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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter
Obamacare’s medical device tax hampered production of PPE; production moved off-shore
https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2020-04-28-taxing-issue-how-obamacare-hurt-ppe-production/
Oklahoma still doesn’t know how to pay for the state’s share of Medicaid expansion and now the pandemic has made the problem $100M worse
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/lawmakers-in-oklahoma-grapple-with-rising-costs-of-medicaid-expansion-set-for-july-california-stores-can-start-using-disposable-plastic-bags-for-safety/
Pandemic relief bill suspends Medicaid eligibility checks; no one can be disenrolled for the duration of the emergency
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/27/how-congress-coronavirus-legislation-could-pay-millionaires-bills-with-medicaid/
Throw gazillions at a problem and, undoubtedly, some metrics will improve. But not always – Medicaid does not improve outcomes for small cell lung cancer
https://www.cancernetwork.com/lung-cancer/medicaid-not-associated-improved-survival-patients-sclc
Medicaid expansion for childless able-bodied adults makes no sense in a pandemic where resources need to be prioritized to patients like the elderly who are suffering life-threatening illness
https://msbusiness.com/2020/04/jameson-taylor-the-wrong-time-to-expand-medicaid/
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
– return Medicaid to a poverty program
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!