#SinglePayer in one picture (Venezuela)
June 2016
#SinglePayer – healthcare from government slugs who just want to go home at 5 o’clock. What could possibly go wrong?
#SinglePayer would turn docs into clock-punching government slugs who lack professionalism
http://shawnwhatley.com/government-wants-it-both-ways/
Bid-rigging, nepotism scandal alleged at UK’s NHS. #OinkOink
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-36622340
British girl gets scalp rash from acrylic wig after NHS refuses her a real hairpiece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3658335/Schoolgirl-11-alopecia-develops-scalp-rash-NHS-gives-acrylic-wig-health-bosses-refuse-pay-3-600-real-hair-piece.html
“Medicare Bust Uncovers Nearly $1 Billion in Fraudulent Billing”
http://www.iwf.org/blog/2800637/Medicare-Bust-Uncovers-Nearly-$1-Billion-in-Fraudulent-Billing
Activists pushing for Democratic platform to include #SinglePayer
https://morningconsult.com/2016/06/20/some-democrats-arent-giving-up-on-universal-health-care/
#SinglePayer bills in Massachusetts would raise costs, reduce access, fail to produce savings
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2016/06/23/massachusetts-considers-imposing-statewide-single-payer-health-care-sys
VA hospital director gets 5-yr sentence for taking bribes for giving info to contractors
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/21/va-crook-gets-wrist-slap-sentence-for-64-criminal-counts/
Houston VA caught canceling vets’ appointments to make wait times appear shorter
http://freebeacon.com/issues/houston-vets-waited-for-care-after-cancelled-appointments/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=173d72813f-WFB_Morning_Beacon_06_23_166_22_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-173d72813f-45628225
U don’t care if government healthcare becomes like the old cars and decrepit buildings of Havana. U just want to be in control, like Castro.
No waiting lines for CT scans in Canada! (for pets, that is). #SinglePayer
http://reason.com/archives/2016/05/11/free-market-medicine
Bounty hunter sues Medicare: bureaucrats actively frustrate anti-fraud efforts. #SinglePayer
http://freebeacon.com/issues/meet-bounty-hunter-blowing-whistle-medicare/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6b69d8feb4-06_13_166_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6b69d8feb4-45628225
Swedish co.s turn to private insurers because #SinglePayer wait times don’t get people back to work fast enough
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/sweden-is-evolving-to-private-healthcare/
Pres. Obama’s opposition to privatization of VA based on bogus claim progress made in wait times
http://www.krdo.com/news/Obama-opposes-privatization-of-VA-health-care/39908472
24,000 of our servicemen and women were denied needed aid from VA to recover from brain trauma
http://bwcentral.org/2016/06/report-confusing-guidelines-denied-thousands-of-vets-compensation-for-traumatic-brain-injuries/
UK NHS neglects stroke survivors and rehab; “”I really feel they do not care about me.” #CompassionGap
http://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/14521005.Stroke_sufferer_feels_neglected_by_the_National_Health_Service/
Denver Post pans #SinglePayer – pay cuts for doctors & nurses, less tech, no private hospital rooms
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/05/20/the-false-promise-of-single-payer-health-care/
Were Medicare and Medicaid cheaper than expected? Then why do you expect ‘Medicare/Medicaid for All’ (#SinglePayer) to be cheaper?
“writing that a totally government run program works better is a liberal fantasy”
http://bwcentral.org/2016/06/lipstick-on-a-pig/
Success of Cuba’s propaganda about its medical system is based on lies; education worse, resources lacking.
http://bwcentral.org/2016/06/lipstick-on-a-pig/
Poor surgical technique of Cuban doctors damaged the vision of dozens of Jamaicans
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262902/protesters-burn-che-guevara-t-shirts-humberto-fontova
96 Cuban doctors were expelled from Brazil, called ‘witch doctors and shamans’
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262902/protesters-burn-che-guevara-t-shirts-humberto-fontova
“When government is in charge, you get long lines and someone else deciding if you get treatment.”
http://reason.com/archives/2016/05/11/free-market-medicine/
Wait times climb at VA; half million vets waiting over 30 days for care
http://freebeacon.com/issues/half-million-vets-waiting-over-30-days-for-va-care/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=140d0bc944-WFB_Morning_Beacon_06_07_166_6_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-140d0bc944-45628225
Dear Progs, #Obamacare turned out AWESOME!!! xoxox Can’t wait for #SinglePayer train wrecks
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brother bob @Brother_Bob 15h15 hours ago
brother bob Retweeted Obamacare TruthSquad
This is why we need single payer – then health care will be completely free! #S***LiberalsBelieve
Hard Questions for Medicaid expansion: What happens to your state budget when court orders expensive treatments? http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/judge-orders-apple-health-to-cover-hepatitis-c-drugs-for-all/ …
Colorado #SinglePayer fueled by same magical thinking that produced state’s failed #ACA co-op
http://spectator.org/colorado-single-payer-and-the-definition-of-insanity/
Colorado thinks an extra 10% income tax enough to pay for #SinglePayer – ha! VT bailed when extra tax 25%
http://spectator.org/colorado-single-payer-and-the-definition-of-insanity/
Sen. Diane Feinstein: #SinglePayer is “socialized medicine” and she’s against it
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/dianne-feinstein-bernie-sanders-healthcare-tuition/2016/06/02/id/732021/
“Eight-Year-Old Venezuelan Boy Who Protested Drug Shortages Has Died”. #SocialismKills
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/05/28/tragic-eightyearold-venezuelan-boy-who-protested-drug-shortages-has-died-n2170026
Venezuelan #SinglePayer – patients lie on floor in own blood; no oxygen, antibiotics, seizure medicine.
