-sanders-taiwans-single-payer-system-isnt-an-argument-for-medicare-for-all/
Elizabeth Warren says her Medicare for All plan wouldn’t cost the middle class a dime, but her $9 trillion employer tax would fall on middle-income workers and the economy would slow under her new taxes
https://reason.com/2020/01/16/elizabeth-warren-has-a-fake-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/
“Top Economists: Elizabeth Warren's Medicare-For-All Plan Will RAISE Middle-class Taxes” (video)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/watch-top-economists-say-elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-will-raise-middle-class-taxes/
Poll: California likely Dem voters prefer incremental change to #SinglePayer by wide margin
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/13/even-california-democrats-arent-big-on-medicare-for-all/
New study claims #SinglePayer would save money, but results ignore transition costs and depend on de facto rationing (‘global budgets’). Also, not all costs of #SinglePayer were included (e.g., tax collection)
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003013
Managed care industry study casts doubt on whether New York could obtain federal waivers to implement #SinglePayer proposal
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/newsletters/politico-new-york-health-care/2020/01/16/hpa-commissioned-study-raises-doubts-about-single-payer-331951
The real consequences of #SinglePayer when it’s ‘free’ at the point of care - demand will skyrocket, doctors will leave because of low reimbursement, and a two-tier system will emerge where the well-off will get care and the rest of us risk dying from preventable conditions
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/16/medicare-for-all-would-be-a-nightmare-of-unintende/
Pro-lifers should oppose Medicare for All because it mandates direct federal funding for abortion (goodbye, Hyde Amendment) and effectively forces doctors to provide abortion against their conscience
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/12/26/supporting-medicare-for-all-isnt-pro-life/
Expanding Medicaid again would be a great way to get more lower-income Americans hooked on government. #SinglePayerTheSlowWay
https://slate.com/business/2020/01/expanding-medicaid-the-health-care-idea-democrats-should-be-talking-about.html
First, illegal alien young adults. Now, California is proposing free health care for illegal alien seniors. #TheLeftNeverQuits
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/16/california-now-pushing-free-health-care-for-illegal-immigrant-seniors/
Healthcare is a right! Unless your #SinglePayer system doesn’t have the resources to treat you in a timely manner (like in the UK). Then you get death by waiting, doctor shortages, and a pitiful attempt to make it all work by not paying employees overtime. (Sally Pipes)
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/1/15/21065685/guest-opinion-british-patients-deserve-better-than-single-payer-so-do-americans
U.S. Indian Health Service failed to stop child predators and dangerous doctors. Sign me up for #SinglePayer now - healthcare is my right!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/forsaken-by-the-indian-health-service-11579196871
Progressive pro-Medicare for All groups working primary states
Progressive pro-Medicare for All groups working primary states
https://apnews.com/7ce1b64bf750606a2df91798148dda23
Bernie won’t tell you how much his Medicare for All plan would cost because he doesn’t want you to think about the crippling tax increases it requires(Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-bernies-medicare-for-all-misinformation-learn-these-facts-before-this-weeks-debate
Sure, Bernie, let’s adopt Taiwan’s #SinglePayer system if you want hospital overcrowding, long lines, access problems, and financial struggles. Oh, BTW, the designer of Taiwan’s system said he would not recommend #SinglePayer for the U.S. because the government is “too corrupt” and providers have too much political power.
https://reason.com/2020/01/14/sorry-bernie-sanders-taiwans-single-payer-system-isnt-an-argument-for-medicare-for-all/
Elizabeth Warren says her Medicare for All plan wouldn’t cost the middle class a dime, but her $9 trillion employer tax would fall on middle-income workers and the economy would slow under her new taxes
https://reason.com/2020/01/16/elizabeth-warren-has-a-fake-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/
“Top Economists: Elizabeth Warren's Medicare-For-All Plan Will RAISE Middle-class Taxes” (video)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/watch-top-economists-say-elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-will-raise-middle-class-taxes/
Poll: California likely Dem voters prefer incremental change to #SinglePayer by wide margin
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/13/even-california-democrats-arent-big-on-medicare-for-all/
New study claims #SinglePayer would save money, but results ignore transition costs and depend on de facto rationing (‘global budgets’). Also, not all costs of #SinglePayer were included (e.g., tax collection)
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003013
Managed care industry study casts doubt on whether New York could obtain federal waivers to implement #SinglePayer proposal
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/newsletters/politico-new-york-health-care/2020/01/16/hpa-commissioned-study-raises-doubts-about-single-payer-331951
The real consequences of #SinglePayer when it’s ‘free’ at the point of care - demand will skyrocket, doctors will leave because of low reimbursement, and a two-tier system will emerge where the well-off will get care and the rest of us risk dying from preventable conditions
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/16/medicare-for-all-would-be-a-nightmare-of-unintende/
Pro-lifers should oppose Medicare for All because it mandates direct federal funding for abortion (goodbye, Hyde Amendment) and effectively forces doctors to provide abortion against their conscience
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/12/26/supporting-medicare-for-all-isnt-pro-life/
Expanding Medicaid again would be a great way to get more lower-income Americans hooked on government. #SinglePayerTheSlowWay
https://slate.com/business/2020/01/expanding-medicaid-the-health-care-idea-democrats-should-be-talking-about.html
First, illegal alien young adults. Now, California is proposing free health care for illegal alien seniors. #TheLeftNeverQuits
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/16/california-now-pushing-free-health-care-for-illegal-immigrant-seniors/
Healthcare is a right! Unless your #SinglePayer system doesn’t have the resources to treat you in a timely manner (like in the UK). Then you get death by waiting, doctor shortages, and a pitiful attempt to make it all work by not paying employees overtime. (Sally Pipes)
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2020/1/15/21065685/guest-opinion-british-patients-deserve-better-than-single-payer-so-do-americans
U.S. Indian Health Service failed to stop child predators and dangerous doctors. Sign me up for #SinglePayer now - healthcare is my right!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/forsaken-by-the-indian-health-service-11579196871
January 13, 2020
Elizabeth Warren Claims Medicare for All Won’t Cost Plain, Ordinary Folks a Dime
Leftists will say anything to get into power - “Elizabeth Warren Claims Medicare For All Wouldn’t Cost ‘Middle Class Families One Single Dime’…” #Pandering
https://www.weaselzippers.us/441549-elizabeth-warren-claims-medicare-for-all-wouldnt-cost-middle-class-families-one-single-dime/
Mayor Pee-wee Pete is no moderate - he boldly states his plan is a “glide path” to #SinglePayer. #MyDaddyLovesGramsci
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/08/3-proofs-pete-buttigieg-is-no-moderate/
“Bernie Sanders Won’t Reveal Cost Of Medicare-For-All Because ‘It’s Such A Huge Number’” - A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/02/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-cost/
CBO on #SinglePayer: “wait times could lengthen… Some demand for care might be unmet … disruption might negatively impact the quality of care for patients… fewer new hospitals would be built in the future, reducing access to care… patients would not have a choice of insurer or benefits, and those standardized benefits might not meet the needs of some people…the supply of care from physicians would tend to fall…”
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-12/55951-CBO-QFRs.pdf
Hospital execs blast Medicare for All, warn it would lead to hospital closures, long wait times, and a drastic cut in research and development money
https://www.newsday.com/business/warren-sanders-medicare-for-all-1.40412334
A study of the public option in Washington state shows it is unrealistic - providers will aggressively oppose the reimbursement cuts necessary for the plan to save any money
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/washington-states-quasi-public-option/
Flawed study claims Canadian-style #SinglePayer would cut healthcare costs in the U.S., but it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison; administrative costs would grow, not shrink, under Medicare for All
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/10/why-canadian-style-health-care-would-not-cut-costs-in-america/
Elizabeth Warren Claims Medicare for All Won’t Cost Plain, Ordinary Folks a Dime
Leftists will say anything to get into power - “Elizabeth Warren Claims Medicare For All Wouldn’t Cost ‘Middle Class Families One Single Dime’…” #Pandering
https://www.weaselzippers.us/441549-elizabeth-warren-claims-medicare-for-all-wouldnt-cost-middle-class-families-one-single-dime/
Mayor Pee-wee Pete is no moderate - he boldly states his plan is a “glide path” to #SinglePayer. #MyDaddyLovesGramsci
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/08/3-proofs-pete-buttigieg-is-no-moderate/
“Bernie Sanders Won’t Reveal Cost Of Medicare-For-All Because ‘It’s Such A Huge Number’” - A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/02/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-cost/
CBO on #SinglePayer: “wait times could lengthen… Some demand for care might be unmet … disruption might negatively impact the quality of care for patients… fewer new hospitals would be built in the future, reducing access to care… patients would not have a choice of insurer or benefits, and those standardized benefits might not meet the needs of some people…the supply of care from physicians would tend to fall…”
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-12/55951-CBO-QFRs.pdf
Hospital execs blast Medicare for All, warn it would lead to hospital closures, long wait times, and a drastic cut in research and development money
https://www.newsday.com/business/warren-sanders-medicare-for-all-1.40412334
A study of the public option in Washington state shows it is unrealistic - providers will aggressively oppose the reimbursement cuts necessary for the plan to save any money
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/washington-states-quasi-public-option/
Flawed study claims Canadian-style #SinglePayer would cut healthcare costs in the U.S., but it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison; administrative costs would grow, not shrink, under Medicare for All
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/10/why-canadian-style-health-care-would-not-cut-costs-in-america/
January 6, 2020
Same Old Problems Await #SinglePayer Evangelists in 2020
Medicare for All #CattleCare means higher taxes, DMV-style surly service, and ruined lives - sign me up!
https://www.teapartypatriotsaction.org/news/medicare-for-all-will-run-ruin-your-life/
Canadian #SinglePayer is a high-cost, choice-denying system that only achieves mediocre performance - STAY AWAY!
