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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
+ p.27:
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
+ p.27:
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
August 26, 2019
More Dems Head for the Exits on Medicare for All
2020 Dems backing off Medicare for All because public support just isn’t there and changing the whole system would be way too disruptive
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/21/why-democrats-are-backing-off-medicare-for-all-charts/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-back-off-once-fervent-embrace-of-medicare-for-all/2019/08/19/13c76ffe-c28b-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html?noredirect=on
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https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/20/wapo-not-just-harris-whos-hitting-reverse-medicare/
Dem hopefuls in key Senate races running away from Medicare for All
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/25/democrats-health-care-senate-1678301
Joe Biden keeps pounding away at Medicare for All; Obamacare is the way to go, he says
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/biden-keeps-up-attacks-against-medicare-for-all
“Harry Reid says 'Medicare for All' is loser for Dems”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/20/harry-reid-says-medicare-all-loser-dems/
Medicare for All losing out to Obamacare with rank-and-file Democrats
https://www.apnews.com/d5736ba8231940579e03c6f95d4f5c0f
Dem candidates squabbling about Medicare for All - Bernie v. Kamala Edition
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/458009-sanders-hits-harris-after-she-criticizes-his-medicare-for-all-plan
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/harris-not-comfortable-with-bernies-medicare-for-all-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2ed6e38159-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2ed6e38159-45628225
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-used-to-love-bernies-medicare-for-all-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=3228b8d306-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_19_08_17_COPY_228&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-3228b8d306-45628225
Bernie denies the change to his Medicare for All proposal to give unions a sweetheart deal is a change to his Medicare for All proposal to give unions a sweetheart deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/458726-sanders-doubles-down-on-medicare-for-all-defense-we-have-not-changed-one
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-bernie-sanders-changes-medicare-for-all-plan-in-face-of-opposition-by-organized-labor/2019/08/21/d8144e06-c423-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mgjaOs2mAmJbu9lhTkCLRbGcmBmys8pVB1FYaq7Cd0DuQ23hHgSpQDgdjh9BFtAXlmYFkII16sfcpRcNCCLix6eBUyA&_hsmi=75963436&noredirect=on&utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_content=75963436&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hs_email
Healthcare industry players working to squelch Medicare for All, Medicare buy-in, and public option
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/all-the-democratic-health-care-proposals-have-one-big-problem
Bernie’s not on Medicare. He doesn’t know anything about it because he gets special gold-plated Senatorial healthcare. (Dr. Jane Orient)
https://www.wnd.com/2019/08/medicare-for-bernie/
Arkansas VA doc charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of 3 veterans; covered up drug use on the job. #SinglePayer
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-robert-morris-levy-charged-manslaughter-veterans-20190821-af6kbm4ohzfabkx3gursybn4lq-story.html
What’s magic about healthcare? Why not #SinglePayer food and housing, too?
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/lane-filler/filler-health-care-medicare-for-all-1.35316760
Sen. Rand Paul: a ‘right’ to healthcare means doctors are your slaves; you could beat down their door, take them away, and force them to take care of you. Where’s that in the Constitution? #GeeNeverThoughtAboutThat
https://www.facebook.com/YoungAmericansAgainstSocialism/videos/2387411604646145/
When a government, with a monopoly on force, makes a mistake, it closes off creative solutions that free people would have created on their own, had they not been thwarted. - Tamzin Rosenwasser MD
More Dems Head for the Exits on Medicare for All
2020 Dems backing off Medicare for All because public support just isn’t there and changing the whole system would be way too disruptive
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/21/why-democrats-are-backing-off-medicare-for-all-charts/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-back-off-once-fervent-embrace-of-medicare-for-all/2019/08/19/13c76ffe-c28b-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html?noredirect=on
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https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/20/wapo-not-just-harris-whos-hitting-reverse-medicare/
Dem hopefuls in key Senate races running away from Medicare for All
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/25/democrats-health-care-senate-1678301
Joe Biden keeps pounding away at Medicare for All; Obamacare is the way to go, he says
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/biden-keeps-up-attacks-against-medicare-for-all
“Harry Reid says 'Medicare for All' is loser for Dems”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/20/harry-reid-says-medicare-all-loser-dems/
Medicare for All losing out to Obamacare with rank-and-file Democrats
https://www.apnews.com/d5736ba8231940579e03c6f95d4f5c0f
Dem candidates squabbling about Medicare for All - Bernie v. Kamala Edition
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/458009-sanders-hits-harris-after-she-criticizes-his-medicare-for-all-plan
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/harris-not-comfortable-with-bernies-medicare-for-all-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2ed6e38159-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2ed6e38159-45628225
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-used-to-love-bernies-medicare-for-all-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=3228b8d306-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_19_08_17_COPY_228&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-3228b8d306-45628225
Bernie denies the change to his Medicare for All proposal to give unions a sweetheart deal is a change to his Medicare for All proposal to give unions a sweetheart deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/458726-sanders-doubles-down-on-medicare-for-all-defense-we-have-not-changed-one
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-bernie-sanders-changes-medicare-for-all-plan-in-face-of-opposition-by-organized-labor/2019/08/21/d8144e06-c423-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mgjaOs2mAmJbu9lhTkCLRbGcmBmys8pVB1FYaq7Cd0DuQ23hHgSpQDgdjh9BFtAXlmYFkII16sfcpRcNCCLix6eBUyA&_hsmi=75963436&noredirect=on&utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_content=75963436&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hs_email
Healthcare industry players working to squelch Medicare for All, Medicare buy-in, and public option
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/all-the-democratic-health-care-proposals-have-one-big-problem
Bernie’s not on Medicare. He doesn’t know anything about it because he gets special gold-plated Senatorial healthcare. (Dr. Jane Orient)
https://www.wnd.com/2019/08/medicare-for-bernie/
Arkansas VA doc charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of 3 veterans; covered up drug use on the job. #SinglePayer
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-robert-morris-levy-charged-manslaughter-veterans-20190821-af6kbm4ohzfabkx3gursybn4lq-story.html
What’s magic about healthcare? Why not #SinglePayer food and housing, too?
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/lane-filler/filler-health-care-medicare-for-all-1.35316760
Sen. Rand Paul: a ‘right’ to healthcare means doctors are your slaves; you could beat down their door, take them away, and force them to take care of you. Where’s that in the Constitution? #GeeNeverThoughtAboutThat
https://www.facebook.com/YoungAmericansAgainstSocialism/videos/2387411604646145/
When a government, with a monopoly on force, makes a mistake, it closes off creative solutions that free people would have created on their own, had they not been thwarted. - Tamzin Rosenwasser MD
August 19, 2019
Familiarity Breeds Contempt with Medicare for All
Ask your representatives:
- Does your Medicare for All proposal exempt members of Congress and their staffs from having to participate?
- Do you promise you and your family will personally have the same coverage as you want to mandate for everyone else?
Democratic presidential candidates shy away from Medicare for All as voters in early primary states say ‘don’t mess with my private insurance’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/15/bernie-sanders-medicare-all-sputters-kamala-harris/
Nursing home resident in Iowa tells Kamala Harris to leave the healthcare system alone
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/kamala-harris-gets-called-out-by-nursing-home-resident-in-iowa-leave-our-healthcare-system-alone-video/
Most people don’t like Medicare for All if it means ending all private insurance
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/obamacares-unpopularity-suggests-medicare-for-all-may-be-a-hard-sell/
“Every healthcare system in the world that I know, including the Brits where the government runs the system, lets you buy health insurance if you want to.... Just let people do what they want to do.” (Michael Dukakis)
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2019/08/16/dukakis-hopes-warren-will-walk-back-support-for-medicare-for-all
Poll: big majority says Medicare for All means middle class tax hikes
https://m.theepochtimes.com/in-poll-big-majorities-say-dem-proposals-like-medicare-for-all-mean-middle-class-tax-hikes_3044963.html
‘Employers are frantic for Medicare for All’ - not really. Most surveyed think it would raise costs, hurt innovation and quality
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/employers-wary-of-medicare-for-alls-impact-on-costs-quality
AMA leaves group fighting Medicare for All
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/medicare-for-all-american-medical-association-obamacare-health-insurance/2019/08/15/id/928733/
Hospital administrators say Medicare for All would force more rural hospitals to close
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/08/16/rural-hospitals-medicare-for-all-health-care
Dems being dishonest about cost of Medicare for All - you can’t double the size of the federal budget and honestly believe a small tax increase on the super-wealthy will pay for it
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/08/16/how-two-dishonest-answers-to-tough-questions-preview-how-tough-the-medicare-for-all-debate-will-be-n2551677
New analysis of BernieCare shows that, for tens of millions, the necessary tax increases would far outweigh any benefit gained from not paying premiums and out-of-pocket costs
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/13/study-bernies-medicare-plan-require-huge-tax-hikes-middle-class/
Just try interacting with Medicare, then tell me you want Medicare for All
http://www.jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/real-medicare-doesnt-match-political-promises/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=virginias_latest_policy_news_from_jefferson_policy_journal&utm_term=2019-08-15
The public option will lead to #SinglePayer - reintroducing market forces instead would cut costs and bureaucracy and improve the doctor-patient relationship (Twila Brase)
https://onenewsnow.com/culture/2019/08/15/brase-you-really-want-dc-to-be-your-only-option
Public option would place 55 percent of rural hospitals at high risk of closure
https://www.navigant.com/-/media/www/site/insights/healthcare/2019/rural-hospital-public-option.pdf?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=5445914158-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-5445914158-171567693&mc_cid=5445914158&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare Buy-In for age 50-64 would cause access problems and cost-shifting
https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/considering-the-effects-of-a-medicare-buy-in/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=5445914158-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-5445914158-171567693&mc_cid=5445914158&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
“New York City Council Members Move to Expand Health Care for Uninsured”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-council-members-move-to-expand-health-care-for-uninsured-11565828654
Incessant racism drumbeat reaches #SinglePayer - racism is the reason the U.S. doesn’t have universal healthcare. Feel guilty, yet?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html
It bears repeating - people wait months and months to see a specialist in Canadian #SinglePayer
https://www.myvalleynews.com/story/2019/08/16/anza/why-we-should-deport-bernie-stats-on-single-payer-health-care-in-canada/67192.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer - take a number, hurry up and wait.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/healthcare_as_abuse.html
Familiarity Breeds Contempt with Medicare for All
Ask your representatives:
- Does your Medicare for All proposal exempt members of Congress and their staffs from having to participate?
- Do you promise you and your family will personally have the same coverage as you want to mandate for everyone else?
Democratic presidential candidates shy away from Medicare for All as voters in early primary states say ‘don’t mess with my private insurance’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/15/bernie-sanders-medicare-all-sputters-kamala-harris/
Nursing home resident in Iowa tells Kamala Harris to leave the healthcare system alone
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/kamala-harris-gets-called-out-by-nursing-home-resident-in-iowa-leave-our-healthcare-system-alone-video/
Most people don’t like Medicare for All if it means ending all private insurance
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/obamacares-unpopularity-suggests-medicare-for-all-may-be-a-hard-sell/
“Every healthcare system in the world that I know, including the Brits where the government runs the system, lets you buy health insurance if you want to.... Just let people do what they want to do.” (Michael Dukakis)
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2019/08/16/dukakis-hopes-warren-will-walk-back-support-for-medicare-for-all
Poll: big majority says Medicare for All means middle class tax hikes
https://m.theepochtimes.com/in-poll-big-majorities-say-dem-proposals-like-medicare-for-all-mean-middle-class-tax-hikes_3044963.html
‘Employers are frantic for Medicare for All’ - not really. Most surveyed think it would raise costs, hurt innovation and quality
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/employers-wary-of-medicare-for-alls-impact-on-costs-quality
AMA leaves group fighting Medicare for All
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/medicare-for-all-american-medical-association-obamacare-health-insurance/2019/08/15/id/928733/
Hospital administrators say Medicare for All would force more rural hospitals to close
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/08/16/rural-hospitals-medicare-for-all-health-care
Dems being dishonest about cost of Medicare for All - you can’t double the size of the federal budget and honestly believe a small tax increase on the super-wealthy will pay for it
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/08/16/how-two-dishonest-answers-to-tough-questions-preview-how-tough-the-medicare-for-all-debate-will-be-n2551677
New analysis of BernieCare shows that, for tens of millions, the necessary tax increases would far outweigh any benefit gained from not paying premiums and out-of-pocket costs
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/13/study-bernies-medicare-plan-require-huge-tax-hikes-middle-class/
Just try interacting with Medicare, then tell me you want Medicare for All
http://www.jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/real-medicare-doesnt-match-political-promises/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=virginias_latest_policy_news_from_jefferson_policy_journal&utm_term=2019-08-15
The public option will lead to #SinglePayer - reintroducing market forces instead would cut costs and bureaucracy and improve the doctor-patient relationship (Twila Brase)
https://onenewsnow.com/culture/2019/08/15/brase-you-really-want-dc-to-be-your-only-option
Public option would place 55 percent of rural hospitals at high risk of closure
https://www.navigant.com/-/media/www/site/insights/healthcare/2019/rural-hospital-public-option.pdf?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=5445914158-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-5445914158-171567693&mc_cid=5445914158&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare Buy-In for age 50-64 would cause access problems and cost-shifting
https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/considering-the-effects-of-a-medicare-buy-in/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=5445914158-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-5445914158-171567693&mc_cid=5445914158&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
“New York City Council Members Move to Expand Health Care for Uninsured”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-council-members-move-to-expand-health-care-for-uninsured-11565828654
Incessant racism drumbeat reaches #SinglePayer - racism is the reason the U.S. doesn’t have universal healthcare. Feel guilty, yet?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html
It bears repeating - people wait months and months to see a specialist in Canadian #SinglePayer
https://www.myvalleynews.com/story/2019/08/16/anza/why-we-should-deport-bernie-stats-on-single-payer-health-care-in-canada/67192.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer - take a number, hurry up and wait.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/healthcare_as_abuse.html
August 12, 2019
Democrats Say Medicare for All is Too Expensive
Dems on Medicare for All: Too Expensive and Would Require Middle Class Tax Hikes
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/456831-health-care-fight-among-2020-democrats-shifts-to-taxes
CNN: Bernie has been repeating the same lie (U.S. spends "twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth") for 10 years. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-fact-check-sanders-has-been-repeating-false-claim-about-health-care-spending-for-a-decade/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=cd09cc16fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_11_10_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-cd09cc16fa-45628225
Hickenlooper: government too inefficient to compete with private insurance
https://freebeacon.com/politics/hickenlooper-government-not-sufficiently-efficient-to-compete-with-private-insurance/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=046e55ee3e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_05_09_01_COPY_222&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-046e55ee3e-45628225
Democrat squabbling over Medicare for All muddies the waters in party’s bid to retake the Senate
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/456574-medicare-for-all-divide-complicates-democrats-pitch-to-retake-senate
Mayor Pete’s plan: "Medicare for All Who Want It" and higher federal subsidies for Obamacare coverage
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/how-pete-buttigieg-would-overhaul-rural-health-1454498
Poll: Iowa likely Democratic caucusgoers are thumbs down on Medicare for All, prefer public option
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/08/10/in-iowa-single-payer-style-of-medicare-for-all-loses-ground/#4837f74a2e2c
They’re still lying about the Blahous study - no, Blahous did NOT find Medicare for All saves money. He said it only looks that way if you grant ridiculously favorable assumptions.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-libertarian-think-tank-still-did-not-find-that-medicare-for-all-saves-money/
Calling it ‘Medicare for All’ is misleading; it’s “like announcing an iPhone-for-All government plan that takes away everyone’s iPhones, and replaces them with tin cans that have an Apple logo slapped on them” (Daniel Greenfield)
https://commonsensepost.com/2019/08/08/medicare-for-all-destroys-medicare-medicare-for-none/
‘Medicare for All would reduce administrative costs’ - not after you factor in creating a whole new bureaucracy from scratch, doctor reporting requirements, waste , fraud, and abuse, and all the other hidden costs (Robert Moffit)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-heritage-foundation-20190808.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRNMVlUZGxZVEpsWVRReCIsInQiOiJxMWkxQlFGeERPekpkN0s0RWt0V3ZPQUVwd0JmN2paMDcyczVteUlXcjV2Tm1FUHJTWVlqYjdDR3NRMm9xWGMyNlVrTFJ3OHA4ZlNRZHI3VVRIR1N5cWMxU2RrQlkxZkpya21sTGd4MVN0K1RRbGdKWlRJaHhkYytNRmdWbUY1VyJ9
“BernieCare is so poorly designed that it will impose hidden costs ranging from $1.25 trillion to as much as $2.8 trillion per year. The upshot will be an additional $61 trillion added to Uncle Sam's unfunded liabilities.” (Chris Conover)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2019/07/30/the-path-to-responsible-national-health-insurance-part-1-berniecare-is-irresponsibility-on-steroids/#3f9c0dc92b96
“Physician suicide has become the highest of any profession.” Medicare for All would make doctor depression and loss of morale worse.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/09/medicare-for-all-will-further-lower-physician-morale/
800,000 would be out of a job if Medicare for All passes - do you want to be the one to look them in the eye and tell them they’re being let go?
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2019/08/04/explainer-medicare-for-all-democrats-debate-election/1880645001/
After Medicare for All, Chevrolets for All and Ponies for All for Christmas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/02/if-medicare-is-for-all-why-not-chevrolets-for-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-medicare-is-for-all-why-not-chevrolets-for-all&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRBMk1qTTRaRGN4WldVeiIsInQiOiJLV2NubldSb2NDQmJCWURsdlhxQklaVjFtaERPRFE0RWNSTW5iNHo1VnVtelwvYXkwYm1lYWhBN2N6aHdxQlQ0ekh5NUJSQlF5bTJSRDZDc2dKWlBSNTYxb29mTDNCNXRvN2RnYTZFckNmMmE2aWxqQ2VWUXZEN2JUdVZEazVEWXgifQ%3D%3D
Medicare for All is making big promises to a whole bunch more people, but it’s only 7 years before Medicare can no longer pay full benefits for seniors
https://nypost.com/2019/08/06/medicare-for-all-is-a-dire-threat-to-medicare-for-retirees/
Canada’s state-run healthcare system is unsustainable and due for a reckoning - ‘insatiable Pac Man of the budgetary pie chart’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/09/canada-needs-debate-its-unsustainable-health-care-system-democrats-are-showing-us-how/?noredirect=on
Democrats Say Medicare for All is Too Expensive
Dems on Medicare for All: Too Expensive and Would Require Middle Class Tax Hikes
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/456831-health-care-fight-among-2020-democrats-shifts-to-taxes
CNN: Bernie has been repeating the same lie (U.S. spends "twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth") for 10 years. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-fact-check-sanders-has-been-repeating-false-claim-about-health-care-spending-for-a-decade/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=cd09cc16fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_11_10_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-cd09cc16fa-45628225
Hickenlooper: government too inefficient to compete with private insurance
https://freebeacon.com/politics/hickenlooper-government-not-sufficiently-efficient-to-compete-with-private-insurance/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=046e55ee3e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_05_09_01_COPY_222&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-046e55ee3e-45628225
Democrat squabbling over Medicare for All muddies the waters in party’s bid to retake the Senate
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/456574-medicare-for-all-divide-complicates-democrats-pitch-to-retake-senate
Mayor Pete’s plan: "Medicare for All Who Want It" and higher federal subsidies for Obamacare coverage
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/how-pete-buttigieg-would-overhaul-rural-health-1454498
Poll: Iowa likely Democratic caucusgoers are thumbs down on Medicare for All, prefer public option
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/08/10/in-iowa-single-payer-style-of-medicare-for-all-loses-ground/#4837f74a2e2c
They’re still lying about the Blahous study - no, Blahous did NOT find Medicare for All saves money. He said it only looks that way if you grant ridiculously favorable assumptions.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-libertarian-think-tank-still-did-not-find-that-medicare-for-all-saves-money/
Calling it ‘Medicare for All’ is misleading; it’s “like announcing an iPhone-for-All government plan that takes away everyone’s iPhones, and replaces them with tin cans that have an Apple logo slapped on them” (Daniel Greenfield)
https://commonsensepost.com/2019/08/08/medicare-for-all-destroys-medicare-medicare-for-none/
‘Medicare for All would reduce administrative costs’ - not after you factor in creating a whole new bureaucracy from scratch, doctor reporting requirements, waste , fraud, and abuse, and all the other hidden costs (Robert Moffit)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-heritage-foundation-20190808.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRNMVlUZGxZVEpsWVRReCIsInQiOiJxMWkxQlFGeERPekpkN0s0RWt0V3ZPQUVwd0JmN2paMDcyczVteUlXcjV2Tm1FUHJTWVlqYjdDR3NRMm9xWGMyNlVrTFJ3OHA4ZlNRZHI3VVRIR1N5cWMxU2RrQlkxZkpya21sTGd4MVN0K1RRbGdKWlRJaHhkYytNRmdWbUY1VyJ9
“BernieCare is so poorly designed that it will impose hidden costs ranging from $1.25 trillion to as much as $2.8 trillion per year. The upshot will be an additional $61 trillion added to Uncle Sam's unfunded liabilities.” (Chris Conover)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2019/07/30/the-path-to-responsible-national-health-insurance-part-1-berniecare-is-irresponsibility-on-steroids/#3f9c0dc92b96
“Physician suicide has become the highest of any profession.” Medicare for All would make doctor depression and loss of morale worse.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/09/medicare-for-all-will-further-lower-physician-morale/
800,000 would be out of a job if Medicare for All passes - do you want to be the one to look them in the eye and tell them they’re being let go?
