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We advocate for #singlepayer, #MedicareForAll and #CalCare, and reject half measures because single payer is the correct policy, not because we're some sort of wild-eyed radicals.
THREAD on how people insisting we compromise out of the gate are the unreasonable ones 👇👇👇
THREAD on how people insisting we compromise out of the gate are the unreasonable ones 👇👇👇
1) I've heard talk about how @CalNurses and other #CalCare proponents are "unreasonable." That we "won't compromise." That "you can't win that way."
My question to these people is...have you been paying attention at all over the last decade and a half?
My question to these people is...have you been paying attention at all over the last decade and a half?
2) Rewind to debate over the #ACA. Remember how the initial push was for a #PublicOption? Specifically, a robust one that tied payment rates to Medicare. Not a permanent fix to our health care system by any stretch, but certainly better than we ultimately got.
Did we get it? No
Did we get it? No
THREAD on distinctions between the phrases "#unifiedfinancing" and #singlepayer, in the context of #CalCare and #SB770. TL;DR, the phrase "unified financing" is the new "access to coverage" and we need to dispense with it for good 👇👇👇
1) I have some thoughts about the phrases "#unifiedfinancing" and "#singlepayer." Some people use them interchangeably, but they should not. They are distinct, and those differences really matter.
2) "#singlepayer" is a specific policy. It is a health care system where payment for all essential health services are delivered by one entity, one single payer, for a given population. There are no middlemen, no insurance companies, no ACOs, just one single, public plan
You may have heard that there are currently two different #SinglePayer bills being considered in the California legislature — so what's the difference between the two?
Nurses break it down.👇🧵 (1/9)
Nurses break it down.👇🧵 (1/9)
Union nurses champion #AB1690, which sets in motion a single-payer health care coverage system for all residents in the state called #CalCare.
CalCare will guarantee quality health care and long-term care without creating barriers to care or out-of-pocket costs! (2/9)
CalCare will guarantee quality health care and long-term care without creating barriers to care or out-of-pocket costs! (2/9)
Another bill seeks to start informal conversations with the federal government about pursuing waivers to let Medicaid and Medicare funds be used for a single-payer health care system BEFORE establishing a single-payer policy. (3/9)
Fed Up In #Kenya, Millions Stripped from #Medicaid youtube.com/live/44JDreMEg… @Jaybefaunt @RevBlackNetwork
@Jaybefaunt @RevBlackNetwork Millions of Americans poised to lose #Medicaid coverage on April 1 theweek.com/health-care/10… via @TheWeek #MedicaidUnwinding #ForProfitHealthcareIsImmoral #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #SinglePayerSunday
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "Twiddler"; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno…
#Pluralistic 1/
Inside: Podcasting "Twiddler"; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno…
#Pluralistic 1/
This Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
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brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone?
TK 3/
TK 3/
The sustained attack on abortion rights in the U.S. is nothing short of a public health emergency. 🧵
Criminalizing abortion would prove deadly under any circumstances, but especially in a nation with sky-high (and worsening) maternal mortality, an unaddressed mental heath crisis, and daunting financial barriers to even basic health services.
More info at pnhp.org/MaternalMortal…
More info at pnhp.org/MaternalMortal…
Late last year, experts estimated that the now-in-effect abortion restrictions in Texas would make that state’s worst-in-the-nation record on maternal mortality even worse.
Full estimates here: bit.ly/3ycg8q2
Full estimates here: bit.ly/3ycg8q2
Lets go #NY , #Cali and #WA
Congrats to @Ash_Kalra on moving #CalCare Forward
Feel free to follow @HCAlosangeles
Feel free to follow @WholeWashington to get updates about #UniversalHealthcare in #WA #SB5204 & take action
🎶 by @csombeats : Altitude
Congrats to @Ash_Kalra on moving #CalCare Forward
Feel free to follow @HCAlosangeles
Feel free to follow @WholeWashington to get updates about #UniversalHealthcare in #WA #SB5204 & take action
🎶 by @csombeats : Altitude
We need to #PassNYHealth
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Yesterday I didn’t want to know.I have a few more risk factors. Have an excellent medical team and am losing weight, Rx HTN, Type 2 DM,⬆️ Chol well treated. Ozempic helped me lose 40 pounds and A1C now Normal. Costs $2,000 a month. Medicare and retirement coinsurance covers most.
Part of me wants to tell proponents of #SinglePayer Health insurance in the USA 🇺🇸 difference between @NHSuk website and American Capitalism and Benefits of Employment(really a component of salary package). Part of me knows “they” will persist until they need $80,000 a year Meds.
Was searching to see if #BoJo has better healthcare cost coverage than 🇬🇧 citizens do. Here 🇺🇸 Lawmakers who want #MedicareForAll for us little people will still have Cadillac plan, for your country Rolls Royce? What I found was worse. theguardian.com/society/2020/j… @guardian get ready.
Myth #1: The US has the best healthcare system in the world, and moving to Medicare for All would ruin that.