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/lessons-the-canadian-health-care-system
More than 217,000 people fled Canadian #SinglePayer to get treatment elsewhere in 2017, including a nurse with debilitating back pain who was facing a 2-year wait for surgery. #CanadaWaits
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/medical-tourism-from-canada-guest-colin-craig
$1.8 billion Medicaid deficit throwing wet blanket on #SinglePayer proposal in New York
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/12/20/lawmakers-face-an-uphill-climb-on-single-payer-in-2020-1235558
Elizabeth Warren rebrands her unpopular transition as a ‘choice’ where people can try Medicare for All on for size
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-choice-medicare-for-all-transition-iowa/index.html
Medicare for All, Medicare for All Who Want It, and the Obamacare public option would all be disastrous - “Each would raise taxes, reduce quality of care and eliminate the private health coverage most consumers have, like and expect to keep.”
https://www.glendalestar.com/opinion/article_c213083c-2c23-11ea-8a2b-1fa5a2c9854d.html
Same Old Problems Await #SinglePayer Evangelists in 2020
Medicare for All #CattleCare means higher taxes, DMV-style surly service, and ruined lives - sign me up!
https://www.teapartypatriotsaction.org/news/medicare-for-all-will-run-ruin-your-life/
Canadian #SinglePayer is a high-cost, choice-denying system that only achieves mediocre performance - STAY AWAY!
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/lessons-the-canadian-health-care-system
More than 217,000 people fled Canadian #SinglePayer to get treatment elsewhere in 2017, including a nurse with debilitating back pain who was facing a 2-year wait for surgery. #CanadaWaits
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/medical-tourism-from-canada-guest-colin-craig
$1.8 billion Medicaid deficit throwing wet blanket on #SinglePayer proposal in New York
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/12/20/lawmakers-face-an-uphill-climb-on-single-payer-in-2020-1235558
Elizabeth Warren rebrands her unpopular transition as a ‘choice’ where people can try Medicare for All on for size
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-choice-medicare-for-all-transition-iowa/index.html
Medicare for All, Medicare for All Who Want It, and the Obamacare public option would all be disastrous - “Each would raise taxes, reduce quality of care and eliminate the private health coverage most consumers have, like and expect to keep.”
https://www.glendalestar.com/opinion/article_c213083c-2c23-11ea-8a2b-1fa5a2c9854d.html
December 16, 2019
Pay More to Wait Longer for Worse Care
Health insurers group AHIP opposes Medicare for All - “patients would pay more to wait longer for worse care.”
https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/ahip-addresses-universal-healthcare-upholds-current-system
Democrat Medicare for All proposals would force taxpayers to pay for abortions up to birth. #GoodbyeHydeAmendment
https://freebeacon.com/issues/house-dems-demand-taxpayer-funded-abortions-in-medicare-for-all/
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https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/10/democrats-medicare-for-all-plan-would-force-americans-to-fund-abortions-up-to-birth/
Iowans ask Dem candidates ‘what happens when your Medicare for All plan throws my neighbors who have health insurance jobs out of work?’
https://apnews.com/b65d26107275839d510be78680f21a2d
How did the Indian Health Service get so screwed up? Simple - it’s #SinglePayer . South Dakota IHS emergency room basically flies patients out to regional hospitals at $8,000 a pop.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-ceos-and-no-operating-room-the-impossible-job-of-fixing-the-indian-health-service-11575993216
NHS turns in worst performance ever, missing wait time targets for emergencies, operations, and cancer treatment. #TheTruthAboutSinglePayer
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/13/nhs-england-on-its-knees-as-performance-figures-hit-new-lows
Pay More to Wait Longer for Worse Care
Health insurers group AHIP opposes Medicare for All - “patients would pay more to wait longer for worse care.”
https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/ahip-addresses-universal-healthcare-upholds-current-system
Democrat Medicare for All proposals would force taxpayers to pay for abortions up to birth. #GoodbyeHydeAmendment
https://freebeacon.com/issues/house-dems-demand-taxpayer-funded-abortions-in-medicare-for-all/
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https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/10/democrats-medicare-for-all-plan-would-force-americans-to-fund-abortions-up-to-birth/
Iowans ask Dem candidates ‘what happens when your Medicare for All plan throws my neighbors who have health insurance jobs out of work?’
https://apnews.com/b65d26107275839d510be78680f21a2d
How did the Indian Health Service get so screwed up? Simple - it’s #SinglePayer . South Dakota IHS emergency room basically flies patients out to regional hospitals at $8,000 a pop.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-ceos-and-no-operating-room-the-impossible-job-of-fixing-the-indian-health-service-11575993216
NHS turns in worst performance ever, missing wait time targets for emergencies, operations, and cancer treatment. #TheTruthAboutSinglePayer
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/13/nhs-england-on-its-knees-as-performance-figures-hit-new-lows
December 9, 2019
House subcommittee to hold hearing on Medicare for All
House subcommittee to hold hearing on Medicare for All on Tuesday; examining 7 proposals, including public option
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/472933-powerful-house-panel-to-hold-medicare-for-all-hearing-next-week
Unpopular Medicare for All killed Kamala’s campaign; catnip to Progressives, but not to other voters
https://freebeacon.com/columns/medicare-for-all-progressive-campaign-killer/
Warren’s transition plan polls worse than public option and Medicare for All
https://morningconsult.com/2019/12/05/warrens-health-plan-sought-balance-but-voters-arent-moved-by-middle-ground/
Pelosi: the route to #SinglePayer is through Obamacare
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/nancy-pelosi-obamacare-medicare-for-all/index.html
No, you can’t keep your plan. Biden and Buttigieg are lying about the public option
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/03/biden-buttigieg-say-you-can-keep-your-health-care-plan-theyre-lying-just-like-obama/
Support for Medicare for All higher among black voters than other groups
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-voters-back-medicare-for-all-not-so-much-the-candidates-pushing-it-11575720002
Democrats’ ‘retreat’ on Medicare for All is phony; every one of their plans leads to a government- takeover of healthcare (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/12/09/democrats-stage-a-phony-retreat-on-medicare-for-all/#1446a9a36cc5
New Sally Pipes book coming in January - “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All”
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/false-premise-false-promise-sally-c-pipes/1130433979?ean=9781641770729#/
3 of 4 Americans would be worse off financially under Medicare for All; additional tax of 21 cents on every dollar earned (Heritage)
https://www.heritage.org/medicare/commentary/would-you-be-better-financially-under-medicare-all
“New York’s $4B Medicaid mess shows why push for single payer is insane”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/08/new-yorks-4b-medicaid-mess-shows-why-push-for-single-payer-is-insane/
Nationalizing healthcare would have devastating consequences — end of private insurance, stratospheric costs, damage to research and innovation, rationing, politicized healthcare funding decisions
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/12/06/opinion-time-for-a-reality-check-on-what-the.html
“VA kept thousands of veterans' appeals in boxes, file cabinets instead of processing them, report shows” - #AnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/va-kept-thousands-of-veteran-appeals-in-boxes-file-cabinets
House subcommittee to hold hearing on Medicare for All
House subcommittee to hold hearing on Medicare for All on Tuesday; examining 7 proposals, including public option
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/472933-powerful-house-panel-to-hold-medicare-for-all-hearing-next-week
Unpopular Medicare for All killed Kamala’s campaign; catnip to Progressives, but not to other voters
https://freebeacon.com/columns/medicare-for-all-progressive-campaign-killer/
Warren’s transition plan polls worse than public option and Medicare for All
https://morningconsult.com/2019/12/05/warrens-health-plan-sought-balance-but-voters-arent-moved-by-middle-ground/
Pelosi: the route to #SinglePayer is through Obamacare
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/nancy-pelosi-obamacare-medicare-for-all/index.html
No, you can’t keep your plan. Biden and Buttigieg are lying about the public option
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/03/biden-buttigieg-say-you-can-keep-your-health-care-plan-theyre-lying-just-like-obama/
Support for Medicare for All higher among black voters than other groups
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-voters-back-medicare-for-all-not-so-much-the-candidates-pushing-it-11575720002
Democrats’ ‘retreat’ on Medicare for All is phony; every one of their plans leads to a government- takeover of healthcare (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/12/09/democrats-stage-a-phony-retreat-on-medicare-for-all/#1446a9a36cc5
New Sally Pipes book coming in January - “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All”
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/false-premise-false-promise-sally-c-pipes/1130433979?ean=9781641770729#/
3 of 4 Americans would be worse off financially under Medicare for All; additional tax of 21 cents on every dollar earned (Heritage)
https://www.heritage.org/medicare/commentary/would-you-be-better-financially-under-medicare-all
“New York’s $4B Medicaid mess shows why push for single payer is insane”
https://nypost.com/2019/12/08/new-yorks-4b-medicaid-mess-shows-why-push-for-single-payer-is-insane/
Nationalizing healthcare would have devastating consequences — end of private insurance, stratospheric costs, damage to research and innovation, rationing, politicized healthcare funding decisions
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/12/06/opinion-time-for-a-reality-check-on-what-the.html
“VA kept thousands of veterans' appeals in boxes, file cabinets instead of processing them, report shows” - #AnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/va-kept-thousands-of-veteran-appeals-in-boxes-file-cabinets
December 2, 2019
Medicare-for-All a Loser All Around - Politically, Financially, & Medically
Many Democrat leaders see a sweeping Medicare-for-All proposal as a liability for their candidates up and down the ballot
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/12/02/dems-getting-worried-about-medicare-for-all-n2557096
Hidden costs would nearly double the price of Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan - economic drag of new taxes, waste, rationing, and reduced innovation (5-part series - Chris Conover)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2019/11/30/the-5-reason-elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-single-payer-plan-is-a-singularly-bad-idea/#37da8d902c8c
Just a reminder - Bernie’s Medicare-for-All plan includes middle-class tax hikes and free healthcare for illegal aliens
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/watch-socialist-crackpot-bernie-sanders-says-he-will-tax-poor-middle-class-to-fund-medicare-for-all-including-for-illegal-aliens/
Making #SinglePayer free at the point of sale would trigger demand and raise total healthcare spending $1 trillion a year (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/25/if-you-think-health-care-is-expensive-now-just-wait-until-its-free/
Medicare-for-All would wipe out thousands of jobs in Pittsburgh and other places that have re-built their economies on healthcare
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/medicare-for-all-jobs-067781
Three-quarters of Americans would be worse off financially under Medicare-for-All (Heritage Foundation)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/22/no-matter-what-the-left-says-medicare-for-all-will-cost-you-a-lot/
Vets can’t sue military doctors for malpractice. #TheWondersOfSinglePayer
https://www.oann.com/terminally-ill-u-s-soldier-fighting-to-sue-government-for-malpractice/
Another UK NHS #SinglePayer maternity scandal - leaked internal report shows 42 dead infants, 50 more brain-damaged, 3 dead mothers in just 600 cases studied. Report chronicles failure to monitor those at high risk, rampant negligence, chronic inability to learn from mistakes, and shocking indifference to patients. Sign me up!