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2019/08/04/explainer-medicare-for-all-democrats-debate-election/1880645001/
After Medicare for All, Chevrolets for All and Ponies for All for Christmas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/02/if-medicare-is-for-all-why-not-chevrolets-for-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-medicare-is-for-all-why-not-chevrolets-for-all&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRBMk1qTTRaRGN4WldVeiIsInQiOiJLV2NubldSb2NDQmJCWURsdlhxQklaVjFtaERPRFE0RWNSTW5iNHo1VnVtelwvYXkwYm1lYWhBN2N6aHdxQlQ0ekh5NUJSQlF5bTJSRDZDc2dKWlBSNTYxb29mTDNCNXRvN2RnYTZFckNmMmE2aWxqQ2VWUXZEN2JUdVZEazVEWXgifQ%3D%3D
Medicare for All is making big promises to a whole bunch more people, but it’s only 7 years before Medicare can no longer pay full benefits for seniors
https://nypost.com/2019/08/06/medicare-for-all-is-a-dire-threat-to-medicare-for-retirees/
Canada’s state-run healthcare system is unsustainable and due for a reckoning - ‘insatiable Pac Man of the budgetary pie chart’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/09/canada-needs-debate-its-unsustainable-health-care-system-democrats-are-showing-us-how/?noredirect=on
August 5, 2019
Majority of House Democrats are Now Signed on to Medicare for All
Medicare for All reaches milestone as majority of House Democrats sign on
https://truthout.org/articles/majority-of-house-democrats-have-signed-on-to-medicare-for-all/
Elizabeth Warren is given a hard time on Medicare for All from MSNBC, CNN hosts - ‘Public healthcare is like having to take public transportation when you have a car. People don’t want it.’ Warren: ‘They can be made to like it.’ #FreeYourInnerFascist
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/30/van_jones_to_warren_if_you_force_people_into_government-run_health_care_system_they_may_rebel.html
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-chris-matthews-badgers-elizabeth-warren-to-say-shell-raise-taxes-and-she-will-not-do-it/
Dem prez candidates debate ferociously over healthcare. Trade accusations of ‘double-talk’ and ‘using Republican talking points’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/health/democratic-debate-health-medicare.html?login=email&auth=login-email&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f322d1ebd4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f322d1ebd4-171567693&mc_cid=f322d1ebd4&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-and-bennet-expose-socialist-medicare-for-all-in-democratic-debate_3025329.html
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/30/democrats-2020-health-care-1627346
Kamala Harris’s new health plan gives nod to Bernie, but prefers tax on Wall Street trades and 10-year phase in; would force taxpayers to fund abortions
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-plan/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f322d1ebd4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f322d1ebd4-171567693&mc_cid=f322d1ebd4&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
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https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-plan-will-force-americans-to-fund-abortions/
John Delaney exposes the lie that everyone will get the same care under #SinglePayer - it will result in a two-tier system where most people get government crumbs while the well-off can afford better care, just like what happened in Brazil
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/second-democratic-debate-delaney-and-medicare-all/595132/
BernieCare would cover illegal immigrants
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bernie-sanders-says-at-debate-that-healthcare-plan-would-cover-illegal-immigrants_3023571.html
Rep. Jayapal whines other Dems misrepresenting Medicare for All; firefighters union opposes Medicare for All, wants Biden plan, putting the lie to Jayapal’s claim that unions don’t oppose her plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/01/its-time-democrats-get-their-facts-right-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dd6848b276f3
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/top-firefighters-union-supports-biden-opposes-medicare-for-all/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=07f49e6e85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_29_08_45_COPY_219&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-07f49e6e85-45628225
Pharma/hospital/insurer coalition airs ads blasting Medicare for All during Dem debates
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/455316-insurers-hospitals-and-drug-companies-to-air-anti-medicare-for-all-ads
Public option is #SinglePayer the slow way; private and employer insurance will erode (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/be-wary-politicians-promising-public-option-competition?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1Wak56VTJPVEUyWkRjdyIsInQiOiJXcUJHcnhHVFRId2NSVmtFTm5EQlh5RkJLYTVPXC8yclAxTHpDNXhDMEF0V1V4NCs4SzJmVXVtajQzNFZVXC9hek12eTFUd1RyQ1BBUlh3Mm02RTVwWnFhM01OVEUxOXlZTnNnWFUrOTU4TTNrQ3JUK2pvcEFZVWVQc0lVZW9DbFRtIn0%3D
Colorado passed public option but nobody know what it means
https://coloradosun.com/2019/07/30/colorado-public-option-health-insurance/
Poll: 70% reject #SinglePayer
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/29/voters-reject-single-payer-health-insurance-and-socialism-heritage-action-polls-find/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdFME1EWTFaVGM0T0RobCIsInQiOiJhVFwvT0RCN0p3ZDZFR2ljR1k2Z3hQMjVaQUZ2dlZtT1JkeWRyWDBsMktrYldQQzBvMExqblBrMkRLOTliTVZpWEljSzBXQmlpVWhjMUYwQ0pzMk1qUUowXC9VT0tnaWNFOCtSU3lkTUxwZ1c5NGp3VWhcL1hWS0F1WEdOcThEa2x6cyJ9
Panel discusses drawbacks of Medicare for All - loss of private coverage, fewer health care providers, and long waits (archived video)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/event/medicare-all-how-government-run-health-care-would-impact-americans?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJJM01UVmlNRGMxWVRWaiIsInQiOiJZNEh2VW5lRUNLRnJ6Z3JEYUhZc1BQbUdKSEpmS0YzU2tUOWdJb09MbHJkM09ETlBNTFRMXC94YkhQUFBaVHI3eWxSbVJJblFUQmxROW1kbzk5M3IzRXpXd0ZwaG9hM1JMZXMyMEhBXC9BZWFZeHdScVBQTFVtdVVzZUxJMWhGRXN6In0%3D
Medicare for All is completely different from Medicare - more generous, no co-pays, no private insurance, more expensive, financed differently
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2019/07/31/medicare-for-all-has-nothing-to-do-with-medicare-call-it-something-else/?utm_source=Galen%2BEmail%2BAlerts%2B%26%2BAHC&utm_campaign=f322d1ebd4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f322d1ebd4-171567693&mc_cid=f322d1ebd4&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b#754131f86c5c
Leftist writer advises go-slow approach on #SinglePayer; otherwise, providers will close and health outcomes will worsen overnight, plus GOP would sabotage any quick implementation
https://thinkprogress.org/the-problem-from-hell-facing-anyone-who-wants-single-payer-health-care-ad55802ec95f/
Big Government Medicare for All will implode the same way Obamacare did; and with open borders, it will become Medicare for the Whole World
https://nypost.com/2019/08/04/medicare-for-all-is-a-democratic-fallacy/
Canadian universal healthcare is a top spender but is the worst for wait times and ranks low on medical resources
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-august-2019-why-not-a-private-option/
Private insurance growing rapidly in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as employers compete for talent
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-august-2019-why-not-a-private-option/
Hefty pension taxes leading many UK #SinglePayer docs to quit. #WeShouldBeMoreLikeEurope
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-august-2019-why-not-a-private-option/
Majority of House Democrats are Now Signed on to Medicare for All
Medicare for All reaches milestone as majority of House Democrats sign on
https://truthout.org/articles/majority-of-house-democrats-have-signed-on-to-medicare-for-all/
Elizabeth Warren is given a hard time on Medicare for All from MSNBC, CNN hosts - ‘Public healthcare is like having to take public transportation when you have a car. People don’t want it.’ Warren: ‘They can be made to like it.’ #FreeYourInnerFascist
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/30/van_jones_to_warren_if_you_force_people_into_government-run_health_care_system_they_may_rebel.html
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-chris-matthews-badgers-elizabeth-warren-to-say-shell-raise-taxes-and-she-will-not-do-it/
Dem prez candidates debate ferociously over healthcare. Trade accusations of ‘double-talk’ and ‘using Republican talking points’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/health/democratic-debate-health-medicare.html?login=email&auth=login-email&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f322d1ebd4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f322d1ebd4-171567693&mc_cid=f322d1ebd4&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-and-bennet-expose-socialist-medicare-for-all-in-democratic-debate_3025329.html
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/30/democrats-2020-health-care-1627346
Kamala Harris’s new health plan gives nod to Bernie, but prefers tax on Wall Street trades and 10-year phase in; would force taxpayers to fund abortions
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-plan/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f322d1ebd4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f322d1ebd4-171567693&mc_cid=f322d1ebd4&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
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https://www.lifenews.com/2019/07/29/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-plan-will-force-americans-to-fund-abortions/
John Delaney exposes the lie that everyone will get the same care under #SinglePayer - it will result in a two-tier system where most people get government crumbs while the well-off can afford better care, just like what happened in Brazil
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/second-democratic-debate-delaney-and-medicare-all/595132/
BernieCare would cover illegal immigrants
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bernie-sanders-says-at-debate-that-healthcare-plan-would-cover-illegal-immigrants_3023571.html
Rep. Jayapal whines other Dems misrepresenting Medicare for All; firefighters union opposes Medicare for All, wants Biden plan, putting the lie to Jayapal’s claim that unions don’t oppose her plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/01/its-time-democrats-get-their-facts-right-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dd6848b276f3
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https://freebeacon.com/politics/top-firefighters-union-supports-biden-opposes-medicare-for-all/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=07f49e6e85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_29_08_45_COPY_219&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-07f49e6e85-45628225
Pharma/hospital/insurer coalition airs ads blasting Medicare for All during Dem debates
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/455316-insurers-hospitals-and-drug-companies-to-air-anti-medicare-for-all-ads
Public option is #SinglePayer the slow way; private and employer insurance will erode (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/be-wary-politicians-promising-public-option-competition?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1Wak56VTJPVEUyWkRjdyIsInQiOiJXcUJHcnhHVFRId2NSVmtFTm5EQlh5RkJLYTVPXC8yclAxTHpDNXhDMEF0V1V4NCs4SzJmVXVtajQzNFZVXC9hek12eTFUd1RyQ1BBUlh3Mm02RTVwWnFhM01OVEUxOXlZTnNnWFUrOTU4TTNrQ3JUK2pvcEFZVWVQc0lVZW9DbFRtIn0%3D
Colorado passed public option but nobody know what it means
https://coloradosun.com/2019/07/30/colorado-public-option-health-insurance/
Poll: 70% reject #SinglePayer
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/29/voters-reject-single-payer-health-insurance-and-socialism-heritage-action-polls-find/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdFME1EWTFaVGM0T0RobCIsInQiOiJhVFwvT0RCN0p3ZDZFR2ljR1k2Z3hQMjVaQUZ2dlZtT1JkeWRyWDBsMktrYldQQzBvMExqblBrMkRLOTliTVZpWEljSzBXQmlpVWhjMUYwQ0pzMk1qUUowXC9VT0tnaWNFOCtSU3lkTUxwZ1c5NGp3VWhcL1hWS0F1WEdOcThEa2x6cyJ9
Panel discusses drawbacks of Medicare for All - loss of private coverage, fewer health care providers, and long waits (archived video)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/event/medicare-all-how-government-run-health-care-would-impact-americans?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJJM01UVmlNRGMxWVRWaiIsInQiOiJZNEh2VW5lRUNLRnJ6Z3JEYUhZc1BQbUdKSEpmS0YzU2tUOWdJb09MbHJkM09ETlBNTFRMXC94YkhQUFBaVHI3eWxSbVJJblFUQmxROW1kbzk5M3IzRXpXd0ZwaG9hM1JMZXMyMEhBXC9BZWFZeHdScVBQTFVtdVVzZUxJMWhGRXN6In0%3D
Medicare for All is completely different from Medicare - more generous, no co-pays, no private insurance, more expensive, financed differently
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2019/07/31/medicare-for-all-has-nothing-to-do-with-medicare-call-it-something-else/?utm_source=Galen%2BEmail%2BAlerts%2B%26%2BAHC&utm_campaign=f322d1ebd4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f322d1ebd4-171567693&mc_cid=f322d1ebd4&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b#754131f86c5c
Leftist writer advises go-slow approach on #SinglePayer; otherwise, providers will close and health outcomes will worsen overnight, plus GOP would sabotage any quick implementation
https://thinkprogress.org/the-problem-from-hell-facing-anyone-who-wants-single-payer-health-care-ad55802ec95f/
Big Government Medicare for All will implode the same way Obamacare did; and with open borders, it will become Medicare for the Whole World
https://nypost.com/2019/08/04/medicare-for-all-is-a-democratic-fallacy/
Canadian universal healthcare is a top spender but is the worst for wait times and ranks low on medical resources
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-august-2019-why-not-a-private-option/
Private insurance growing rapidly in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as employers compete for talent
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-august-2019-why-not-a-private-option/
Hefty pension taxes leading many UK #SinglePayer docs to quit. #WeShouldBeMoreLikeEurope
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-august-2019-why-not-a-private-option/
July 29, 2019
Medicare-for-All Sinking in the Polls
Poll: support for BernieCare dropping; public option is first choice among Democrats. #PoliticalLoser
https://nypost.com/2019/07/26/even-most-democrats-dont-love-medicare-for-all-and-other-commentary/
Poll: 54% say Medicare for All - a national health insurance program that replaces private insurance - is a bad idea. #PoliticalLoser
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/medicare-for-all-2020-democrats/index.html
Poll: “Black Democrats prefer the public option to 'Medicare for All'” - #PoliticalLoser
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/27/politics/medicare-for-all-vs-public-option-black-democrats/index.html
Poll: majority of Michigan voters oppose Medicare-for-All if it eliminates private insurance. #PoliticalLoser
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/25/democrats-michigan-poll-medicare-all/1825930001/
Poll: Democratic primary voters might like giving health insurance coverage to illegal aliens, but voters overall oppose it. #PoliticalLoser
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/07/26/surprise-poll-shows-general-electorate-widely-opposing-leftwing-policies-popular-among-democratic-primary-voters-n2550702
Even left-wing Politifact has to admit Bernie Sanders’ claim Medicare-for-All would save middle-class families $3,000 a year is MOSTLY FALSE
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/22/bernie-sanders/do-studies-show-middle-class-families-would-save-3/
Kamala Harris announces Medicare-for-All plan - 10-year phase-in, role for private insurers, tax on financial trades
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-harris/kamala-harris-releases-medicare-for-all-plan-ahead-of-second-2020-u-s-democratic-debate-idUSKCN1UO130?il=0
Can’t say we’re surprised - 12 of 17 Obamacare co-sponsors still in the House are now co-sponsoring #SinglePayer plans
https://maplight.org/story/more-than-two-thirds-of-obamacare-cosponsors-now-backing-medicare-for-all-proposal/
Putting the government in charge of setting prices has NOT reduced hospital costs in Maryland overall
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/453660-medicare-for-all-the-hype-v-marylands-reality
Public option would promote unfair competition, and drive private insurers out of the market (Seema Varna) #SlowBoatToSinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/454145-verma-bashes-public-option-as-no-better-than-medicare-for-all
Medicare-for-All is Dem/Prog fever dream come true - no private insurance, no private transactions, no independent medical practice, no physician autonomy. #GeniusMastermindsRule (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/total-control-the-house-democrats-single-payer-health-care-prescription?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJJM01UVmlNRGMxWVRWaiIsInQiOiJZNEh2VW5lRUNLRnJ6Z3JEYUhZc1BQbUdKSEpmS0YzU2tUOWdJb09MbHJkM09ETlBNTFRMXC94YkhQUFBaVHI3eWxSbVJJblFUQmxROW1kbzk5M3IzRXpXd0ZwaG9hM1JMZXMyMEhBXC9BZWFZeHdScVBQTFVtdVVzZUxJMWhGRXN6In0%3D
Medicare-for-All bogus claims: you can keep your plan - FALSE; providers will be paid enough to stay in business - FALSE; people will save a lot of money - FALSE (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/07/22/people-dont-know-what-medicare-for-all-means-democrats-want-it-that-way/#7606c4203df0
Doctors have choices, too, and the doctor shortage will get worse under low-paying #SinglePayer. Just look at California which is scrambling to scrounge up more doctors for Medi-Cal because access is so bad (Marc Siegel)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/why-your-doctor-doesnt-like-medicare-for-all/
“The consistent failures of single-payer health care worldwide are well-documented” - worse health outcomes, more claim denials, people flock to private insurance and governments turn to private providers (Scott Atlas)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/24/fraud-single-payer-health-care/
Bad results from the government takeover of kidney care illustrate the folly of #SinglePayer healthcare (Chris Jacobs) #HorseAndBuggyMedicine
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/26/americas-antiquated-kidney-care-system-illustrates-terribleness-single-payer/
Impending repeal of Obamacare Cadillac tax is cautionary tale for fanciful #SinglePayer proposals that depend on cutting provider reimbursement rates - ‘cost containment’ never sticks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fate-of-the-cadillac-tax-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-proposed-heath-care-plans/2019/07/22/79f7d752-aa5b-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bf8f72af6f6a
Medicare-for-All Sinking in the Polls
Poll: support for BernieCare dropping; public option is first choice among Democrats. #PoliticalLoser
https://nypost.com/2019/07/26/even-most-democrats-dont-love-medicare-for-all-and-other-commentary/
Poll: 54% say Medicare for All - a national health insurance program that replaces private insurance - is a bad idea. #PoliticalLoser
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/medicare-for-all-2020-democrats/index.html
Poll: “Black Democrats prefer the public option to 'Medicare for All'” - #PoliticalLoser
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/27/politics/medicare-for-all-vs-public-option-black-democrats/index.html
Poll: majority of Michigan voters oppose Medicare-for-All if it eliminates private insurance. #PoliticalLoser
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/25/democrats-michigan-poll-medicare-all/1825930001/
Poll: Democratic primary voters might like giving health insurance coverage to illegal aliens, but voters overall oppose it. #PoliticalLoser
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/07/26/surprise-poll-shows-general-electorate-widely-opposing-leftwing-policies-popular-among-democratic-primary-voters-n2550702
Even left-wing Politifact has to admit Bernie Sanders’ claim Medicare-for-All would save middle-class families $3,000 a year is MOSTLY FALSE
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jul/22/bernie-sanders/do-studies-show-middle-class-families-would-save-3/
Kamala Harris announces Medicare-for-All plan - 10-year phase-in, role for private insurers, tax on financial trades
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-harris/kamala-harris-releases-medicare-for-all-plan-ahead-of-second-2020-u-s-democratic-debate-idUSKCN1UO130?il=0
Can’t say we’re surprised - 12 of 17 Obamacare co-sponsors still in the House are now co-sponsoring #SinglePayer plans
https://maplight.org/story/more-than-two-thirds-of-obamacare-cosponsors-now-backing-medicare-for-all-proposal/
Putting the government in charge of setting prices has NOT reduced hospital costs in Maryland overall
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/453660-medicare-for-all-the-hype-v-marylands-reality
Public option would promote unfair competition, and drive private insurers out of the market (Seema Varna) #SlowBoatToSinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/454145-verma-bashes-public-option-as-no-better-than-medicare-for-all
Medicare-for-All is Dem/Prog fever dream come true - no private insurance, no private transactions, no independent medical practice, no physician autonomy. #GeniusMastermindsRule (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/total-control-the-house-democrats-single-payer-health-care-prescription?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJJM01UVmlNRGMxWVRWaiIsInQiOiJZNEh2VW5lRUNLRnJ6Z3JEYUhZc1BQbUdKSEpmS0YzU2tUOWdJb09MbHJkM09ETlBNTFRMXC94YkhQUFBaVHI3eWxSbVJJblFUQmxROW1kbzk5M3IzRXpXd0ZwaG9hM1JMZXMyMEhBXC9BZWFZeHdScVBQTFVtdVVzZUxJMWhGRXN6In0%3D
Medicare-for-All bogus claims: you can keep your plan - FALSE; providers will be paid enough to stay in business - FALSE; people will save a lot of money - FALSE (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/07/22/people-dont-know-what-medicare-for-all-means-democrats-want-it-that-way/#7606c4203df0
Doctors have choices, too, and the doctor shortage will get worse under low-paying #SinglePayer. Just look at California which is scrambling to scrounge up more doctors for Medi-Cal because access is so bad (Marc Siegel)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/why-your-doctor-doesnt-like-medicare-for-all/
“The consistent failures of single-payer health care worldwide are well-documented” - worse health outcomes, more claim denials, people flock to private insurance and governments turn to private providers (Scott Atlas)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/24/fraud-single-payer-health-care/
Bad results from the government takeover of kidney care illustrate the folly of #SinglePayer healthcare (Chris Jacobs) #HorseAndBuggyMedicine
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/26/americas-antiquated-kidney-care-system-illustrates-terribleness-single-payer/
Impending repeal of Obamacare Cadillac tax is cautionary tale for fanciful #SinglePayer proposals that depend on cutting provider reimbursement rates - ‘cost containment’ never sticks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fate-of-the-cadillac-tax-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-proposed-heath-care-plans/2019/07/22/79f7d752-aa5b-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bf8f72af6f6a
July 22, 2019
Some down-ballot Dem candidates running away from Medicare-for-All as political loser
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/18/medicare-all-looms-over-2020-democrats/
Gruber decries stupidity of the American Left, criticizes Medicare-for-All (people should have more choice than that; people who lose private plans won’t be happy) (start 2:52)
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/obamacare-architect-dont-agree-medicare-121403891.html
“Sanders: Medicare for All Will Cost $40 Trillion Over 10 Years”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-medicare-for-all-will-cost-40-trillion-over-10-years/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=00c42946bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_16_08_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-00c42946bb-45628225
What’s this gonna cost? Bernie loads up his Medicare- for-All proposal with dental, hearing and vision coverage, in-home services for seniors, etc. Spend, baby, spend!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/453970-sanders-unveils-plan-to-guarantee-the-right-to-a-secure-retirement
Bernie campaign adviser: KamalaCare is ‘unicorns and magic wands’; it’s not possible to have Medicare-for-All without raising taxes on the middle class
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-adviser-hits-harris-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7dfeb4939a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7dfeb4939a-45628225
Bernie would phase in Medicare-for-All, starting with 55-year-olds
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742723399/facing-pressure-in-campaign-sanders-defends-his-signature-health-care-plan
More than you ever wanted to know about Biden and Bernie duking it out
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-biden_n_5d31f284e4b020cd99431c78?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001
“Politicians can’t solve our health care problems.” #SinglePayer will hurt the young, the old, and the disabled the most. (Jim DeMint)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jim-demint
The only reason Canadian #SinglePayer works is because Canadians can escape to the U.S. for what they need - 63,000 for surgery in 2016
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/15/american-health-care-treats-canadians-who-cannot-wait/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdGbE56WmpaVFJtWVRkbCIsInQiOiJjV3BDZlgxNlU2cGs4WUxPbUw4cEFPQW5OSmFGVExVaE9oc3Y4blhvVG94T3dsNWlIczlNTWVza3c4K2o2aXpjM3dwZGNTeVhDd2JHMkdvT2xkTEJKN0dCYUljM3Y0WVN0K09aYTd5ZmZGYnFxMEZldnNUdG01TlRLXC94RDY2ZWcifQ%3D%3D
This is what you get when you let the government take over all of healthcare - UK won’t let little girl go to Italy for life-saving treatment that’s been offered. #RemeberCharlieGard
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/tafida-raqeeb-is-latest-case-of-uk.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=24a6132f07-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_19_03_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-24a6132f07-198493385
Some down-ballot Dem candidates running away from Medicare-for-All as political loser
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/18/medicare-all-looms-over-2020-democrats/
Gruber decries stupidity of the American Left, criticizes Medicare-for-All (people should have more choice than that; people who lose private plans won’t be happy) (start 2:52)
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/obamacare-architect-dont-agree-medicare-121403891.html
“Sanders: Medicare for All Will Cost $40 Trillion Over 10 Years”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-medicare-for-all-will-cost-40-trillion-over-10-years/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=00c42946bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_16_08_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-00c42946bb-45628225
What’s this gonna cost? Bernie loads up his Medicare- for-All proposal with dental, hearing and vision coverage, in-home services for seniors, etc. Spend, baby, spend!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/453970-sanders-unveils-plan-to-guarantee-the-right-to-a-secure-retirement
Bernie campaign adviser: KamalaCare is ‘unicorns and magic wands’; it’s not possible to have Medicare-for-All without raising taxes on the middle class
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-adviser-hits-harris-plan-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7dfeb4939a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7dfeb4939a-45628225
Bernie would phase in Medicare-for-All, starting with 55-year-olds
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742723399/facing-pressure-in-campaign-sanders-defends-his-signature-health-care-plan
More than you ever wanted to know about Biden and Bernie duking it out
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-biden_n_5d31f284e4b020cd99431c78?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001
“Politicians can’t solve our health care problems.” #SinglePayer will hurt the young, the old, and the disabled the most. (Jim DeMint)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jim-demint
The only reason Canadian #SinglePayer works is because Canadians can escape to the U.S. for what they need - 63,000 for surgery in 2016
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/15/american-health-care-treats-canadians-who-cannot-wait/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdGbE56WmpaVFJtWVRkbCIsInQiOiJjV3BDZlgxNlU2cGs4WUxPbUw4cEFPQW5OSmFGVExVaE9oc3Y4blhvVG94T3dsNWlIczlNTWVza3c4K2o2aXpjM3dwZGNTeVhDd2JHMkdvT2xkTEJKN0dCYUljM3Y0WVN0K09aYTd5ZmZGYnFxMEZldnNUdG01TlRLXC94RDY2ZWcifQ%3D%3D
This is what you get when you let the government take over all of healthcare - UK won’t let little girl go to Italy for life-saving treatment that’s been offered. #RemeberCharlieGard
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2019/07/tafida-raqeeb-is-latest-case-of-uk.html?utm_source=Euthanasia+Prevention+Coalition+Contacts&utm_campaign=24a6132f07-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_19_03_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_105a5cdd2d-24a6132f07-198493385
July 15, 2019
Joe Biden: Dems (aside from Sanders) not telling it straight about Medicare-for-All’s costs, higher taxes, and elimination of private insurance
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/politics/joe-biden-medicare-for-all/index.html
Biden’s Obamacare ‘public option’ plan would ultimately lead to a government takeover of health insurance; public insurer can undercut private insurers b/c government can dictate prices (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-biden-medicare-all
Dem strategist backs Biden’s plan to build on Obamacare; Dems will not be able to keep their promises on #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/452247-democratic-strategist-very-short-sighted-to-ditch-obamacare-in-favor-of-medicare-for-all
Bernie wants to hurt the poor; higher taxes likely to outstrip any cost savings for those on the low end
https://freebeacon.com/issues/most-americans-with-employer-sponsored-health-care-lose-under-sanders-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d1b2a36f88-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d1b2a36f88-45628225
It gets crazier: de Blasio says Medicare-for-All should cover gender reassignment surgery. And I want a pony for Christmas.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/de-blasio-medicare-for-all-should-cover-gender-reassignment-surgery/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fba4a60c58-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fba4a60c58-45628225
Yo, Dems! Please keep pushing Medicare-for-All. It’s a political loser that will cost you the House, the Senate, and the White House.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/451926-democrats-shooting-holes-in-their-own-boat-with-single-payer-plan
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/opinions/medicare-for-all-political-loser-lockhart/index.html
Medicare-for-All would stifle innovation and eliminate the downward pressure on prices that competition brings (Scott Gottlieb)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/gottlieb-calls-2020-dem-hopefuls-medicare-for-all-innovation-stifling.html
Contrary to the Left’s articles of faith, health access and outcomes in the U.S. are very good compared to the rest of the industrialized world (Robert Moffit)
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/451568-what-the-left-gets-wrong-about-health-spending-and-outcomes?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RJeFkyRmpZamhtTlRJMCIsInQiOiJNbjdOeG9wUndPNWU3RlM3XC9USnpBQzZsOE42TzBuN1dTeDI4VlwvUDBwZVJ4cjkrZXhHT1B0VVwvK0RmNXBad3pvUFdpTm5JMm5FajdUMFM1VXBxZ3dYRVJWQWhXMDMrT2pXQmlNTCtIcVwvZEk4SG83aFZFUGdIZjZFelwvNkR0cDF2In0%3D
No, you won’t keep your doctor under #SinglePayer - free services to more people will cut access; reimbursement cuts and new regulations will drive providers out (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/11/3-reasons-wont-keep-doctor-single-payer/
Price tag for free healthcare for all illegal aliens in the U.S. - $66 billion a year. Dem candidates chasing #UnicornsAndRainbows
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/28/free-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-could-cost-american-taxpayers-decade/
Gosh, #SinglePayer won’t work too great, but how about we raise reimbursements, add costly oversight, and rein in overconsumption? OK, and when that doesn’t work? #SquareTheCircle
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2737591
To see the future of #SinglePayer, look to Cuba where medicine is often practiced without electricity or running water
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/kevinmd/80914
Joe Biden: Dems (aside from Sanders) not telling it straight about Medicare-for-All’s costs, higher taxes, and elimination of private insurance
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/politics/joe-biden-medicare-for-all/index.html
Biden’s Obamacare ‘public option’ plan would ultimately lead to a government takeover of health insurance; public insurer can undercut private insurers b/c government can dictate prices (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-biden-medicare-all
Dem strategist backs Biden’s plan to build on Obamacare; Dems will not be able to keep their promises on #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/452247-democratic-strategist-very-short-sighted-to-ditch-obamacare-in-favor-of-medicare-for-all
Bernie wants to hurt the poor; higher taxes likely to outstrip any cost savings for those on the low end
https://freebeacon.com/issues/most-americans-with-employer-sponsored-health-care-lose-under-sanders-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d1b2a36f88-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d1b2a36f88-45628225
It gets crazier: de Blasio says Medicare-for-All should cover gender reassignment surgery. And I want a pony for Christmas.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/de-blasio-medicare-for-all-should-cover-gender-reassignment-surgery/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fba4a60c58-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fba4a60c58-45628225
Yo, Dems! Please keep pushing Medicare-for-All. It’s a political loser that will cost you the House, the Senate, and the White House.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/451926-democrats-shooting-holes-in-their-own-boat-with-single-payer-plan
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/opinions/medicare-for-all-political-loser-lockhart/index.html
Medicare-for-All would stifle innovation and eliminate the downward pressure on prices that competition brings (Scott Gottlieb)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/gottlieb-calls-2020-dem-hopefuls-medicare-for-all-innovation-stifling.html
Contrary to the Left’s articles of faith, health access and outcomes in the U.S. are very good compared to the rest of the industrialized world (Robert Moffit)
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/451568-what-the-left-gets-wrong-about-health-spending-and-outcomes?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RJeFkyRmpZamhtTlRJMCIsInQiOiJNbjdOeG9wUndPNWU3RlM3XC9USnpBQzZsOE42TzBuN1dTeDI4VlwvUDBwZVJ4cjkrZXhHT1B0VVwvK0RmNXBad3pvUFdpTm5JMm5FajdUMFM1VXBxZ3dYRVJWQWhXMDMrT2pXQmlNTCtIcVwvZEk4SG83aFZFUGdIZjZFelwvNkR0cDF2In0%3D
No, you won’t keep your doctor under #SinglePayer - free services to more people will cut access; reimbursement cuts and new regulations will drive providers out (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/11/3-reasons-wont-keep-doctor-single-payer/
Price tag for free healthcare for all illegal aliens in the U.S. - $66 billion a year. Dem candidates chasing #UnicornsAndRainbows
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/28/free-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-could-cost-american-taxpayers-decade/
Gosh, #SinglePayer won’t work too great, but how about we raise reimbursements, add costly oversight, and rein in overconsumption? OK, and when that doesn’t work? #SquareTheCircle
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2737591
To see the future of #SinglePayer, look to Cuba where medicine is often practiced without electricity or running water
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/kevinmd/80914
July 1, 2019
Democratic candidates in second night’s debate unanimously in favor of giving government healthcare coverage to illegal aliens
https://www.theepochtimes.com/all-democrat-candidates-say-their-government-health-plans-would-cover-illegal-aliens_2981786.html
Poll: majority of Americans oppose taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal aliens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/likely_voters_say_hell_no_to_democrats_free_health_care_for_illegals_rasmussen.html
Dems in second night’s debate split on Medicare-for-All, private insurance, Medicare buy-in, Obamacare, etc.
https://khn.org/news/health-care-gets-heated-on-night-2-of-the-democratic-presidential-debate/
Dems split on how high a priority healthcare policy should be after the election
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/25/18691720/2020-presidential-election-democratic-debate-health-care
Democratic presidential candidate Delaney calls Medicare-for-All ‘crazy’ - people like private insurance, and low reimbursement rates under Medicare-for-All would drive hospitals and other providers out of business
http://www.newshounds.us/democratic_candidate_delaney_trashes_medicare_for_all_as_a_crazy_idea_on_fox_news_062919
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Medicare for All: “We can't even pay for Medicare for some”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/450426-democratic-senator-on-medicare-for-all-we-cant-even-pay-for-medicare-for
Bernie Sanders’ claim that 30,000 people die a year waiting for healthcare because of the cost relies on shaky math and may not be true at all
https://khn.org/news/fuzzy-math-fuels-sanders-claim-that-cost-barriers-to-health-care-kill-30000-a-year/
Survey: Democrats have no idea what’s in Medicare-for-all; Republicans and independents are much better informed
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/26/why-are-democrats-so-incredibly-ignorant-about-medicare-for-all/
GOP missing the key issue: lowering the cost of healthcare (Avik Roy)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dem-debate-1-reveals-the-flaw-in-gops-anti-single-payer-message/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f85d2310cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f85d2310cd-171567693&mc_cid=f85d2310cd&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
RAND report: overall healthcare spending under Medicare-for-All would go UP by 1.8%, not down; the federal government’s share of it would go up by 221%
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3106.html?utm_medium=rand_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oea&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f85d2310cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f85d2310cd-171567693&mc_cid=f85d2310cd&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Maryland’s hospital all-payer price regulations not good at controlling costs, but very good at shaking extra money out of Washington and producing unintended consequences
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/medicare-for-all-maryland-hospital-healthcare-price-regulation
Court-ordered compulsory abortion of healthy child in Britain (later overturned) shows dangers of government-controlled healthcare (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/26/britains-compulsory-abortion-fight-shows-risks-of-government-controlled-health-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=britains-compulsory-abortion-fight-shows-risks-of-government-controlled-health-care?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRVME9Ea3lOREEwWXpndyIsInQiOiJPSnJ2MFBDMnlBQWxTRGc5YXByeUlYNFc2WXFFVTlnRU0yY29rWmdHemV6UmZ0NWZiamo0TGJDdW1tRXM0TjlKbnlyNUdvSXZoTXJEcjR2dlBjOWt3MVFJQit0VUR2MDBPRUh5QTVHd0tSVDh0NFZcLzQ3b2l6TmFVSDd1RkJCTGkifQ%3D%3D
Democratic candidates in second night’s debate unanimously in favor of giving government healthcare coverage to illegal aliens
https://www.theepochtimes.com/all-democrat-candidates-say-their-government-health-plans-would-cover-illegal-aliens_2981786.html
Poll: majority of Americans oppose taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal aliens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/likely_voters_say_hell_no_to_democrats_free_health_care_for_illegals_rasmussen.html
Dems in second night’s debate split on Medicare-for-All, private insurance, Medicare buy-in, Obamacare, etc.
https://khn.org/news/health-care-gets-heated-on-night-2-of-the-democratic-presidential-debate/
Dems split on how high a priority healthcare policy should be after the election
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/25/18691720/2020-presidential-election-democratic-debate-health-care
Democratic presidential candidate Delaney calls Medicare-for-All ‘crazy’ - people like private insurance, and low reimbursement rates under Medicare-for-All would drive hospitals and other providers out of business
http://www.newshounds.us/democratic_candidate_delaney_trashes_medicare_for_all_as_a_crazy_idea_on_fox_news_062919
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Medicare for All: “We can't even pay for Medicare for some”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/450426-democratic-senator-on-medicare-for-all-we-cant-even-pay-for-medicare-for
Bernie Sanders’ claim that 30,000 people die a year waiting for healthcare because of the cost relies on shaky math and may not be true at all
https://khn.org/news/fuzzy-math-fuels-sanders-claim-that-cost-barriers-to-health-care-kill-30000-a-year/
Survey: Democrats have no idea what’s in Medicare-for-all; Republicans and independents are much better informed
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/26/why-are-democrats-so-incredibly-ignorant-about-medicare-for-all/
GOP missing the key issue: lowering the cost of healthcare (Avik Roy)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dem-debate-1-reveals-the-flaw-in-gops-anti-single-payer-message/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f85d2310cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f85d2310cd-171567693&mc_cid=f85d2310cd&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
RAND report: overall healthcare spending under Medicare-for-All would go UP by 1.8%, not down; the federal government’s share of it would go up by 221%
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3106.html?utm_medium=rand_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oea&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f85d2310cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f85d2310cd-171567693&mc_cid=f85d2310cd&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Maryland’s hospital all-payer price regulations not good at controlling costs, but very good at shaking extra money out of Washington and producing unintended consequences
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/medicare-for-all-maryland-hospital-healthcare-price-regulation
Court-ordered compulsory abortion of healthy child in Britain (later overturned) shows dangers of government-controlled healthcare (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/26/britains-compulsory-abortion-fight-shows-risks-of-government-controlled-health-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=britains-compulsory-abortion-fight-shows-risks-of-government-controlled-health-care?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRVME9Ea3lOREEwWXpndyIsInQiOiJPSnJ2MFBDMnlBQWxTRGc5YXByeUlYNFc2WXFFVTlnRU0yY29rWmdHemV6UmZ0NWZiamo0TGJDdW1tRXM0TjlKbnlyNUdvSXZoTXJEcjR2dlBjOWt3MVFJQit0VUR2MDBPRUh5QTVHd0tSVDh0NFZcLzQ3b2l6TmFVSDd1RkJCTGkifQ%3D%3D
June 24, 2019
Bernie Sanders promises Medicare for All will cover illegal aliens (currently estimated at 11-22 million people)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/21/bernie-announces-million-illegals-would-get-health-care-under-his-plan/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0MXzrsvZyvNXxgA96qQRLtwAze12hTTI53wNnveUkxqxcu6_EmMVwmGeA
Biden proposes Medicaid for All
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-proposes-universal-medicaid-coverage/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=28274fd79f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_08_41_COPY_204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-28274fd79f-45628225
McConnell-friendly GOP group to spend $4 million in first round of 18-month ad campaign against Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/449477-mcconnell-aligned-group-launches-4m-round-of-ads-against-medicare-for-all
Medicare for All’s lower reimbursement rates would force rural hospitals to close (Rep. Ron Estes)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/medicare-for-all-would-shutter-rural-hospitals
Medicare for All would kill 2.5 million insurance and healthcare jobs, plus untold numbers from higher payroll taxes in all industries
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/jun/21/medicare-for-all-has-untold-costs/
#SinglePayer bills don’t contain any anti-fraud provisions; fraud could reach $357 billion (Chris Jacobs)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/18/single-payer_health_care_will_increase_fraud_corruption_140579.html
Businesses can’t off-load healthcare costs onto #SinglePayer - business taxes will skyrocket (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/06/24/medicare-for-all-is-a-trap-for-businesses-and-employees/#165fae1f3b50
Polls continue to show people don’t understand Medicare for All will destroy their employer and individual plans and slam them into mandatory one-size-fits-all government coverage (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-democrats-dont-understand-medicare-for-all
Poll: most Americans have figured out (correctly) that Medicare for All will drive up their taxes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/poll-shows-most-americans-worry-medicare-for-all-may-raise-taxes
Overweight, over-treated, and won’t heed doctor’s advice - American proclivities and sense of entitlement would bankrupt any #SinglePayer system
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/the-health-care-crisis-we-have-met-the-enemy-and-it-is-us/#more-50742
The fatal flaw of #SinglePayer - unlimited demand for healthcare services will crash into a fixed budget; rationing and bureaucrats deciding who lives and who dies are the inevitable inhumane results
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-fatal-flaw-of-socialized-health-care_2815015.html
A public option would eventually destroy private and employer insurance through unfair competition, i.e., the government’s ability to dictate prices
http://www.aei.org/publication/heavy-hand-public-option/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=a655ed43c1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-a655ed43c1-171567693&mc_cid=a655ed43c1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare for All was proposed in 1969, pushed by labor.