#MythsAboutM4A #M4A #singlepayer #healthcare
#MythsAboutM4A #M4A #singlepayer #healthcare
Myth #3: Wait times would be increased under Medicare for All like those seen in Canada and the UK, which could increase mortality.
#MythsAboutM4A #SinglePayer #M4A #Healthcare
#MythsAboutM4A #SinglePayer #M4A #Healthcare
We hear this question over, and over, and over again. Often from people who know better, but who want to sow doubt about our ability to finance #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll. So let's get into it.
Full toolkit here: pnhp.org/PayingForIt
Thread below👇
Full toolkit here: pnhp.org/PayingForIt
Thread below👇
For starters, the U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, by far. A whopping $3.8 TRILLION in 2019, which is projected to go up to $6.2 TRILLION by 2028. bit.ly/2LDO74O via @Health_Affairs
This spending takes a HUGE bite out of family budgets. In 2020, the cost of health care for a hypothetical U.S. family of four covered by an average employer-sponsored PPO plan was $28,653, according to @millimanhealth. bit.ly/2MRCPuj
The biggest crime of @TheDemocrats is allowing #USA's citizens to become believers in #fascism & #misogyny & Ayn Randian #socialdarwinism by neglecting to defend #humanrights & #genderequality & #socialjustice & pursing corporate $. Biden might sneak this one out, but @Gop won
seats in House of Representatives & will likely retain control of Senate. So Biden may choose to use Executive Orders to roll back reimplement some of the 2nd Term Obama EOs which Trump reversed. But Biden won't be able, even if he wanted to do much to challenge oligarchy or
any of the other structures undergirding #militarism & #whitesupremacy. Forget about #GreenNewDeal, #M4A #singlepayer, #debtforgiveness, #housingjustice, #freecollege, raising national minimum wage, pathway to citizenship, etc. So, 4 years from now, demoralized voters will be
Well I woke up to the realization that the democrats have jumped the shark. They no longer have any compunction even pretending like they want to win the election. The decision to invite a cop onto the November ticket (even a 'black' one) cements their idiocy. #FuckBiden
I was delighted to watch #Tulsi2020 take down @KamalaHarris in the start of primary season. She's done little to defend working people from the banks. Failed to go after @stevenmnuchin1 for his part in the forclosure crisis. She thought the way to address truancy was to attack..
working parents and throw them in jail, rather than addressing the underlying systemic issues. She smoked pot for years while enabling her departments to continue to arrest black and poor people for the same thing. She is so out of touch with what needs to happen to accect..
We'll try to live-tweet the @CHHSAgency reconvened Healthy California for All Commission, starting now! We demand #SinglePayer & for working-class spots on their "focus advisory groups" -- the people are the true stakeholders, not Employers nor Providers! healthyca.org/healthy-califo…
CHHS Secretary and Commission Chair Dr. Mark Ghaly welcomes everyone and recognizes the efforts of organizers -- like us -- who asked them to reconvene.
So far the public comments are dominated by demands for #SinglePayer! We see and thank you, advocates and organizers! Secretary Ghaly acknowledges the "public outcry."
New @AnnalsofIM study from PNHP co-founders Drs. @swoolhandler and David Himmelstein estimates 7.3M Americans will lose health coverage by June 30, because of the #COVID19 pandemic. bit.ly/2Xe6QHz
1.5M American workers have already lost coverage, just in the last two weeks, and the looming #COVID19 recession will likely cause another 5.7M to lose their employer-sponsored health benefits.
Overwhelming as these figures are, they *underestimate* the full coverage losses, since they don't include dependent family members who will lose coverage, nor do they include self-employed workers who do not file unemployment claims.
PNHP has developed an eight-point plan of steps needed to fight #COVID19. #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll is just the beginning. Full list available at pnhp.org/COVID19Response.
Last night the CEO of @BCBSM (Blue Cross Blue Shield) took over my TV screen in an ad to tell me about all they're doing re: #COVID19.
He didn't answer a few other questions I have about helping hospitals and low-income ppl in MI as this #CoronavirusPandemic rages:
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He didn't answer a few other questions I have about helping hospitals and low-income ppl in MI as this #CoronavirusPandemic rages:
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1) @BCBSM (Blue Cross Blue Shield): Hospitals rely on you to reimburse services they provide. They can't do elective surgeries that keep them afloat.
How are you helping them stay open through the #CoronavirusPandemic? Will you keep them open?
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How are you helping them stay open through the #CoronavirusPandemic? Will you keep them open?
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Thread on #Georgia @GaDPH Mar 13 Interim Guidance for Clinicians Evaluating, Reporting, and Requesting Diagnostic Testing for Possible #COVID19 Cases #coronavirus #publichealth. Original document available at dph.georgia.gov/document/docum…. I've archived it here drive.google.com/open?id=1QKgAt…
Let me preface this by saying I have no medical training or special knowledge. I urge those who can to correct anything I get wrong here.