https://mises.org/wire/maternal-care-scandal-britain%E2%80%99s-nhs-reveals-human-costs-socialised-medicine
New study shows fatal flaws of Canadian healthcare system - lethal wait times, surprisingly high out-of-pocket costs, residents escape over the border when they need serious healthcare (Sally Pipes)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/industry-voices-canada-s-cautionary-tale-medicare-for-all
UK NHS #SinglePayer is a disaster for in-hospital mortality, cancer survival, wait times, doctor/nurse shortages, and mental health treatment but, hey, it’s their ‘national religion’ (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/27/some-british-lessons-on-single-payer-health-care/
Medicare-for-All a Loser All Around - Politically, Financially, & Medically
Many Democrat leaders see a sweeping Medicare-for-All proposal as a liability for their candidates up and down the ballot
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/12/02/dems-getting-worried-about-medicare-for-all-n2557096
Hidden costs would nearly double the price of Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan - economic drag of new taxes, waste, rationing, and reduced innovation (5-part series - Chris Conover)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2019/11/30/the-5-reason-elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-single-payer-plan-is-a-singularly-bad-idea/#37da8d902c8c
Just a reminder - Bernie’s Medicare-for-All plan includes middle-class tax hikes and free healthcare for illegal aliens
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/watch-socialist-crackpot-bernie-sanders-says-he-will-tax-poor-middle-class-to-fund-medicare-for-all-including-for-illegal-aliens/
Making #SinglePayer free at the point of sale would trigger demand and raise total healthcare spending $1 trillion a year (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/25/if-you-think-health-care-is-expensive-now-just-wait-until-its-free/
Medicare-for-All would wipe out thousands of jobs in Pittsburgh and other places that have re-built their economies on healthcare
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/medicare-for-all-jobs-067781
Three-quarters of Americans would be worse off financially under Medicare-for-All (Heritage Foundation)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/22/no-matter-what-the-left-says-medicare-for-all-will-cost-you-a-lot/
Vets can’t sue military doctors for malpractice. #TheWondersOfSinglePayer
https://www.oann.com/terminally-ill-u-s-soldier-fighting-to-sue-government-for-malpractice/
Another UK NHS #SinglePayer maternity scandal - leaked internal report shows 42 dead infants, 50 more brain-damaged, 3 dead mothers in just 600 cases studied. Report chronicles failure to monitor those at high risk, rampant negligence, chronic inability to learn from mistakes, and shocking indifference to patients. Sign me up!
https://mises.org/wire/maternal-care-scandal-britain%E2%80%99s-nhs-reveals-human-costs-socialised-medicine
New study shows fatal flaws of Canadian healthcare system - lethal wait times, surprisingly high out-of-pocket costs, residents escape over the border when they need serious healthcare (Sally Pipes)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/industry-voices-canada-s-cautionary-tale-medicare-for-all
UK NHS #SinglePayer is a disaster for in-hospital mortality, cancer survival, wait times, doctor/nurse shortages, and mental health treatment but, hey, it’s their ‘national religion’ (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/27/some-british-lessons-on-single-payer-health-care/
November 25, 2019
Leftist Leaders Struggle to Reinvigorate Medicare-for-All
Jayapal, other Leftist leaders struggle to unite Medicare-for-All forces and retake offensive after tough few weeks
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/20/medicare-for-all-democrats-071905
“Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Would Bankrupt U.S., Squeeze Providers Out of Existence” (Scott Walker)
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/warrens-medicare-for-all-would-bankrupt-us-squeeze-providers-out-of-existence/
Warren’s Medicare for All plan relies heavily on cost-cutting (low reimbursements and global budgeting) - None dare call it rationing.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/warren-relies-on-rationing-in-medicare-for-all-plan/
Steyer’s health plan: beef up Obamacare, create public option, keep role for private insurance
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/18/steyer-health-care-2020-071424
Industry campaign against Medicare for All taps Democratic consultants and pollsters
https://prospect.org/power/top-democratic-consultants-working-for-anti-medicare-for-all/
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/471344-poll-majority-of-voters-say-they-would-pay-more-taxes-for-universal-health
Most Oregonians want universal healthcare but poll also shows most effective messages against it are high taxes and unaffordability; deteriorating quality way down the list
https://www.ijpr.org/post/poll-measures-75-support-single-payer-oregon
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https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d523def29fa080001f104a6/t/5d525a4182da0a00013d52c4/1565711116809/oregon-healthcare-survey-2019.pdf
Most Americans would be financially worse off under Medicare-for-All - higher taxes and lower disposable income, even after removing health insurance premiums (Heritage Foundation)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/how-medicare-all-harms-working-americans
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/using-lessons-from-international-health-care-medicare-for-all
Public option - if you like your health plan, you can’t keep it, because your insurer will leave the market
https://floridianpress.com/2019/11/government-run-medicare-for-all-is-a-big-healthcare-risk/
Lawmaker tours Canada, concludes #SinglePayer wrong for New York. Why turn the world upside down for 95% of people just to cover the remaining 5%? No cost-sharing and unlimited benefits - completely unrealistic.
https://thelcn.com/lcn06/single-payer-health-plan-wrong-for-new-york-20191122
Pushback on Washington state public option cost containment augurs poorly for Medicare-for-All - the supposed ‘savings’ will never materialize
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/is-medicare-for-all-right-answer-wrong-idea-072462
American epileptic flees UK where he had a job offer, because of NHS months-long wait to see a neurologist to set up treatment.
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/11/21/i-left-england-because-of-socialized-medicine-my-life-depended-on-it/
Conservative and Labour politicians agree: UK NHS #SinglePayer provides poor care; but they don’t understand ‘free at the point of care’ design is the problem
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/22/u-k-debate-shows-how-single-payer-systems-shortchange-patients/
California legislator looks to Canada in pushing state #SinglePayer bill - that would be the same Canada where residents made 217,500 trips outside the country for care in 2017 alone. #AnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/11/25/state-led-medicare-for-all-would-import-all-of-canadas-problems/#47b26534374e
VA left identifying information (including SSNs) in records provided to outsiders, putting millions at risk for identity theft. #AnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-put-millions-of-people-at-risk-of-identify-theft-audit-finds/2019/11/21/1cd4ad22-0bcf-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html
“Since 2006, the U.S. government has paid out about $55 million in settlements in 163 malpractice cases at Indian Health Service hospitals. At least 66 patients in those cases died in IHS’s care.“ #YetAnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-gave-troubled-doctors-a-second-chance-patients-paid-the-price-11574439222
“Walter Reed Failed to Examine Almost 2,000 CT Scans - Internal investigation cites mistakes by physicians, technical problems” - #AddThisToTheListOfSinglePayerDisasters
https://www.wsj.com/articles/walter-reed-failed-to-examine-almost-2-000-ct-scans-11574510400
Leftist Leaders Struggle to Reinvigorate Medicare-for-All
Jayapal, other Leftist leaders struggle to unite Medicare-for-All forces and retake offensive after tough few weeks
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/20/medicare-for-all-democrats-071905
“Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Would Bankrupt U.S., Squeeze Providers Out of Existence” (Scott Walker)
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/warrens-medicare-for-all-would-bankrupt-us-squeeze-providers-out-of-existence/
Warren’s Medicare for All plan relies heavily on cost-cutting (low reimbursements and global budgeting) - None dare call it rationing.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/warren-relies-on-rationing-in-medicare-for-all-plan/
Steyer’s health plan: beef up Obamacare, create public option, keep role for private insurance
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/18/steyer-health-care-2020-071424
Industry campaign against Medicare for All taps Democratic consultants and pollsters
https://prospect.org/power/top-democratic-consultants-working-for-anti-medicare-for-all/
- Background on industry group
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/medicare-for-all-lobbying-072110
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/471344-poll-majority-of-voters-say-they-would-pay-more-taxes-for-universal-health
Most Oregonians want universal healthcare but poll also shows most effective messages against it are high taxes and unaffordability; deteriorating quality way down the list
https://www.ijpr.org/post/poll-measures-75-support-single-payer-oregon
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https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d523def29fa080001f104a6/t/5d525a4182da0a00013d52c4/1565711116809/oregon-healthcare-survey-2019.pdf
Most Americans would be financially worse off under Medicare-for-All - higher taxes and lower disposable income, even after removing health insurance premiums (Heritage Foundation)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/how-medicare-all-harms-working-americans
- “In Charts, How ‘Medicare for All’ Would Make Most Families Poorer“ (Heritage Foundation)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/19/in-charts-how-medicare-for-all-would-make-most-families-poorer/
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/using-lessons-from-international-health-care-medicare-for-all
Public option - if you like your health plan, you can’t keep it, because your insurer will leave the market
https://floridianpress.com/2019/11/government-run-medicare-for-all-is-a-big-healthcare-risk/
Lawmaker tours Canada, concludes #SinglePayer wrong for New York. Why turn the world upside down for 95% of people just to cover the remaining 5%? No cost-sharing and unlimited benefits - completely unrealistic.
https://thelcn.com/lcn06/single-payer-health-plan-wrong-for-new-york-20191122
Pushback on Washington state public option cost containment augurs poorly for Medicare-for-All - the supposed ‘savings’ will never materialize
https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/is-medicare-for-all-right-answer-wrong-idea-072462
American epileptic flees UK where he had a job offer, because of NHS months-long wait to see a neurologist to set up treatment.