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-june-2019-aca-v-amendment-x/
Bernie Sanders promises Medicare for All will cover illegal aliens (currently estimated at 11-22 million people)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/21/bernie-announces-million-illegals-would-get-health-care-under-his-plan/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0MXzrsvZyvNXxgA96qQRLtwAze12hTTI53wNnveUkxqxcu6_EmMVwmGeA
Biden proposes Medicaid for All
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-proposes-universal-medicaid-coverage/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=28274fd79f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_08_41_COPY_204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-28274fd79f-45628225
McConnell-friendly GOP group to spend $4 million in first round of 18-month ad campaign against Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/449477-mcconnell-aligned-group-launches-4m-round-of-ads-against-medicare-for-all
Medicare for All’s lower reimbursement rates would force rural hospitals to close (Rep. Ron Estes)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/medicare-for-all-would-shutter-rural-hospitals
Medicare for All would kill 2.5 million insurance and healthcare jobs, plus untold numbers from higher payroll taxes in all industries
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/jun/21/medicare-for-all-has-untold-costs/
#SinglePayer bills don’t contain any anti-fraud provisions; fraud could reach $357 billion (Chris Jacobs)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/18/single-payer_health_care_will_increase_fraud_corruption_140579.html
Businesses can’t off-load healthcare costs onto #SinglePayer - business taxes will skyrocket (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/06/24/medicare-for-all-is-a-trap-for-businesses-and-employees/#165fae1f3b50
Polls continue to show people don’t understand Medicare for All will destroy their employer and individual plans and slam them into mandatory one-size-fits-all government coverage (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-democrats-dont-understand-medicare-for-all
Poll: most Americans have figured out (correctly) that Medicare for All will drive up their taxes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/poll-shows-most-americans-worry-medicare-for-all-may-raise-taxes
Overweight, over-treated, and won’t heed doctor’s advice - American proclivities and sense of entitlement would bankrupt any #SinglePayer system
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/the-health-care-crisis-we-have-met-the-enemy-and-it-is-us/#more-50742
The fatal flaw of #SinglePayer - unlimited demand for healthcare services will crash into a fixed budget; rationing and bureaucrats deciding who lives and who dies are the inevitable inhumane results
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-fatal-flaw-of-socialized-health-care_2815015.html
A public option would eventually destroy private and employer insurance through unfair competition, i.e., the government’s ability to dictate prices
http://www.aei.org/publication/heavy-hand-public-option/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=a655ed43c1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-a655ed43c1-171567693&mc_cid=a655ed43c1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare for All was proposed in 1969, pushed by labor.
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-june-2019-aca-v-amendment-x/
June 17, 2019
AMA delegates vote 53-47 percent against #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/448007-doctors-group-votes-to-maintain-single-payer-opposition
Dem Ways & Means chairman abruptly changes focus of hearings away from Medicare for All because it’s ‘wrong policy’ and a ‘political loser’
https://prospect.org/article/how-medicare-all-became-dirty-word
Bernie claims Americans would be ‘delighted’ to pay higher taxes for his Medicare for All proposal; incoherently says multipayer Germany has ‘ideal’ system.
https://www.rt.com/usa/461785-bernie-sanders-high-taxes/
Dem candidates will ‘self-destruct’ if they run on Medicare for All; cost is too high and access to quality healthcare will not improve
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medicare-for-all-2020-democrats-marc-siegel
Candidate John Delaney: “If we Democrats become the party of Medicare-for-all, . ..President Donald Trump will be re-elected and Republicans will control both houses of Congress”
https://www.twincities.com/2019/06/09/john-delaney-medicare-for-all-is-political-suicide-for-us-democrats/
Hearing scheduled on Massachusetts Medicare for All bill
https://apnews.com/4faf5c22fb8446f1b2e5f417e1e57d10
Oregon bill would establish #SinglePayer with Medicaid buy-in as transition; subcommittee hearing set
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2019/06/10/public-option-single-payer-bills-combined-in.html
Private health insurance on the increase in Nordic countries
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/13/socialist-nordic-countries-are-actually-moving-toward-private-health-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=socialist-nordic-countries-are-actually-moving-toward-private-health-care?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpCaVpXSTBNelE0TXprMyIsInQiOiJHZFFmdWE2S1d6WndKbjZ0bmJybkVLMEZoUElqc3NlZEZFQ1ZDZnZzK1lQNUNJenIrT2Q1U0JOUFwvNlRkcmZ4T0p0OEVsTEdQUnEwOWxwZFF1YTRBaUdHOGlObEVYdlVUaklHZlwveTNKN1BrcmViOXU5Q3hyc09xTitBWjlrWG5KIn0%3D
You have been warned: an aging population worsens wait times in government-run healthcare systems (Sally Pipes)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/single-payer-healthcare-is-a-bust-for-baby-boomers
Medicare for All would hurt seniors with long wait times and access problems (Seema Verma)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-ultimately-hurts-seniors-cms-administrator-seem-verma-says
Making healthcare ‘free’ will worsen lifestyle diseases (AAPS) and cause healthcare consumption to rise, much of it unnecessary
https://aapsonline.org/free-medical-care-a-deal-with-the-devil/
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https://www.robesonian.com/opinion/124212/be-wary-of-single-payer-system
BernieCare would lead to “higher taxes, longer wait times, and worse care” (Kevin McCarthy)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/13/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-bernie-sanders-gilded-medicare-for-all-leads-to-higher-taxes-worse-care/
Medicare-for-all is a $32 trillion utopian taxpayer-funded fantasy
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/matt-schlapp-medicare-for-all-trillion-utopian-taxpayer-funded-fantasy-house-ways-and-means
Rural areas will be hurt the most when #SinglePayer reduces reimbursement rates for hospitals
https://elkodaily.com/opinion/columnists/commentary-single-payer-health-care-will-hurt-rural-nevada/article_0cef4619-70c6-5baf-a87c-559142887096.html
Cystic fibrosis drug not available under UK NHS #SinglePayer - the drug works but it ‘costs too much’. Fine with that? What if it was YOUR kid?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/15/trump-criticize-uk-single-payer-health-care-column/1419339001/
AMA delegates vote 53-47 percent against #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/448007-doctors-group-votes-to-maintain-single-payer-opposition
Dem Ways & Means chairman abruptly changes focus of hearings away from Medicare for All because it’s ‘wrong policy’ and a ‘political loser’
https://prospect.org/article/how-medicare-all-became-dirty-word
Bernie claims Americans would be ‘delighted’ to pay higher taxes for his Medicare for All proposal; incoherently says multipayer Germany has ‘ideal’ system.
https://www.rt.com/usa/461785-bernie-sanders-high-taxes/
Dem candidates will ‘self-destruct’ if they run on Medicare for All; cost is too high and access to quality healthcare will not improve
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medicare-for-all-2020-democrats-marc-siegel
Candidate John Delaney: “If we Democrats become the party of Medicare-for-all, . ..President Donald Trump will be re-elected and Republicans will control both houses of Congress”
https://www.twincities.com/2019/06/09/john-delaney-medicare-for-all-is-political-suicide-for-us-democrats/
Hearing scheduled on Massachusetts Medicare for All bill
https://apnews.com/4faf5c22fb8446f1b2e5f417e1e57d10
Oregon bill would establish #SinglePayer with Medicaid buy-in as transition; subcommittee hearing set
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2019/06/10/public-option-single-payer-bills-combined-in.html
Private health insurance on the increase in Nordic countries
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/13/socialist-nordic-countries-are-actually-moving-toward-private-health-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=socialist-nordic-countries-are-actually-moving-toward-private-health-care?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpCaVpXSTBNelE0TXprMyIsInQiOiJHZFFmdWE2S1d6WndKbjZ0bmJybkVLMEZoUElqc3NlZEZFQ1ZDZnZzK1lQNUNJenIrT2Q1U0JOUFwvNlRkcmZ4T0p0OEVsTEdQUnEwOWxwZFF1YTRBaUdHOGlObEVYdlVUaklHZlwveTNKN1BrcmViOXU5Q3hyc09xTitBWjlrWG5KIn0%3D
You have been warned: an aging population worsens wait times in government-run healthcare systems (Sally Pipes)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/single-payer-healthcare-is-a-bust-for-baby-boomers
Medicare for All would hurt seniors with long wait times and access problems (Seema Verma)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-ultimately-hurts-seniors-cms-administrator-seem-verma-says
Making healthcare ‘free’ will worsen lifestyle diseases (AAPS) and cause healthcare consumption to rise, much of it unnecessary
https://aapsonline.org/free-medical-care-a-deal-with-the-devil/
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https://www.robesonian.com/opinion/124212/be-wary-of-single-payer-system
BernieCare would lead to “higher taxes, longer wait times, and worse care” (Kevin McCarthy)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/13/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-bernie-sanders-gilded-medicare-for-all-leads-to-higher-taxes-worse-care/
Medicare-for-all is a $32 trillion utopian taxpayer-funded fantasy
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/matt-schlapp-medicare-for-all-trillion-utopian-taxpayer-funded-fantasy-house-ways-and-means
Rural areas will be hurt the most when #SinglePayer reduces reimbursement rates for hospitals
https://elkodaily.com/opinion/columnists/commentary-single-payer-health-care-will-hurt-rural-nevada/article_0cef4619-70c6-5baf-a87c-559142887096.html
Cystic fibrosis drug not available under UK NHS #SinglePayer - the drug works but it ‘costs too much’. Fine with that? What if it was YOUR kid?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/15/trump-criticize-uk-single-payer-health-care-column/1419339001/
June 10, 2019
Conservative groups launch coalition against Medicare for All
https://nosocializedmedicine.org/
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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2019/06/06/conservatives-launch-anti-medicare-for-all-coalition-443932
House Ways and Means Committee sets June 12th hearing for Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/447005-house-panel-sets-medicare-for-all-hearing-for-next-week
No. 4 House Democrat - Pelosi ally Lujan - announces support for Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/446830-medicare-for-all-gets-new-boost-from-high-ranking-house-dem
Washington state Dem Rep opposes Medicare for All; wants to improve on ACA, not ‘blow up and deconstruct’ current system
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/446878-democratic-rep-says-congress-does-not-need-to-blow-up-and-deconstruct-the
Doctors, nurses, medical students, community organizers disrupt AMA annual meeting, demand #SinglePayer (‘AMA, Get Out of the Way’)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/ama/80345
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/07/demanding-end-rotten-opposition-medicare-all-doctors-and-nurses-march-american
“JAMA publishes first pro-single payer viewpoint in 15 years”
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/medicare-for-all-up-for-debate-jama-publishes-first-pro-single-payer-viewpoint-15-years
“No, My Study Didn’t Find Medicare for All Would Lower U.S. Health Costs by $2 Trillion” (Blahous)
https://economics21.org/blahous-study-didnt-find-medicare-for-all-lowers-costs-two-trillion?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a0fd25fb7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_05_11_38_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3c0289e5fc-5a0fd25fb7-286977134
The Left doesn’t understand that treatment denials and unaffordable care happen every day, all over the world, mostly in government-payer systems (John Goodman)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/06/03/why-the-left-doesnt-understand-health-care/#7605cd9710d1
What comes after #SinglePayer - LAWSUITS! Constitutional challenges, abortion rights, economic freedom, work-arounds, etc.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/medicare-lawsuit-1356592
Some businesses believe off-loading worker healthcare expenses to #SinglePayer will make them more competitive
https://khn.org/news/a-large-employer-frames-the-medicare-for-all-debate/
Let’s get past American healthcare so that we can have rationing, bureaucracy, shortages, and excess demand just like in Canada and the UK
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/analysis-comparison-of-us-canadian-systems-shows-single-payer-is-a-bad-deal
Brits look to Lithuania for relief from record #SinglePayer surgery wait times; NHS harrumphs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7050335/Hospitals-Lithuania-begin-advertising-operations-patients-UK.html
Another admission government-run healthcare does not work - VA frees enrollees to seek medical care outside of VA hospitals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/va-health-care-veterans.html
Conservative groups launch coalition against Medicare for All
https://nosocializedmedicine.org/
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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2019/06/06/conservatives-launch-anti-medicare-for-all-coalition-443932
House Ways and Means Committee sets June 12th hearing for Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/447005-house-panel-sets-medicare-for-all-hearing-for-next-week
No. 4 House Democrat - Pelosi ally Lujan - announces support for Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/446830-medicare-for-all-gets-new-boost-from-high-ranking-house-dem
Washington state Dem Rep opposes Medicare for All; wants to improve on ACA, not ‘blow up and deconstruct’ current system
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/446878-democratic-rep-says-congress-does-not-need-to-blow-up-and-deconstruct-the
Doctors, nurses, medical students, community organizers disrupt AMA annual meeting, demand #SinglePayer (‘AMA, Get Out of the Way’)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/ama/80345
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/07/demanding-end-rotten-opposition-medicare-all-doctors-and-nurses-march-american
“JAMA publishes first pro-single payer viewpoint in 15 years”
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/medicare-for-all-up-for-debate-jama-publishes-first-pro-single-payer-viewpoint-15-years
“No, My Study Didn’t Find Medicare for All Would Lower U.S. Health Costs by $2 Trillion” (Blahous)
https://economics21.org/blahous-study-didnt-find-medicare-for-all-lowers-costs-two-trillion?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a0fd25fb7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_05_11_38_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3c0289e5fc-5a0fd25fb7-286977134
The Left doesn’t understand that treatment denials and unaffordable care happen every day, all over the world, mostly in government-payer systems (John Goodman)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/06/03/why-the-left-doesnt-understand-health-care/#7605cd9710d1
What comes after #SinglePayer - LAWSUITS! Constitutional challenges, abortion rights, economic freedom, work-arounds, etc.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/medicare-lawsuit-1356592
Some businesses believe off-loading worker healthcare expenses to #SinglePayer will make them more competitive
https://khn.org/news/a-large-employer-frames-the-medicare-for-all-debate/
Let’s get past American healthcare so that we can have rationing, bureaucracy, shortages, and excess demand just like in Canada and the UK
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/analysis-comparison-of-us-canadian-systems-shows-single-payer-is-a-bad-deal
Brits look to Lithuania for relief from record #SinglePayer surgery wait times; NHS harrumphs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7050335/Hospitals-Lithuania-begin-advertising-operations-patients-UK.html
Another admission government-run healthcare does not work - VA frees enrollees to seek medical care outside of VA hospitals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/va-health-care-veterans.html
June 3, 2019
Bernie still coy on how he would finance Medicare for All, but points to higher payroll taxes on employers and progressive income taxes
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-government-run-single-payer-health-care-would-require-income-and-payroll-tax-increases/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=97e81b9c7c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-97e81b9c7c-45628225
Medicare for All stalling out in the House; the fact that floor votes have not been scheduled is a good indication the proposal isn’t going anywhere
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/446476-government-health-insurance-systems-pose-serious-risks-to-americans
California Dems boo presidential candidate John Delaney for opposing Medicare for All
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/3/john-delaney-hits-back-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-me/
“AMA Council Rejects Single-Payer Resolution, Calls For Strengthening ACA”
https://insidehealthpolicy.com/daily-news/ama-council-rejects-single-payer-resolution-calls-strengthening-aca
Medicare for All boosters wooing workers with message they can bargain for higher wages if government pays for health care
https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/28/medicare-for-all-advocates-strategize-win-over-working-class/
New York starts public hearings on state single-payer bill; unions split on the proposal
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/unions-split-new-york-single-payer-bill
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-unions-vs-single-payer-11559258778
Private insurers scuttle Connecticut public option bill; Cigna threatened to leave the state
https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-public-health-bill-stalls-on-industry-concerns-11559168563?mod=hp_listc_pos4
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/30/18645790/cigna-connecticut-public-option-medicare-for-all
Support for Medicare for All drops in polls once people learn how much it would cost, raise taxes, eliminate private coverage, delay tests and treatments, and other downsides
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/poll-most-americans-don-t-want-medicare-for-all-once/article_fdff4a1a-78ad-11e9-b250-2b4f6838a77b.html
The way to beat socialized medicine: use competition and choice to bring down costs of health insurance, goods, and services (Avik Roy)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/stop-socialized-medicine-expand-individual-choice/
Venezuela’s failed #SinglePayer is an “exploding supernova” of infectious disease; authorities retaliate against truthful reporting but leprosy, typhus and other eradicated diseases reemerging
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-may-2019-unstoppable/
New pension tax prompting UK #SinglePayer doctors to quit
https://fee.org/articles/why-the-uk-suddenly-is-suffering-from-a-physician-shortage/
Bernie still coy on how he would finance Medicare for All, but points to higher payroll taxes on employers and progressive income taxes
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-government-run-single-payer-health-care-would-require-income-and-payroll-tax-increases/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=97e81b9c7c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-97e81b9c7c-45628225
Medicare for All stalling out in the House; the fact that floor votes have not been scheduled is a good indication the proposal isn’t going anywhere
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/446476-government-health-insurance-systems-pose-serious-risks-to-americans
California Dems boo presidential candidate John Delaney for opposing Medicare for All
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/3/john-delaney-hits-back-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-me/
“AMA Council Rejects Single-Payer Resolution, Calls For Strengthening ACA”
https://insidehealthpolicy.com/daily-news/ama-council-rejects-single-payer-resolution-calls-strengthening-aca
Medicare for All boosters wooing workers with message they can bargain for higher wages if government pays for health care
https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/28/medicare-for-all-advocates-strategize-win-over-working-class/
New York starts public hearings on state single-payer bill; unions split on the proposal
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/unions-split-new-york-single-payer-bill
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-unions-vs-single-payer-11559258778
Private insurers scuttle Connecticut public option bill; Cigna threatened to leave the state
https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticuts-public-health-bill-stalls-on-industry-concerns-11559168563?mod=hp_listc_pos4
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/30/18645790/cigna-connecticut-public-option-medicare-for-all
Support for Medicare for All drops in polls once people learn how much it would cost, raise taxes, eliminate private coverage, delay tests and treatments, and other downsides
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/poll-most-americans-don-t-want-medicare-for-all-once/article_fdff4a1a-78ad-11e9-b250-2b4f6838a77b.html
The way to beat socialized medicine: use competition and choice to bring down costs of health insurance, goods, and services (Avik Roy)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/stop-socialized-medicine-expand-individual-choice/
Venezuela’s failed #SinglePayer is an “exploding supernova” of infectious disease; authorities retaliate against truthful reporting but leprosy, typhus and other eradicated diseases reemerging
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-may-2019-unstoppable/
New pension tax prompting UK #SinglePayer doctors to quit
https://fee.org/articles/why-the-uk-suddenly-is-suffering-from-a-physician-shortage/
May 27, 2019
Hospitals emerge as formidable foe of Medicare for All; there’s nothing like losing $151 billion to focus the mind
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/25/medicare-for-all-health-1436763
CBO testimony: #SinglePayer could mean disruption, wait times, access problems, lower quality, and more federal control over people’s lives
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/445036-cbo-medicare-for-all-gives-many-more-coverage-but-potentially-disruptive
House hearing on #SinglePayer put Democrat divisions on full view
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/single-payer-hearing-highlights-differences-among-democrats
AMA to debate Medicare for All in June
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/05/23/doctors-to-test-amas-opposition-to-medicare-for-all/#5584501dfc93
Kamala Harris has gotten evasive about how Medicare for All would ‘move on from all that’ and eliminate private coverage
https://reason.com/2019/05/14/kamala-harris-is-dodging-hard-questions-about-medicare-for-all/
#SinglePayer will screw people with preexisting conditions, with the government doing the screwing (Rep. Crenshaw)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4799131/rep-chenshaw-m4a-effect-pre-existing-condition
Medicare for All repeats the Obamacare fantasy - you can have more care for less money. (Charles Blahous)
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-winners-and-losers?sfns=mo&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=7d6ce638f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-7d6ce638f9-171567693&mc_cid=7d6ce638f9&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Total federal cost of Medicare for All - as much as $60.7 trillion over first 10 years. More generous coverage would bring overuse, higher prices, shortages, access problems for people with low incomes or big health issues (Charles Blahous)
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-winners-and-losers?sfns=mo&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=7d6ce638f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-7d6ce638f9-171567693&mc_cid=7d6ce638f9&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
No co-pays, goosed demand for ‘free stuff’, pay cuts for doctors and hospitals, astronomical taxes to pay for it all - and you’re telling me Medicare for All is actually supposed to work? (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-c-pipes-medicare-for-all-is-worse-than-the-cbo-suggests
People like their private coverage and don’t want to be forced into subpar #SinglePayer (Donna Shalala)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4798127/rep-shalala-medicare&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=53ef51eaad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-53ef51eaad-171567693&mc_cid=53ef51eaad&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare for America Act would effectively end all private healthcare for many Americans (Chris Jacobs)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dems-new-plan-would-ban-private-medicine-11557688457?emailToken=021e456c98013bbeec830ca8e98e5823z09OlhgqB321jmQVs67HE2+4ojsAkg+xmqudWVBvYR/78IoLTDdeV8Ze5KYQlWJS6XimWoCn/KN6nbXxKDD1kMlPk39yBTRRnDQeS4tK3mI%3D&reflink=article_email_share&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=53ef51eaad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-53ef51eaad-171567693&mc_cid=53ef51eaad&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
The models for Medicare for All are all dreadful, no matter where you turn - UK, Canada, VA, etc. They all trample on rights, not expand rights. (Avik Roy)
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2013/06/03/socialized-medicine-is-bad-for-your-health/
Medicare for All - “what about the non-financial costs like doctor shortages, foregone treatment due to lack of access to care and tens of thousands of deaths due to overly aggressive care?”
https://mises.org/wire/unseen-costs-medicare-all
‘Everyone will get the same care under #SinglePayer’ - No. A black market will develop with the rich paying to avoid public queues and the rest of us peons fighting over what scraps are left.
https://mises.org/wire/unseen-costs-medicare-all
No co-pays or deductibles - Medicare for All way more lavish than the countries #SinglePayer supporters cite as examples.
https://www.pharostribune.com/news/business/article_d8b7bf38-d1f5-5408-8b57-35c65013c177.html
#SinglePayer - no private coverage even if you want it, bureaucrats decide whether the treatment you want is medically necessary, doctors mostly chained to government patients. What happened to freedom?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/22/medicare-for-all-would-eliminate-americans-choices-in-health-coverage/
Medicare for All would force taxpayers to pay for abortion; more than 50 pro-life groups object
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-scalilse-greg-walden-medicare-for-all-taxes-abortions
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/anti-abortion-advocates-come-out-against-medicare-for-all
Hospitals emerge as formidable foe of Medicare for All; there’s nothing like losing $151 billion to focus the mind
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/25/medicare-for-all-health-1436763
CBO testimony: #SinglePayer could mean disruption, wait times, access problems, lower quality, and more federal control over people’s lives
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/445036-cbo-medicare-for-all-gives-many-more-coverage-but-potentially-disruptive
House hearing on #SinglePayer put Democrat divisions on full view
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/single-payer-hearing-highlights-differences-among-democrats
AMA to debate Medicare for All in June
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/05/23/doctors-to-test-amas-opposition-to-medicare-for-all/#5584501dfc93
Kamala Harris has gotten evasive about how Medicare for All would ‘move on from all that’ and eliminate private coverage
https://reason.com/2019/05/14/kamala-harris-is-dodging-hard-questions-about-medicare-for-all/
#SinglePayer will screw people with preexisting conditions, with the government doing the screwing (Rep. Crenshaw)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4799131/rep-chenshaw-m4a-effect-pre-existing-condition
Medicare for All repeats the Obamacare fantasy - you can have more care for less money. (Charles Blahous)
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-winners-and-losers?sfns=mo&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=7d6ce638f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-7d6ce638f9-171567693&mc_cid=7d6ce638f9&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Total federal cost of Medicare for All - as much as $60.7 trillion over first 10 years. More generous coverage would bring overuse, higher prices, shortages, access problems for people with low incomes or big health issues (Charles Blahous)
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-winners-and-losers?sfns=mo&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=7d6ce638f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-7d6ce638f9-171567693&mc_cid=7d6ce638f9&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
No co-pays, goosed demand for ‘free stuff’, pay cuts for doctors and hospitals, astronomical taxes to pay for it all - and you’re telling me Medicare for All is actually supposed to work? (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-c-pipes-medicare-for-all-is-worse-than-the-cbo-suggests
People like their private coverage and don’t want to be forced into subpar #SinglePayer (Donna Shalala)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4798127/rep-shalala-medicare&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=53ef51eaad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-53ef51eaad-171567693&mc_cid=53ef51eaad&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare for America Act would effectively end all private healthcare for many Americans (Chris Jacobs)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dems-new-plan-would-ban-private-medicine-11557688457?emailToken=021e456c98013bbeec830ca8e98e5823z09OlhgqB321jmQVs67HE2+4ojsAkg+xmqudWVBvYR/78IoLTDdeV8Ze5KYQlWJS6XimWoCn/KN6nbXxKDD1kMlPk39yBTRRnDQeS4tK3mI%3D&reflink=article_email_share&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=53ef51eaad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-53ef51eaad-171567693&mc_cid=53ef51eaad&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
The models for Medicare for All are all dreadful, no matter where you turn - UK, Canada, VA, etc. They all trample on rights, not expand rights. (Avik Roy)
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2013/06/03/socialized-medicine-is-bad-for-your-health/
Medicare for All - “what about the non-financial costs like doctor shortages, foregone treatment due to lack of access to care and tens of thousands of deaths due to overly aggressive care?”
