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August 13, 2018
Author: ‘stop misrepresenting my study’. $2T ‘savings’ from Medicare-for-All was just number-crunching what would happen if doctor reimbursements were cut 40%, not complete analysis of reactions to such a cut
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/bernie-sanders-misunderstood-study-he-used-to-tout-medicare-for-all-author-says
Left-wing Associated Press calls out Bernie for misrepresenting $2 trillion savings from his health plan
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-fact-check-sanders-spins-savings-medicare-plan-57115385?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=e63708b7ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_15_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-e63708b7ba-171567693&mc_cid=e63708b7ba&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Provider payments would NEVER be cut 40% under Medicare-for-All, special interests would prevent it. #SinglePayer would be a “fiscal nightmare” with HIGHER, not lower administrative costs.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/400800-medicare-for-all-would-be-a-fiscal-nightmare?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=e63708b7ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_15_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-e63708b7ba-171567693&mc_cid=e63708b7ba&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Even raising taxes 100% would not pay for BernieCare
https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-doubling-taxes-wouldnt-pay-for-medicare-for-all-1533163559?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f8b7d117e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_13_04_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f8b7d117e6-171567693&mc_cid=f8b7d117e6&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare-for-All depends on a lot of ifs, AND a national consensus. They rammed Obamacare down our throats. Are they going to ram #SinglePayer down our throats, too? There is no consensus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cosmically-huge-if-of-medicare-for-all/2018/08/12/48fe5736-9506-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html?utm_term=.5e88e0f4c33a
You wait 5 months to see a specialist in Canadian #SinglePayer, but, hey, it’s FREE!, except for the hidden taxes and fees, long waits, rationing, and limited access to latest treatments
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34061/exclusive-sally-pipes-why-single-payer-healthcare-jacob-airey?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080618-news&utm_campaign=position6
Special NHS units to deal with escalating #SinglePayer wait times in Scotland are 40% over budget. #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alarm-raised-as-new-nhs-hubs-go-40-over-budget-gklxd32bm
UK NHS #SinglePayer loses 600 babies a year to stillbirth because government maternity units don’t follow guidelines
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/07/29/600-babies-could-saved-stillbirth-year-maternity-units-followed/
Serious medical incidents arising from treatment delays more than double in 3 years in BritCare-for-All #SinglePayer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6002205/Serious-incidents-involving-sub-optimal-care-rising-NHS-hospitals.html
Disability doors missing, broken at new $2 billion VA hospital in Colorado. #SinglePayerStinks
https://kdvr.com/2018/07/25/handicap-doors-missing-broken-at-new-va-hospital/
Author: ‘stop misrepresenting my study’. $2T ‘savings’ from Medicare-for-All was just number-crunching what would happen if doctor reimbursements were cut 40%, not complete analysis of reactions to such a cut
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/bernie-sanders-misunderstood-study-he-used-to-tout-medicare-for-all-author-says
Left-wing Associated Press calls out Bernie for misrepresenting $2 trillion savings from his health plan
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-fact-check-sanders-spins-savings-medicare-plan-57115385?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=e63708b7ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_15_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-e63708b7ba-171567693&mc_cid=e63708b7ba&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Provider payments would NEVER be cut 40% under Medicare-for-All, special interests would prevent it. #SinglePayer would be a “fiscal nightmare” with HIGHER, not lower administrative costs.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/400800-medicare-for-all-would-be-a-fiscal-nightmare?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=e63708b7ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_15_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-e63708b7ba-171567693&mc_cid=e63708b7ba&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Even raising taxes 100% would not pay for BernieCare