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/11/21/i-left-england-because-of-socialized-medicine-my-life-depended-on-it/
Conservative and Labour politicians agree: UK NHS #SinglePayer provides poor care; but they don’t understand ‘free at the point of care’ design is the problem
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/22/u-k-debate-shows-how-single-payer-systems-shortchange-patients/
California legislator looks to Canada in pushing state #SinglePayer bill - that would be the same Canada where residents made 217,500 trips outside the country for care in 2017 alone. #AnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/11/25/state-led-medicare-for-all-would-import-all-of-canadas-problems/#47b26534374e
VA left identifying information (including SSNs) in records provided to outsiders, putting millions at risk for identity theft. #AnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-put-millions-of-people-at-risk-of-identify-theft-audit-finds/2019/11/21/1cd4ad22-0bcf-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html
“Since 2006, the U.S. government has paid out about $55 million in settlements in 163 malpractice cases at Indian Health Service hospitals. At least 66 patients in those cases died in IHS’s care.“ #YetAnotherSinglePayerDisaster
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-gave-troubled-doctors-a-second-chance-patients-paid-the-price-11574439222
“Walter Reed Failed to Examine Almost 2,000 CT Scans - Internal investigation cites mistakes by physicians, technical problems” - #AddThisToTheListOfSinglePayerDisasters
https://www.wsj.com/articles/walter-reed-failed-to-examine-almost-2-000-ct-scans-11574510400
November 18, 2019
Warren Wobbles, Wants Way Station to Healthcare Nirvana
Warren embraces public option for transition, but libs view it as retreat from Medicare-for-All
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all-100-days.html
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https://newrepublic.com/article/155756/elizabeth-warren-retreats-medicare
Study: deficit would balloon $15 trillion, demand for medical services would soar under Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan (Avik Roy)
https://freopp.org/a-fiscal-analysis-of-elizabeth-warrens-health-care-plan-c00519436323
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/study-warren-plan-would-hike-deficit-15-trillion-create-soaring-demand-for-health-services/
Warren’s Medicare-for-All employer tax would cost large companies $15,000 per employee and keep small businesses from expanding
https://www.oann.com/elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-hurts-big-businesses/
Financially self-interested nurse’s union backs Bernie’s Medicare-for-All plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/bernie-sanders-nurses-endorsement.html
Former Governor who oversaw Vermont’s #SinglePayer disaster backs Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-vermont-governor-who-oversaw-single-payer-fiasco-endorses-biden
Michigan Dems skeptical of Medicare-for-All; loss of union health plans a factor
https://www.wsj.com/articles/michigan-moderates-sense-jitters-on-medicare-for-all-11573732801
Poll: percentage of Americans opposed to Medicare-for-All is rising (plus, people don’t want to pay for it)
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/poll-shows-americans-do-not-back-medicare-for-all
Washington state lawmakers sneak money for #SinglePayer study into the budget after working group bill fails to pass either house
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-why-is-state-spending-500k-to-study-single-payer/
Medicare-for-All won’t bring down costs or increase patient choices (Sen. Rick Scott)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/13/how-medicare-for-all-would-make-your-health-care-worse-not-better/
“Single-payer health care: High taxes, dangerous wait times”
http://www.wilsontimes.com/stories/single-payer-health-care-high-taxes-dangerous-wait-times,194972
Canadian says socialized medicine there is “ugly and scary” (lots of death by waiting); calls Americans “foolish” for wanting to go the same way
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/when_a_canadian_explained_to_me_the_horrors_of_socialized_medicine.html
Annual UK #SinglePayer NHS health crisis starting early this year; wait times worst in 15 years
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-preview-11573777411
After free health care for all - free housing and free transportation and no more food deserts and a pony for Christmas, all from the government, and nobody has to be responsible for themselves, and we don’t have to talk about how much it would all cost. So you see, it never ends, by design. #UnicornsAndRainbows #SDOH
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/15/779346889/why-even-universal-health-coverage-isnt-enough
Warren Wobbles, Wants Way Station to Healthcare Nirvana
Warren embraces public option for transition, but libs view it as retreat from Medicare-for-All
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all-100-days.html
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https://newrepublic.com/article/155756/elizabeth-warren-retreats-medicare
Study: deficit would balloon $15 trillion, demand for medical services would soar under Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan (Avik Roy)
https://freopp.org/a-fiscal-analysis-of-elizabeth-warrens-health-care-plan-c00519436323
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/study-warren-plan-would-hike-deficit-15-trillion-create-soaring-demand-for-health-services/
Warren’s Medicare-for-All employer tax would cost large companies $15,000 per employee and keep small businesses from expanding
https://www.oann.com/elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-hurts-big-businesses/
Financially self-interested nurse’s union backs Bernie’s Medicare-for-All plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/bernie-sanders-nurses-endorsement.html
Former Governor who oversaw Vermont’s #SinglePayer disaster backs Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-vermont-governor-who-oversaw-single-payer-fiasco-endorses-biden
Michigan Dems skeptical of Medicare-for-All; loss of union health plans a factor
https://www.wsj.com/articles/michigan-moderates-sense-jitters-on-medicare-for-all-11573732801
Poll: percentage of Americans opposed to Medicare-for-All is rising (plus, people don’t want to pay for it)
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/poll-shows-americans-do-not-back-medicare-for-all
Washington state lawmakers sneak money for #SinglePayer study into the budget after working group bill fails to pass either house
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-why-is-state-spending-500k-to-study-single-payer/
Medicare-for-All won’t bring down costs or increase patient choices (Sen. Rick Scott)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/13/how-medicare-for-all-would-make-your-health-care-worse-not-better/
“Single-payer health care: High taxes, dangerous wait times”
http://www.wilsontimes.com/stories/single-payer-health-care-high-taxes-dangerous-wait-times,194972
Canadian says socialized medicine there is “ugly and scary” (lots of death by waiting); calls Americans “foolish” for wanting to go the same way
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/when_a_canadian_explained_to_me_the_horrors_of_socialized_medicine.html
Annual UK #SinglePayer NHS health crisis starting early this year; wait times worst in 15 years
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-preview-11573777411
After free health care for all - free housing and free transportation and no more food deserts and a pony for Christmas, all from the government, and nobody has to be responsible for themselves, and we don’t have to talk about how much it would all cost. So you see, it never ends, by design. #UnicornsAndRainbows #SDOH
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/15/779346889/why-even-universal-health-coverage-isnt-enough
November 11, 2019
Warren’s Way Won’t Work
Warren’s financing plan full of magical thinking: better tax collection, standard world corporate tax rate, new payroll tax won’t reduce wages, wealth tax won’t cause capital flight, etc.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/economics-and-elizabeth-warren/
Warren says her Medicare-for-All plan won’t raise taxes on the middle class, but her advisor (Donald Berwick) admits middle-class workers will pay
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/08/warren-advisor-admits-her-health-plan-raises-taxes-on-the-middle-class/
“Warren Proposes Free Taxpayer-Funded Health Care for Illegal Immigrants” - Medicare for All Who Manage to Step Foot on Our Shores. Sure, that’ll work.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-proposes-free-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants/
Rivals accuse Warren of lowballing Medicare-for-All cost, torpedoing hospitals, etc.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/five-ways-opponents-warren-medicare-065740
Klobuchar criticizes Warren plan for kicking 149 million Americans off their current plan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-would-kick-149-million-americans-off-their-health-insurance-klobuchar_3142931.html
Warren plan a “fantasyland” where the numbers don’t add up (John Barrasso)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/sen-john-barrasso-even-democrats-panic-over-warren-medicare-for-all.html
The more people know about the Warren plan, the less they like it; financing short by trillions (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2019/11/08/medicare-for-all-would-fail-patients/#641e97c96434
Warren plan will crash on the same rocks that sank #SinglePayer plans in Colorado and Vermont - industry opposition and unpayable cost
https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-attempts-at-medicare-for-all-proposals-havent-ended-well-11572957714
Warren plan deviates from popular social insurance model, may not have staying power as a result - Eat the Rich only goes so far
https://apnews.com/e75a52c8a98846f3ab2fddd335915dd2
Medicare’s devastating effects on kidney care would be writ large in Medicare-for-All (Brian Blasé)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/07/why_warrens_plan_will_lead_to_worse_health_care_141676.html
Health entitlements are the main cause of America’s long-term budget woes; Medicare-for-All will INCREASE - not reduce - health spending, making the problem worse
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/doug-badger-major-threat-economy-health-care-spending
UK NHS #SinglePayer trust to limit treatment to ‘racists’ and ‘sexists’, i.e. people with the wrong beliefs not approved by the government. Who is to say Medicare-for-All won’t be politicized in the same way? You could lose your treatment whenever unaccountable bureaucrats decide they don’t like the way you think.
https://summit.news/2019/11/05/uk-national-health-service-to-deny-treatment-to-racists-and-sexists/
Warren’s Way Won’t Work
Warren’s financing plan full of magical thinking: better tax collection, standard world corporate tax rate, new payroll tax won’t reduce wages, wealth tax won’t cause capital flight, etc.
https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/economics-and-elizabeth-warren/
Warren says her Medicare-for-All plan won’t raise taxes on the middle class, but her advisor (Donald Berwick) admits middle-class workers will pay
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/08/warren-advisor-admits-her-health-plan-raises-taxes-on-the-middle-class/
“Warren Proposes Free Taxpayer-Funded Health Care for Illegal Immigrants” - Medicare for All Who Manage to Step Foot on Our Shores. Sure, that’ll work.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-proposes-free-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants/
Rivals accuse Warren of lowballing Medicare-for-All cost, torpedoing hospitals, etc.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/five-ways-opponents-warren-medicare-065740
Klobuchar criticizes Warren plan for kicking 149 million Americans off their current plan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-would-kick-149-million-americans-off-their-health-insurance-klobuchar_3142931.html
Warren plan a “fantasyland” where the numbers don’t add up (John Barrasso)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/sen-john-barrasso-even-democrats-panic-over-warren-medicare-for-all.html
The more people know about the Warren plan, the less they like it; financing short by trillions (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2019/11/08/medicare-for-all-would-fail-patients/#641e97c96434
Warren plan will crash on the same rocks that sank #SinglePayer plans in Colorado and Vermont - industry opposition and unpayable cost
https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-attempts-at-medicare-for-all-proposals-havent-ended-well-11572957714
Warren plan deviates from popular social insurance model, may not have staying power as a result - Eat the Rich only goes so far
https://apnews.com/e75a52c8a98846f3ab2fddd335915dd2
Medicare’s devastating effects on kidney care would be writ large in Medicare-for-All (Brian Blasé)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/07/why_warrens_plan_will_lead_to_worse_health_care_141676.html
Health entitlements are the main cause of America’s long-term budget woes; Medicare-for-All will INCREASE - not reduce - health spending, making the problem worse
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/doug-badger-major-threat-economy-health-care-spending
UK NHS #SinglePayer trust to limit treatment to ‘racists’ and ‘sexists’, i.e. people with the wrong beliefs not approved by the government. Who is to say Medicare-for-All won’t be politicized in the same way? You could lose your treatment whenever unaccountable bureaucrats decide they don’t like the way you think.
