You know at some point the fight will be joined over single-payer. It’s been the dream of the Left for a century and the Left never quits. The Truth Squad is collecting stories from all over the world demonstrating why single-payer is a VERY BAD IDEA. So, when the fight comes, we will have thousands of stories at the ready, thousands of very tall mountains the single-payer crowd will have to jump over. We tweet these stories most Mondays at 10 a.m. Here is the latest batch:
Welcome to #SinglePayer Monday! Most M ondays 10 a.m. ET. Moo!
Phoenix VA made $12.4 million in improper payments, pressured employee to award no-bid contract
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/02/02/phoenix-va-12-million-improper-payments-eye-care/97361284/
VA so incompetent it can’t even use money appropriated to refer vets to outside care
http://gazette.com/editorial-va-buffoonery-proves-government-cant-manage-health-care/article/1595680
Admin costs more than doubled under ACA, undercutting key #SinglePayer argument (‘save admin costs’)
http://freebeacon.com/issues/administrative-costs-doubled-implementation-obamacare/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=dab8b55c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-dab8b55c9d-45628225
#SinglePayer = price controls, rationing, stagnation. Why sign up for substandard government healthcare?
https://signalscv.com/2017/02/01/jim-de-bree-single-payer-care-stagnates/
French and British #SinglePayer systems in decline, not ready for the future.
https://signalscv.com/2017/02/01/jim-de-bree-single-payer-care-stagnates/
Most of the profit in healthcare is in pharma & device makers, not insurers. #SinglePayer won’t change that.
https://signalscv.com/2017/02/01/jim-de-bree-single-payer-care-stagnates/
Bernie Sanders will not re-introduce his #SinglePayer bill for political reasons. #Hypocrite
http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2017/02/01/single-payer-don-beyer-and-the-defensive-democrats/
UK #SinglePayer NHS being scammed by sick foreigners who land, lap up services, and leave
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/762782/NHS-health-tourism-travel-oversea-foreign-patients-Professor-J-Meirion-Thomas
Junior docs leaving UK #SinglePayer training program en masse.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/soaring-numbers-junior-doctors-leave-9752714
UK #SinglePayer hospital out of money, postpones routine surgery until April
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/02/nhs-cash-crisis-in-kent-halts-non-urgent-surgery-until-april
UK cancer patients increasingly turning to crowdfunding to make up for deficiencies in NHS #SinglePayer treatment
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/04/record-numbers-cancer-patients-using-crowdfunding-pay-private/
Endpoint of #SinglePayer – crowdfunding.
UK NHS #SinglePayer hospital docs send coded emails (‘going for a cappuccino’) to arrange romps with staff
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2782744/two-doctors-quit-after-exchanging-coded-emails-like-going-for-a-cappuccino-to-arrange-romps-with-staff-at-top-hospital/
Peruvian #SinglePayer doc caught on film ‘rubbing his genitals on sleeping patient’s face’
http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/31/doctor-caught-on-film-rubbing-his-genitals-on-sleeping-patients-face-6418968/
Nearly 100 mental patients die after South African government moves them to unlicensed ‘concentration camps’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/south-african-scandal-after-nearly-100-mental-health-patients-die
Pakistan #SinglePayer drug regulator loses power after multiple scandals; functions shifted to provinces.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1312617
Australia #SinglePayer hospital gives faulty hepatitis B vaccine to at least 282 babies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4170978/Bankstown-Lidcombe-Hospital-Sydney-hepatitis-B-vaccine.html
Utopian Socialists believed socialism would turn oceans into lemonade. Now supporters think #SinglePayer will be lemonade & cookies for all.