https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-doubling-taxes-wouldnt-pay-for-medicare-for-all-1533163559?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=f8b7d117e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_13_04_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-f8b7d117e6-171567693&mc_cid=f8b7d117e6&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Medicare-for-All depends on a lot of ifs, AND a national consensus. They rammed Obamacare down our throats. Are they going to ram #SinglePayer down our throats, too? There is no consensus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cosmically-huge-if-of-medicare-for-all/2018/08/12/48fe5736-9506-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html?utm_term=.5e88e0f4c33a
You wait 5 months to see a specialist in Canadian #SinglePayer, but, hey, it’s FREE!, except for the hidden taxes and fees, long waits, rationing, and limited access to latest treatments
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34061/exclusive-sally-pipes-why-single-payer-healthcare-jacob-airey?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080618-news&utm_campaign=position6
Special NHS units to deal with escalating #SinglePayer wait times in Scotland are 40% over budget. #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alarm-raised-as-new-nhs-hubs-go-40-over-budget-gklxd32bm
UK NHS #SinglePayer loses 600 babies a year to stillbirth because government maternity units don’t follow guidelines
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/07/29/600-babies-could-saved-stillbirth-year-maternity-units-followed/
Serious medical incidents arising from treatment delays more than double in 3 years in BritCare-for-All #SinglePayer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6002205/Serious-incidents-involving-sub-optimal-care-rising-NHS-hospitals.html
Disability doors missing, broken at new $2 billion VA hospital in Colorado. #SinglePayerStinks
https://kdvr.com/2018/07/25/handicap-doors-missing-broken-at-new-va-hospital/
August 6, 2018
Posturing Democratic candidates are telling you they support Medicare-for-All, but secretly telling industry lobbyists the opposite. So don’t take their cheerleading at face value. #FollowTheMoney
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/02/healthcare-medicare-for-all-hawaii/
Democratic candidates for governor in several states say they support #SinglePayer (do they really? Or are they just pandering?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/tossing-aside-skepticism-democratic-candidates-for-governor-push-for-state-based-universal-health-care/2018/08/05/fb4220ca-9723-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.64e8e8d5aa45
Socialist magazine tries, fails to spin $32.6 trillion cost of BernieCare; relies on debunked notion that #SinglePayer has lower administrative expenses.
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/medicare-for-all-mercatus-center-report
The notion that #SinglePayer lowers overall health expenditures depends on doctors accepting Medicare rates for all patients. Good luck with that.
https://www.aei.org/publication/an-amuse-bouche-to-the-impending-single-payer-debates/
California State Treasurer John Chiang: “I support single payer, but we have to be truthful here. How many of you want to pay an additional 90% in taxes?”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/07/30/why-the-idea-of-single-payer-heath-care-wont-die/#ea6095c98ba6
The claim ‘U.S. spends twice as much per capita on healthcare’ compares apples and oranges – ‘comparable’ countries don’t count cost of collecting revenue; we have more military vets and do malpractice litigation the expensive way.
http://www.jpands.org/vol23no2/correspondence.pdf
#SinglePayer – You pay, but Washington decides what healthcare you receive. #ControlThePeople
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/07/30/why-the-idea-of-single-payer-heath-care-wont-die/#ea6095c98ba6
UK NHS #SinglePayer rationing hip and knee operations; patients waiting in pain while their condition deteriorates
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-rations-operations-hip-patients-beg-treatment-cuts-funding-a8453531.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer cost-cutting leads to rationing of hernia surgery; patients at risk for life-threatening complications
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/17/nhs-rationing-putting-hernia-patients-lives-at-risk-say-surgeons
Employees at D.C. VA hospital beg for help; rusty equipment and other problems putting patients’ lives at risk
https://www.businessinsider.com/horrific-conditions-at-va-hospital-have-employees-begging-for-help-2018-8
VA hospitals can’t hire enough doctors or retain them; 1,600 open positions. #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/08/04/the-doctors-are-in-or-are-they-why-va-cannot-hire-enough-physicians/
Posturing Democratic candidates are telling you they support Medicare-for-All, but secretly telling industry lobbyists the opposite. So don’t take their cheerleading at face value. #FollowTheMoney
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/02/healthcare-medicare-for-all-hawaii/
Democratic candidates for governor in several states say they support #SinglePayer (do they really? Or are they just pandering?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/tossing-aside-skepticism-democratic-candidates-for-governor-push-for-state-based-universal-health-care/2018/08/05/fb4220ca-9723-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.64e8e8d5aa45
Socialist magazine tries, fails to spin $32.6 trillion cost of BernieCare; relies on debunked notion that #SinglePayer has lower administrative expenses.