https://summit.news/2019/11/05/uk-national-health-service-to-deny-treatment-to-racists-and-sexists/
November 4, 2019
Elizabeth Warren: Read My Lips - No Middle-Class Tax Hikes for Medicare-for-All
Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan would cost $52 trillion in the first 10 years with no middle-class tax hikes. All we have to do is eat the rich. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-packs-52-trillion-price-tag/
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to help insurance workers who will lose their jobs under her Medicare-for-All monstrosity is a fantasy - how many car insurance adjusters do we need?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/11/02/warren-on-medicare-for-all-laid-off-health-insurance-workers-can-get-a-job-in-au-n2555782
Bernie says Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan will kill jobs
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/468768-sanders-calls-his-medicare-for-all-funding-plan-more-progressive-than
ICYMI: Medicare-for-All would kill 2 million jobs
https://khn.org/news/analysis-a-health-care-overhaul-could-kill-2-million-jobs-and-thats-ok/
Bernie refuses to release details of how he would pay for his Medicare-for-All plan
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/774397574/bernie-sanders-wont-yet-explain-how-he-would-pay-for-medicare-for-all
Vulnerable moderate and rural Dems fear political backlash from Warren/Sanders Medicare-for-All plans - a government takeover of healthcare is still a political loser
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/01/elizabeth-warren-health-plan-2020-064259
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/vulnerable-house-democrats-wary-of-campaigning-for-medicare-for-all-in-2020-race-11572516000
“Manchin: ‘Bernie Is Damn Wrong’ That I Would Vote for Medicare for All”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/manchin-bernie-is-damn-wrong-that-i-would-vote-for-medicare-for-all/
Cutting doctor and hospital reimbursement down to Medicare/Medicaid rates under Medicare-for-All would bankrupt the entire system
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2019/10/medicare-for-allthe-bernie-sanders-and.html
Which would you choose to pay for #SinglePayer - 32% payroll tax, 25% income surtax, 42% VAT tax, $12,000 premium, or doubling the national debt? They all sound great, don’t they?
http://www.crfb.org/papers/choices-financing-medicare-all-preliminary-analysis
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https://freebeacon.com/issues/report-medicare-for-all-requires-huge-taxes-high-prices-ballooning-deficit/
“‘Medicare for All’ Actually Isn’t Medicare at All”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/28/medicare-for-all-actually-isnt-medicare-at-all/
Public option still a bad idea - can run at a loss indefinitely, etc.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/revenge-of-the-public-option/
Another #SinglePayer screw-up: 25,000 VA employees and members of veterans service organizations had unauthorized access to veteran’s personal information (IG report)
https://freebeacon.com/issues/va-left-vets-vulnerable-to-identity-theft/
Elizabeth Warren: Read My Lips - No Middle-Class Tax Hikes for Medicare-for-All
Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan would cost $52 trillion in the first 10 years with no middle-class tax hikes. All we have to do is eat the rich. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-packs-52-trillion-price-tag/
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to help insurance workers who will lose their jobs under her Medicare-for-All monstrosity is a fantasy - how many car insurance adjusters do we need?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/11/02/warren-on-medicare-for-all-laid-off-health-insurance-workers-can-get-a-job-in-au-n2555782
Bernie says Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan will kill jobs
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/468768-sanders-calls-his-medicare-for-all-funding-plan-more-progressive-than
ICYMI: Medicare-for-All would kill 2 million jobs
https://khn.org/news/analysis-a-health-care-overhaul-could-kill-2-million-jobs-and-thats-ok/
Bernie refuses to release details of how he would pay for his Medicare-for-All plan
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/774397574/bernie-sanders-wont-yet-explain-how-he-would-pay-for-medicare-for-all
Vulnerable moderate and rural Dems fear political backlash from Warren/Sanders Medicare-for-All plans - a government takeover of healthcare is still a political loser
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/01/elizabeth-warren-health-plan-2020-064259
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/vulnerable-house-democrats-wary-of-campaigning-for-medicare-for-all-in-2020-race-11572516000
“Manchin: ‘Bernie Is Damn Wrong’ That I Would Vote for Medicare for All”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/manchin-bernie-is-damn-wrong-that-i-would-vote-for-medicare-for-all/
Cutting doctor and hospital reimbursement down to Medicare/Medicaid rates under Medicare-for-All would bankrupt the entire system
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2019/10/medicare-for-allthe-bernie-sanders-and.html
Which would you choose to pay for #SinglePayer - 32% payroll tax, 25% income surtax, 42% VAT tax, $12,000 premium, or doubling the national debt? They all sound great, don’t they?
http://www.crfb.org/papers/choices-financing-medicare-all-preliminary-analysis
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https://freebeacon.com/issues/report-medicare-for-all-requires-huge-taxes-high-prices-ballooning-deficit/
“‘Medicare for All’ Actually Isn’t Medicare at All”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/28/medicare-for-all-actually-isnt-medicare-at-all/
Public option still a bad idea - can run at a loss indefinitely, etc.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/revenge-of-the-public-option/
Another #SinglePayer screw-up: 25,000 VA employees and members of veterans service organizations had unauthorized access to veteran’s personal information (IG report)
https://freebeacon.com/issues/va-left-vets-vulnerable-to-identity-theft/
October 28, 2019
The news from single-payer systems around the world is not getting any better
This headline drew the following comment on social media:
basil_hallward -Don't need to tell me, the UK's National Health Service killed my wife earlier this month. Transferred her from critical care to a ward where they didn't have the right equipment for someone with her breathing problems. I have a machine at home that would have kept her alive through the crisis and I only live fiften minutes from the hospital, but the humandroids who work in that centralised bureaucracy didn't have the nous to call and ask me to take it in. But guess what, they're claiming nobody is to blame because everybody followed the correct procedure. My lawyer said we have an irrefutable case and there will be compensation. I told him I don't want compenf*ingsation, I want heads on spikes around the hospital's perimeter wall.
UK NHS #SinglePayer skimps on abdominal surgeries, resulting in many more people dying in the hospital for appendicitis, perforated ulcers, etc. than in the U.S. Sign me up!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-surgery/fewer-emergency-surgeries-more-deaths-in-british-hospitals-vs-u-s-idUSKBN1WU2H5
Canadians not only wait forever to see a specialist, they wait 3 times longer in the emergency room than in the U.S. - “many Canadians just give up and go home”.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/canadas-medicare-for-all-the-wrong-prescription-for-us-citizens-300940276.html
Canadian calls country’s #SinglePayer healthcare system a “crime against humanity” for its overcrowding, long waits, escalating costs, extortionate taxes, etc. - “we have the greatest health-care system in the world no matter how awful the results.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/what-we-call-national-health-care-or-single-payer-is-a-crime-against-humanity/
Baby dies after routine vaccination in Cuban #SinglePayer clinic; mother starts campaign to get answers
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/10/23/mother-baby-killed-communist-cuban-doctors-launches-justice-campaign/
No way Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan can happen without a middle class tax hike
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/22/elizabeth-warrens-health-plan-will-require-middle-/
Elizabeth Warren tacks left, Mayor Pete right on Medicare-for-All to boost support for their campaigns
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/466805-warren-buttigieg-shift-stances-in-battle-over-medicare-for-all
Doc: Medicare-for-All will mean death-by-waiting, doctor burn-out, quality problems, etc.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/467233-doctors-have-a-problem-with-warrens-costly-health-care-plan
Formerly conservative medical profession now a hotbed of left-wing activism for #SinglePayer; communist-tied Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP) growing rapidly
https://time.com/5709017/medicare-for-all-doctor-activists/
The news from single-payer systems around the world is not getting any better
This headline drew the following comment on social media:
basil_hallward -Don't need to tell me, the UK's National Health Service killed my wife earlier this month. Transferred her from critical care to a ward where they didn't have the right equipment for someone with her breathing problems. I have a machine at home that would have kept her alive through the crisis and I only live fiften minutes from the hospital, but the humandroids who work in that centralised bureaucracy didn't have the nous to call and ask me to take it in. But guess what, they're claiming nobody is to blame because everybody followed the correct procedure. My lawyer said we have an irrefutable case and there will be compensation. I told him I don't want compenf*ingsation, I want heads on spikes around the hospital's perimeter wall.