https://mises.org/wire/unseen-costs-medicare-all
‘Everyone will get the same care under #SinglePayer’ - No. A black market will develop with the rich paying to avoid public queues and the rest of us peons fighting over what scraps are left.
https://mises.org/wire/unseen-costs-medicare-all
No co-pays or deductibles - Medicare for All way more lavish than the countries #SinglePayer supporters cite as examples.
https://www.pharostribune.com/news/business/article_d8b7bf38-d1f5-5408-8b57-35c65013c177.html
#SinglePayer - no private coverage even if you want it, bureaucrats decide whether the treatment you want is medically necessary, doctors mostly chained to government patients. What happened to freedom?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/22/medicare-for-all-would-eliminate-americans-choices-in-health-coverage/
Medicare for All would force taxpayers to pay for abortion; more than 50 pro-life groups object
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-scalilse-greg-walden-medicare-for-all-taxes-abortions
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/anti-abortion-advocates-come-out-against-medicare-for-all
May 13, 2019
Yo Bernie, why don’t you ask CBO to score your Medicare for All bill so we can see how much it would cost? (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/03/cbo-report-single-payer-isnt-one-deserve-see/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=613331f415-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-613331f415-171567693&mc_cid=613331f415&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
CBO to testify on its recent report on #SinglePayer at a hearing May 22nd.
https://budget.house.gov/legislation/hearings/key-design-components-and-considerations-establishing-single-payer-health-care
CBO report has all the bad stuff: can’t keep your doctor, new taxes will kill the economy, etc., not to mention the roll-out would be in the hands of the goofs who brought you the Obamacare implementation train wreck
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-burdens-of-berniecare-11557091123?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=613331f415-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-613331f415-171567693&mc_cid=613331f415&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Dem Senator Michael Bennett says Medicare for All supporters need to level with the American people about how they will lose their current plan and how much in new taxes they will have to pay
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/michael-bennet-medicare-for-all-1303032
eHealth CEO: Medicare for All 'would just collapse the system'
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2019/05/10/health-care-ceo-medicare-for-all-would-just-collapse-the-system/23724472/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHcpl1IvMp3rqyENISJWEoTq7vbNzrNlCVrkAlCNG-YyCR0jbW0kmxCBghH-L5KWhv3Vw5LHe-jQvGRsoP2qdmefs2e2TzM02j5sXvABSPBxj_ErgxoiGsIcvwGETyph0kGFlFgNERIZimflVmRZkMiYFAYVFdpGCwSDQVRR3Q9f
Healthcare lobbyists argue against Medicare for All to 4 dozen congressional staffers
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/11/health-care-lobbyists-luxury-retreat/
Health insurers continue blitz against #SinglePayer
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/05/05/health-insurers-intensify-contrast-with-bernies-medicare-for-all/#49a3747927a9
Colorado and Washington state poised to become first to offer ‘public option’ insurance
https://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-medicaid-buy-in-cms-colorado-washington-bill.html
Gov. Newsom plan would divert healthcare funding for illegal aliens from California counties to pay for state #SinglePayer plan
https://californiaglobe.com/governor/the-backdoor-approach-gov-newsom-is-implementing-to-achieve-single-payer/
Medicare for All would kill medical innovation - the market is better at making progress than government rule-making ever could be (Scott Gottlieb)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/former-trump-fda-chief-scott-gottlieb-warns-medicare-for-all-would-hold-back-medical-progress
“Sorry, Bernie, but most Americans like their health insurance the way it is” (Megan McArdle)
https://www.starherald.com/opinion/columnists/syndicated/megan-mcardle-sorry-bernie-but-most-americans-like-their-health/article_e2d18a34-b4d7-5582-a9cd-96aefafca09d.html
No easy answers for healthcare dilemmas (Robert Samuelson)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-single-payer-health-care-system-is-no-panacea/2019/05/08/ba44e67e-719e-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e4069ac407ec
Medicare for All can’t solve any healthcare crisis because Medicare IS the crisis
https://reason.com/2019/05/08/bernie-sanders-thinks-medicare-for-all-would-solve-americas-health-care-problems-it-would-make-them-worse/
Medicare for All financing is pie-in-the-sky - ‘There isn’t $30 trillion sitting around from high earners’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-09/tax-hikes-on-wealthy-alone-can-t-pay-for-medicare-for-all-plan
Rural areas will get hammered under #SinglePayer, as contrast between UK and Canada government-run healthcare shows
https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2019/05/single-payer-shortcomings/
Denmark is not #SinglePayer but exhibits the problems of government-run system: long waits, many items not covered, diagnostic tests limited. 60% percent of Danes supplement beyond government coverage.
https://www.newsmax.com/leonardgrunstein/healthcare-single-payer-socialism-private-insurance/2019/05/10/id/915500/
U.S. #SinglePayer proposals differ from government-run healthcare in other countries in the degree of centralization, co-pays, role of private insurance, and coverage of illegal aliens
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/kevinmd/79740
Number of general practitioners falling in UK NHS #SinglePayer - it’s getting harder to make an appointment
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48191438
Yo Bernie, why don’t you ask CBO to score your Medicare for All bill so we can see how much it would cost? (Chris Jacobs)
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/03/cbo-report-single-payer-isnt-one-deserve-see/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=613331f415-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-613331f415-171567693&mc_cid=613331f415&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
CBO to testify on its recent report on #SinglePayer at a hearing May 22nd.
https://budget.house.gov/legislation/hearings/key-design-components-and-considerations-establishing-single-payer-health-care
CBO report has all the bad stuff: can’t keep your doctor, new taxes will kill the economy, etc., not to mention the roll-out would be in the hands of the goofs who brought you the Obamacare implementation train wreck
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-burdens-of-berniecare-11557091123?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=613331f415-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-613331f415-171567693&mc_cid=613331f415&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Dem Senator Michael Bennett says Medicare for All supporters need to level with the American people about how they will lose their current plan and how much in new taxes they will have to pay
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/michael-bennet-medicare-for-all-1303032
eHealth CEO: Medicare for All 'would just collapse the system'
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2019/05/10/health-care-ceo-medicare-for-all-would-just-collapse-the-system/23724472/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHcpl1IvMp3rqyENISJWEoTq7vbNzrNlCVrkAlCNG-YyCR0jbW0kmxCBghH-L5KWhv3Vw5LHe-jQvGRsoP2qdmefs2e2TzM02j5sXvABSPBxj_ErgxoiGsIcvwGETyph0kGFlFgNERIZimflVmRZkMiYFAYVFdpGCwSDQVRR3Q9f
Healthcare lobbyists argue against Medicare for All to 4 dozen congressional staffers
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/11/health-care-lobbyists-luxury-retreat/
Health insurers continue blitz against #SinglePayer
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/05/05/health-insurers-intensify-contrast-with-bernies-medicare-for-all/#49a3747927a9
Colorado and Washington state poised to become first to offer ‘public option’ insurance
https://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-medicaid-buy-in-cms-colorado-washington-bill.html
Gov. Newsom plan would divert healthcare funding for illegal aliens from California counties to pay for state #SinglePayer plan
https://californiaglobe.com/governor/the-backdoor-approach-gov-newsom-is-implementing-to-achieve-single-payer/
Medicare for All would kill medical innovation - the market is better at making progress than government rule-making ever could be (Scott Gottlieb)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/former-trump-fda-chief-scott-gottlieb-warns-medicare-for-all-would-hold-back-medical-progress
“Sorry, Bernie, but most Americans like their health insurance the way it is” (Megan McArdle)
https://www.starherald.com/opinion/columnists/syndicated/megan-mcardle-sorry-bernie-but-most-americans-like-their-health/article_e2d18a34-b4d7-5582-a9cd-96aefafca09d.html
No easy answers for healthcare dilemmas (Robert Samuelson)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-single-payer-health-care-system-is-no-panacea/2019/05/08/ba44e67e-719e-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e4069ac407ec
Medicare for All can’t solve any healthcare crisis because Medicare IS the crisis
https://reason.com/2019/05/08/bernie-sanders-thinks-medicare-for-all-would-solve-americas-health-care-problems-it-would-make-them-worse/
Medicare for All financing is pie-in-the-sky - ‘There isn’t $30 trillion sitting around from high earners’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-09/tax-hikes-on-wealthy-alone-can-t-pay-for-medicare-for-all-plan
Rural areas will get hammered under #SinglePayer, as contrast between UK and Canada government-run healthcare shows
https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2019/05/single-payer-shortcomings/
Denmark is not #SinglePayer but exhibits the problems of government-run system: long waits, many items not covered, diagnostic tests limited. 60% percent of Danes supplement beyond government coverage.
https://www.newsmax.com/leonardgrunstein/healthcare-single-payer-socialism-private-insurance/2019/05/10/id/915500/
U.S. #SinglePayer proposals differ from government-run healthcare in other countries in the degree of centralization, co-pays, role of private insurance, and coverage of illegal aliens
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/kevinmd/79740
Number of general practitioners falling in UK NHS #SinglePayer - it’s getting harder to make an appointment
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48191438
May 6, 2019
House hearings show Medicare for All’s high price tag and access and quality problems
http://iwf.org/blog/2809328/What-We-Learned-at-the-House-Hearings-on-Medicare-for-All?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Witness warns Dems have their rhetorical act together and can sweep aside every argument against Medicare for All with pie-in-the-sky promises (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2019/05/03/the-lefts-utopian-health-care-promises/?utm_source=Galen%2BEmail%2BAlerts%2B%26%2BAHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b#2bb8e0202d60
Dem’s show of unity at House hearings can’t mask their deep divisions for long
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/30/medicare-for-all-hearing-1398686
Rep. Jayapal to one million insurance workers: ‘We’ll destroy your jobs, oh but we’ll HELP you’
https://freebeacon.com/politics/jayapal-admits-her-medicare-for-all-bill-would-kill-one-million-private-insurance-jobs/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8450c2ef7c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8450c2ef7c-45628225
Biden, Bernie camps spar over healthcare; Biden wants Medicare public option
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/29/bring-it-biden-sanders-teams-kick-off-debate-over-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f557c74da76f
Dem presidential candidate Sen. Bennett criticizes Medicare for All, says nation has yet to recover from Obamacare
https://freebeacon.com/politics/bennet-on-medicare-for-all-were-still-recovering-from-obamacare/
CBO declines to score Medicare for All bills, says transition to #SinglePayer would be “complicated”.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/single-payer-cbo
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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55150
“’Doubling all currently projected federal individual and corporate income tax would be insufficient to finance’ Medicare for All.” (Charles Blahous)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/expert-doubling-income-taxes-wont-even-cover-medicare-for-all-costs/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4683e4cb00-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4683e4cb00-45628225
Providers will game Medicare for All with creative billing (Dr. Alieta Eck)
https://aapsonline.org/why-medicare-for-all-is-a-pipe-dream/
Medicare is a fiscal disaster, and you want to roll it out to the entire country? You’re nuts.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/medicare-trustees-report-reality-checks-bernie-sanders-socialist-delusions/
Voluntary enrollment, effect on seniors among the more powerful messaging approaches concerning Medicare for All
https://morningconsult.com/2019/04/22/how-the-medicare-for-all-messaging-battle-can-be-won-or-lost/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=scr&utm_campaign=content_m4a_20190422&utm_content=_
#SinglePayer won’t solve anything because it leaves monopolistic Big Medicine in charge of healthcare everywhere you turn
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/medicare-for-all-and-the-myth-of-free-markets/
Bernie’s delusion: you can expand coverage and benefits, pay providers less, and it will all work out
https://reason.com/2019/04/24/the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan/
Medicare for All would disrupt Medicare itself; the private insurers providing Medicare Advantage to millions would be abolished
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-30/medicare-for-all-universal-health-care-needn-t-roil-industry
Most would pay more under BernieCare and get longer waits, less access
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/single-payer-health-care-rhetoric-versus-reality?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRsaVkyUXhNV05oTUdNMyIsInQiOiJXeE5sWEpIbVwvV1JWNnZ4OTh0bUp1ZnJiSDFCdkJtTFRnZnF5WUVjVmZldlM4ZXZqXC9IXC9xY2xTTmx0TW82eUhHQnR0UXUyTFo5dSt0MFM4RmxUWTE3czYrdGF1RE5KODB2UnJ2WUtESHhIVitFemMxQkttSHlyak92ZlpvZDFJbyJ9
#SinglePayer may lower drug prices through negotiation, lower reimbursement rates, lower administrative costs by eliminating insurance companies, and increase federal tax revenue by repealing employer insurance deduction, but the tax hikes will still be HUGE
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-isnt-medicare-11556750380?mod=e2two&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
“Healthcare costs are largely expenses associated with hospital facilities and medical staff.” #SinglePayer coverage arrangements merely fiddles at the edges and won’t make a dent on cost.
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-single-payer-health-care-costs
Moral of the UK NHS #SinglePayer story - don’t have a stroke on a Sunday or you’ll die
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46594/welsh-man-my-father-died-because-british-health-hank-berrien?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Insurers supported Obamacare not realizing it was designed to fail and clamor would grow for #SinglePayer takeover of healthcare
https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/the-medicare-for-all-con-job/
House hearings show Medicare for All’s high price tag and access and quality problems
http://iwf.org/blog/2809328/What-We-Learned-at-the-House-Hearings-on-Medicare-for-All?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Witness warns Dems have their rhetorical act together and can sweep aside every argument against Medicare for All with pie-in-the-sky promises (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2019/05/03/the-lefts-utopian-health-care-promises/?utm_source=Galen%2BEmail%2BAlerts%2B%26%2BAHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b#2bb8e0202d60
Dem’s show of unity at House hearings can’t mask their deep divisions for long
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/30/medicare-for-all-hearing-1398686
Rep. Jayapal to one million insurance workers: ‘We’ll destroy your jobs, oh but we’ll HELP you’
https://freebeacon.com/politics/jayapal-admits-her-medicare-for-all-bill-would-kill-one-million-private-insurance-jobs/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8450c2ef7c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8450c2ef7c-45628225
Biden, Bernie camps spar over healthcare; Biden wants Medicare public option
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/29/bring-it-biden-sanders-teams-kick-off-debate-over-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f557c74da76f
Dem presidential candidate Sen. Bennett criticizes Medicare for All, says nation has yet to recover from Obamacare
https://freebeacon.com/politics/bennet-on-medicare-for-all-were-still-recovering-from-obamacare/
CBO declines to score Medicare for All bills, says transition to #SinglePayer would be “complicated”.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/single-payer-cbo
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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55150
“’Doubling all currently projected federal individual and corporate income tax would be insufficient to finance’ Medicare for All.” (Charles Blahous)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/expert-doubling-income-taxes-wont-even-cover-medicare-for-all-costs/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4683e4cb00-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4683e4cb00-45628225
Providers will game Medicare for All with creative billing (Dr. Alieta Eck)
https://aapsonline.org/why-medicare-for-all-is-a-pipe-dream/
Medicare is a fiscal disaster, and you want to roll it out to the entire country? You’re nuts.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/medicare-trustees-report-reality-checks-bernie-sanders-socialist-delusions/
Voluntary enrollment, effect on seniors among the more powerful messaging approaches concerning Medicare for All
https://morningconsult.com/2019/04/22/how-the-medicare-for-all-messaging-battle-can-be-won-or-lost/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=scr&utm_campaign=content_m4a_20190422&utm_content=_
#SinglePayer won’t solve anything because it leaves monopolistic Big Medicine in charge of healthcare everywhere you turn
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/medicare-for-all-and-the-myth-of-free-markets/
Bernie’s delusion: you can expand coverage and benefits, pay providers less, and it will all work out
https://reason.com/2019/04/24/the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan/
Medicare for All would disrupt Medicare itself; the private insurers providing Medicare Advantage to millions would be abolished
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-30/medicare-for-all-universal-health-care-needn-t-roil-industry
Most would pay more under BernieCare and get longer waits, less access
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/single-payer-health-care-rhetoric-versus-reality?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRsaVkyUXhNV05oTUdNMyIsInQiOiJXeE5sWEpIbVwvV1JWNnZ4OTh0bUp1ZnJiSDFCdkJtTFRnZnF5WUVjVmZldlM4ZXZqXC9IXC9xY2xTTmx0TW82eUhHQnR0UXUyTFo5dSt0MFM4RmxUWTE3czYrdGF1RE5KODB2UnJ2WUtESHhIVitFemMxQkttSHlyak92ZlpvZDFJbyJ9
#SinglePayer may lower drug prices through negotiation, lower reimbursement rates, lower administrative costs by eliminating insurance companies, and increase federal tax revenue by repealing employer insurance deduction, but the tax hikes will still be HUGE
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-isnt-medicare-11556750380?mod=e2two&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
“Healthcare costs are largely expenses associated with hospital facilities and medical staff.” #SinglePayer coverage arrangements merely fiddles at the edges and won’t make a dent on cost.
https://economics21.org/medicare-for-all-single-payer-health-care-costs
Moral of the UK NHS #SinglePayer story - don’t have a stroke on a Sunday or you’ll die
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46594/welsh-man-my-father-died-because-british-health-hank-berrien?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=04be25bf56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-04be25bf56-171567693&mc_cid=04be25bf56&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Insurers supported Obamacare not realizing it was designed to fail and clamor would grow for #SinglePayer takeover of healthcare
https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/the-medicare-for-all-con-job/
April 15, 2019
White House condemns Medicare-for-All: “a total government takeover of healthcare that will end private insurance as we know it, hurt seniors, and cripple our economy.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/exposing-congressional-democrats-complete-government-takeover-healthcare/
Bernie Sanders unveils new Medicare-for-All bill, adds long-term care coverage
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/438216-sanders-unveils-new-medicare-for-all-bill-with-backing-from-other-2020-dems
McConnell: BernieCare is first step to socialism, bill won’t move in the Senate
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/438354-mcconnell-dismisses-medicare-for-all-not-while-gop-controls-senate
Schumer hem-haws on BernieCare; McConnell toys with forcing a vote.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/top-senate-dem-stops-short-embracing-medicare-62337885
Bernie Sanders new Medicare-for-All bill would cover illegal aliens. #WelfareMagnet
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-bernie-sanders-health-care-overhaul-would-cover-illegal-aliens
Bernie Sanders vows to ram Medicare-for-All through the Senate as President with 50 votes under budget reconciliation
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/sanders-rules-healthcare-1267463
BernieCare: No, you can’t keep your plan. No, you can’t keep your doctor. No, you can’t escape unless you have the means to contract ahead of time to pay cash for whatever you might need. Ugh.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/would-patients-be-able-to-escape-berniecare-11555009346
New BernieCare bill: still restricts liberty and still no realistic way to pay for it. (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/11/new-medicare-for-all-bill-would-kick-181-million-off-private-insurance/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRBd1ptSmxNV1JpTW1WaiIsInQiOiJVNlU0KzdHa3JqV3BFTkZcL0pkd0FscDRWT0RFOG10S2N1WkRYTkFCREJJODlNRjR2OWxNTlZmdlNaYm9XbndOZWRtZ05KdERMbzJvNGZNS0VpK245U1p0M2FZcXpIWHlkSERiRWFTc2RnaFE3S3llKzBWYk1QaGVnZGIyZFlTcHcifQ%3D%3D
Insurers working quietly to derail Medicare-for-All
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/12/weve-done-lot-more-than-you-would-think-how-health-insurance-industry-is-working-pull-democrats-away-medicare-for-all/?utm_term=.d38f8f60d34d
‘Public option’ stalls in most blue states; may pass in Washington State
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/08/health-care-blue-states-1308730
Yo, employers! Just because #SinglePayer claims to be ‘cheaper’ for you doesn’t mean you should support it. You lose a way to draw recruits and you will have unhappy workers who can’t get adequate care
https://www.axios.com/ho-1555105187-0da102a9-0fc7-4e04-9617-0bc8fa6dc7b0.html
Let’s ration eye surgery so thousands go blind. Good idea! (UK NHS #SinglePayer)
https://www.weaselzippers.us/416849-thousands-in-britain-left-to-go-blind-due-to-eye-surgery-rationing-report/
Mick Jagger waited patiently in NHS queues for his heart surgery. I lied.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/annals-of-government-medicine-27.php
White House condemns Medicare-for-All: “a total government takeover of healthcare that will end private insurance as we know it, hurt seniors, and cripple our economy.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/exposing-congressional-democrats-complete-government-takeover-healthcare/
Bernie Sanders unveils new Medicare-for-All bill, adds long-term care coverage
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/438216-sanders-unveils-new-medicare-for-all-bill-with-backing-from-other-2020-dems
McConnell: BernieCare is first step to socialism, bill won’t move in the Senate
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/438354-mcconnell-dismisses-medicare-for-all-not-while-gop-controls-senate
Schumer hem-haws on BernieCare; McConnell toys with forcing a vote.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/top-senate-dem-stops-short-embracing-medicare-62337885
Bernie Sanders new Medicare-for-All bill would cover illegal aliens. #WelfareMagnet
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-bernie-sanders-health-care-overhaul-would-cover-illegal-aliens
Bernie Sanders vows to ram Medicare-for-All through the Senate as President with 50 votes under budget reconciliation
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/sanders-rules-healthcare-1267463
BernieCare: No, you can’t keep your plan. No, you can’t keep your doctor. No, you can’t escape unless you have the means to contract ahead of time to pay cash for whatever you might need. Ugh.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/would-patients-be-able-to-escape-berniecare-11555009346
New BernieCare bill: still restricts liberty and still no realistic way to pay for it. (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/11/new-medicare-for-all-bill-would-kick-181-million-off-private-insurance/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRBd1ptSmxNV1JpTW1WaiIsInQiOiJVNlU0KzdHa3JqV3BFTkZcL0pkd0FscDRWT0RFOG10S2N1WkRYTkFCREJJODlNRjR2OWxNTlZmdlNaYm9XbndOZWRtZ05KdERMbzJvNGZNS0VpK245U1p0M2FZcXpIWHlkSERiRWFTc2RnaFE3S3llKzBWYk1QaGVnZGIyZFlTcHcifQ%3D%3D
Insurers working quietly to derail Medicare-for-All
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/12/weve-done-lot-more-than-you-would-think-how-health-insurance-industry-is-working-pull-democrats-away-medicare-for-all/?utm_term=.d38f8f60d34d
‘Public option’ stalls in most blue states; may pass in Washington State
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/08/health-care-blue-states-1308730
Yo, employers! Just because #SinglePayer claims to be ‘cheaper’ for you doesn’t mean you should support it. You lose a way to draw recruits and you will have unhappy workers who can’t get adequate care
https://www.axios.com/ho-1555105187-0da102a9-0fc7-4e04-9617-0bc8fa6dc7b0.html
Let’s ration eye surgery so thousands go blind. Good idea! (UK NHS #SinglePayer)
https://www.weaselzippers.us/416849-thousands-in-britain-left-to-go-blind-due-to-eye-surgery-rationing-report/
Mick Jagger waited patiently in NHS queues for his heart surgery. I lied.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/annals-of-government-medicine-27.php
April 8, 2019
Medicare for All leader Jayapal confronts Pelosi staffer for undercutting #SinglePayer bill
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/pramila-jayapal-medicare-for-all-1313658
Pelosi ‘agnostic’ on Medicare for All, says Obamacare has better benefits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/im-agnostic-pelosi-questions-whether-medicare-for-all-can-deliver-benefits-of-obamacare/2019/04/04/fe2942c0-56ed-11e9-aa83-504f086bf5d6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3ccf9a6a2493
“Divided Democratic Doctors Challenge Liberal Single-Payer Dream”
https://www.ozy.com/politics-and-power/divided-democratic-doctors-challenge-liberal-single-payer-dream/93073
“House Democrats on key committees receive funding from anti-single payer groups”
https://thinkprogress.org/parternship-for-america-donations-house-democrats-elections-anti-medicare-for-all-spending-health-care-3ffee4734203/
Salami slicing:” Medicare for 64 Year Olds Is a Step Toward Medicare for All”
https://truthout.org/articles/medicare-for-64-year-olds-is-a-step-toward-medicare-for-all/
NY: “Nonprofits are making a new push for single payer health care”
https://nynmedia.com/content/nonprofits-are-making-new-push-single-payer-health-care
“Medicare for All Could Reduce Hospital Revenues by 16%”
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/medicare-all-could-reduce-hospital-revenues-16
Here’s what Medicare for All really means - waiting months and months for treatment, worse cancer outcomes, rationing for cataracts, knees, hernias, etc. and chronic understaffing. Sign me up! (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/04/01/britains-version-of-medicare-for-all-is-collapsing/#68f573f136b8
Medicare for All leader Jayapal confronts Pelosi staffer for undercutting #SinglePayer bill
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/pramila-jayapal-medicare-for-all-1313658
Pelosi ‘agnostic’ on Medicare for All, says Obamacare has better benefits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/im-agnostic-pelosi-questions-whether-medicare-for-all-can-deliver-benefits-of-obamacare/2019/04/04/fe2942c0-56ed-11e9-aa83-504f086bf5d6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3ccf9a6a2493
“Divided Democratic Doctors Challenge Liberal Single-Payer Dream”
https://www.ozy.com/politics-and-power/divided-democratic-doctors-challenge-liberal-single-payer-dream/93073
“House Democrats on key committees receive funding from anti-single payer groups”
https://thinkprogress.org/parternship-for-america-donations-house-democrats-elections-anti-medicare-for-all-spending-health-care-3ffee4734203/
Salami slicing:” Medicare for 64 Year Olds Is a Step Toward Medicare for All”
https://truthout.org/articles/medicare-for-64-year-olds-is-a-step-toward-medicare-for-all/
NY: “Nonprofits are making a new push for single payer health care”
https://nynmedia.com/content/nonprofits-are-making-new-push-single-payer-health-care
“Medicare for All Could Reduce Hospital Revenues by 16%”
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/medicare-all-could-reduce-hospital-revenues-16
Here’s what Medicare for All really means - waiting months and months for treatment, worse cancer outcomes, rationing for cataracts, knees, hernias, etc. and chronic understaffing. Sign me up! (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/04/01/britains-version-of-medicare-for-all-is-collapsing/#68f573f136b8
April 2, 2019
Close Encounters with Single Payer Healthcare in Western Europe (a personal story)
http://0363930.netsolhost.com/WordPress/2019/03/27/close-encounters-with-single-payer-healthcare-in-western-europe/
Pelosi staffer worked against Medicare for All in November meeting, calling it a distraction from Dem leadership’s healthcare agenda
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/pelosi-medicare-for-all-1311167
Bernie Sanders hardens position - does not support Democrats’ Obamacare fix-it bill, will only accept Medicare-for-All
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/bernie-sanders-doesnt-support-house-democrats-obamacare-expansion-bill
Dem offers new Medicare buy-in proposal
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/politics/delgado-medicare-proposal/index.html
The space for private medical transactions would shrink to almost nothing under Medicare-for-All (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/02/how-medicare-for-all-would-insert-government-in-doctor-patient-relationship/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldKaU1qRTFaakE1WVdKaiIsInQiOiJnNXJkTUpxWVwvRWFzc0trTDcxQ0lcL2grTFdRTEV0OFJhOTVuSnIzalwvS29CVmFCYUc2a0ZFT3lzYThlVjJrVUdOVmJ2Q2k2SXVSaVQzTlEyc2tFd2Y3WkFKWXhkbTdlcmJtMnM2cHZmSkRVUmFFdXJcL0FmaDgyTWEwZ3prbnpIUWgifQ%3D%3D
‘Freedom for All’ would be better than ‘Medicare for All’ - “Our current path will only lead to a worsening of the enormous cost, deteriorating quality, and demoralization we are now experiencing, as inevitable insolvency looms.” (AAPS)
http://www.jpands.org/vol24no1/orient.pdf
“Medicare for All would break a sacred promise and harm seniors’ access to care by forcing a system designed to support them to take on every other American.” (Seema Verma)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-means-hope-for-none-11553727544
“Medicare Buy-In, Public Option Proposals Would Harm Our Health Care System”
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/medicare-buy-in-public-option-proposals-would-harm-our-health-care-system/
Huge tax hikes, ERISA restrictions among the hurdles facing #SinglePayer in the states
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/single-payer-systems-no-easier-states
Close Encounters with Single Payer Healthcare in Western Europe (a personal story)
http://0363930.netsolhost.com/WordPress/2019/03/27/close-encounters-with-single-payer-healthcare-in-western-europe/
Pelosi staffer worked against Medicare for All in November meeting, calling it a distraction from Dem leadership’s healthcare agenda
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/pelosi-medicare-for-all-1311167
Bernie Sanders hardens position - does not support Democrats’ Obamacare fix-it bill, will only accept Medicare-for-All
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/bernie-sanders-doesnt-support-house-democrats-obamacare-expansion-bill
Dem offers new Medicare buy-in proposal
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/politics/delgado-medicare-proposal/index.html
The space for private medical transactions would shrink to almost nothing under Medicare-for-All (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/02/how-medicare-for-all-would-insert-government-in-doctor-patient-relationship/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldKaU1qRTFaakE1WVdKaiIsInQiOiJnNXJkTUpxWVwvRWFzc0trTDcxQ0lcL2grTFdRTEV0OFJhOTVuSnIzalwvS29CVmFCYUc2a0ZFT3lzYThlVjJrVUdOVmJ2Q2k2SXVSaVQzTlEyc2tFd2Y3WkFKWXhkbTdlcmJtMnM2cHZmSkRVUmFFdXJcL0FmaDgyTWEwZ3prbnpIUWgifQ%3D%3D
‘Freedom for All’ would be better than ‘Medicare for All’ - “Our current path will only lead to a worsening of the enormous cost, deteriorating quality, and demoralization we are now experiencing, as inevitable insolvency looms.” (AAPS)
http://www.jpands.org/vol24no1/orient.pdf
“Medicare for All would break a sacred promise and harm seniors’ access to care by forcing a system designed to support them to take on every other American.” (Seema Verma)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-means-hope-for-none-11553727544
“Medicare Buy-In, Public Option Proposals Would Harm Our Health Care System”
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/medicare-buy-in-public-option-proposals-would-harm-our-health-care-system/
Huge tax hikes, ERISA restrictions among the hurdles facing #SinglePayer in the states
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/single-payer-systems-no-easier-states
March 25, 2019
Donkey Split: More Dems openly criticize Medicare for All, some working on incremental moves to shore up Obamacare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/daily-on-healthcare-democrats-openly-criticize-medicare-for-all
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/politics/democrats-health-care-medicare-for-all.html
“Medicare for All: Where the Democratic candidates stand”
https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-candidates-medicare-for-all-7d958bab-de34-4d8c-921d-b561f201c4c2.html
White House: Medicare for All would cut GDP 9%, household income 19%, and seniors’ lifespans
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/white-house-medicare-for-all/index.html
Doctor, hospital groups form coalition to discourage Medicare for All, boost employer plans which pay more
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/18/politics/medicare-for-all-doctors-hospitals/index.html
None of the current Medicare for All proposals specifically addresses prison inmates. (How much would that cost?)
