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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