UK NHS #SinglePayer skimps on abdominal surgeries, resulting in many more people dying in the hospital for appendicitis, perforated ulcers, etc. than in the U.S. Sign me up!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-surgery/fewer-emergency-surgeries-more-deaths-in-british-hospitals-vs-u-s-idUSKBN1WU2H5
Canadians not only wait forever to see a specialist, they wait 3 times longer in the emergency room than in the U.S. - “many Canadians just give up and go home”.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/canadas-medicare-for-all-the-wrong-prescription-for-us-citizens-300940276.html
Canadian calls country’s #SinglePayer healthcare system a “crime against humanity” for its overcrowding, long waits, escalating costs, extortionate taxes, etc. - “we have the greatest health-care system in the world no matter how awful the results.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/what-we-call-national-health-care-or-single-payer-is-a-crime-against-humanity/
Baby dies after routine vaccination in Cuban #SinglePayer clinic; mother starts campaign to get answers
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/10/23/mother-baby-killed-communist-cuban-doctors-launches-justice-campaign/
No way Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All plan can happen without a middle class tax hike
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/22/elizabeth-warrens-health-plan-will-require-middle-/
Elizabeth Warren tacks left, Mayor Pete right on Medicare-for-All to boost support for their campaigns
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/466805-warren-buttigieg-shift-stances-in-battle-over-medicare-for-all
Doc: Medicare-for-All will mean death-by-waiting, doctor burn-out, quality problems, etc.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/467233-doctors-have-a-problem-with-warrens-costly-health-care-plan
Formerly conservative medical profession now a hotbed of left-wing activism for #SinglePayer; communist-tied Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP) growing rapidly
https://time.com/5709017/medicare-for-all-doctor-activists/
October 21, 2019
Medicare-for-all would RAISE, not lower, total healthcare spending
Liberal Urban Institute: Medicare-for-all would RAISE, not lower, total healthcare spending - $7 trillion over 10 years
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/59-trillion-over-a-decade-analysis-finds-health-spending-would-rise-not-fall-under-medicare-for-all
Elizabeth Warren responds to clamor of voices demanding to know ‘how you gonna pay for this Medicare-for-All thing’ - ‘I have a secret plan....’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/us/politics/medicare-for-all-elizabeth-warren.html
Unanswered questions about cost sinking Medicare-for-All’s popularity
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-loses-support-amid-lack-of-detail-on-costs-to-voters-11571338349
Despite the smoke and mirrors, Americans don’t support #SinglePayer any more now than they did 40 years ago (Bob Laszewski)
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2019/10/there-is-now-no-more-support-for.html
Big government employees union in New York continues to oppose state #SinglePayer plan
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2019/10/17/large-union-presses-forward-against-ny-s-single-payer-health-care-proposal
What does it cost? What taxes will you raise to fully fund your program? How can hospitals survive a 40% pay cut? And other questions Medicare-for-All supporters can’t answer
https://www.thedailybeast.com/debate-prep-ten-tough-questions-that-medicare-for-all-supporters-probably-cant-answer
CMS Administrator Seema Verma says Medicare-for-All is “scary” because government interventions in healthcare always cause a lot of problems
https://time.com/5703280/seema-verma-bernard-tyson-time-100-health/
HHS Secretary Alex Azar calls Medicare-for-All “utopian” and “simplistic”, saying it would eventually lead to ‘Medicare-for-None’
https://time.com/5703347/alex-azar-time-100-health-summit/
Left-wing crazies want to fund Medicare-for-All by abolishing all nuclear weapons. Sure, Putin will go first, right? Where would the Left be without #UnicornsAndRainbows ?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/researchers-detail-how-slashing-pentagon-budget-could-pay-medicare-all-while
Another Obamacare apparatchik (Rahm Emanuel) grumbles about Medicare-for-All
https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-medicare-for-all-obamacare-rahm-emanuel
Pelosi drug pricing plan seen as de facto government rationing of healthcare
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/18/nancy-pelosis-drug-pricing-plan-would-ration-health-care-deny-life-saving-medication/
Federal Indian Health Service: “Fed Up With Deaths, Native Americans Want to Run Their Own Health Care”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/us/politics/native-americans-health-care.html
Canadian #SingleSlayer Nazis show up at patient’s home to tell him they wouldn’t pay for his in-home care, leaving assisted suicide his only option but, hey, a study shows the government saves a bundle pushing assisted suicide, OK? All right, then.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/465695-als-patient-chooses-suicide-in-canadas-single-payer-paradise
If Canada has the longest wait times in the world, and a new #SinglePayer prescription drug plan is adopted, how soon will I get my meds? Or do I have to die first?
https://business.financialpost.com/news/election-2019/voters-beware-national-pharmacare-is-unnecessary-bad-for-privately-insured-canadians-and-costly-for-taxpayers
Medicare-for-all would RAISE, not lower, total healthcare spending
Liberal Urban Institute: Medicare-for-all would RAISE, not lower, total healthcare spending - $7 trillion over 10 years
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/59-trillion-over-a-decade-analysis-finds-health-spending-would-rise-not-fall-under-medicare-for-all
Elizabeth Warren responds to clamor of voices demanding to know ‘how you gonna pay for this Medicare-for-All thing’ - ‘I have a secret plan....’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/us/politics/medicare-for-all-elizabeth-warren.html
Unanswered questions about cost sinking Medicare-for-All’s popularity
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-loses-support-amid-lack-of-detail-on-costs-to-voters-11571338349
Despite the smoke and mirrors, Americans don’t support #SinglePayer any more now than they did 40 years ago (Bob Laszewski)
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2019/10/there-is-now-no-more-support-for.html
Big government employees union in New York continues to oppose state #SinglePayer plan
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2019/10/17/large-union-presses-forward-against-ny-s-single-payer-health-care-proposal
What does it cost? What taxes will you raise to fully fund your program? How can hospitals survive a 40% pay cut? And other questions Medicare-for-All supporters can’t answer
https://www.thedailybeast.com/debate-prep-ten-tough-questions-that-medicare-for-all-supporters-probably-cant-answer
CMS Administrator Seema Verma says Medicare-for-All is “scary” because government interventions in healthcare always cause a lot of problems
https://time.com/5703280/seema-verma-bernard-tyson-time-100-health/
HHS Secretary Alex Azar calls Medicare-for-All “utopian” and “simplistic”, saying it would eventually lead to ‘Medicare-for-None’
https://time.com/5703347/alex-azar-time-100-health-summit/
Left-wing crazies want to fund Medicare-for-All by abolishing all nuclear weapons. Sure, Putin will go first, right? Where would the Left be without #UnicornsAndRainbows ?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/researchers-detail-how-slashing-pentagon-budget-could-pay-medicare-all-while
Another Obamacare apparatchik (Rahm Emanuel) grumbles about Medicare-for-All
https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-medicare-for-all-obamacare-rahm-emanuel
Pelosi drug pricing plan seen as de facto government rationing of healthcare
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/18/nancy-pelosis-drug-pricing-plan-would-ration-health-care-deny-life-saving-medication/
Federal Indian Health Service: “Fed Up With Deaths, Native Americans Want to Run Their Own Health Care”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/us/politics/native-americans-health-care.html
Canadian #SingleSlayer Nazis show up at patient’s home to tell him they wouldn’t pay for his in-home care, leaving assisted suicide his only option but, hey, a study shows the government saves a bundle pushing assisted suicide, OK? All right, then.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/465695-als-patient-chooses-suicide-in-canadas-single-payer-paradise
If Canada has the longest wait times in the world, and a new #SinglePayer prescription drug plan is adopted, how soon will I get my meds? Or do I have to die first?
https://business.financialpost.com/news/election-2019/voters-beware-national-pharmacare-is-unnecessary-bad-for-privately-insured-canadians-and-costly-for-taxpayers
October 14, 2019
Vermont’s #SinglePayer disaster should end all discussion of Medicare-for-All
Vermont’s #SinglePayer disaster should end all discussion of Medicare-for-All - politicians cagey about the cost, astronomical payroll taxes required, ‘savings’ evaporated through benefit creep, and other conundrums that left a deep-blue Governor talking about the limitations of government https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/opinion/bernie-sanders-single-payer.html
Dems keep pounding Elizabeth Warren to be honest about the cost of her Medicare-for-All plan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-push-elizabeth-warren-for-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all-11570982403
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https://www.wmur.com/article/bennet-hits-warren-on-cost-of-medicare-for-all/29405036
People Bernie’s age don’t fare so well under #SinglePayer given notorious wait times, denial of certain procedures to the aged, etc.
https://medium.com/@JasonWHoyt/would-bernie-sanders-have-survived-under-medicare-for-all-ef0887d3cc80
Democratic member of Congress from Oklahoma opposes Medicare-for-All; “expanding access to insurance doesn’t necessarily expand access to care”
https://oklahoman.com/article/5643610/horn-opposes-medicare-for-all-concept
New York legislators hear testimony on how #SinglePayer inefficiencies can increase taxes, jack up costs, drive business out, and harm the quality of healthcare
https://www.wxxinews.org/post/hearing-universal-health-care-legislation-held-rochester
Massachusetts AFL-CIO breaks with national leadership, demands any endorsed candidate must support Medicare-for-All
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/09/massachusetts-unions-vote-to-vet-presidential-candidates-on-medicare-for-all-breaking-with-labors-top-brass/
Business may be warming up to Medicare-for-All, but is woefully uninformed about the cost, taxes required to pay for it, effect on employees, etc. (Sally Pipes)
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/10/09/business_leaders_should_crunch_the_numbers_on_medicare_for_all_103939.html
Medicare-for-All is a fantasy that underestimates financial consequences and ignores retention of private insurance in universal healthcare countries
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-democratic-party-private-health-insurance-1.37299027
Comment period for Colorado public option closes Oct 25th; bill goes to legislature Nov 15th
https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/premium-cutting-co-public-option-plan-sparks-payer-concerns
Cuban #SinglePayer kills little girl, puts 24 other children in critical condition when government hospital administers wrong vaccine. #CarefulWhatYouWishFor
https://cubanosporelmundo.com/2019/10/11/nina-muerta-vacuna-deficiente/?fbclid=IwAR0_ZPfXHMYJsSqzNmAev7uN1z6iP6wxF8MFaKJUxKQGYBqhBn0IKzLSF_Q
Vermont’s #SinglePayer disaster should end all discussion of Medicare-for-All
Vermont’s #SinglePayer disaster should end all discussion of Medicare-for-All - politicians cagey about the cost, astronomical payroll taxes required, ‘savings’ evaporated through benefit creep, and other conundrums that left a deep-blue Governor talking about the limitations of government https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/opinion/bernie-sanders-single-payer.html
Dems keep pounding Elizabeth Warren to be honest about the cost of her Medicare-for-All plan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-push-elizabeth-warren-for-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all-11570982403
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https://www.wmur.com/article/bennet-hits-warren-on-cost-of-medicare-for-all/29405036
People Bernie’s age don’t fare so well under #SinglePayer given notorious wait times, denial of certain procedures to the aged, etc.