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/03/21/medicare-for-all-is-missing-a-vital-group-the-incarcerated
Time for your quiz - who said “if we take care of everybody, we won’t be able to take care of those who need us most”, and how does that thought apply to #SinglePayer?
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/19/real-threat-seniors-isnt-trumps-budget-democrats-single-payer-plan/
Medicare for All: no precedent in American history for doing away with private insurance; most #SinglePayer countries still have private insurance
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/health/private-health-insurance-medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders.html
Think about it - how would involving the federal government in every single healthcare-related transaction ‘lower administrative costs’? #SinglePayerSilliness
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-medicare-for-all-plan-would-cause-a-massive-doctor-shortage
Obamacare reduced the number of insurers in rural areas, so now come Democrats touting a public option and Medicare for All as solutions. By all means, let’s have another government intervention to solve the problems caused by previous government interventions.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/03/24/why-medicare-for-all-plays-well-in-trump-country/#274e15277cdb
Leftist asks the Left: what spiffy new program will you want next week and can government spending really go to 100% of GDP? #PonyForChristmas
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/after-medicare-for-all-what-comes-next/
Donkey Split: More Dems openly criticize Medicare for All, some working on incremental moves to shore up Obamacare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/daily-on-healthcare-democrats-openly-criticize-medicare-for-all
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/politics/democrats-health-care-medicare-for-all.html
“Medicare for All: Where the Democratic candidates stand”
https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-candidates-medicare-for-all-7d958bab-de34-4d8c-921d-b561f201c4c2.html
White House: Medicare for All would cut GDP 9%, household income 19%, and seniors’ lifespans
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/white-house-medicare-for-all/index.html
Doctor, hospital groups form coalition to discourage Medicare for All, boost employer plans which pay more
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/18/politics/medicare-for-all-doctors-hospitals/index.html
None of the current Medicare for All proposals specifically addresses prison inmates. (How much would that cost?)
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/03/21/medicare-for-all-is-missing-a-vital-group-the-incarcerated
Time for your quiz - who said “if we take care of everybody, we won’t be able to take care of those who need us most”, and how does that thought apply to #SinglePayer?
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/19/real-threat-seniors-isnt-trumps-budget-democrats-single-payer-plan/
Medicare for All: no precedent in American history for doing away with private insurance; most #SinglePayer countries still have private insurance
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/health/private-health-insurance-medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders.html
Think about it - how would involving the federal government in every single healthcare-related transaction ‘lower administrative costs’? #SinglePayerSilliness
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-medicare-for-all-plan-would-cause-a-massive-doctor-shortage
Obamacare reduced the number of insurers in rural areas, so now come Democrats touting a public option and Medicare for All as solutions. By all means, let’s have another government intervention to solve the problems caused by previous government interventions.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/03/24/why-medicare-for-all-plays-well-in-trump-country/#274e15277cdb
Leftist asks the Left: what spiffy new program will you want next week and can government spending really go to 100% of GDP? #PonyForChristmas
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/after-medicare-for-all-what-comes-next/
March 18, 2019
House Committee Republicans Request Hearing on Medicare-for-All
https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/letter_to_chairman_scott.031419.pdf
Financially self-interested National Nurses United barnstorms for Medicare-for-All in South Carolina, other ‘unlikely’ places.
https://khn.org/news/medicare-for-all-gets-buzzy-in-unexpected-locales/
Pelosi: Obamacare is better than Medicare-for-All; also asks how M4A would be paid for
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/12/pelosi-drops-the-bomb-on-single-payer-how-do-you-pay-for-that-n2542994
“Where 2020 Democrats stand on Medicare-for-all”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e3c7cf622b9
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-medicare/democrats-support-expanding-medicare-with-some-caveats-that-could-matter-to-voters-idUSKBN1QU189
Beto equivocates: no longer sure #SinglePayer is the best way to get universal coverage, maybe not a great idea to force people out of employer coverage they like
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/beto-orourke-says-his-goal-for-health-care-is-not
Medicare-for-All has no conscience protections for doctors who object to abortion, gender reassignment, assisted suicide, etc. (AAPS)
https://aapsonline.org/thought-police-oops-medicare-for-all/
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/medicare-for-all-destroys-medical-conscience/
Medicare-for-All’s low reimbursement rates would drive out doctors, worsening the doctor shortage (Robert Moffit)
https://www.latimes.com/sns-tns-bc-healthcare-heritage-commentary-20190313-story.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJFNFkyWTJaV001WW1NeiIsInQiOiJHYmprTTd4VGg4UlI4MVRkTFhxbmdaWUl3OHdcL2dTeWw0ME1naXZcL0lReFdneVNrR0F0VDhkbFNVeVhkZ2dtZkdDQUxNK1BCb0pqaHpFREdsdXoyNFZKUmZlS1wvU2N4Q05DOUR2eVZVc1wvSmttc2pxMXNKc2FqTSthMW5RejM0WmIifQ%3D%3D
Study shows Bernie and Booker’s claim Medicare-for-All would save tens of thousands of lives is preposterous; going on a government program does NOT change mortality (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/03/18/medicare-for-all-wont-result-in-better-health-outcomes/#623699594f48
3 docs in Congress: Medicare-for-All would cause deficits, rationing, long wait times, restricted access to specialists, escalating costs, high taxes, etc.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/11/these-3-doctors-in-congress-diagnose-the-problems-with-medicare-for-all/
Dems racing to the Left with their unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky healthcare proposals. Let’s focus on what’s achievable and worthwhile, like removing gatekeepers to doctors patients need (Rep. Dr. John Joyce)
https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/columns/john-joyce-let-s-get-realistic-about-curing-health-care/article_676fafb4-4751-11e9-a7ee-eff4c77098c9.html
#SinglePayer would cost Wisconsin $30 billion in the first year alone (MacIver Institute)
https://www.watchdog.org/wisconsin/maciver-institute-evers-single-payer-plan-would-cost-taxpayers-additional/article_dba6ac56-444b-11e9-93d8-7fbc116aa4d6.html
A government monopoly on healthcare is a bad idea; people benefit from competition
https://www.wglt.org/post/bloomington-doctor-warns-dangers-single-payer-health-care
Financially self-interested Humana CEO thinks Medicare-for-All is a great idea, but admits he has no idea how to pay for it or how it would work
https://insiderlouisville.com/health/humana-ceo-medicare-for-all-is-a-great-opportunity/
Commonwealth Fund launches interactive tool to compare Medicare-for-All proposals
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/medicare-all-continuum
Medicare-for-All: “an iron-fisted centralized technocracy, with government bureaucrats and bioethicists controlling virtually every aspect of American health care”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/medicare-for-all-plan-authoritarian/
Medicare-for-All questions: would the government be able to replace private R&D funding? How would M4A avoid a mass exodus of physicians? Etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-probable-pitfalls-that-medicare-for-all-proponents-must-address
“The Blind Ambition of Medicare for All” - “If in the 1930s scores of millions of Americans had private pensions that they valued highly but that Social Security would have outlawed, the program would not have been created.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-blind-ambition-of-medicare-for-all/
House Committee Republicans Request Hearing on Medicare-for-All
https://republicans-edlabor.house.gov/uploadedfiles/letter_to_chairman_scott.031419.pdf
Financially self-interested National Nurses United barnstorms for Medicare-for-All in South Carolina, other ‘unlikely’ places.
https://khn.org/news/medicare-for-all-gets-buzzy-in-unexpected-locales/
Pelosi: Obamacare is better than Medicare-for-All; also asks how M4A would be paid for
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/12/pelosi-drops-the-bomb-on-single-payer-how-do-you-pay-for-that-n2542994
“Where 2020 Democrats stand on Medicare-for-all”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e3c7cf622b9
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-medicare/democrats-support-expanding-medicare-with-some-caveats-that-could-matter-to-voters-idUSKBN1QU189
Beto equivocates: no longer sure #SinglePayer is the best way to get universal coverage, maybe not a great idea to force people out of employer coverage they like
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/beto-orourke-says-his-goal-for-health-care-is-not
Medicare-for-All has no conscience protections for doctors who object to abortion, gender reassignment, assisted suicide, etc. (AAPS)
https://aapsonline.org/thought-police-oops-medicare-for-all/
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/medicare-for-all-destroys-medical-conscience/
Medicare-for-All’s low reimbursement rates would drive out doctors, worsening the doctor shortage (Robert Moffit)
https://www.latimes.com/sns-tns-bc-healthcare-heritage-commentary-20190313-story.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJFNFkyWTJaV001WW1NeiIsInQiOiJHYmprTTd4VGg4UlI4MVRkTFhxbmdaWUl3OHdcL2dTeWw0ME1naXZcL0lReFdneVNrR0F0VDhkbFNVeVhkZ2dtZkdDQUxNK1BCb0pqaHpFREdsdXoyNFZKUmZlS1wvU2N4Q05DOUR2eVZVc1wvSmttc2pxMXNKc2FqTSthMW5RejM0WmIifQ%3D%3D
Study shows Bernie and Booker’s claim Medicare-for-All would save tens of thousands of lives is preposterous; going on a government program does NOT change mortality (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/03/18/medicare-for-all-wont-result-in-better-health-outcomes/#623699594f48
3 docs in Congress: Medicare-for-All would cause deficits, rationing, long wait times, restricted access to specialists, escalating costs, high taxes, etc.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/11/these-3-doctors-in-congress-diagnose-the-problems-with-medicare-for-all/
Dems racing to the Left with their unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky healthcare proposals. Let’s focus on what’s achievable and worthwhile, like removing gatekeepers to doctors patients need (Rep. Dr. John Joyce)
https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/columns/john-joyce-let-s-get-realistic-about-curing-health-care/article_676fafb4-4751-11e9-a7ee-eff4c77098c9.html
#SinglePayer would cost Wisconsin $30 billion in the first year alone (MacIver Institute)
https://www.watchdog.org/wisconsin/maciver-institute-evers-single-payer-plan-would-cost-taxpayers-additional/article_dba6ac56-444b-11e9-93d8-7fbc116aa4d6.html
A government monopoly on healthcare is a bad idea; people benefit from competition
https://www.wglt.org/post/bloomington-doctor-warns-dangers-single-payer-health-care
Financially self-interested Humana CEO thinks Medicare-for-All is a great idea, but admits he has no idea how to pay for it or how it would work
https://insiderlouisville.com/health/humana-ceo-medicare-for-all-is-a-great-opportunity/
Commonwealth Fund launches interactive tool to compare Medicare-for-All proposals
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/medicare-all-continuum
Medicare-for-All: “an iron-fisted centralized technocracy, with government bureaucrats and bioethicists controlling virtually every aspect of American health care”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/medicare-for-all-plan-authoritarian/
Medicare-for-All questions: would the government be able to replace private R&D funding? How would M4A avoid a mass exodus of physicians? Etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-probable-pitfalls-that-medicare-for-all-proponents-must-address
“The Blind Ambition of Medicare for All” - “If in the 1930s scores of millions of Americans had private pensions that they valued highly but that Social Security would have outlawed, the program would not have been created.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-blind-ambition-of-medicare-for-all/
March 11, 2019
Finland’s government collapses after failed efforts to cut costs in the country’s government-run single-payer healthcare system.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-government/finlands-government-resigns-after-healthcare-reform-fails-idUSKCN1QP0R6
House Dem campaign chief says Medicare-for-All’s $33 trillion price tag is “a little scary”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432774-dem-campaign-chief-medicare-for-all-price-tag-a-little-scary
Bernie puts cherry on top of his Medicare-for-All proposal: long-term care. Anyone want to go through the CLASS Act failure again?
https://www.gazettenet.com/Sanders---Medicare-for-All--expands-long-term-care-benefits-24014232
Seattle City Council passes resolution supporting Jayapal Medicare-for-All bill
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/seattle-medicare-for-all.html
Blue state Guvs pushing stepping stones to complete government healthcare takeover (Medicaid buy-in, public option) (Sally Pipes)
https://www.pacificresearch.org/governors-are-laying-the-groundwork-for-single-payer/?utm_source=Pacific+Research+Institute&utm_campaign=3f6feebdcc-Health+Care+Update+030519&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54315d0e14-3f6feebdcc-223189853&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=ace89308d1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-ace89308d1-171567693&mc_cid=ace89308d1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticut-democrats-propose-public-health-insurance-option-11551992377
Fixing the market, not another gargantuan upheaval with more broken promises, is the cure for what ails healthcare (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.sentinel-standard.com/opinion/20190309/con-americans-are-in-no-mood-for-another-health-care-upheaval
The data shows access to healthcare has NOT been equalized in Brit and Canadian #SinglePayer systems. The wealthy and powerful will always find a way to get the best care. (John Goodman)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/03/05/what-socialized-medicine-looks-like/#4bd23877625b
Huge wrenching changes for patients, employers, doctors, hospitals, insurers, etc. make transition to #SinglePayer just about impossible (David Brooks)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/opinion/medicare-for-all.html
Doctors who favor #SinglePayer “aren’t considering the difficulty with approvals, and the excess waiting times for specialists and procedures” - problems becoming increasingly common in Canada (Dr. Marc Siegel)
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/432902-medicare-for-all-is-an-expensive-wrecking-ball
Medicare for All’s promises are a pipe dream - no premiums, no co-pays, no new taxes, etc., etc. Sure, and I want a pony for Christmas. (Twila Brase)
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/twila-brase/medicare-all-promises-are-just-obamacares-pipe-dream
Messaging Wars: what is Conservatism, Inc. doing to counter this slick video from the Left?
https://www.thenation.com/article/healthcare-medicare-medical-debt-video/
Probable losers under #SinglePayer rationing - sick kids, women, minorities.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/06/dad-sick-child-explains-single-payer-always-leads-rationing/
Dems, knock yourself out. Medicare-for-All ain’t gonna happen.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unforced-error-of-medicare-for-all-11552002942
Have we learned nothing from Obamacare? #SinglePayer’s massive tax hikes, heavy-handed government control, additional regulations are the wrong way to go.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/medicare-for-all-did-obamacare-teach-us-nothing
GOP Congressman: “You can’t offer ‘free’ care to everyone and expect anything but rationing to be the result”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/06/medicare-for-all-would-result-in-care-for-none-doctor-turned-lawmaker-says/
Article touts ‘global budgeting’ (rationing) as a great feature of Medicare for All, but why didn’t the author ask the Brits how constant NHS budget woes are working out for them?
https://prospect.org/article/best-part-medicare-all-you-havent-heard-about
Medicare for All is completely unrealistic; no industrialized nation “offers soup-to-nuts government-paid insurance with no copayments”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/07/democrats-2020-medicare-for-all-promises-unrealistic-column/3054786002/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=ace89308d1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-ace89308d1-171567693&mc_cid=ace89308d1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
“mimicking the failed socialist healthcare systems of Europe that ration and restrict care, where patients face long periods of time for care, is not the answer" (Seema Verma)
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/innovation/seema-verma-links-medicare-all-failed-socialist-healthcare
Democratic Socialists of America endorses Jayapal’s Medicare for All Act of 2019
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2019/02/27/democratic-socialists-america-proud-endorse-medicare-all-act-2019
It’s no surprise the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Medicare for All. It all goes back to “The Marxist Roots of ‘Medicare for All’” (Trevor Loudon)
https://www.trevorloudon.com/2019/03/the-marxist-roots-of-medicare-for-all/#more-49163
ChavistaCare-for-All in Venezuela - chasing mice, hoping for water, persistent blackouts, BYO drugs, supplies, and food.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/3/venezuela-crisis-hits-health-care-kills-patients/
Socialism is a public health threat; collapse of Venezuelan healthcare presages spread of malaria, dengue, etc. throughout Latin America
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/21/venezuela-crisis-threatens-disease-epidemic-across-continent-experts
Finland’s government collapses after failed efforts to cut costs in the country’s government-run single-payer healthcare system.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-government/finlands-government-resigns-after-healthcare-reform-fails-idUSKCN1QP0R6
House Dem campaign chief says Medicare-for-All’s $33 trillion price tag is “a little scary”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432774-dem-campaign-chief-medicare-for-all-price-tag-a-little-scary
Bernie puts cherry on top of his Medicare-for-All proposal: long-term care. Anyone want to go through the CLASS Act failure again?
https://www.gazettenet.com/Sanders---Medicare-for-All--expands-long-term-care-benefits-24014232
Seattle City Council passes resolution supporting Jayapal Medicare-for-All bill
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/seattle-medicare-for-all.html
Blue state Guvs pushing stepping stones to complete government healthcare takeover (Medicaid buy-in, public option) (Sally Pipes)
https://www.pacificresearch.org/governors-are-laying-the-groundwork-for-single-payer/?utm_source=Pacific+Research+Institute&utm_campaign=3f6feebdcc-Health+Care+Update+030519&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54315d0e14-3f6feebdcc-223189853&utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=ace89308d1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-ace89308d1-171567693&mc_cid=ace89308d1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/connecticut-democrats-propose-public-health-insurance-option-11551992377
Fixing the market, not another gargantuan upheaval with more broken promises, is the cure for what ails healthcare (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.sentinel-standard.com/opinion/20190309/con-americans-are-in-no-mood-for-another-health-care-upheaval
The data shows access to healthcare has NOT been equalized in Brit and Canadian #SinglePayer systems. The wealthy and powerful will always find a way to get the best care. (John Goodman)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/03/05/what-socialized-medicine-looks-like/#4bd23877625b
Huge wrenching changes for patients, employers, doctors, hospitals, insurers, etc. make transition to #SinglePayer just about impossible (David Brooks)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/opinion/medicare-for-all.html
Doctors who favor #SinglePayer “aren’t considering the difficulty with approvals, and the excess waiting times for specialists and procedures” - problems becoming increasingly common in Canada (Dr. Marc Siegel)
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/432902-medicare-for-all-is-an-expensive-wrecking-ball
Medicare for All’s promises are a pipe dream - no premiums, no co-pays, no new taxes, etc., etc. Sure, and I want a pony for Christmas. (Twila Brase)
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/twila-brase/medicare-all-promises-are-just-obamacares-pipe-dream
Messaging Wars: what is Conservatism, Inc. doing to counter this slick video from the Left?
https://www.thenation.com/article/healthcare-medicare-medical-debt-video/
Probable losers under #SinglePayer rationing - sick kids, women, minorities.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/06/dad-sick-child-explains-single-payer-always-leads-rationing/
Dems, knock yourself out. Medicare-for-All ain’t gonna happen.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unforced-error-of-medicare-for-all-11552002942
Have we learned nothing from Obamacare? #SinglePayer’s massive tax hikes, heavy-handed government control, additional regulations are the wrong way to go.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/medicare-for-all-did-obamacare-teach-us-nothing
GOP Congressman: “You can’t offer ‘free’ care to everyone and expect anything but rationing to be the result”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/06/medicare-for-all-would-result-in-care-for-none-doctor-turned-lawmaker-says/
Article touts ‘global budgeting’ (rationing) as a great feature of Medicare for All, but why didn’t the author ask the Brits how constant NHS budget woes are working out for them?
https://prospect.org/article/best-part-medicare-all-you-havent-heard-about
Medicare for All is completely unrealistic; no industrialized nation “offers soup-to-nuts government-paid insurance with no copayments”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/07/democrats-2020-medicare-for-all-promises-unrealistic-column/3054786002/?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=ace89308d1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-ace89308d1-171567693&mc_cid=ace89308d1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
“mimicking the failed socialist healthcare systems of Europe that ration and restrict care, where patients face long periods of time for care, is not the answer" (Seema Verma)
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/innovation/seema-verma-links-medicare-all-failed-socialist-healthcare
Democratic Socialists of America endorses Jayapal’s Medicare for All Act of 2019
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2019/02/27/democratic-socialists-america-proud-endorse-medicare-all-act-2019
It’s no surprise the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Medicare for All. It all goes back to “The Marxist Roots of ‘Medicare for All’” (Trevor Loudon)
https://www.trevorloudon.com/2019/03/the-marxist-roots-of-medicare-for-all/#more-49163
ChavistaCare-for-All in Venezuela - chasing mice, hoping for water, persistent blackouts, BYO drugs, supplies, and food.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/3/venezuela-crisis-hits-health-care-kills-patients/
Socialism is a public health threat; collapse of Venezuelan healthcare presages spread of malaria, dengue, etc. throughout Latin America
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/21/venezuela-crisis-threatens-disease-epidemic-across-continent-experts
March 4, 2019
Number of sponsors lower for Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill than previous bills; high cost eating into public support.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/house-democratic-sponsorship-of-medicare-for-all-has-fallen
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-loses-momentum-among-democrats-11551441601
Dems offer excuses for not signing on to latest Medicare-for-All bill - ‘haven’t read it’, ‘the rules don’t let us be aspirational, anymore’, etc.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medicare-for-all-pramila-jayapal-house-democrats-squeamish_n_5c7724f8e4b0952f89de18e2?fw9
Key Dem chairman criticizes Medicare-for-All bill: “It’s universal health care, on demand, unlimited. “It’s all single-payer, no private insurance. It’s a very different thing than Medicare.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/432074-key-dem-chairman-voices-skepticism-on-medicare-for-all-bill
Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill has new backers - AFT, SEIU, Indivisible, women’s and disability rights groups, etc.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/pramila-jayapal-medicare-for-all-health-care-congress-single-payer-progressive-caucus/
Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill eliminates private insurance and employer coverage, imposes price controls
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/28/house-democrats-unveil-plan-to-bring-total-government-control-over-american-health-care/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRObE9UTmlZMll5TTJZMSIsInQiOiJhOHlMMFwvU2NZalZWN0xOMkxFSyswNjVOcEw3SllLZHdwZk80VW9zWE0wOTllWlNNQXJ6aUh1Mmp5ek9EblU1SjVhbU53MGFnTFR4cDFVMVppbGtKMWpCXC90WHJFaUlhUUpOZzdnemNcL0NXSUJHQzNtenRxR0RPUHd5cGVyazVkRiJ9
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/republicans-dont-miss-the-surprise-in-government-funded-medicare-for-all
More bad stuff in Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill - short transition, no funding mechanism, includes long-term care (here we go again - CLASS Act), taxpayer-funded abortion, probably covers illegal aliens, etc.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/03/01/13-scary-things-in-democrats-medicare-for-all/
Another reason Medicare-for-All makes no sense: per person spending in Medicare will be rising faster than in private insurance
https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/totaling-up-the-health-care-bill/?utm_source=American+Action+Forum+Emails&utm_campaign=f85f216aef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_07_08_31_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_64783a8335-f85f216aef-267123053
If you think the elites will get the same care as you under Medicare-for-All, you are hopelessly naïve.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-bill-why-you-should-be-very-concerned
Trumpsters at CPAC on Medicare-for-All - “complete takeover of healthcare”, violate the commitment made to seniors, best doctors will leave, etc.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/team-trump-warns-cpac-about-democrat-promises-for-medicare-for-all/
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https://rewire.news/article/2019/03/01/trump-administration-officials-go-after-medicare-for-all-at-cpac/
How can anyone trust the government to implement another trillion-dollar scheme (Medicare for All) after CBO’s Obamacare estimates were so wildly off?
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/02/24/hayward-cbos-obamacare-failure-devastating-blow-socialism/
“New Mexico Eyes A 'Medicaid Buy-In' Plan To Insure More Residents”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/25/696626244/new-mexico-eyes-a-medicaid-buy-in-plan-to-insure-more-residents
“GAO: VA kept medical staff despite misconduct allegations”. #YourSinglePayerFuture
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-policy/gao-va-kept-medical-staff-despite-misconduct-allegations
ChavistaCare-for-All in Venezuela - chasing mice, hoping for water, persistent blackouts, BYO drugs, supplies, and food.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/3/venezuela-crisis-hits-health-care-kills-patients/
Number of sponsors lower for Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill than previous bills; high cost eating into public support.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/house-democratic-sponsorship-of-medicare-for-all-has-fallen
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-loses-momentum-among-democrats-11551441601
Dems offer excuses for not signing on to latest Medicare-for-All bill - ‘haven’t read it’, ‘the rules don’t let us be aspirational, anymore’, etc.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medicare-for-all-pramila-jayapal-house-democrats-squeamish_n_5c7724f8e4b0952f89de18e2?fw9
Key Dem chairman criticizes Medicare-for-All bill: “It’s universal health care, on demand, unlimited. “It’s all single-payer, no private insurance. It’s a very different thing than Medicare.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/432074-key-dem-chairman-voices-skepticism-on-medicare-for-all-bill
Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill has new backers - AFT, SEIU, Indivisible, women’s and disability rights groups, etc.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/pramila-jayapal-medicare-for-all-health-care-congress-single-payer-progressive-caucus/
Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill eliminates private insurance and employer coverage, imposes price controls
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/28/house-democrats-unveil-plan-to-bring-total-government-control-over-american-health-care/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRObE9UTmlZMll5TTJZMSIsInQiOiJhOHlMMFwvU2NZalZWN0xOMkxFSyswNjVOcEw3SllLZHdwZk80VW9zWE0wOTllWlNNQXJ6aUh1Mmp5ek9EblU1SjVhbU53MGFnTFR4cDFVMVppbGtKMWpCXC90WHJFaUlhUUpOZzdnemNcL0NXSUJHQzNtenRxR0RPUHd5cGVyazVkRiJ9
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/republicans-dont-miss-the-surprise-in-government-funded-medicare-for-all
More bad stuff in Dem’s latest Medicare-for-All bill - short transition, no funding mechanism, includes long-term care (here we go again - CLASS Act), taxpayer-funded abortion, probably covers illegal aliens, etc.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/03/01/13-scary-things-in-democrats-medicare-for-all/
Another reason Medicare-for-All makes no sense: per person spending in Medicare will be rising faster than in private insurance
https://www.americanactionforum.org/daily-dish/totaling-up-the-health-care-bill/?utm_source=American+Action+Forum+Emails&utm_campaign=f85f216aef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_07_08_31_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_64783a8335-f85f216aef-267123053
If you think the elites will get the same care as you under Medicare-for-All, you are hopelessly naïve.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-bill-why-you-should-be-very-concerned
Trumpsters at CPAC on Medicare-for-All - “complete takeover of healthcare”, violate the commitment made to seniors, best doctors will leave, etc.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/team-trump-warns-cpac-about-democrat-promises-for-medicare-for-all/
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https://rewire.news/article/2019/03/01/trump-administration-officials-go-after-medicare-for-all-at-cpac/
How can anyone trust the government to implement another trillion-dollar scheme (Medicare for All) after CBO’s Obamacare estimates were so wildly off?