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/medicare-for-all-mercatus-center-report
The notion that #SinglePayer lowers overall health expenditures depends on doctors accepting Medicare rates for all patients. Good luck with that.
https://www.aei.org/publication/an-amuse-bouche-to-the-impending-single-payer-debates/
California State Treasurer John Chiang: “I support single payer, but we have to be truthful here. How many of you want to pay an additional 90% in taxes?”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/07/30/why-the-idea-of-single-payer-heath-care-wont-die/#ea6095c98ba6
The claim ‘U.S. spends twice as much per capita on healthcare’ compares apples and oranges – ‘comparable’ countries don’t count cost of collecting revenue; we have more military vets and do malpractice litigation the expensive way.
http://www.jpands.org/vol23no2/correspondence.pdf
#SinglePayer – You pay, but Washington decides what healthcare you receive. #ControlThePeople
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/07/30/why-the-idea-of-single-payer-heath-care-wont-die/#ea6095c98ba6
UK NHS #SinglePayer rationing hip and knee operations; patients waiting in pain while their condition deteriorates
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-rations-operations-hip-patients-beg-treatment-cuts-funding-a8453531.html
UK NHS #SinglePayer cost-cutting leads to rationing of hernia surgery; patients at risk for life-threatening complications
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/17/nhs-rationing-putting-hernia-patients-lives-at-risk-say-surgeons
Employees at D.C. VA hospital beg for help; rusty equipment and other problems putting patients’ lives at risk
https://www.businessinsider.com/horrific-conditions-at-va-hospital-have-employees-begging-for-help-2018-8
VA hospitals can’t hire enough doctors or retain them; 1,600 open positions. #NeverEnoughMoneyForSinglePayer
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/08/04/the-doctors-are-in-or-are-they-why-va-cannot-hire-enough-physicians/
July 30, 2018
Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan would drive up government healthcare spending by $32.6 TRILLION over 10 years
https://www.apnews.com/09e06d686a1a481fa76e3fd91f3fcbc2/Study:-'Medicare-for-all'-projected-to-cost-%2432.6-trillion
#SinglePayer is only possible until you run out of other people’s money, and that would happen way sooner than Bernie thinks.
https://townhall.com/columnists/halscherz/2018/07/30/democrat-socialists-and-their-singlepayer-healthcare-agenda-n2505051
#SinglePayer hands government monopoly control over all healthcare; bureaucrats determine what treatment you get
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/government-monopoly-senator-sanders-single-payer-health-care-prescription?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpka1pUUXdPRGRoWWpBNSIsInQiOiJLdVdUVVBDblJxNldSMEZaNUpYRFpsbHhCZ2dpWmFsT1RmUlBMVGFnZkE3RGRLQThwZXpVQmFUUXFuanhrQ0tpcURPblNGVUhnZ3hhckVLT0JUNWxyNHI3WEZRMVNNcE8wclFJeWV1Ym5uUG5hTHhMdnBcL0lRM3REUzVjN2R1TGQifQ%3D%3D
#SinglePayer - "If you don't like your government health plan, you have to keep it anyway." That’s what ‘no more insurance companies’ means.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/single-payer-may-mean-no-service-no-choice-warns-the-association-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-aaps-300685625.html
Eliminating private insurers under #SinglePayer would crash the stock, bond, and commercial real estate markets. Insurers are major investors.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/07/27/single-payer-system-cause-health-care-sector-implode/849329002/
“House Democrats form ‘Medicare for All’ caucus ahead of midterms”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-healthcare-presented-by-the-alzheimers-association-house-democrats-form-medicare-for-all-caucus-ahead-of-midterms
CMS likely to deny waivers from states seeking to implement their own #SinglePayer systems – so why are we even talking about it?