https://medium.com/@JasonWHoyt/would-bernie-sanders-have-survived-under-medicare-for-all-ef0887d3cc80
Democratic member of Congress from Oklahoma opposes Medicare-for-All; “expanding access to insurance doesn’t necessarily expand access to care”
https://oklahoman.com/article/5643610/horn-opposes-medicare-for-all-concept
New York legislators hear testimony on how #SinglePayer inefficiencies can increase taxes, jack up costs, drive business out, and harm the quality of healthcare
https://www.wxxinews.org/post/hearing-universal-health-care-legislation-held-rochester
Massachusetts AFL-CIO breaks with national leadership, demands any endorsed candidate must support Medicare-for-All
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/09/massachusetts-unions-vote-to-vet-presidential-candidates-on-medicare-for-all-breaking-with-labors-top-brass/
Business may be warming up to Medicare-for-All, but is woefully uninformed about the cost, taxes required to pay for it, effect on employees, etc. (Sally Pipes)
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/10/09/business_leaders_should_crunch_the_numbers_on_medicare_for_all_103939.html
Medicare-for-All is a fantasy that underestimates financial consequences and ignores retention of private insurance in universal healthcare countries
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-democratic-party-private-health-insurance-1.37299027
Comment period for Colorado public option closes Oct 25th; bill goes to legislature Nov 15th
https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/premium-cutting-co-public-option-plan-sparks-payer-concerns
Cuban #SinglePayer kills little girl, puts 24 other children in critical condition when government hospital administers wrong vaccine. #CarefulWhatYouWishFor
https://cubanosporelmundo.com/2019/10/11/nina-muerta-vacuna-deficiente/?fbclid=IwAR0_ZPfXHMYJsSqzNmAev7uN1z6iP6wxF8MFaKJUxKQGYBqhBn0IKzLSF_Q
October 7, 2019
Trump blasts Medicare-for-All
Trump blasts Medicare-for-All as government takeover that would ruin healthcare for seniors
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/03/trump-medicare-health-care-2020-025564
Sanders and Warren struggle to explain how Medicare-for-All won’t hurt the middle class after experts say it will or the effects will be unpredictable
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/will-medicare-for-all-hurt-the-middle-class-elizabeth-warren-and-bernie-sanders-struggle-with-questions-about-its-impact/2019/10/05/a645fb3e-dbdb-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html
Medicare is going broke and you want to put everyone on it? How’s that gonna work?
https://fee.org/articles/medicare-hypocrisy-for-all/
#SinglePayer is disastrous for children with lifetime medical conditions; U.K. NHS cut access to cystic fibrosis cure
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kristan-hawkins
11 suspicious deaths being investigated at West Virginia VA hospital; nondiabetic vets injuected with insulin - person of interest identified. #SinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/suspicious-insulin-injections-nearly-a-dozen-deaths-inside-an-unfolding-investigation-at-a-va-hospital-in-west-virginia/2019/10/05/89636e90-dee0-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html
Trump blasts Medicare-for-All
Trump blasts Medicare-for-All as government takeover that would ruin healthcare for seniors
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/03/trump-medicare-health-care-2020-025564
Sanders and Warren struggle to explain how Medicare-for-All won’t hurt the middle class after experts say it will or the effects will be unpredictable
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/will-medicare-for-all-hurt-the-middle-class-elizabeth-warren-and-bernie-sanders-struggle-with-questions-about-its-impact/2019/10/05/a645fb3e-dbdb-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html
Medicare is going broke and you want to put everyone on it? How’s that gonna work?
https://fee.org/articles/medicare-hypocrisy-for-all/
#SinglePayer is disastrous for children with lifetime medical conditions; U.K. NHS cut access to cystic fibrosis cure
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kristan-hawkins
11 suspicious deaths being investigated at West Virginia VA hospital; nondiabetic vets injuected with insulin - person of interest identified. #SinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/suspicious-insulin-injections-nearly-a-dozen-deaths-inside-an-unfolding-investigation-at-a-va-hospital-in-west-virginia/2019/10/05/89636e90-dee0-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html
September 30, 2019
Biggest turn-offs to Medicare-for-All: heavy tax burden and threat to senior healthcare
“Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’” - biggest turn-offs: heavy tax burden and threat to senior healthcare
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/biden-linked-firm-tests-messages-to-undercut-medicare-for-all
Eat the rich for healthcare! Bernie unveils wealth tax to fund Medicare for All
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/politics/bernie-sanders-wealth-tax-proposal-medicare-for-all/index.html
It’s obvious, but some people haven’t gotten the message: BernieCare not free for the middle class
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-medicare-for-all-not-free-for-the-middle-class/
Voters ask Elizabeth Warren about funding and tax hikes for Medicare for All. See if you can fathom her answer: "The system is not protecting middle-class families, and that's what I hear for everybody who asks me questions."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elizabeth-warren-facing-skepticism-over-medicare-for-all-on-campaign-trail
Kill drug industry profits with Medicare for All and you will kill new drug development. It’s that simple.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/23/how-medicare-for-all-could-block-medical-progress/
Small businesses need to understand that Medicare for All would raise their taxes (Sally Pipes)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/small-business-owners-are-foolishly-supporting-medicare-for-all
Insurers must increase price transparency and reduce patient costs, or they will be replaced by Medicare-for-All (Seema Verma)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/seema-verma-tells-insurers-to-adopt-reforms-or-face-extinction-through-medicare-for-all
Fixing surprise medical billing with price controls, as some Republicans want to do, will usher in socialized medicine (Ron Paul)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/beware-the-republican-road-to-medicare-for-all/
AFT president campaigns against Medicare-for-All her union endorsed; defends private insurance
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/randi-weingarten-medicare-for-all-aft-president-american-federation-teachers
“The False Promise of Canada's Health Care System”
https://mises.org/wire/false-promise-canadas-health-care-system
34yo survives acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with drug UK NHS #SinglePayer won’t pay for. The point: Medicare-for-All will have casualties.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/11/preventing-casualties-from-single-payer-health-car/
Tennessee VA hospital revokes surgery privileges of ophthalmologist who operated on the wrong eye too many times. #SinglePayer
http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0488n-06.pdf
Biggest turn-offs to Medicare-for-All: heavy tax burden and threat to senior healthcare
“Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’” - biggest turn-offs: heavy tax burden and threat to senior healthcare
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/biden-linked-firm-tests-messages-to-undercut-medicare-for-all
Eat the rich for healthcare! Bernie unveils wealth tax to fund Medicare for All
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/politics/bernie-sanders-wealth-tax-proposal-medicare-for-all/index.html
It’s obvious, but some people haven’t gotten the message: BernieCare not free for the middle class
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-medicare-for-all-not-free-for-the-middle-class/
Voters ask Elizabeth Warren about funding and tax hikes for Medicare for All. See if you can fathom her answer: "The system is not protecting middle-class families, and that's what I hear for everybody who asks me questions."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elizabeth-warren-facing-skepticism-over-medicare-for-all-on-campaign-trail
Kill drug industry profits with Medicare for All and you will kill new drug development. It’s that simple.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/23/how-medicare-for-all-could-block-medical-progress/
Small businesses need to understand that Medicare for All would raise their taxes (Sally Pipes)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/small-business-owners-are-foolishly-supporting-medicare-for-all
Insurers must increase price transparency and reduce patient costs, or they will be replaced by Medicare-for-All (Seema Verma)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/seema-verma-tells-insurers-to-adopt-reforms-or-face-extinction-through-medicare-for-all
Fixing surprise medical billing with price controls, as some Republicans want to do, will usher in socialized medicine (Ron Paul)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/beware-the-republican-road-to-medicare-for-all/
AFT president campaigns against Medicare-for-All her union endorsed; defends private insurance
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/randi-weingarten-medicare-for-all-aft-president-american-federation-teachers
“The False Promise of Canada's Health Care System”
https://mises.org/wire/false-promise-canadas-health-care-system
34yo survives acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with drug UK NHS #SinglePayer won’t pay for. The point: Medicare-for-All will have casualties.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/11/preventing-casualties-from-single-payer-health-car/
Tennessee VA hospital revokes surgery privileges of ophthalmologist who operated on the wrong eye too many times. #SinglePayer
http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/19a0488n-06.pdf
September 22, 2019
Elizabeth Warren Hiding the Ball on New Single-Payer Taxes
Dem candidates pressure Elizabeth Warren to disclose whether her #SinglePayer health plan means tax increases
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/462397-warren-comes-under-new-pressure-over-medicare-for-all-and-higher-taxes
Dem Wars: Biden v. Sanders v. Warren, etc. on healthcare plans
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760364830/democratic-debate-exposes-deep-divides-among-candidates-over-health-care
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-healthcare-factbox/where-the-top-democratic-u-s-presidential-candidates-stand-on-medicare-for-all-idUSKCN1VV13A
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-clashes-with-warren-and-sanders-over-medicare-for-all-how-we-gonna-pay-for-it_3080162.html
Bernie tries to fool people about the cost of his Medicare for All plan ($30T) by referring to the ‘cost of the status quo’ ($50T). Only one problem: he’s comparing his new spending with total health expenditures
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/18/sanderss-apples-and-oranges-comparison-medicare-for-all-costs/
Pelosi speaks against Medicare for All, believes Obamacare is the path to universal healthcare
https://www.mediaite.com/news/nancy-pelosi-comes-out-against-medicare-for-all-follow-the-lead-of-obamacare-to-get-universal-health-care/
Mayor Pete lays out his ‘Medicare for All Who Want It’ plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/19/pete-buttigieg-heres-better-way-do-medicare-for-all/
Another polls shows public option more popular than government-only Medicare for All
https://www.ibtimes.com/us-healthcare-2019-what-poll-shows-about-medicare-all-2825421
U.S. healthcare NOT the worst in the industrialized world; higher expense reflects greater use of technology and cancer drugs (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/what-the-left-gets-wrong-about-health-spending-and-outcomes
Bernie’s ‘free’ childbirth benefits contradict his beliefs in population control and climate change (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/will-single-payer-health-care-help-ruin-the-planet/
Free-at-the-point-of-service #SinglePayer plans => unlimited demand for a limited a supply of health services => long waits and rationing => major health problems not treated => early deaths. (Sally Pipes)
https://nypost.com/2019/09/21/the-real-cost-of-medicare-for-all-could-be-american-lives/
“When Government Runs Health Care” (It’s not pretty - Cal Thomas)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/12/when-government-runs-health-care/
Pointing to the relatively few uninsured cannot justify New York #SinglePayer (lawmaker)
https://buffalonews.com/2019/09/20/another-voice-single-payer-health-care-is-wrong-for-n-y-state/
Medicare-for-All unknowns - Keep your doctor? Who gets taxed and how much? How many businesses will be closed? etc. M4A is just an advertising slogan, not a serious proposal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-for-all-is-not-medicare-and-not-really-for-all-so-what-does-it-actually-mean
Canadian doc makes money and saves lives referring Canadians for timely surgery IN THE UNITED STATES. (How long would Canadian #SinglePayer last without this safety valve, hmm?)