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/02/24/hayward-cbos-obamacare-failure-devastating-blow-socialism/
“New Mexico Eyes A 'Medicaid Buy-In' Plan To Insure More Residents”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/25/696626244/new-mexico-eyes-a-medicaid-buy-in-plan-to-insure-more-residents
“GAO: VA kept medical staff despite misconduct allegations”. #YourSinglePayerFuture
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-policy/gao-va-kept-medical-staff-despite-misconduct-allegations
ChavistaCare-for-All in Venezuela - chasing mice, hoping for water, persistent blackouts, BYO drugs, supplies, and food.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/3/venezuela-crisis-hits-health-care-kills-patients/
February 25, 2019
Pig-in-a-Poke - Medicare-for-All’s unanswered questions make it unpredictable. Effects on economy, insurers, providers, pharma all ultimately unknown (Charles Blahous)
https://www.aei.org/publication/the-unanswered-questions-of-medicare-for-all/
“Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/politics/medicare-for-all-lobbyists.html
Dem candidates trying to differentiate themselves on healthcare (yes/no to private insurance, public option, etc.)
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697095749/beyond-bumper-sticker-slogans-2020-democrats-debate-details-of-medicare-for-all
Some Democratic candidates more coy than others, but they all want #SinglePayer, eventually (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/02/19/democratic-2020-hopefuls-all-roads-lead-to-single-payer/#460fc7f43251
“There's no way that Sanders can guarantee that every doctor and hospital on every insurance plan will participate in his government-run program.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-pushes-lie-that-people-will-be-able-to-keep-their-doctors-under-his-healthcare-plan
Medicare’s going broke, and you want to expand it to everyone - are you nuts?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/medicare-for-all-the-plan-to-expand-what-is-financially-broken-to-everyone
Medicare-for-All means goodbye to individual choices: private policies, association plans, health expense sharing, direct care models, etc.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/431124-medicare-for-all-would-only-limit-healthcare-choices-even-more
#SinglePayer means loss of personal and economic freedom, unprecedented federal taxation, major payment reductions for doctors, long waiting lists, and care delays and denials (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/the-national-debate-over-government-controlled-health-care?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRNellXTTVZMlZrTXpCaiIsInQiOiJpUERCTlFzanRlVlwvZzlCUkhWR1IycHNpVlB0WVh0TER3WDh6TXpNbEpiaDl4KzJtR2o3bldIR014UFY4YnJ0a0RVQk1SNFV1Tm5NT2pDdmZMb0MyTmZZd21BaWkwaGQ5SVFkdUY5ZTBoQXFyMzNtRkRjWnVZR0xqNEg4Z2h4OUIifQ%3D%3D
“‘Medicare for All’ Would Ruin the Care Americans Already Like” (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/15/medicare-for-all-would-ruin-the-care-americans-already-like/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRNellXTTVZMlZrTXpCaiIsInQiOiJpUERCTlFzanRlVlwvZzlCUkhWR1IycHNpVlB0WVh0TER3WDh6TXpNbEpiaDl4KzJtR2o3bldIR014UFY4YnJ0a0RVQk1SNFV1Tm5NT2pDdmZMb0MyTmZZd21BaWkwaGQ5SVFkdUY5ZTBoQXFyMzNtRkRjWnVZR0xqNEg4Z2h4OUIifQ%3D%3Dm
Oh those pesky trade-offs - 5 key parameters of a #SinglePayer plan don’t make for easy choices
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/upshot/up-medicareforall.html
‘The U.S. spends more on healthcare’ - not when you look at a comparison of real resources
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/02/19/you-cannot-control-health-care-costs-by-pushing-down-prices/#4b943c376141
“The ultimate goal of liberals in Congress is to chip away piece by piece at private insurance until all we have left is government-run health care.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/430569-no-socialized-health-care-on-my-watch
February 18, 2019
Pig-in-a-Poke - Medicare-for-All’s unanswered questions make it unpredictable. Effects on economy, insurers, providers, pharma all ultimately unknown (Charles Blahous)
https://www.aei.org/publication/the-unanswered-questions-of-medicare-for-all/
“Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/politics/medicare-for-all-lobbyists.html
Dem candidates trying to differentiate themselves on healthcare (yes/no to private insurance, public option, etc.)
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697095749/beyond-bumper-sticker-slogans-2020-democrats-debate-details-of-medicare-for-all
Some Democratic candidates more coy than others, but they all want #SinglePayer, eventually (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/02/19/democratic-2020-hopefuls-all-roads-lead-to-single-payer/#460fc7f43251
“There's no way that Sanders can guarantee that every doctor and hospital on every insurance plan will participate in his government-run program.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-pushes-lie-that-people-will-be-able-to-keep-their-doctors-under-his-healthcare-plan
Medicare’s going broke, and you want to expand it to everyone - are you nuts?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/medicare-for-all-the-plan-to-expand-what-is-financially-broken-to-everyone
Medicare-for-All means goodbye to individual choices: private policies, association plans, health expense sharing, direct care models, etc.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/431124-medicare-for-all-would-only-limit-healthcare-choices-even-more
#SinglePayer means loss of personal and economic freedom, unprecedented federal taxation, major payment reductions for doctors, long waiting lists, and care delays and denials (Robert Moffit)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/the-national-debate-over-government-controlled-health-care?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRNellXTTVZMlZrTXpCaiIsInQiOiJpUERCTlFzanRlVlwvZzlCUkhWR1IycHNpVlB0WVh0TER3WDh6TXpNbEpiaDl4KzJtR2o3bldIR014UFY4YnJ0a0RVQk1SNFV1Tm5NT2pDdmZMb0MyTmZZd21BaWkwaGQ5SVFkdUY5ZTBoQXFyMzNtRkRjWnVZR0xqNEg4Z2h4OUIifQ%3D%3D
“‘Medicare for All’ Would Ruin the Care Americans Already Like” (Robert Moffit)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/15/medicare-for-all-would-ruin-the-care-americans-already-like/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRNellXTTVZMlZrTXpCaiIsInQiOiJpUERCTlFzanRlVlwvZzlCUkhWR1IycHNpVlB0WVh0TER3WDh6TXpNbEpiaDl4KzJtR2o3bldIR014UFY4YnJ0a0RVQk1SNFV1Tm5NT2pDdmZMb0MyTmZZd21BaWkwaGQ5SVFkdUY5ZTBoQXFyMzNtRkRjWnVZR0xqNEg4Z2h4OUIifQ%3D%3Dm
Oh those pesky trade-offs - 5 key parameters of a #SinglePayer plan don’t make for easy choices
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/upshot/up-medicareforall.html
‘The U.S. spends more on healthcare’ - not when you look at a comparison of real resources
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/02/19/you-cannot-control-health-care-costs-by-pushing-down-prices/#4b943c376141
“The ultimate goal of liberals in Congress is to chip away piece by piece at private insurance until all we have left is government-run health care.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/430569-no-socialized-health-care-on-my-watch
February 18, 2019
One picture says it all: support for Medicare-for-All cratering
https://morningconsult.com/2019/02/13/voter-support-for-medicare-for-all-tumbles-in-new-year/
Activists mobilizing to push forthcoming “astonishingly strong” Medicare-for-All bill with 100 co-sponsors in the House
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/14/jayapal-says-medicare-all-bill-coming-two-weeks-expert-calls-plan-astonishingly
New data on Canadian wait times - up to 45 weeks to get specialty care, 10 weeks to get an MRI. Why? Because #SinglePayer demand overwhelms supply, leading to severe shortages. Duh.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/single-payer-means-long-waits-for-care
Financing Medicare-for-All would require, among other tax hikes, a new 20 percent payroll tax. (Robert Moffit) (This is interesting because it was a 20 percent payroll tax that, more than anything else, killed #SinglePayer in Vermont a couple years back.)
https://www.heritage.org/medicare/commentary/your-money-youll-keep-lot-less-under-medicare-all?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldRMU5URXhZbUZrT1dZeCIsInQiOiJBdENRcHVyN3hlb1lIXC9JVVwvV1VJeUxMQ2licklFWk9USWljMmVtZ0VSRHprXC9HWHdxbGFFYWwzb3dJXC9uaGRZTER5b3lqdllJVG9DaU5pUm80aDBpWkhwc3NDdndcL0drWlV6K1JReFd1QXhxOVwvNnNRXC9LM2dBM1VzT3JSK3d6Q0EifQ%3D%3D
New York #SinglePayer bill bloating up, now includes home health aides and nursing homes for long-term care. And I want a pony for Christmas.
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/38025/20190212/revised-single-payer-health-plan-includes-long-term-and-home-health-care
GOP eager for Medicare-for-All hearings, think they can score points on high cost and ban on private insurance
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/10/republicans-debate-medicare-for-all-1160681
Medicare-for-All will be a millstone around Democratic candidates’ necks, because most people don’t want to raise taxes or abolish private insurance
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicare-for-all-is-a-trap-11550015354
Medicare for All can’t possibly work without oppressive obesity laws strictly regulating your sugar, alcohol, etc. If #SinglePayer isn’t about controlling the people now, it soon will be.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/medicare-for-all-would-require-obesity-laws
Medicare-for-All means austerity ‘Stingy Care’ - “Hospitals will have to jam more beds in a room and spread nursing care thinner.” (Betsy McCaughey)
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/429138-the-inconvenient-truth-behind-medicare-for-all
Medicare-for-All: “You Can’t Cut Costs without Cutting Quality”
https://fee.org/articles/why-medicare-for-all-would-mean-quality-care-for-none/
No way around rationing and poor quality in #SinglePayer systems, doctor elected to Congress warns
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/13/medicare-for-all-not-the-cure-says-doctor-and-army-ranger-elected-to-house/
Hospitals, insurers give thumbs-down on age 50 Medicare buy-in proposal; most people are satisfied with their current coverage, so the proposal addresses a non-problem
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/fah-ahip-aha-oppose-medicare-at-50-act
We don’t have to accept government-rationed healthcare. Before you do, consider the downsides of rationing: discrimination against the elderly and disabled; pressure to bring in euthanasia; groups pitted against each other for slices of a fixed pie; bureaucrats, not individuals, deciding what’s covered https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/jama-pushes-health-care-rationing/
If you liked Obamacare’s congressional exemption, you’re gonna LOVE the exemption Congress will get from Medicare-for-All, but we’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it.
https://www.tiftongazette.com/opinion/guest-column-the-myths-of-single-payer-health-insurance/article_8cbc2580-30b4-11e9-930c-b7af54f8b376.html
February 11, 2019
Democrat-controlled states poised to seek federal waivers to implement #SinglePayer and public option.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-top-trump-health-administrator-faces-test-from-newly-elected-democrats-11549803600
Pelosi tells insurers not to worry about Medicare-for-All; it’s not a priority
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/05/nancy-pelosi-medicare-for-all/
Unexpected budget shortfall may torpedo #SinglePayer in New Yorky
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/state-budget-gap-could-hurt-single-payers-chances
Poll results: most people in California don’t want #SinglePayer
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/06/single-payer-health-care-isnt-popular-in-california/
Universal coverage (not #SinglePayer) would cost over $17 billion a year in California; it would have to be financed by a raft of new taxes and premiums
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/The-price-tag-for-universal-health-care-in-13602501.php
Presidential hopeful Cory Booker refuses to say how much Medicare-for-All would cost
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cory-booker-democrats-medicare-for-all-single-payer/2019/02/04/id/901205/
Republicans eager for Medicare-for-All hearings so they can pull back the curtain on the cost and other problems
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/10/republicans-debate-medicare-for-all-1160681
A Democrat Medicare-for-All bill would impose global budgets on hospitals. Can you spell R-A-T-I-O-N-I-N-G?
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20190207/NEWS/190209939
“Don’t expect huge budget savings from ‘Medicare for All’” (the biggest ‘savings’ would come from Medicare-style reimbursements cuts for all transactions, which ain’t gonna happen)
https://www.aei.org/publication/dont-expect-huge-budget-savings-from-medicare-for-all/
Tweet from Redlands Tea Party 2/10/19 -
#MedicareForAll will at best be “Medicaid for All,” if we’re lucky. PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER, #MedicareForAll is brought to us by the same DemParty who brought us: --“If you like your plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your plan, and you can keep your doctor.”
‘Potato Chips for All’ “would offer one flavor. The bag would be dull. And the chips would be stale. And cost $10 a bag.” #ScoreOneForTheFreeMarket
https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-all-nationalizing-potato-chips-1317012
Bernie, et al are “pretending to be European-style Social Democrats not socialists, as defined by DSA.” Destroying private businesses, as Medicare-for-All would do, is NOT ‘Scandinavian’. #BaitAndSwitch
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/428232-progressives-pulling-a-bait-and-switch-with-medicare-for-all
“'Medicare-for-all' means long waits for poor care, and Americans won't go for it once they learn these facts” (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/medicare-for-all-means-long-waits-for-poor-care-and-americans-wont-go-for-it-once-they-learn-these-facts
“Preview Of The Coming Medicare For All Debate” (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2019/02/07/preview-of-the-coming-medicare-for-all-debate/#7f96fda77a6a
The great temptation of #SinglePayer healthcare is to implement euthanasia as a way to control costs
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/121480/euthanasia-future-socialized-medicine/
The ever-imaginative Right organizes opposition to Medicare-for-All with weekend ‘barnstorms’ nationwide. Oops, I got that backwards.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/08/galvanize-local-organizing-medicare-all-nurses-union-kick-nationwide-barnstorms
Democrat-controlled states poised to seek federal waivers to implement #SinglePayer and public option.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-top-trump-health-administrator-faces-test-from-newly-elected-democrats-11549803600
Pelosi tells insurers not to worry about Medicare-for-All; it’s not a priority
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/05/nancy-pelosi-medicare-for-all/
Unexpected budget shortfall may torpedo #SinglePayer in New Yorky
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/state-budget-gap-could-hurt-single-payers-chances
Poll results: most people in California don’t want #SinglePayer
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/02/06/single-payer-health-care-isnt-popular-in-california/
Universal coverage (not #SinglePayer) would cost over $17 billion a year in California; it would have to be financed by a raft of new taxes and premiums
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/The-price-tag-for-universal-health-care-in-13602501.php
Presidential hopeful Cory Booker refuses to say how much Medicare-for-All would cost
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cory-booker-democrats-medicare-for-all-single-payer/2019/02/04/id/901205/
Republicans eager for Medicare-for-All hearings so they can pull back the curtain on the cost and other problems
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/10/republicans-debate-medicare-for-all-1160681
A Democrat Medicare-for-All bill would impose global budgets on hospitals. Can you spell R-A-T-I-O-N-I-N-G?
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20190207/NEWS/190209939
“Don’t expect huge budget savings from ‘Medicare for All’” (the biggest ‘savings’ would come from Medicare-style reimbursements cuts for all transactions, which ain’t gonna happen)
https://www.aei.org/publication/dont-expect-huge-budget-savings-from-medicare-for-all/
Tweet from Redlands Tea Party 2/10/19 -
#MedicareForAll will at best be “Medicaid for All,” if we’re lucky. PLEASE ALSO REMEMBER, #MedicareForAll is brought to us by the same DemParty who brought us: --“If you like your plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your plan, and you can keep your doctor.”
‘Potato Chips for All’ “would offer one flavor. The bag would be dull. And the chips would be stale. And cost $10 a bag.” #ScoreOneForTheFreeMarket
https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-all-nationalizing-potato-chips-1317012
Bernie, et al are “pretending to be European-style Social Democrats not socialists, as defined by DSA.” Destroying private businesses, as Medicare-for-All would do, is NOT ‘Scandinavian’. #BaitAndSwitch
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/428232-progressives-pulling-a-bait-and-switch-with-medicare-for-all
“'Medicare-for-all' means long waits for poor care, and Americans won't go for it once they learn these facts” (Sally Pipes)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/medicare-for-all-means-long-waits-for-poor-care-and-americans-wont-go-for-it-once-they-learn-these-facts
“Preview Of The Coming Medicare For All Debate” (Grace-Marie Turner)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2019/02/07/preview-of-the-coming-medicare-for-all-debate/#7f96fda77a6a
The great temptation of #SinglePayer healthcare is to implement euthanasia as a way to control costs
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/121480/euthanasia-future-socialized-medicine/
The ever-imaginative Right organizes opposition to Medicare-for-All with weekend ‘barnstorms’ nationwide. Oops, I got that backwards.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/08/galvanize-local-organizing-medicare-all-nurses-union-kick-nationwide-barnstorms
February 5, 2019
Dem 2020 candidates doing some fancy dancing on Medicare-for-All
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/30/689930022/several-democrats-eying-a-presidential-run-embrace-medicare-for-all
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/5/18209945/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris-cory-booker-single-payer
Kamala Harris backtracks on Medicare-for-All; ‘open’ to lesser reforms that would keep private insurance
https://www.abqjournal.com/1275970/harris-and-the-implausibility-of-medicareforall.html
Kamala Harris #SinglePayer proposal would kill a million jobs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/29/killer-kamala-her-health-care-initiative-would-slash-over-a-million-jobs-n2540434
“Schultz calls Harris's call to get rid of health insurance industry ‘not American’”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/427420-schultz-calls-harriss-call-to-get-rid-of-health-insurance-industry-not
“Warren Dodges on Whether She Supports Eliminating Private Health Insurance”
https://freebeacon.com/issues/warren-dodges-on-whether-she-supports-eliminating-private-health-insurance/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8f1ff36d34-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8f1ff36d34-45628225
Dem Sherrod Brown gets chilly reception from Progs for ‘Medcare-at-55’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/02/sherrod-brown-medicare-all-not-practical-progressives-ok-thank-you-next
“Some Democrats That Ran on Medicare for All Are Backing Away from It Now”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/do-democrats-really-want-medicare-for-all.html
Dems asking for trouble when they embrace a position that most Americans reject (but there’s a path forward)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/02/01/is-medicare-for-all-a-trap-for-democrats/
Democrat moves toward #SinglePayer could alienate the party’s college-educated supporters with employer insurance
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/2020-could-be-test-medicare-alls-popularity/581746/
Democrats aim to hold Medicare-for-All hearings in the spring and to pass a bill by the end of 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-yarmuth-healthcare/u-s-lawmaker-yarmuth-says-democrats-to-begin-medicare-for-all-hearings-idUSKCN1PN2M2
Advice from an expert for building Medicare-for-All: cover everyone, control costs, etc.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/28/18192674/medicare-for-all-cost-jacob-hacker
Medicare-for-All is a ruse to pass a public option (Michael Cannon)
https://www.cato.org/blog/kamala-harris-admits-medicare-all-would-kill-private-health-insurance-so-would-public-option
Poll numbers: Americans don’t want to give up private insurance and would prefer a public option to Medicare-for-All
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/politics/medicare-for-all-polling/index.html
Medicare-for-All won’t work in the U.S. because Americans won’t pay the required taxes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/howard-schultz-is-right-about-medicare-for-all-11549060591
HHS Secretary Azar: Medicare-for-All is Medicare for none." It would undermine coverage for seniors and take away what employees have now.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-is-medicare-for-none-hhs-secretary-alex-azar
#SinglePayer kills - low reimbursement rates cause providers to leave healthcare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-real-cost-of-medicare-for-all
“nationalizing health care would require either enormously taxing patients or drastically underpaying providers—or as is likely, both.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/31/eliminating-health-insurance-would-make-our-health-care-worse/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRGaU9EY3hNelF5TXpkbCIsInQiOiJiTXlqS29cL3p5bkRya01RbXNJaTZnQ1wvSHhnWWNyVjdDeGNHWXRjVGpLTE9hc0pLTllxOXE3bjdqUXcrYWtYZ2x5Z2dGSW82WHN3U2QwczBXaTdYVnYySzZ1V2VKVVZrVnpRdmw3TlVPS1ZPR2hJdFNHcGtBMG84VXNYUk1ZY0pNIn0%3D
People erroneously think Medicare-for-All is voluntary and they can keep their private insurance. The reality is they will have no choice and no exit. (Robert Moffit)
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article225309445.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURjeFpXTTROV05rWkRNNCIsInQiOiJoU0JGbk9KWlFEVkFqenJkcHJDekJQdjQ2TDBoMFI3YklQR1RsbFM4aFZEcmhEVms1MHlxWHhVaGFzXC9teTl0ZWQzTzF5cWFVU3JxVjFVSGxSTkdpU0lCbkpZbFErZzkzaG9xWnpObjZkbGR5S0NXdjNCMHg4bENYelppUVg1dE0ifQ%3D%3D
Once the government is paying for everyone’s healthcare, expect it to dictate what you eat and use other invasive measures to cut costs. Such proposals are being made in the UK. (Sally Pipes)
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/memorial/opinion/article/SALLY-C-PIPES-Under-Medicare-for-all-13582445.php
Dem 2020 candidates doing some fancy dancing on Medicare-for-All
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/30/689930022/several-democrats-eying-a-presidential-run-embrace-medicare-for-all
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/5/18209945/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris-cory-booker-single-payer
Kamala Harris backtracks on Medicare-for-All; ‘open’ to lesser reforms that would keep private insurance
https://www.abqjournal.com/1275970/harris-and-the-implausibility-of-medicareforall.html
Kamala Harris #SinglePayer proposal would kill a million jobs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/29/killer-kamala-her-health-care-initiative-would-slash-over-a-million-jobs-n2540434
“Schultz calls Harris's call to get rid of health insurance industry ‘not American’”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/427420-schultz-calls-harriss-call-to-get-rid-of-health-insurance-industry-not
“Warren Dodges on Whether She Supports Eliminating Private Health Insurance”
https://freebeacon.com/issues/warren-dodges-on-whether-she-supports-eliminating-private-health-insurance/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8f1ff36d34-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8f1ff36d34-45628225
Dem Sherrod Brown gets chilly reception from Progs for ‘Medcare-at-55’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/02/sherrod-brown-medicare-all-not-practical-progressives-ok-thank-you-next
“Some Democrats That Ran on Medicare for All Are Backing Away from It Now”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/do-democrats-really-want-medicare-for-all.html
Dems asking for trouble when they embrace a position that most Americans reject (but there’s a path forward)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/02/01/is-medicare-for-all-a-trap-for-democrats/
Democrat moves toward #SinglePayer could alienate the party’s college-educated supporters with employer insurance
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/2020-could-be-test-medicare-alls-popularity/581746/
Democrats aim to hold Medicare-for-All hearings in the spring and to pass a bill by the end of 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-yarmuth-healthcare/u-s-lawmaker-yarmuth-says-democrats-to-begin-medicare-for-all-hearings-idUSKCN1PN2M2
Advice from an expert for building Medicare-for-All: cover everyone, control costs, etc.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/28/18192674/medicare-for-all-cost-jacob-hacker
Medicare-for-All is a ruse to pass a public option (Michael Cannon)
https://www.cato.org/blog/kamala-harris-admits-medicare-all-would-kill-private-health-insurance-so-would-public-option
Poll numbers: Americans don’t want to give up private insurance and would prefer a public option to Medicare-for-All
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/politics/medicare-for-all-polling/index.html
Medicare-for-All won’t work in the U.S. because Americans won’t pay the required taxes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/howard-schultz-is-right-about-medicare-for-all-11549060591
HHS Secretary Azar: Medicare-for-All is Medicare for none." It would undermine coverage for seniors and take away what employees have now.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-is-medicare-for-none-hhs-secretary-alex-azar
#SinglePayer kills - low reimbursement rates cause providers to leave healthcare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-real-cost-of-medicare-for-all
“nationalizing health care would require either enormously taxing patients or drastically underpaying providers—or as is likely, both.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/31/eliminating-health-insurance-would-make-our-health-care-worse/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRGaU9EY3hNelF5TXpkbCIsInQiOiJiTXlqS29cL3p5bkRya01RbXNJaTZnQ1wvSHhnWWNyVjdDeGNHWXRjVGpLTE9hc0pLTllxOXE3bjdqUXcrYWtYZ2x5Z2dGSW82WHN3U2QwczBXaTdYVnYySzZ1V2VKVVZrVnpRdmw3TlVPS1ZPR2hJdFNHcGtBMG84VXNYUk1ZY0pNIn0%3D
People erroneously think Medicare-for-All is voluntary and they can keep their private insurance. The reality is they will have no choice and no exit. (Robert Moffit)
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article225309445.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURjeFpXTTROV05rWkRNNCIsInQiOiJoU0JGbk9KWlFEVkFqenJkcHJDekJQdjQ2TDBoMFI3YklQR1RsbFM4aFZEcmhEVms1MHlxWHhVaGFzXC9teTl0ZWQzTzF5cWFVU3JxVjFVSGxSTkdpU0lCbkpZbFErZzkzaG9xWnpObjZkbGR5S0NXdjNCMHg4bENYelppUVg1dE0ifQ%3D%3D
Once the government is paying for everyone’s healthcare, expect it to dictate what you eat and use other invasive measures to cut costs. Such proposals are being made in the UK. (Sally Pipes)
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/memorial/opinion/article/SALLY-C-PIPES-Under-Medicare-for-all-13582445.php
January 28, 2019
The number of insured is the wrong metric; Medicare-for-All would kill medical innovation which saves lives and produces better outcomes. (Betsy McCaughey)
https://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Obamacare-critic-slams-Medicare-for-all-in-13556582.php
UK NHS #SinglePayer - killed medical innovation, cuts waits by denying care, untrained managers push doctors to discharge patients. But it remains the state religion; no crisis of faith here. We should be more like Europe, right?
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
Healthcare industry group running digital ads against Medicare-for-All. Americans will have “less choice and control over their doctors, treatments and coverage”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/426818-health-care-industry-group-launches-digital-ads-against-medicare-for-all
NYC Mayor de Blasio instructs all city workers to sign up residents for city-run health plans
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mayor-de-blasio-drafts-city-workers-to-push-health-care-programs-11548197071
Medicare-for-All debate will be at the top of 2020 campaign issues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/23/medicare-all-is-very-popular-democrats-face-massive-fight-over-it/?utm_term=.3d0a7372bec7
Medicare-for-All splitting likely Dem 2020 presidential candidates, with some dismissing #SinglePayer talk as a ‘good speech’ and seeking incremental steps, instead
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/democrats-medicare-for-all-obamacare-1094146
Universal health coverage is a classic primary season issue; expect candidates to appeal to the base for the primaries and tack to the middle for the general.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/23/medicare-for-all-is-classic-primary-season-conundrum/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1bc15b8c8c62
Pelosi signals her willingness to consider #SinglePayer after earlier pushing bigger subsidies for Obamacare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-healthcare-pelosi-vows-openness-to-universal-coverage-plans-trump-pledges-to-stop-surprise-medical-bills
Poll shows most Dems want their party to move back to the middle; one may infer #SinglePayer is leaving most Dems behind; it’s only the radical base that really wants it
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/01/gallup-poll-majority-of-democrats-want-more-moderate-party/
Support for Medicare-for-All vulnerable to messages that people will lose their current plan, their access to providers and treatments will be cut, and their taxes will go up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-poll-exposes-how-weak-support-for-medicare-for-all-really-is
Healthcare is not a ‘right’ if others are forced to provide it. (60+)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/26/universal-health-care-right/
Lessons from history - government-run healthcare means the “enslavement of the medical profession” and top-tier medicine will remain available to the rich and elites.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/01/26/most-americans-support-medicare-for-all-real-change-aoc-effect/
Dishonest #SinglePayer supporters can’t be upfront about what Medicare-for-All would really cost. (AFP)
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/426661-if-single-payer-were-really-a-bargain-supporters-like-rep-john
Outcomes under government-run healthcare in Venezuela: half of all medical professional have fled the country; once-eradicated diseases (malaria, TB) are surging. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
The number of insured is the wrong metric; Medicare-for-All would kill medical innovation which saves lives and produces better outcomes. (Betsy McCaughey)
https://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Obamacare-critic-slams-Medicare-for-all-in-13556582.php
UK NHS #SinglePayer - killed medical innovation, cuts waits by denying care, untrained managers push doctors to discharge patients. But it remains the state religion; no crisis of faith here. We should be more like Europe, right?