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/398871-top-trump-health-official-slams-medicare-for-all
Candidate’s #SinglePayer plan for Maryland would cost $24 billion a year, necessitate huge tax increases
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-single-payer-costs-20180713-story.html
Medicare-for-All – unfair, unsustainable, unbelievable bureaucracy.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/399283-medicare-for-all-is-a-socialists-dream-and-an-american-nightmare
NHS #SinglePayer turned UK from medical innovator into country using out-of-date equipment, with poor cancer survival rates and death-by-waiting
https://mises.org/wire/its-time-give-britains-national-health-service
Careful what you wish for – UK NHS #SinglePayer docs overworked, burned-out, forced to take shortcuts that put patients at risk. Leaving at unprecedented rate
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/07/24/healthcare-doctors-single-payer-socialized-nhs?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdKaU1qWXhNREppTW1FMCIsInQiOiJQQmpKQVExNXg4MWlPRjkxa1dPMGRZVjJCS1wvSmZOWDdMZ29RTm9TTlNwMDR2TnJDUkozZWs2ajd0N05sUzlcLzFEbVNsaEl4aUNveisrbVF2S3NUbjJlczNkdFBIVkRWd1NiNDNsaTUxaW84TUU5WG5WZkk5bnNJNmRIU0FRK3FCIn0%3D
GAO: VA #SAinglePayer system retaliates against whistleblowers (disciplined, reassigned, isolated) while wrong-doers often escape punishment
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-veterans-whistleblowers/va-whistleblowers-faced-greater-risk-of-retaliation-by-officials-watchdog-idUSKBN1K92ZY
Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan would drive up government healthcare spending by $32.6 TRILLION over 10 years
https://www.apnews.com/09e06d686a1a481fa76e3fd91f3fcbc2/Study:-'Medicare-for-all'-projected-to-cost-%2432.6-trillion
#SinglePayer is only possible until you run out of other people’s money, and that would happen way sooner than Bernie thinks.
https://townhall.com/columnists/halscherz/2018/07/30/democrat-socialists-and-their-singlepayer-healthcare-agenda-n2505051
#SinglePayer hands government monopoly control over all healthcare; bureaucrats determine what treatment you get
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/government-monopoly-senator-sanders-single-payer-health-care-prescription?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpka1pUUXdPRGRoWWpBNSIsInQiOiJLdVdUVVBDblJxNldSMEZaNUpYRFpsbHhCZ2dpWmFsT1RmUlBMVGFnZkE3RGRLQThwZXpVQmFUUXFuanhrQ0tpcURPblNGVUhnZ3hhckVLT0JUNWxyNHI3WEZRMVNNcE8wclFJeWV1Ym5uUG5hTHhMdnBcL0lRM3REUzVjN2R1TGQifQ%3D%3D
#SinglePayer - "If you don't like your government health plan, you have to keep it anyway." That’s what ‘no more insurance companies’ means.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/single-payer-may-mean-no-service-no-choice-warns-the-association-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-aaps-300685625.html
Eliminating private insurers under #SinglePayer would crash the stock, bond, and commercial real estate markets. Insurers are major investors.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/07/27/single-payer-system-cause-health-care-sector-implode/849329002/
“House Democrats form ‘Medicare for All’ caucus ahead of midterms”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-on-healthcare-presented-by-the-alzheimers-association-house-democrats-form-medicare-for-all-caucus-ahead-of-midterms
CMS likely to deny waivers from states seeking to implement their own #SinglePayer systems – so why are we even talking about it?
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/398871-top-trump-health-official-slams-medicare-for-all
Candidate’s #SinglePayer plan for Maryland would cost $24 billion a year, necessitate huge tax increases
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-single-payer-costs-20180713-story.html
Medicare-for-All – unfair, unsustainable, unbelievable bureaucracy.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/399283-medicare-for-all-is-a-socialists-dream-and-an-american-nightmare
NHS #SinglePayer turned UK from medical innovator into country using out-of-date equipment, with poor cancer survival rates and death-by-waiting
https://mises.org/wire/its-time-give-britains-national-health-service
Careful what you wish for – UK NHS #SinglePayer docs overworked, burned-out, forced to take shortcuts that put patients at risk. Leaving at unprecedented rate
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/07/24/healthcare-doctors-single-payer-socialized-nhs?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdKaU1qWXhNREppTW1FMCIsInQiOiJQQmpKQVExNXg4MWlPRjkxa1dPMGRZVjJCS1wvSmZOWDdMZ29RTm9TTlNwMDR2TnJDUkozZWs2ajd0N05sUzlcLzFEbVNsaEl4aUNveisrbVF2S3NUbjJlczNkdFBIVkRWd1NiNDNsaTUxaW84TUU5WG5WZkk5bnNJNmRIU0FRK3FCIn0%3D
GAO: VA #SAinglePayer system retaliates against whistleblowers (disciplined, reassigned, isolated) while wrong-doers often escape punishment
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-veterans-whistleblowers/va-whistleblowers-faced-greater-risk-of-retaliation-by-officials-watchdog-idUSKBN1K92ZY