https://alphanewsmn.com/canadian-doctor-shares-horror-stories-of-single-payer-health-care-to-minnesota-audience/
Congress looking into drunk VA doc who misdiagnosed thousands and killed three. #SinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-impaired-va-doctor-has-been-charged-in-three-deaths-congress-wants-to-know-more/2019/09/10/d9920336-d3e6-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
Vet bitten 100 times by ants at Atlanta VA hospital, dies shortly after. #SinglePayer
https://www.theepochtimes.com/woman-claims-veteran-dad-was-bitten-100-times-by-ants-before-death-at-va-medical-center_3079836.html
Elizabeth Warren Hiding the Ball on New Single-Payer Taxes
Dem candidates pressure Elizabeth Warren to disclose whether her #SinglePayer health plan means tax increases
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/462397-warren-comes-under-new-pressure-over-medicare-for-all-and-higher-taxes
Dem Wars: Biden v. Sanders v. Warren, etc. on healthcare plans
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760364830/democratic-debate-exposes-deep-divides-among-candidates-over-health-care
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-healthcare-factbox/where-the-top-democratic-u-s-presidential-candidates-stand-on-medicare-for-all-idUSKCN1VV13A
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-clashes-with-warren-and-sanders-over-medicare-for-all-how-we-gonna-pay-for-it_3080162.html
Bernie tries to fool people about the cost of his Medicare for All plan ($30T) by referring to the ‘cost of the status quo’ ($50T). Only one problem: he’s comparing his new spending with total health expenditures
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/18/sanderss-apples-and-oranges-comparison-medicare-for-all-costs/
Pelosi speaks against Medicare for All, believes Obamacare is the path to universal healthcare
https://www.mediaite.com/news/nancy-pelosi-comes-out-against-medicare-for-all-follow-the-lead-of-obamacare-to-get-universal-health-care/
Mayor Pete lays out his ‘Medicare for All Who Want It’ plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/19/pete-buttigieg-heres-better-way-do-medicare-for-all/
Another polls shows public option more popular than government-only Medicare for All
https://www.ibtimes.com/us-healthcare-2019-what-poll-shows-about-medicare-all-2825421
U.S. healthcare NOT the worst in the industrialized world; higher expense reflects greater use of technology and cancer drugs (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/what-the-left-gets-wrong-about-health-spending-and-outcomes
Bernie’s ‘free’ childbirth benefits contradict his beliefs in population control and climate change (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/will-single-payer-health-care-help-ruin-the-planet/
Free-at-the-point-of-service #SinglePayer plans => unlimited demand for a limited a supply of health services => long waits and rationing => major health problems not treated => early deaths. (Sally Pipes)
https://nypost.com/2019/09/21/the-real-cost-of-medicare-for-all-could-be-american-lives/
“When Government Runs Health Care” (It’s not pretty - Cal Thomas)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/12/when-government-runs-health-care/
Pointing to the relatively few uninsured cannot justify New York #SinglePayer (lawmaker)
https://buffalonews.com/2019/09/20/another-voice-single-payer-health-care-is-wrong-for-n-y-state/
Medicare-for-All unknowns - Keep your doctor? Who gets taxed and how much? How many businesses will be closed? etc. M4A is just an advertising slogan, not a serious proposal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-for-all-is-not-medicare-and-not-really-for-all-so-what-does-it-actually-mean
Canadian doc makes money and saves lives referring Canadians for timely surgery IN THE UNITED STATES. (How long would Canadian #SinglePayer last without this safety valve, hmm?)
https://alphanewsmn.com/canadian-doctor-shares-horror-stories-of-single-payer-health-care-to-minnesota-audience/
Congress looking into drunk VA doc who misdiagnosed thousands and killed three. #SinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-impaired-va-doctor-has-been-charged-in-three-deaths-congress-wants-to-know-more/2019/09/10/d9920336-d3e6-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
Vet bitten 100 times by ants at Atlanta VA hospital, dies shortly after. #SinglePayer
https://www.theepochtimes.com/woman-claims-veteran-dad-was-bitten-100-times-by-ants-before-death-at-va-medical-center_3079836.html
September 9, 2019
Americans Like Their Private Insurance and Want to Keep It
Poll: only 1 in 5 Dems want to abolish private insurance
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/poll-only-22-percent-of-democrats-want-to-abolish-private-insurance-for-medicare-for-all/
Atlanta Mayor: millions of Americans don’t want to give up their private insurance
https://freebeacon.com/politics/atlanta-mayor-people-dont-want-their-private-insurance-abolished
Sanders v. Biden on healthcare: free vision and dental v. ‘if you like your plan, you can keep your plan’
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/what-medicare-for-all-would-mean-for-60-million-people-already-on-it
Medicare for All that would eliminate private insurance and give free healthcare to illegal aliens is “reckless” and “untenable” (Rahm Emanuel)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/former-obama-white-house-chief-of-staff-rahm-emanuel-calls-medicare-for-all-reckless-and-untenable-video/
House Democratic Caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries announces support for Jayapal Medicare for All bill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/459978-house-democratic-caucus-chairman-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all
The Senate: Where Medicare for All will go to die, even if the Democrats take back control
http://www.wicz.com/story/40983704/the-fight-over-medicare-for-all-is-only-beginning
“If the Democrats Take the Senate, They Plan to Fix Obamacare, Not Pass Medicare for All”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/senate-democrats-eyeing-obamacare-fix-not-medicare-for-all.html
“3 Big Obstacles To Senate Democrats’ Health Care Vision Becoming Reality” (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/28/3-big-obstacles-senate-democrats-health-care-vision-becoming-reality/
AFL-CIO president Trumka says not so fast, single payer will have to include special deals for unions that were won at the bargaining table
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-trumka-top-labor-leader-says-2020-democrats-must-consider-union-brokered-health-insurance-plans/
More pie-in-the-sky from Bernie: eliminate all medical debt
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-calls-for-eliminating-all-medical-debt-at-south-carolina-town-hall
This is very clever. Take a poll in January and again in August to claim support for Medicare for All is rising and ignore all the intervening polls showing support is dropping from a high point
https://morningconsult.com/2019/08/28/rising-democratic-support-for-candidates-who-favor-medicare-for-all-over-aca/
More evidence Medicare for All will INCREASE total national health spending: many observers agree payment to all providers will never be cut 40% to Medicare rates as advocates assumed; plus, payments were not cut to Medicare rates in Washington state fight (Charles Blahous)
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-costs-rising-already
Biden’s public option would kill private insurance, eventually ushering in single payer (Sally Pipes)
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/joe-biden-healthcare-bidencare-medicare-heath-reform-1.35653051
“Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare-for-all’ means worse health insurance at higher cost for most Americans” (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-sanders-and-the-lie-of-a-pro-union-medicare-for-all
The UK NHS war on the obese shows how #SinglePayer must first dehumanize entire groups of people then deny them care to justify balancing the books
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/08/whom-will-socialized-medicine-kill.html
Americans Like Their Private Insurance and Want to Keep It
Poll: only 1 in 5 Dems want to abolish private insurance
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/poll-only-22-percent-of-democrats-want-to-abolish-private-insurance-for-medicare-for-all/
Atlanta Mayor: millions of Americans don’t want to give up their private insurance
https://freebeacon.com/politics/atlanta-mayor-people-dont-want-their-private-insurance-abolished
Sanders v. Biden on healthcare: free vision and dental v. ‘if you like your plan, you can keep your plan’
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/what-medicare-for-all-would-mean-for-60-million-people-already-on-it
Medicare for All that would eliminate private insurance and give free healthcare to illegal aliens is “reckless” and “untenable” (Rahm Emanuel)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/former-obama-white-house-chief-of-staff-rahm-emanuel-calls-medicare-for-all-reckless-and-untenable-video/
House Democratic Caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries announces support for Jayapal Medicare for All bill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/459978-house-democratic-caucus-chairman-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all
The Senate: Where Medicare for All will go to die, even if the Democrats take back control
http://www.wicz.com/story/40983704/the-fight-over-medicare-for-all-is-only-beginning
“If the Democrats Take the Senate, They Plan to Fix Obamacare, Not Pass Medicare for All”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/senate-democrats-eyeing-obamacare-fix-not-medicare-for-all.html
“3 Big Obstacles To Senate Democrats’ Health Care Vision Becoming Reality” (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/28/3-big-obstacles-senate-democrats-health-care-vision-becoming-reality/
AFL-CIO president Trumka says not so fast, single payer will have to include special deals for unions that were won at the bargaining table
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-trumka-top-labor-leader-says-2020-democrats-must-consider-union-brokered-health-insurance-plans/
More pie-in-the-sky from Bernie: eliminate all medical debt
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-calls-for-eliminating-all-medical-debt-at-south-carolina-town-hall
This is very clever. Take a poll in January and again in August to claim support for Medicare for All is rising and ignore all the intervening polls showing support is dropping from a high point
https://morningconsult.com/2019/08/28/rising-democratic-support-for-candidates-who-favor-medicare-for-all-over-aca/
More evidence Medicare for All will INCREASE total national health spending: many observers agree payment to all providers will never be cut 40% to Medicare rates as advocates assumed; plus, payments were not cut to Medicare rates in Washington state fight (Charles Blahous)
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-costs-rising-already
Biden’s public option would kill private insurance, eventually ushering in single payer (Sally Pipes)
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/joe-biden-healthcare-bidencare-medicare-heath-reform-1.35653051
“Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare-for-all’ means worse health insurance at higher cost for most Americans” (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-sanders-and-the-lie-of-a-pro-union-medicare-for-all
The UK NHS war on the obese shows how #SinglePayer must first dehumanize entire groups of people then deny them care to justify balancing the books
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/08/whom-will-socialized-medicine-kill.html