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
Healthcare industry group running digital ads against Medicare-for-All. Americans will have “less choice and control over their doctors, treatments and coverage”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/426818-health-care-industry-group-launches-digital-ads-against-medicare-for-all
NYC Mayor de Blasio instructs all city workers to sign up residents for city-run health plans
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mayor-de-blasio-drafts-city-workers-to-push-health-care-programs-11548197071
Medicare-for-All debate will be at the top of 2020 campaign issues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/23/medicare-all-is-very-popular-democrats-face-massive-fight-over-it/?utm_term=.3d0a7372bec7
Medicare-for-All splitting likely Dem 2020 presidential candidates, with some dismissing #SinglePayer talk as a ‘good speech’ and seeking incremental steps, instead
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/democrats-medicare-for-all-obamacare-1094146
Universal health coverage is a classic primary season issue; expect candidates to appeal to the base for the primaries and tack to the middle for the general.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/23/medicare-for-all-is-classic-primary-season-conundrum/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1bc15b8c8c62
Pelosi signals her willingness to consider #SinglePayer after earlier pushing bigger subsidies for Obamacare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-healthcare-pelosi-vows-openness-to-universal-coverage-plans-trump-pledges-to-stop-surprise-medical-bills
Poll shows most Dems want their party to move back to the middle; one may infer #SinglePayer is leaving most Dems behind; it’s only the radical base that really wants it
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/01/gallup-poll-majority-of-democrats-want-more-moderate-party/
Support for Medicare-for-All vulnerable to messages that people will lose their current plan, their access to providers and treatments will be cut, and their taxes will go up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-poll-exposes-how-weak-support-for-medicare-for-all-really-is
Healthcare is not a ‘right’ if others are forced to provide it. (60+)
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/26/universal-health-care-right/
Lessons from history - government-run healthcare means the “enslavement of the medical profession” and top-tier medicine will remain available to the rich and elites.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2019/01/26/most-americans-support-medicare-for-all-real-change-aoc-effect/
Dishonest #SinglePayer supporters can’t be upfront about what Medicare-for-All would really cost. (AFP)
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/426661-if-single-payer-were-really-a-bargain-supporters-like-rep-john
Outcomes under government-run healthcare in Venezuela: half of all medical professional have fled the country; once-eradicated diseases (malaria, TB) are surging. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
January 21, 2019
“'Medicare-for-All' Would Take Most of Your Paycheck”. 60% tax rates, anyone? None dare call it confiscation.
https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/medicare-for-all-taxes-betsy-mccaughey/?fbclid=IwAR0wSZL3bpTfyRkDd-hnlOpkm94zZSObdS_LsOsqwSWd9rswkamj8xcQdck
No, Rand Paul did NOT go to Canada for ‘socialized medicine’. He went to a world-class private medical facility that happens to be in Canada.
https://fee.org/articles/media-fail-marvelously-in-mocking-rand-paul-for-surgery-in-canada-land-of-universal-health-care/
Women’s March had ‘lobby day’ to push #SinglePayer on Capitol Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/425924-womens-march-progressive-orgs-to-lobby-for-medicare-for-all-on-capitol-hill
Canadian #SinglePayer makes people wait 20 weeks to see a specialist.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/while-democrats-push-government-healthcare-canadians-wait-nearly-5-months-for-treatment
Loose talk of healthcare being a ‘right’ and a ‘common good’ is just that, loose talk, and does not stand up to scrutiny
https://idahofreedom.org/is-healthcare-a-right-surely-not/
Medical waste was piling up, so UK NHS #SinglePayer fired the contractor. Now, waste is piling up faster. Sheer genius! Mountains of rotting infectious waste; fridges stuffed with heads, limbs, and torsos. #SinglePayerIsCrazy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6576395/Shocking-new-pictures-HES-site-Newcastle-lay-bare-scale-NHS-body-parts-scandal.html
Overcrowded UK NHS #SinglePayer hospitals turning away ambulances
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6602297/NHS-crisis-Damning-figures-ambulance-diverts-doubled-19-20-beds-full.html
South Carolina #SinglePayer VA hospital gave wrong medicine to vet, he dies. Filgrastim, pegfilgtastim - what difference, at this point, does it make?
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/state/south-carolina/article223281650.html
Class action suit filed against Indiana #SinglePayer VA hospital for substandard podiatric care
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/20190115/class-action-suit-alleges-negligence-at-va-hospital
Trump administration document: government intervention is the problem, not the solution, in healthcare. More choice and competition would improve the situation.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2018/12/03/reforming-americas-healthcare-system-through-choice-and-competition.html
“'Medicare-for-All' Would Take Most of Your Paycheck”. 60% tax rates, anyone? None dare call it confiscation.
https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/medicare-for-all-taxes-betsy-mccaughey/?fbclid=IwAR0wSZL3bpTfyRkDd-hnlOpkm94zZSObdS_LsOsqwSWd9rswkamj8xcQdck
No, Rand Paul did NOT go to Canada for ‘socialized medicine’. He went to a world-class private medical facility that happens to be in Canada.
https://fee.org/articles/media-fail-marvelously-in-mocking-rand-paul-for-surgery-in-canada-land-of-universal-health-care/
Women’s March had ‘lobby day’ to push #SinglePayer on Capitol Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/425924-womens-march-progressive-orgs-to-lobby-for-medicare-for-all-on-capitol-hill
Canadian #SinglePayer makes people wait 20 weeks to see a specialist.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/while-democrats-push-government-healthcare-canadians-wait-nearly-5-months-for-treatment
Loose talk of healthcare being a ‘right’ and a ‘common good’ is just that, loose talk, and does not stand up to scrutiny
https://idahofreedom.org/is-healthcare-a-right-surely-not/
Medical waste was piling up, so UK NHS #SinglePayer fired the contractor. Now, waste is piling up faster. Sheer genius! Mountains of rotting infectious waste; fridges stuffed with heads, limbs, and torsos. #SinglePayerIsCrazy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6576395/Shocking-new-pictures-HES-site-Newcastle-lay-bare-scale-NHS-body-parts-scandal.html
Overcrowded UK NHS #SinglePayer hospitals turning away ambulances
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6602297/NHS-crisis-Damning-figures-ambulance-diverts-doubled-19-20-beds-full.html
South Carolina #SinglePayer VA hospital gave wrong medicine to vet, he dies. Filgrastim, pegfilgtastim - what difference, at this point, does it make?
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/state/south-carolina/article223281650.html
Class action suit filed against Indiana #SinglePayer VA hospital for substandard podiatric care
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/20190115/class-action-suit-alleges-negligence-at-va-hospital
Trump administration document: government intervention is the problem, not the solution, in healthcare. More choice and competition would improve the situation.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2018/12/03/reforming-americas-healthcare-system-through-choice-and-competition.html
January 14, 2019
De Blasio healthcare plan: less than meets the eye, but still a budget-buster
https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/de-blasios-universal-health-care-is-one-big-con/
U.S. Chamber of Commerce to go all out to fight #SinglePayer – “it just doesn’t work”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/424722-chamber-of-commerce-ceo-vows-to-use-all-of-its-resources-to-fight-single
Calling Dr. Death – Medicare for All death toll will rise due to increased wait times and more fatal medical errors
https://fee.org/articles/how-medicare-for-all-could-become-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-america/
“All other single-payer systems are struggling with runaway costs.” Medicare for All wouldn’t be any different. All the assumptions that it would drive down costs are just that, assumptions.
https://fee.org/articles/how-we-know-single-payer-wont-lower-health-care-costs/
“most of Medicare’s costs are hidden (tinyurl.com/ybp6zles). Robert Book calculated that over the years 2000 to 2005, Medicare’s administrative costs were an average 24.8% higher than the private sector’s (tinyurl.com/y76aklvs).”
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-january-2019-aca-is-unconstitutional/
Medicare for All “would bankrupt the nation, dramatically raise costs, and reduce quality of healthcare.” The government can’t run anything right, and it won’t be any better at healthcare.
https://noqreport.com/2019/01/11/briefly-medicare-disaster/
Support for Medicare for All collapses when people learn it’s the end of private insurance, would double the size of the federal government, and lead to waits, shortages, and rationing
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/medicare-for-all-democrats-midterm-elections/
House Budget Committee’s request to CBO was for ‘design considerations’ for #SinglePayer – NOT to score any particular bill for what it would cost. Promise the moon and keep hiding the ball = Success
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-have-to-ask-how-much-socialized-medicine-costs-11547057059
Chronically ill kids are poorly served by government-healthcare – fewer choices, substandard care.
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/what-does-government-run-health-care-mean-moms-sick-kids
Medicare for All would have winners and losers – more covered, but longer waits, displaced workers, etc. So stop yapping about ‘rights’ and start looking at the trade-offs.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/10/medicare-for-all-tradeoffs-health-care/
‘No cost-sharing’ in BernieCare and another #SinglePayer plan – just a come-on; look for cost-sharing to be added if debate gets that far
https://www.axios.com/medicare-for-all-out-of-pocket-costs-7aa80feb-ea06-4f35-a43a-9cfc719ab897.html
Medicare for All – outrageous costs and inferior care. How can you even think of expanding a program already headed for insolvency?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/beware-medicare-for-all-is-fools-gold
Sally Pipes: “Medicare for All would rapidly devolve into Medicare for None” #MarryInHaste
https://newsok.com/article/5619920/opinion-the-rising-support-for-single-payer-health-care
Prager U video summarizes what’s wrong with government healthcare
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272425/prager-u-video-why-obamacare-doesnt-work-prager-university
VA working on proposal to shift billions into private care; holds promise of shorter waits, more choices, and fewer co-pays
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/politics/veterans-administration-health-care-privatization.html
De Blasio healthcare plan: less than meets the eye, but still a budget-buster
https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/de-blasios-universal-health-care-is-one-big-con/
U.S. Chamber of Commerce to go all out to fight #SinglePayer – “it just doesn’t work”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/424722-chamber-of-commerce-ceo-vows-to-use-all-of-its-resources-to-fight-single
Calling Dr. Death – Medicare for All death toll will rise due to increased wait times and more fatal medical errors
https://fee.org/articles/how-medicare-for-all-could-become-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-america/
“All other single-payer systems are struggling with runaway costs.” Medicare for All wouldn’t be any different. All the assumptions that it would drive down costs are just that, assumptions.
https://fee.org/articles/how-we-know-single-payer-wont-lower-health-care-costs/
“most of Medicare’s costs are hidden (tinyurl.com/ybp6zles). Robert Book calculated that over the years 2000 to 2005, Medicare’s administrative costs were an average 24.8% higher than the private sector’s (tinyurl.com/y76aklvs).”
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-january-2019-aca-is-unconstitutional/
Medicare for All “would bankrupt the nation, dramatically raise costs, and reduce quality of healthcare.” The government can’t run anything right, and it won’t be any better at healthcare.
https://noqreport.com/2019/01/11/briefly-medicare-disaster/
Support for Medicare for All collapses when people learn it’s the end of private insurance, would double the size of the federal government, and lead to waits, shortages, and rationing
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/medicare-for-all-democrats-midterm-elections/
House Budget Committee’s request to CBO was for ‘design considerations’ for #SinglePayer – NOT to score any particular bill for what it would cost. Promise the moon and keep hiding the ball = Success
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-have-to-ask-how-much-socialized-medicine-costs-11547057059
Chronically ill kids are poorly served by government-healthcare – fewer choices, substandard care.
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/what-does-government-run-health-care-mean-moms-sick-kids
Medicare for All would have winners and losers – more covered, but longer waits, displaced workers, etc. So stop yapping about ‘rights’ and start looking at the trade-offs.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/10/medicare-for-all-tradeoffs-health-care/
‘No cost-sharing’ in BernieCare and another #SinglePayer plan – just a come-on; look for cost-sharing to be added if debate gets that far
https://www.axios.com/medicare-for-all-out-of-pocket-costs-7aa80feb-ea06-4f35-a43a-9cfc719ab897.html
Medicare for All – outrageous costs and inferior care. How can you even think of expanding a program already headed for insolvency?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/beware-medicare-for-all-is-fools-gold
Sally Pipes: “Medicare for All would rapidly devolve into Medicare for None” #MarryInHaste
https://newsok.com/article/5619920/opinion-the-rising-support-for-single-payer-health-care
Prager U video summarizes what’s wrong with government healthcare
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272425/prager-u-video-why-obamacare-doesnt-work-prager-university
VA working on proposal to shift billions into private care; holds promise of shorter waits, more choices, and fewer co-pays
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/politics/veterans-administration-health-care-privatization.html
January 7, 2019
Pelosi approves House committee hearings on Medicare for All
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-plan-to-hold-hearings-on-medicare-for-all/2019/01/03/7051eccc-0f6c-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ba0c24b14c30
#SinglePayer advocates say Texas court ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional shows ACA will never be safe, so it’s time to push on to Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/422924-medicare-for-all-advocates-emboldened-by-obamacare-lawsuit?userid=29674
Dems using Medicare for All to shift the debate and salami-slice their way to more government intervention in healthcare
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/democrats-softpedal-medicare-for-all-20181227
Progressives’ recent actions show they can’t be trusted to deal seriously or honestly with the cost of #SinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/03/progressives-cant-be-trusted-with-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e8d2c7673f95
Howard Dean on Bernie Sanders and #SinglePayer – “I don’t think it’s fair for politicians to raise these kinds of expectations and pretend it’s going to cost everybody less because it’s not going to happen.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bernie-sanders-twenty-things-you-didnt-know/
Medicare sends home 91-year-old woman who couldn’t eat, bathe, walk, or dress herself. And you want Medicare for All? Are you nuts?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/medicare_kills_people_and_democrats_want_force_everyone_on_it.html
British Medicare for All – ‘we’re so sorry we botched your boy’s operation and effectively castrated him’
https://www.foxnews.com/health/british-boy-2-castrated-after-surgeons-mistakenly-operate-on-wrong-testicle
National healthcare in Germany 1918-1945 – eugenics, forced abortion, sterilization, experimentation on human subjects and other warm and fuzzy Progressive ideas
https://fee.org/articles/national-health-care-medicine-in-germany-1918-1945/
VA abruptly reverses course, will no longer arbitrarily deny caregiver stipends. #GovernmentHealthcareIsCrazy
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679123976/va-says-it-will-stop-arbitrarily-dropping-caregivers-from-program
Pelosi approves House committee hearings on Medicare for All
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-plan-to-hold-hearings-on-medicare-for-all/2019/01/03/7051eccc-0f6c-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ba0c24b14c30
#SinglePayer advocates say Texas court ruling that Obamacare is unconstitutional shows ACA will never be safe, so it’s time to push on to Medicare for All
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/422924-medicare-for-all-advocates-emboldened-by-obamacare-lawsuit?userid=29674
Dems using Medicare for All to shift the debate and salami-slice their way to more government intervention in healthcare
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/democrats-softpedal-medicare-for-all-20181227
Progressives’ recent actions show they can’t be trusted to deal seriously or honestly with the cost of #SinglePayer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/03/progressives-cant-be-trusted-with-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e8d2c7673f95
Howard Dean on Bernie Sanders and #SinglePayer – “I don’t think it’s fair for politicians to raise these kinds of expectations and pretend it’s going to cost everybody less because it’s not going to happen.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/bernie-sanders-twenty-things-you-didnt-know/
Medicare sends home 91-year-old woman who couldn’t eat, bathe, walk, or dress herself. And you want Medicare for All? Are you nuts?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/medicare_kills_people_and_democrats_want_force_everyone_on_it.html
British Medicare for All – ‘we’re so sorry we botched your boy’s operation and effectively castrated him’
https://www.foxnews.com/health/british-boy-2-castrated-after-surgeons-mistakenly-operate-on-wrong-testicle
National healthcare in Germany 1918-1945 – eugenics, forced abortion, sterilization, experimentation on human subjects and other warm and fuzzy Progressive ideas
https://fee.org/articles/national-health-care-medicine-in-germany-1918-1945/
VA abruptly reverses course, will no longer arbitrarily deny caregiver stipends. #GovernmentHealthcareIsCrazy
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/21/679123976/va-says-it-will-stop-arbitrarily-dropping-caregivers-from-program
December 18, 2018
Schumer refuses to endorse #SinglePayer, but wants a ‘plan that can pass’ that moves towards universal access
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/17/not-kind-moral-leadership-we-need-critics-pounce-after-schumer-refuses-back-medicare
Obstacles to #SinglePayer in New York include a skeptical Governor, tax-shy Dems, unions with good existing coverage, ERISA lawsuits from employers, and the need for waivers from the Trump administration
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3maej/this-brewing-healthcare-battle-is-a-preview-of-the-medicare-for-all-war
#SinglePayer would destroy the advantages of employer-sponsored insurance - leveraging $3 in private health-insurance spending for every $1 in forgone federal revenue, financing public coverage, etc.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/medicare-for-all-plan-risks-uprooting-current-system/
Under #SinglePayer, ‘we’re paying for your healthcare, so no extra cheese for you on that pizza.’ “What foods we eat, how much we exercise, how we commute, and virtually all other private decisions” will be fair game for the government.
https://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/sally-c-pipes-column-under-medicare-for-all-government-may/article_504f4598-d8b2-5c32-baad-1a5a7d694570.html
Providers won’t sit still for pay cuts under #SinglePayer – they are ‘certain to respond by closing their doors, working fewer hours, or leaving altogether’ (not to mention lobby to make sure cuts will never happen)
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/13/what-you-dont-know-about-medicare-for-all-can-hurt-you/
UK NHS #SinglePayer paying out more money on maternity malpractice claims than it spends on delivering babies - "Mothers and babies are still needlessly dying, or suffering serious injury”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1040803/NHS-health-childbirth-baby-doctors-nurses
VA home care-giver program mismanaged – long waits, inexplicable denials, missed info tech deadlines, etc. – in other words, #SinglePayer as usual
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/677346997/va-still-arbitrarily-cutting-caregivers-from-program-even-as-it-aims-to-expand
Schumer refuses to endorse #SinglePayer, but wants a ‘plan that can pass’ that moves towards universal access
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/17/not-kind-moral-leadership-we-need-critics-pounce-after-schumer-refuses-back-medicare
Obstacles to #SinglePayer in New York include a skeptical Governor, tax-shy Dems, unions with good existing coverage, ERISA lawsuits from employers, and the need for waivers from the Trump administration
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3maej/this-brewing-healthcare-battle-is-a-preview-of-the-medicare-for-all-war
#SinglePayer would destroy the advantages of employer-sponsored insurance - leveraging $3 in private health-insurance spending for every $1 in forgone federal revenue, financing public coverage, etc.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/medicare-for-all-plan-risks-uprooting-current-system/
Under #SinglePayer, ‘we’re paying for your healthcare, so no extra cheese for you on that pizza.’ “What foods we eat, how much we exercise, how we commute, and virtually all other private decisions” will be fair game for the government.
https://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/sally-c-pipes-column-under-medicare-for-all-government-may/article_504f4598-d8b2-5c32-baad-1a5a7d694570.html
Providers won’t sit still for pay cuts under #SinglePayer – they are ‘certain to respond by closing their doors, working fewer hours, or leaving altogether’ (not to mention lobby to make sure cuts will never happen)
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/12/13/what-you-dont-know-about-medicare-for-all-can-hurt-you/
UK NHS #SinglePayer paying out more money on maternity malpractice claims than it spends on delivering babies - "Mothers and babies are still needlessly dying, or suffering serious injury”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1040803/NHS-health-childbirth-baby-doctors-nurses
VA home care-giver program mismanaged – long waits, inexplicable denials, missed info tech deadlines, etc. – in other words, #SinglePayer as usual
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/677346997/va-still-arbitrarily-cutting-caregivers-from-program-even-as-it-aims-to-expand
December 10, 2019
Directionally and philosophically wrong – a #SinglePayer takeover of healthcare would kill American liberty and free choice
https://www.lanereport.com/108533/2018/12/perspective-health-care-is-not-free/
Incoming House Dem committee chair – the votes just aren’t there for #SinglePayer
https://www.app.com/story/news/health/2018/12/04/medicare-all-rep-frank-pallone-says-votes-arent-there/2152560002/
Pro-Obamacare hospital and insurance lobbies now arrayed against Medicare-for-All
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/10/establishment-democrats-progressive-medicare-1052215
Unions will lose great existing coverage under NY #SinglePayer proposal
https://nypost.com/2018/12/02/look-who-is-getting-protected-from-single-payer-health-insurance/
Left-wing WaPo bashes Ocasio-You Know Who for claiming the Pentagon has $21 trillion lying around to fund #SinglePayer – 4 Pinocchios!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-trillion-mistake/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7c359c6010c3
Support for Medicare-for-All dwindles when people learn it would outlaw private insurance, require trillions in new taxes, reduce access to care, exacerbate doctor shortage, etc.
https://www.wmicentral.com/opinion/editorials/what-you-don-t-know-about-medicare-for-all-can/article_5dbb2968-2e30-5901-bd3a-e3f70a34d28d.html
Jargon and labels aside, most Americans do NOT want government-run healthcare
https://theglobepost.com/2018/12/04/medicare-for-all-support/
#SinglePayer – even more bureaucracy than we have now and we’re chasing our tail trying to fix the problems caused by previous government interventions with another government intervention
https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/columns/the-truth-about-medicare-for-all/article_93253353-ae5f-53bc-a526-bf2cf7271af7.html
Canada has more private care than BernieCare would allow
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/worse-canada
Government spending on healthcare in the U.S. is already higher than in Canada and the UK
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/u-s-public-spending-on-healthcare-is-already-higher-than-most-socialist-countries
Thousands dying in Britain because stupid #SinglePayer system doesn’t have enough scanners.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1050832/Cancer-survival-rate-scanners-Thousands-lives-needlessly
Life under UK NHS #SinglePayer – 12 hour waits in the ER, 53,000 doctor and nurse vacancies, 30,000 dead waiting for treatment, hospital killing fields. You know, the usual.
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/health-care-horror
Government hospitals in India wracked by scandal – patients being forced to pay bribes. #SinglePayer
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/tn-anti-corruption-agency-raids-government-hospitals-across-state-seize-cash-92976
Shocking video: cat starts eating semi-nude body of dead woman left on floor in government hospital in India. #SinglePayer
https://www.timesnownews.com/mirror-now/civic-issues/article/shocking-video-cat-eats-womans-corpse-at-government-hospital-coimbatore-staff-nowhere-to-be-found/317869
New billion-dollar Denver VA hospital: not nearly enough parking. #StupidGovernment #SinglePayer
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/contact7/veterans-say-parking-is-a-major-issue-at-new-va-hospital
U.S. Indian Health Service #SinglePayer profile – needless errors, needless deaths. “dangerously deficient”, “third world” (long)
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2018/12/05/south-dakota-health-care-ihs-hospital-native-american-trust-violated/1728819002/
Directionally and philosophically wrong – a #SinglePayer takeover of healthcare would kill American liberty and free choice
https://www.lanereport.com/108533/2018/12/perspective-health-care-is-not-free/
Incoming House Dem committee chair – the votes just aren’t there for #SinglePayer
https://www.app.com/story/news/health/2018/12/04/medicare-all-rep-frank-pallone-says-votes-arent-there/2152560002/
Pro-Obamacare hospital and insurance lobbies now arrayed against Medicare-for-All
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/10/establishment-democrats-progressive-medicare-1052215
Unions will lose great existing coverage under NY #SinglePayer proposal
https://nypost.com/2018/12/02/look-who-is-getting-protected-from-single-payer-health-insurance/
Left-wing WaPo bashes Ocasio-You Know Who for claiming the Pentagon has $21 trillion lying around to fund #SinglePayer – 4 Pinocchios!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-trillion-mistake/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7c359c6010c3
Support for Medicare-for-All dwindles when people learn it would outlaw private insurance, require trillions in new taxes, reduce access to care, exacerbate doctor shortage, etc.
https://www.wmicentral.com/opinion/editorials/what-you-don-t-know-about-medicare-for-all-can/article_5dbb2968-2e30-5901-bd3a-e3f70a34d28d.html
Jargon and labels aside, most Americans do NOT want government-run healthcare
https://theglobepost.com/2018/12/04/medicare-for-all-support/
#SinglePayer – even more bureaucracy than we have now and we’re chasing our tail trying to fix the problems caused by previous government interventions with another government intervention
https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/columns/the-truth-about-medicare-for-all/article_93253353-ae5f-53bc-a526-bf2cf7271af7.html
Canada has more private care than BernieCare would allow
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/worse-canada
Government spending on healthcare in the U.S. is already higher than in Canada and the UK
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/u-s-public-spending-on-healthcare-is-already-higher-than-most-socialist-countries
Thousands dying in Britain because stupid #SinglePayer system doesn’t have enough scanners.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1050832/Cancer-survival-rate-scanners-Thousands-lives-needlessly
Life under UK NHS #SinglePayer – 12 hour waits in the ER, 53,000 doctor and nurse vacancies, 30,000 dead waiting for treatment, hospital killing fields. You know, the usual.
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/health-care-horror
Government hospitals in India wracked by scandal – patients being forced to pay bribes. #SinglePayer
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/tn-anti-corruption-agency-raids-government-hospitals-across-state-seize-cash-92976
Shocking video: cat starts eating semi-nude body of dead woman left on floor in government hospital in India. #SinglePayer
https://www.timesnownews.com/mirror-now/civic-issues/article/shocking-video-cat-eats-womans-corpse-at-government-hospital-coimbatore-staff-nowhere-to-be-found/317869
New billion-dollar Denver VA hospital: not nearly enough parking. #StupidGovernment #SinglePayer
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/contact7/veterans-say-parking-is-a-major-issue-at-new-va-hospital
U.S. Indian Health Service #SinglePayer profile – needless errors, needless deaths. “dangerously deficient”, “third world” (long)
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2018/12/05/south-dakota-health-care-ihs-hospital-native-american-trust-violated/1728819002/
December 3, 2018
New York public sector unions push back on state #SinglePayer proposal – would cut unions’ insurance options and collective bargaining power. (Take THAT, radical nurses unions!)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/unions-fight-new-york-single-payer-health-care-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=90c6b95ec0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-90c6b95ec0-45628225
Opposition to raising taxes, getting ‘how we’re going to pay for it’ right will override wishful thinking and delay NY #SinglePayer bill for months
https://wskg.org/news/some-democratic-supporters-of-single-payer-health-care-promise-they-wont-act-in-haste/
Support builds among House Dems to salami-slice toward #SinglePayer with Medicare buy-in
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/418812-dem-single-payer-fight-set-to-shift-to-battle-over-medicare-buy-in
The high expense of ‘free’ Medicare-for-All – unprecedented payroll taxes, bureaucrats in control, treatment delays and denials
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/what-single-payer-health-care?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRVd05qVXdOVEJqT1RBMCIsInQiOiJqZWVTRkZ3WERpclRhdWZGWVAybGJKcWNiN0xKNVM2ZTFkcjBaMjRDd004NUx6Ukp4d2NJTGp2Kzc0OGRYRmE4M2UyckJ0TDRERU9kSVRcL21Rd1doclwvNU81RWUrYnpyNXJ4S0VRS05Iam1pZk9SUlluQzEyMFpPdFNkcVlVb2wxIn0%3D
Replacing employer plans with #SinglePayer would have many unforeseeable consequences, make workers pay more for other people’s healthcare
https://galen.org/assets/Replacing-Empl-Spons-Insur-112618.pdf?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=1a97a831f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-1a97a831f2-171567693&mc_cid=1a97a831f2&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
‘Medicare-for-All’ polls best, #SinglePayer worst in recent survey
https://morningconsult.com/2018/11/29/majority-of-voters-back-national-health-plan-unless-its-called-single-payer/
Poll results: only 1 in 20 thinks public healthcare for all should be Congress’ top healthcare priority next term
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-healthcare-potential-trouble-sign-for-obamacare-enrollment-also-just-5-percent-say-coverage-for-all-should-be-top-healthcare-priority-for-new-congress
Publicly-run healthcare has a bad track record in Massachusetts – swollen costs have crowded out other state spending, low reimbursement rates cause access problems. The public will not put up with the trade-offs in #SinglePayer very long
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/globelocal/2018/11/30/should-massachusetts-move-single-payer-health-care-system/KP5EtVxKECPWPD3Xvf1byN/story.html
LTE: #SinglePayer without deductibles or co-pays – “Say what? Even those of us on Medicare have to pay deductibles and co-pays. Are progressive Democrats nuts?”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-medicare-for-all-healthcare-single-payer-20181201-story.html
‘Medicare-for-All would save money and increase access’ lie repeated to Bernie’s faithful at Vermont meeting. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. That’s what they said about Obamacare. They lied through their teeth.
https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Sanders-gathering-hears-Medicare-for-all-funding-plan-501651911.html
#SinglePayer would, among other things, hit the middle class once lower-income people stopped buying health insurance
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20181128/commentary-medicare-for-all-would-create-misery-for-all
UK NHS #SinglePayer cuts hip and knee surgeries by 7,000, leaving many Brits in P-A-I-N
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/30/pensioners-left-pain-amid-nhs-cuts-hip-knee-operations/
NHS can’t function without 78,000 volunteers. Will you volunteer to bail out #SinglePayer when it hits the wall as it surely will?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6448083/Daily-Mail-launches-Christmas-campaign-calling-army-volunteers-transform-NHS.html
UK #SinglePayer regulator calls NHS unit ‘unsafe’ and inadequate after inquiry into dozens of baby deaths and injuries. This is what happens when you let government-run healthcare into your life
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/29/nhs-trust-at-centre-of-baby-deaths-inquiry-deemed-unsafe
New York public sector unions push back on state #SinglePayer proposal – would cut unions’ insurance options and collective bargaining power. (Take THAT, radical nurses unions!)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/unions-fight-new-york-single-payer-health-care-plan/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=90c6b95ec0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-90c6b95ec0-45628225
Opposition to raising taxes, getting ‘how we’re going to pay for it’ right will override wishful thinking and delay NY #SinglePayer bill for months
https://wskg.org/news/some-democratic-supporters-of-single-payer-health-care-promise-they-wont-act-in-haste/
Support builds among House Dems to salami-slice toward #SinglePayer with Medicare buy-in
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/418812-dem-single-payer-fight-set-to-shift-to-battle-over-medicare-buy-in
The high expense of ‘free’ Medicare-for-All – unprecedented payroll taxes, bureaucrats in control, treatment delays and denials
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/what-single-payer-health-care?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRVd05qVXdOVEJqT1RBMCIsInQiOiJqZWVTRkZ3WERpclRhdWZGWVAybGJKcWNiN0xKNVM2ZTFkcjBaMjRDd004NUx6Ukp4d2NJTGp2Kzc0OGRYRmE4M2UyckJ0TDRERU9kSVRcL21Rd1doclwvNU81RWUrYnpyNXJ4S0VRS05Iam1pZk9SUlluQzEyMFpPdFNkcVlVb2wxIn0%3D
Replacing employer plans with #SinglePayer would have many unforeseeable consequences, make workers pay more for other people’s healthcare
https://galen.org/assets/Replacing-Empl-Spons-Insur-112618.pdf?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=1a97a831f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-1a97a831f2-171567693&mc_cid=1a97a831f2&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
‘Medicare-for-All’ polls best, #SinglePayer worst in recent survey
https://morningconsult.com/2018/11/29/majority-of-voters-back-national-health-plan-unless-its-called-single-payer/
Poll results: only 1 in 20 thinks public healthcare for all should be Congress’ top healthcare priority next term
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-healthcare-potential-trouble-sign-for-obamacare-enrollment-also-just-5-percent-say-coverage-for-all-should-be-top-healthcare-priority-for-new-congress
Publicly-run healthcare has a bad track record in Massachusetts – swollen costs have crowded out other state spending, low reimbursement rates cause access problems. The public will not put up with the trade-offs in #SinglePayer very long
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/globelocal/2018/11/30/should-massachusetts-move-single-payer-health-care-system/KP5EtVxKECPWPD3Xvf1byN/story.html
LTE: #SinglePayer without deductibles or co-pays – “Say what? Even those of us on Medicare have to pay deductibles and co-pays. Are progressive Democrats nuts?”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-medicare-for-all-healthcare-single-payer-20181201-story.html
‘Medicare-for-All would save money and increase access’ lie repeated to Bernie’s faithful at Vermont meeting. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. That’s what they said about Obamacare. They lied through their teeth.