My main concern is that it remains difficult to get #COVID19 testing. People who are reluctant to take other #publichealth measures such as
My main concern is that it remains difficult to get #COVID19 testing. People who are reluctant to take other #publichealth measures such as
social isolation frequently say things like "There are no confirmed cases in our area." IMO, that's true because too few people have been tested. So let's examine the document.
THREAD: As folks are focusing on #CoronavirusOutbreak, let's pause for a moment to contemplate what @BernieSanders' #SinglePayer legislation would (or wouldn't) do to our ability to respond... 1/
thefederalist.com/2020/02/14/how…
thefederalist.com/2020/02/14/how…
@BernieSanders First off, it's worth remembering that @NHSuk goes through its traditional "winter crisis" because of -- wait for it! -- the flu. The flu comes every year, of course, but years of underfunding means British hospitals have next-to-no spare capacity to treat patients... 2/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk Consider this headline from two years ago, when @NHSuk postponed 55K operations, and @theresa_may had to apologize personally for Britain's health care fiasco... 3/ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…
PNHP has developed another toolkit for #SinglePayer supporters to use as part of our Kitchen Table Campaign. Throughout the month of February, we'll be talking about racial health inequities, and the importance of covering everybody through #MedicareForAll.
This one-page handout provides an overview of racial health inequities. bit.ly/37XOXiN
This comparison chart shows how #SinglePayer would make substantial progress in addressing racial health inequities, while a public option would barely even begin to address the problem. bit.ly/31n2i1A
THREAD: Let's examine all the possible ways this @ebruenig tweet represents #FakeNews -- and one of the sillier arguments for #SinglePayer I've heard in a long time... 1/
@ebruenig First of all, @ebruenig said she's uninsured because she switched jobs from @washingtonpost to @nytimes -- but she didn't say exactly why. It's possible that both @washingtonpost and @nytimes don't offer health coverage to their employees, but I doubt it... 2/
@ebruenig @washingtonpost @nytimes If she had Exchange coverage while at @washingtonpost, she could potentially qualify for a special enrollment period, if her income dropped to such an extent that she now qualifies for #Obamacare subsidies... 3/
BREAKING: The American College of Physicians has released a position paper endorsing #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll as a viable fix for our nation’s "inefficient, unaffordable, unsustainable, and inaccessible" health care financing system. bit.ly/2tCMmLZ via @AnnalsofIM
PNHP co-founders Drs. @swoolhandler & David Himmelstein applauded this position in an accompanying editorial (and argued against the "public choice" model that ACP also endorsed). bit.ly/2TGSJZq via @AnnalsofIM
"For a century, most U.S. medical organizations opposed national health insurance. The endorsement by the @ACPinternists of #SinglePayer reform marks a sea change from this unfortunate tradition." - PNHP co-founders Drs. @swoolhandler & Himmelstein
THREAD: Add @MikeBloomberg to the list of politicians who apparently want to #Sabotage your health coverage, to create #SinglePayer.
Based on the launch of his health plan, suffice it to say his campaign is trying to have both sides of the issue... 1/
Based on the launch of his health plan, suffice it to say his campaign is trying to have both sides of the issue... 1/
@MikeBloomberg In one quote in this @hillhealthwatch piece, a @MikeBloomberg adviser says "We're not trying to rock the boat and get people off their insurance if they like it." 2/ thehill.com/policy/healthc…
@MikeBloomberg @hillhealthwatch But the adviser later said @MikeBloomberg doesn't support single payer because he wants "something that can get done." Cited the likely close margins in the Senate in 2021 to say "it's not going to pass." 3/
thehill.com/policy/healthc…
thehill.com/policy/healthc…
This new study should surprise no one -- @ewarren's assumptions in her #SinglePayer plan were always highly questionable... 1/ cnbc.com/2019/12/12/stu…
@ewarren For instance, page 12 of her plan admits that @ewarren's advisors did NOT take lower economic growth into account when estimating the total revenue from her tax increases. That's a recipe for a major black hole in her plan! assets.ctfassets.net/4ubxbgy9463z/2…
@ewarren .@FDRLST has my full analysis of all the gimmicks in @ewarren's #SinglePayer plan... 3/3 thefederalist.com/2019/11/06/14-…
Will someone please ask @RepJayapal at @HouseCommerce hearing whether she has any money invested in stock funds in the TSP? Because if she does, she is personally "profiting" off of health care, through her ownership of for-profit insurers, hospitals, drug companies, etc....
@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce .@RepJayapal claims her #SinglePayer bill has "cost containment provisions." Here's what @urbaninstitute said would happen to health costs under her bill -- they would go up substantially!
@RepJayapal @HouseCommerce @urbaninstitute Also, @FrankPallone said in his opening statement that #Obamacare ended discrimination against pre-existing conditions. Fact check: FALSE. @AARP STILL discriminates against people with pre-ex conditions -- and has made billions doing so! thefederalist.com/2018/10/11/aar…