http://bwcentral.org/2016/05/horror-socialism-brings-lack-of-medical-supplies-and-dying-babies-to-venezuelan-hospitals/
Venezuelan hospitals collapsing – babies dying, blood not cleaned off operating tables, X-ray machines broken
http://bwcentral.org/2016/05/horror-socialism-brings-lack-of-medical-supplies-and-dying-babies-to-venezuelan-hospitals/
Naïve editorial from doc blasts ins co.s for denying claims while ignoring gov’t is biggest claims denier of all
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/05/17/how-provide-medicare-for-all/zPCz4u47JBO4kMG1OUilbJ/story.html
Naïve editorial from doc advocates #SinglePayer while ignoring all its problems (docs, stick to medicine)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/05/17/how-provide-medicare-for-all/zPCz4u47JBO4kMG1OUilbJ/story.html
“Senate report slams VA watchdog for ‘systemic’ failures in probe of Wisconsin hospital”. #SinglePayer
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/31/senate-report-slams-va-watchdog-for-systemic-failures-in-probe-wisconsin-hospital.html
May 2016
#SinglePayer? ur the same people who wanted #ACA. I don’t believe a word u say. Keep your plan/doctor. What will u promise this time?
Prominent cancer doc in Singapore’s public system accused of malpractice, misdiagnosis. #RoseColoredGlasses
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/doctor-sued-for-alleged/2428112.html
Top cancer doc: Patients cannot trust UK NHS to make sure they get the best available treatment on time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/nhs-is-not-there-for-individual-cancer-patients-top-oncologist-w/
UK: “NHS faces £10bn-a-year deficit by 2020” #SinglePayer –cost goes up, quality goes down, system becomes inhumane
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/23/nhs-10bn-a-year-black-hole-2020-cipfa-report
“Sorry, Bernie fans. His health care plan is short $17,000,000,000,000.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/09/the-17-trillion-problem-with-bernie-sanderss-health-care-plan-2/?mc_cid=a9613ba3c7&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
If u think u want #SinglePayer, just look at the VA
http://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/readers/local/2016/05/20/saturdays-letters-editor-single-payer-system-bernie-sanders-foreign-aid/84655732/
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Sally Pipes @sallypipes May 19
My latest piece in @Forbes: “America Marches Blindly Toward Single-Payer” http://buff.ly/1RbLpIJ #Bernie #Singlepayer #healthcare #Hillary
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Pat Crocker @VTmomm May 20
Pat Crocker Retweeted Paul Dame @ObamacreTrthSqd
PragerU @prageru May 19
Aside from no electricity, antibiotics, soap, or beds, hospitals in socialist Venezuela sound great!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3595946/No-electricity-no-antibiotics-no-beds-no-soap-devastating-look-inside-Venezuela-s-crisis-struck-hospitals-7-babies-die-day-bleeding-patients-lie-strewn-floor-doctors-try-operate-without-tools.html
Paul Dame @Dame4VT
@prageru @T_OMorrow365 and it will take years to recover. Romanian hospitals are still affected by Communist policies 20+ years later
4:46 AM – 20 May 2016
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Beat me, kick me, give me #SinglePayer.
UK deteriorating #SinglePayer fined for incompetently leaking the names of more than 700 HIV patients.
http://www.cnet.com/news/hiv-patient-name-leak-results-in-fine-for-uks-national-health-service/
UK deteriorating #SinglePayer failing to prevent unsafe sending of elderly patients home
http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/health-services-failing-to-prevent-unsafe-discharge-of-elderly-patients-phso
UK deteriorating #SinglePayer 50,000 doctors and nurses short; relying on temp agencies to fill gaps
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-10/health-service-plans-poorly-raising-costs-u-k-lawmakers-say
UK deteriorating #SinglePayer canceling operations at last minute due to lack of staff and beds; 15-yr hi.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/05/14/465557/England-healthcare-slipping
OCTS New Feature – Deadly GeRMs (government-run medicine horror stories). More arrows in the quiver for the #SinglePayer Hunger Games
Physicians group’s #SinglePayer ideas include new taxes, illegal immigrants, and naiveté (less paperwork??)
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2016-05-05/beyond-obamacare-doctor-groups-push-for-single-payer-health-care-plan
“Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado”
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/single-payer-dems-colo/
Selling #SinglePayer #1 – snooker conservatives like Ike sold National Defense Highway System in 1956
http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2016/04/20/single-payer-necessary-for-national-defense/
#SinglePayer Dazzling Rhetoric #1 – ‘it will help the national defense, cheaper, more $$ for military’.
http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2016/04/20/single-payer-necessary-for-national-defense/
OCTS New Feature – equipping you for the coming fight over #SinglePayer. Let’s get out ahead of the other side, for once!