https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Sanders-gathering-hears-Medicare-for-all-funding-plan-501651911.html
#SinglePayer would, among other things, hit the middle class once lower-income people stopped buying health insurance
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20181128/commentary-medicare-for-all-would-create-misery-for-all
UK NHS #SinglePayer cuts hip and knee surgeries by 7,000, leaving many Brits in P-A-I-N
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/30/pensioners-left-pain-amid-nhs-cuts-hip-knee-operations/
NHS can’t function without 78,000 volunteers. Will you volunteer to bail out #SinglePayer when it hits the wall as it surely will?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6448083/Daily-Mail-launches-Christmas-campaign-calling-army-volunteers-transform-NHS.html
UK #SinglePayer regulator calls NHS unit ‘unsafe’ and inadequate after inquiry into dozens of baby deaths and injuries. This is what happens when you let government-run healthcare into your life
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/29/nhs-trust-at-centre-of-baby-deaths-inquiry-deemed-unsafe
November 26, 2018
Elections revealed Medicare-for-All as a political poison pill; candidates supporting it lost in Texas, Maryland, Arizona, and elsewhere
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2018/11/26/medicare-for-all-lost-big-time-in-the-midterms/#2c1165b541f5
Most House Dems say Medicare-for-All hasn’t been fully fleshed out and isn’t ready for floor consideration
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/democrats-medicare-for-all-tread-lightly
Far-left Dem criticizes Ocasio-Cortez – country not ready to implement #SinglePayer and it can’t be done without raising taxes
https://ijr.com/wexton-country-not-ready-single-payer/
Democratic Socialist wunderkind Ocasio-Cortez steps in it again; wrongfully blames insurance companies for telling policyholders to start GoFundMe campaigns for expenses they won’t cover
https://ijr.com/ocasio-cortez-insurance-groups-gaffe/
Krugman ‘fesses up - #SinglePayer can’t be done; all supporters can hope for is incremental steps
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/paul-krugman-explains-why-single-payer-health-care-entirely-achievable-us-and-how
Medicare-for-All – “Both the House and Senate proposals restrict the ability of doctors and patients to contract for medical care outside of the system.” Hillary Clinton, call your office (her plan made it a felony to go outside the collective)
https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-heritage-medicare-for-all-grim-20181121-story.html
Millions of federal workers and their families would lose their popular Federal Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) under #SinglePayer
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article221985135.html
Golden Corral operator: “Medicare for all means no job-based coverage, higher taxes, and limited access to care. We deserve better.... I refuse to stand by and let my employees be forced into paying more money for subpar medical care.”
https://www.jdnews.com/opinion/20181126/opinion-billy-sewell-why-medicare-for-all-is-wrong-prescription
Support for #SinglePayer evaporates when poll question includes fact it would eliminate employer plans
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/11/22/icymi-dnc-ceo-actually-had-an-honest-answer-for-how-her-party-would-pay-for-medicare-for-all-n2536390
Local UK #SinglePayer NHS units refusing to pay for thyroid drug despite national directive; thousands facing weight gain, diabetes, depression and heart problems because of “backdoor rationing”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/26/thyroid-patients-abandoned-gain-wait-nhs-bosses-refuse-pay-crucial/
Most UK #SinglePayer NHS doctors are worried their hospitals won’t be able to deliver safe patient care when expected winter crisis hits
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-patients-safety-hospital-staff-doctors-poll-a8651131.html
Inflation shreds UK #SinglePayer NHS budget; billions needed for bailout
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/25/nhs-shortfall-treasury-injection-inflation-government-funding-pledge
One in five UK #SinglePayer NHS units hasn’t met a single wait time target for an entire year (emergency care, cancer treatment, routine surgery)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-trusts-waiting-time-targets-hospital-funding-performance-a8643781.html
GAO: VA fails to report 90% of dangerous doctors and dentists to a national database. #SinglePayer
https://www.teapartypatriots.org/news/va-is-putting-veterans-and-families-at-risk/?mid=19928&id=T15OuHulZKxtwhqSTA
Kansas City VA hospital hep-C patients not getting monitoring or drugs per protocol; two vets are dead that we know of
https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article221910725.html
Elections revealed Medicare-for-All as a political poison pill; candidates supporting it lost in Texas, Maryland, Arizona, and elsewhere
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2018/11/26/medicare-for-all-lost-big-time-in-the-midterms/#2c1165b541f5
Most House Dems say Medicare-for-All hasn’t been fully fleshed out and isn’t ready for floor consideration
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/democrats-medicare-for-all-tread-lightly
Far-left Dem criticizes Ocasio-Cortez – country not ready to implement #SinglePayer and it can’t be done without raising taxes
https://ijr.com/wexton-country-not-ready-single-payer/
Democratic Socialist wunderkind Ocasio-Cortez steps in it again; wrongfully blames insurance companies for telling policyholders to start GoFundMe campaigns for expenses they won’t cover
https://ijr.com/ocasio-cortez-insurance-groups-gaffe/
Krugman ‘fesses up - #SinglePayer can’t be done; all supporters can hope for is incremental steps
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/paul-krugman-explains-why-single-payer-health-care-entirely-achievable-us-and-how
Medicare-for-All – “Both the House and Senate proposals restrict the ability of doctors and patients to contract for medical care outside of the system.” Hillary Clinton, call your office (her plan made it a felony to go outside the collective)
https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-heritage-medicare-for-all-grim-20181121-story.html
Millions of federal workers and their families would lose their popular Federal Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) under #SinglePayer
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article221985135.html
Golden Corral operator: “Medicare for all means no job-based coverage, higher taxes, and limited access to care. We deserve better.... I refuse to stand by and let my employees be forced into paying more money for subpar medical care.”
https://www.jdnews.com/opinion/20181126/opinion-billy-sewell-why-medicare-for-all-is-wrong-prescription
Support for #SinglePayer evaporates when poll question includes fact it would eliminate employer plans
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/11/22/icymi-dnc-ceo-actually-had-an-honest-answer-for-how-her-party-would-pay-for-medicare-for-all-n2536390
Local UK #SinglePayer NHS units refusing to pay for thyroid drug despite national directive; thousands facing weight gain, diabetes, depression and heart problems because of “backdoor rationing”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/26/thyroid-patients-abandoned-gain-wait-nhs-bosses-refuse-pay-crucial/
Most UK #SinglePayer NHS doctors are worried their hospitals won’t be able to deliver safe patient care when expected winter crisis hits
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-patients-safety-hospital-staff-doctors-poll-a8651131.html
Inflation shreds UK #SinglePayer NHS budget; billions needed for bailout
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/25/nhs-shortfall-treasury-injection-inflation-government-funding-pledge
One in five UK #SinglePayer NHS units hasn’t met a single wait time target for an entire year (emergency care, cancer treatment, routine surgery)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-trusts-waiting-time-targets-hospital-funding-performance-a8643781.html
GAO: VA fails to report 90% of dangerous doctors and dentists to a national database. #SinglePayer
https://www.teapartypatriots.org/news/va-is-putting-veterans-and-families-at-risk/?mid=19928&id=T15OuHulZKxtwhqSTA
Kansas City VA hospital hep-C patients not getting monitoring or drugs per protocol; two vets are dead that we know of
https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article221910725.html
November 19, 2018
Medicare-for-All leaders strategizing, mobilizing grassroots and politicians for victory. #TheLeftNeverQuits
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/14/path-winning-people-power-medicare-all-leaders-strategize-roadmap-victory
Medicare-for-All Caucus in the House pushing for vote on #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/416824-left-wants-a-vote-on-single-payer-bill-in-new-congress
DNC honcho has no idea how to pay for #SinglePayer
https://freebeacon.com/politics/dnc-ceo-i-dont-know-how-to-pay-for-single-payer-health-care/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=3a46048d0d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-3a46048d0d-45628225
Hopes run high for #SinglePayer in New York with all of state government now in Democratic hands
http://www.gothamgazette.com/state/8066-with-full-democratic-control-sponsors-of-new-york-single-payer-health-care-hopeful-about-2019
Don’t expect push for #SinglePayer in California in the first 2 years of Newsom’s term
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/15/california-governor-single-payer-healthcare-955627
Article extolling virtues of Canadian #SinglePayer ignores true administrative costs in U.S. and inhumanity of Canadian wait times that kill people
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/417208-single-payer-health-care-is-better-than-obamacare
LTE on #SinglePayer – “People with wealth will do what they do in England. BUY their way around the ‘wait lists’ with private care.”
https://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/democrats-want-to-bring-long-heath-care-wait-lists-to/article_a882515e-e9e7-11e8-b85a-fbb066fda2f3.html
“Single-payer systems have proved inferior to the U.S. in outcomes for almost all serious diseases, including cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-false-promise-of-medicare-for-all-1542066511
True costs of #SinglePayer - “government-run systems save money by freeloading off American innovation. American drug companies, funded by American customers, fund most of the world's research and development of pharmaceuticals.”
https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/14/the-case-against-single-payer-health-car
“Germany and France, like the United States, have private and employer-funded health insurance” but BernieCare would gleefully put private insurance companies out of business in the U.S.
https://www.city-journal.org/stossel/single-payer-health-care-fallacy
UK #SinglePayer – “7 in 10 Baby Deaths or Cases of Brain Damage at Birth Caused by Bad NHS Care”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/13/7-in-10-baby-deaths-cases-brain-damage-birth-caused-bad-nhs-care/
UK NHS #SinglePayer let brain surgeon keep operating even though it knew there were problems; police investigating dozens of cases, NHS pays out millions
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-46206784
VA begins to roll out new EHRs, discovers its computers are incompatible with the software. #SinglePayerFollies
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181114/NEWS/181119979
#SinglePayer VA nurse assistant steals wedding ring from 88-year-old military vet as he lay dying.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/investigations/wedding-rings-cash-medical-devices-among-hundreds-of-items-stolen-at-cleveland-va-hospital
Loophole lets VA #SinglePayer skate for malpractice of independent contractors who have VA IDs and wear VA doctor coats
https://www.abc4.com/news/national/veteran-calls-for-va-hospital-rule-change/1592302332
Medicare-for-All leaders strategizing, mobilizing grassroots and politicians for victory. #TheLeftNeverQuits
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/14/path-winning-people-power-medicare-all-leaders-strategize-roadmap-victory
Medicare-for-All Caucus in the House pushing for vote on #SinglePayer
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/416824-left-wants-a-vote-on-single-payer-bill-in-new-congress
DNC honcho has no idea how to pay for #SinglePayer
https://freebeacon.com/politics/dnc-ceo-i-dont-know-how-to-pay-for-single-payer-health-care/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=3a46048d0d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-3a46048d0d-45628225
Hopes run high for #SinglePayer in New York with all of state government now in Democratic hands
http://www.gothamgazette.com/state/8066-with-full-democratic-control-sponsors-of-new-york-single-payer-health-care-hopeful-about-2019
Don’t expect push for #SinglePayer in California in the first 2 years of Newsom’s term
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/15/california-governor-single-payer-healthcare-955627
Article extolling virtues of Canadian #SinglePayer ignores true administrative costs in U.S. and inhumanity of Canadian wait times that kill people
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/417208-single-payer-health-care-is-better-than-obamacare
LTE on #SinglePayer – “People with wealth will do what they do in England. BUY their way around the ‘wait lists’ with private care.”
https://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/democrats-want-to-bring-long-heath-care-wait-lists-to/article_a882515e-e9e7-11e8-b85a-fbb066fda2f3.html
“Single-payer systems have proved inferior to the U.S. in outcomes for almost all serious diseases, including cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-false-promise-of-medicare-for-all-1542066511
True costs of #SinglePayer - “government-run systems save money by freeloading off American innovation. American drug companies, funded by American customers, fund most of the world's research and development of pharmaceuticals.”
https://reason.com/archives/2018/11/14/the-case-against-single-payer-health-car
“Germany and France, like the United States, have private and employer-funded health insurance” but BernieCare would gleefully put private insurance companies out of business in the U.S.
https://www.city-journal.org/stossel/single-payer-health-care-fallacy
UK #SinglePayer – “7 in 10 Baby Deaths or Cases of Brain Damage at Birth Caused by Bad NHS Care”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/13/7-in-10-baby-deaths-cases-brain-damage-birth-caused-bad-nhs-care/
UK NHS #SinglePayer let brain surgeon keep operating even though it knew there were problems; police investigating dozens of cases, NHS pays out millions
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-46206784
VA begins to roll out new EHRs, discovers its computers are incompatible with the software. #SinglePayerFollies
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181114/NEWS/181119979
#SinglePayer VA nurse assistant steals wedding ring from 88-year-old military vet as he lay dying.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/investigations/wedding-rings-cash-medical-devices-among-hundreds-of-items-stolen-at-cleveland-va-hospital
Loophole lets VA #SinglePayer skate for malpractice of independent contractors who have VA IDs and wear VA doctor coats
https://www.abc4.com/news/national/veteran-calls-for-va-hospital-rule-change/1592302332
November 12, 2018
Memo to Conservatism, Inc. – time to wake up, the elections greased the skids for the next battle: Medicare-for-All. The fight over #SinglePayer is almost upon us. You are MIA.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-07/health-politics-turn-to-medicare-for-all-as-obamacare-is-safe
Nonbinding #SinglePayer referendum passes overwhelmingly in 6 Massachusetts districts; advocates to push it in statehouse
https://www.gazettenet.com/Question-4-s-success-emboldens-single-payer-advocates-21392464
Gavin Newsom - #SinglePayer in California will be a multiyear process
https://californiahealthline.org/news/california-dreamin-with-newsoms-win-single-payer-unlikely-to-follow-anytime-soon/
States toying with #SinglePayer find the cost is astronomical ($400B in California) and taxes would be sky-high (39% sales tax in Florida)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/some-state-officials-want-adopt-bernie-style-health-care-heres-what?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1GbVpURXpaR1UzTkdRMiIsInQiOiJRbTBoWlE5ZTVRc01aaU5qUVwvV2NwcldaSnZLVXc4VUdsS1B5V2ZDK2NOa2Q3QXJ1eXJpQmdWaExVR3BTQlk2c1wvR2RCYlkxOGhvMFpHMUtQbldBMEpcL3E5XC9tYXl2N1pQV0NNcjd1WG9wb3MrRnZYRldtRHZhN0Zsa0xBc2gySmcifQ%3D%3D
Referendum on universal home care fails in Maine
https://www.apnews.com/d3aa976953b040eaae714d8029d2b4c1
Poll indicates confusion over what ‘Medicare-for-All’ means; a sizeable percentage thinks it means a public option (optional public plan)
https://www.axios.com/medicare-for-all-poll-midterm-elections-e7b93daf-b261-42f7-85ca-8d1bcb2eb1f0.html?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=ce5687f71a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-ce5687f71a-171567693&mc_cid=ce5687f71a&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Coalition forms in California (doctors, hospitals, insurers, businesses) to fight #SinglePayer -the bad news: the group will push other left-wing measures
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article217408905.html
One-size-fits-all government healthcare is the wrong answer; people should have more choices
https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2018/11/09/heritage-govt-run-healthcare-isnt-a-solution
True costs of Canadian #SinglePayer - long wait times, declining number of doctors, fewer hospital beds, lack of availability of various diagnostic tools such as PET scans
https://mises.org/library/canadian-medicare-model-united-states?utm_source=Mises+Institute+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=4daa22bb98-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_21_2018_9_59_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b52b2e1c0-4daa22bb98-228099157
#SinglePayer doesn’t just mean waiting for a doctor; it also means waiting for tests. Both are hazardous to your health.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46103014
UK NHS #SinglePayer on track to set new record for worst cancer treatment wait-time statistics ever
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/08/nhs-cancer-treatment-wait-statistics-2018-standards
The evil insurance companies deny spine surgery treatment for little girl. Oh wait, it was Scotland NHS #SinglePayer
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-dancers-parents-fury-nhs-13564819
The government program that ate Scotland – NHS #SinglePayer to be half of government spending, but not to worry, there are still plenty of options for raising taxes
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-46128066
Troubled Atlanta VA hospital replaces Medical Director, lies about it; just can’t shoot straight with vets, critic says
https://www.ajc.com/news/handling-director-retirement-points-troubled-atlanta-culture/25q8oe4EKqAhaP3t2ZB91J/
West Palm Beach VA #SinglePayer hospital a horror show - dirty rooms, food on the floor, used tissues under the bed, dried whatever all over; ‘I’ll never forget how filthy my room was,’ one vet says
https://cbs12.com/news/cbs12-news-investigates/filth-and-cross-contamination-concerns-at-west-palm-beach-va-medical-center
Look for the union label – VA #SinglePayer unions to bring more litigation to fight Trump administration moves to limit doing union work while on the job. Wake up! #SinglePayer is NOT about healthcare.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181109/NEWS/181109899
Memo to Conservatism, Inc. – time to wake up, the elections greased the skids for the next battle: Medicare-for-All. The fight over #SinglePayer is almost upon us. You are MIA.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-07/health-politics-turn-to-medicare-for-all-as-obamacare-is-safe
Nonbinding #SinglePayer referendum passes overwhelmingly in 6 Massachusetts districts; advocates to push it in statehouse
https://www.gazettenet.com/Question-4-s-success-emboldens-single-payer-advocates-21392464
Gavin Newsom - #SinglePayer in California will be a multiyear process
https://californiahealthline.org/news/california-dreamin-with-newsoms-win-single-payer-unlikely-to-follow-anytime-soon/
States toying with #SinglePayer find the cost is astronomical ($400B in California) and taxes would be sky-high (39% sales tax in Florida)
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/commentary/some-state-officials-want-adopt-bernie-style-health-care-heres-what?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1GbVpURXpaR1UzTkdRMiIsInQiOiJRbTBoWlE5ZTVRc01aaU5qUVwvV2NwcldaSnZLVXc4VUdsS1B5V2ZDK2NOa2Q3QXJ1eXJpQmdWaExVR3BTQlk2c1wvR2RCYlkxOGhvMFpHMUtQbldBMEpcL3E5XC9tYXl2N1pQV0NNcjd1WG9wb3MrRnZYRldtRHZhN0Zsa0xBc2gySmcifQ%3D%3D
Referendum on universal home care fails in Maine
https://www.apnews.com/d3aa976953b040eaae714d8029d2b4c1
Poll indicates confusion over what ‘Medicare-for-All’ means; a sizeable percentage thinks it means a public option (optional public plan)
https://www.axios.com/medicare-for-all-poll-midterm-elections-e7b93daf-b261-42f7-85ca-8d1bcb2eb1f0.html?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=ce5687f71a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-ce5687f71a-171567693&mc_cid=ce5687f71a&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Coalition forms in California (doctors, hospitals, insurers, businesses) to fight #SinglePayer -the bad news: the group will push other left-wing measures
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article217408905.html
One-size-fits-all government healthcare is the wrong answer; people should have more choices
https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2018/11/09/heritage-govt-run-healthcare-isnt-a-solution
True costs of Canadian #SinglePayer - long wait times, declining number of doctors, fewer hospital beds, lack of availability of various diagnostic tools such as PET scans
https://mises.org/library/canadian-medicare-model-united-states?utm_source=Mises+Institute+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=4daa22bb98-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_21_2018_9_59_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b52b2e1c0-4daa22bb98-228099157
#SinglePayer doesn’t just mean waiting for a doctor; it also means waiting for tests. Both are hazardous to your health.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46103014
UK NHS #SinglePayer on track to set new record for worst cancer treatment wait-time statistics ever
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/08/nhs-cancer-treatment-wait-statistics-2018-standards
The evil insurance companies deny spine surgery treatment for little girl. Oh wait, it was Scotland NHS #SinglePayer
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-dancers-parents-fury-nhs-13564819
The government program that ate Scotland – NHS #SinglePayer to be half of government spending, but not to worry, there are still plenty of options for raising taxes
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-46128066
Troubled Atlanta VA hospital replaces Medical Director, lies about it; just can’t shoot straight with vets, critic says
https://www.ajc.com/news/handling-director-retirement-points-troubled-atlanta-culture/25q8oe4EKqAhaP3t2ZB91J/
West Palm Beach VA #SinglePayer hospital a horror show - dirty rooms, food on the floor, used tissues under the bed, dried whatever all over; ‘I’ll never forget how filthy my room was,’ one vet says
https://cbs12.com/news/cbs12-news-investigates/filth-and-cross-contamination-concerns-at-west-palm-beach-va-medical-center
Look for the union label – VA #SinglePayer unions to bring more litigation to fight Trump administration moves to limit doing union work while on the job. Wake up! #SinglePayer is NOT about healthcare.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181109/NEWS/181109899
November 5, 2018
New Medicare for All PAC endorses Andrew Gillum, 7 other candidates supporting #SinglePayer
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/02/here-are-very-first-endorsements-medicare-all-pac
#SinglePayer would put politics and an unelected board – not you - in charge of access, quality, and what treatments are allowed, prohibited, or required
https://aapsonline.org/medicare-for-all-would-crash-the-system/
Doctor’s group spells out #SinglePayer realities – big bad insurance co.s likely to stay as managers; new taxes would hit everyone, not just the rich; covert euthanasia will be needed to balance the books; etc.
https://aapsonline.org/voters-beware-of-medicare-for-all-sabotage/
#SinglePayer is a government takeover of healthcare: no private insurance; providers will be slaves paid whatever the government says; special interests would steer politicians deciding what drugs are available
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/01/dr-kristin-held-one-paragraph-of-medicare-for-all-completes-government-takeover-of-medicine/
CMS chief: Medicare only appears to be cost-effective because it does little to detect fraud and abuse; Medicare incentivizes higher NOT lower drug prices; ‘more care for less money’ is the Obamacare pipe dream
https://www.theepochtimes.com/cms-chief-says-medicare-for-all-too-good-to-be-true_2707770.html
Here’s what #SinglePayer really means – higher taxes, reduced services, chronic doctor shortages, cancelled surgeries, long waits. And, no, it’s not ‘free’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YESSaytV534&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRkaVlqWTRPREJtT1dVNSIsInQiOiJXTm9MRFlWQ2RJeTFcL1JtU09TMW9namxSTWVPcTRxcm5aYTZXelY0MkRKMjYyK3prQUI3enFLaE9yd0dPdEtWckMrK2lEQUhTZjBDUzdMQTVHYUtSTjMxcEpncUF1ZWwzQmQwckhpbVBJcWNIR1VaQTBBQUIyWDh3UmVubFhDNXIifQ%3D%3D
#SinglePayer price controls and bureaucracy will kill healthcare innovation and technology
https://www.nwitimes.com/opinion/columnists/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-single-payer-health-care-not-the-way/article_419d89d2-efba-5543-b8ea-173ff9db80cd.html
“Single Payer Only Increases Waste”
https://tulsabeacon.com/single-payer-only-increases-waste/
NHS UK #SinglePayer proposal for group doctor visits is “bizarre and insulting”; discussing your hemorrhoids in front of 15 other people – wow. But they’ll sign a confidentiality agreement. Feel better now?
https://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2018/10/30/liberals-cry-louder-for-singlepayer-while-englands-singlepayer-nightmare-worsens-n2533019
NHS #SinglePayer cancels man’s hernia surgery 6 times (video at the end)
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/97000-people-have-this-operation-each-year-heres-what-happens-when-it-goes-wrong_uk_5acc9258e4b0337ad1eb928a?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_cs=bMX1fRiGILODX46nT519FA
UK NHS #SinglePayer bosses go to jail for roles in awarding contracts to company one owned
http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Robot-News/nhs-bosses-jailed-for-14-years-for-defrauding-health-board-of-700000-using-u2-pseudonyms-
Moody’s: NHS #SinglePayer driving UK into debt; cost-cutting and higher taxes will be necessary
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-is-driving-britain-into-debt-says-moody-s-m0rf7w7ck
Connecticut VA hospital gets agency’s highest quality rating despite cancelled surgeries and unsterile surgical tools. #SinglePayer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/veterans-hospitals-rating-system-star.html
New Medicare for All PAC endorses Andrew Gillum, 7 other candidates supporting #SinglePayer
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/02/here-are-very-first-endorsements-medicare-all-pac
#SinglePayer would put politics and an unelected board – not you - in charge of access, quality, and what treatments are allowed, prohibited, or required
https://aapsonline.org/medicare-for-all-would-crash-the-system/
Doctor’s group spells out #SinglePayer realities – big bad insurance co.s likely to stay as managers; new taxes would hit everyone, not just the rich; covert euthanasia will be needed to balance the books; etc.
https://aapsonline.org/voters-beware-of-medicare-for-all-sabotage/
#SinglePayer is a government takeover of healthcare: no private insurance; providers will be slaves paid whatever the government says; special interests would steer politicians deciding what drugs are available
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/01/dr-kristin-held-one-paragraph-of-medicare-for-all-completes-government-takeover-of-medicine/
CMS chief: Medicare only appears to be cost-effective because it does little to detect fraud and abuse; Medicare incentivizes higher NOT lower drug prices; ‘more care for less money’ is the Obamacare pipe dream
https://www.theepochtimes.com/cms-chief-says-medicare-for-all-too-good-to-be-true_2707770.html
Here’s what #SinglePayer really means – higher taxes, reduced services, chronic doctor shortages, cancelled surgeries, long waits. And, no, it’s not ‘free’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YESSaytV534&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRkaVlqWTRPREJtT1dVNSIsInQiOiJXTm9MRFlWQ2RJeTFcL1JtU09TMW9namxSTWVPcTRxcm5aYTZXelY0MkRKMjYyK3prQUI3enFLaE9yd0dPdEtWckMrK2lEQUhTZjBDUzdMQTVHYUtSTjMxcEpncUF1ZWwzQmQwckhpbVBJcWNIR1VaQTBBQUIyWDh3UmVubFhDNXIifQ%3D%3D
#SinglePayer price controls and bureaucracy will kill healthcare innovation and technology
https://www.nwitimes.com/opinion/columnists/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-single-payer-health-care-not-the-way/article_419d89d2-efba-5543-b8ea-173ff9db80cd.html
“Single Payer Only Increases Waste”
https://tulsabeacon.com/single-payer-only-increases-waste/
NHS UK #SinglePayer proposal for group doctor visits is “bizarre and insulting”; discussing your hemorrhoids in front of 15 other people – wow. But they’ll sign a confidentiality agreement. Feel better now?
https://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2018/10/30/liberals-cry-louder-for-singlepayer-while-englands-singlepayer-nightmare-worsens-n2533019
NHS #SinglePayer cancels man’s hernia surgery 6 times (video at the end)
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/97000-people-have-this-operation-each-year-heres-what-happens-when-it-goes-wrong_uk_5acc9258e4b0337ad1eb928a?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_cs=bMX1fRiGILODX46nT519FA
UK NHS #SinglePayer bosses go to jail for roles in awarding contracts to company one owned
http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Robot-News/nhs-bosses-jailed-for-14-years-for-defrauding-health-board-of-700000-using-u2-pseudonyms-
Moody’s: NHS #SinglePayer driving UK into debt; cost-cutting and higher taxes will be necessary
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-is-driving-britain-into-debt-says-moody-s-m0rf7w7ck
Connecticut VA hospital gets agency’s highest quality rating despite cancelled surgeries and unsterile surgical tools. #SinglePayer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/veterans-hospitals-rating-system-star.html