Profile picture
Seth Cotlar
@SethCotlar
, 4 tweets, 1 min read Read on Twitter
A 2015 poll found that Americans who had government-run health care plans like Medicare were more happy with their health care than other Americans. So why are we supposed to assume that "socialized medicine" will be a disaster? news.gallup.com/poll/186527/am…
Also, I've looked but have not been able to find a Medicare for All poll that sorted responses by age. I mean, if you're over 65 and on Medicare and you're opposed to M4A, then you're not opposed to socialism per se, you're opposed to socialism for *other people."
I recognize that this is an immensely complicated policy issue and I'm not an expert on it. But from a political messaging standpoint, this seems fairly straightforward.
People who have Medicare prefer it to private insurance. (My guess is that) the folks most opposed to M4A are older, i.e., the very people who benefit from Medicare. If they truly opposed "socialized medicine" then they should decline their Medicare coverage, right?
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to Seth Cotlar
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @SethCotlar see all

Profile picture
Seth Cotlar
@SethCotlar
The President's grown son has retweeted this person's opinions about immigration. Here's this person invoking the white nationalist talking point that diversity = "white genocide."
This framing, that diversity = white genocide, was pioneered by the KKK a few decades ago when they realized that racism went down smoother if it was framed as white victimhood, rather than hate toward others.
Receipts regarding the links between this white nationalist and MAGA political culture. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/05/2…
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Seth Cotlar
@SethCotlar
If I could go back in time to 1977 and tell my 9 year old self as I walked out of the theater after seeing Star Wars for the 7th time that one day Luke Skywalker would "like" one of my tweets...I suspect my 9 year old self would say "huh? But, um, wow, I guess."
Bizarre coincidence department: Luke tweeted out this story yesterday about a cool project that my college roommate and friend has been working on for years.
It’s too bad he and I live across the country from each other, otherwise we could celebrate at a strange bar by drinking oddly colored liquids together.
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Seth Cotlar
@SethCotlar
One implication of this decision by the FBI is that the sitting President has favorably retweeted domestic terrorists and has met with them in the White House. He's been "pallin' around with terrorists," one might even say.
Key QAnon figures posing with Trump in the White House. Their movement has now been designated a domestic terror threat by Trump's FBI.
Here's a thread detailing a few recent examples of the President retweeting and otherwise signal boosting accounts that the FBI now considers part of a domestic terrorist group.
Read 4 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐁𝐚𝐞 𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐫 🔥🌹🐦
@LovesTheBern
I have excellent health insurance.(Tricare- socialistic gov’t run) My husband recently had a surgical procedure and I was billed for nearly $300 from the hospital’s pharmacy, so I called and requested an itemized list of meds since we’ve never had to pay for meds before.
I checked with my insurance company and they claimed to have paid for all the meds related to my husband’s care.

More than 20 days later, I haven’t received the hospital’s list but I went ahead and paid the bill because I didn’t want to pay a late fee. I didn’t flinch over $300.
I understand that an extra few hundred dollars could be catastrophic for some folks.

So here I am, needing to pay money (even when my husband and I are covered by excellent health insurance), not knowing what the hell I paid for.

I was told over the phone that the bill
Read 17 tweets
Profile picture
CSM
@usacsmret
I've Seen Medicare for All - And it Ain't Pretty - The Post & Email thepostemail.com/2019/07/02/ive…
Several Democrat Party candidates for president and their friends in the media are pushing the idea of Medicare for All – another way of calling for government-run health care.
Bernie says it is a “right” and should even cover illegal immigrants – in other words, everybody within our borders. How big-hearted. How kind… How nonsensical.
Read 26 tweets
Profile picture
ittb
@ittbbb
On June 18, President Trump is set to announce his second term at a massive rally in Orlando, Florida.
The rally will be held at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.
In just two short years, President Trump has achieved historic results for our nation and is working every day for all Americans.
While President Trump is focused on improving the lives of all Americans, the 2020 Democrat field remains obsessed with baseless investigations and obstructing the President at every turn.
Read 29 tweets
Profile picture
PNHP
@PNHP
We found something wrong with every single paragraph of this @nytdavidbrooks column on #MedicareForAll: nyti.ms/2Ukeqfq. It wasn't that hard, honestly.
The British and Canadian health systems are quite different! Both are #SinglePayer and deliver better health outcomes at a fraction of the cost of U.S. health care, but @NHSEngland is closer to @VeteransHealth whereas Canadian Medicare is closer to our own Medicare program.
#SinglePayer would *simplify* American health care. The transition would not be onerous; in fact, it would ease the burden on doctors, hospitals, businesses and, most importantly, patients.
Read 18 tweets
Profile picture
All On Medicare
@AllOnMedicare
Let's take a look at this Vox piece vox.com/2018/12/13/181…
Not a single Democrat has proposed socialized medicine (i.e. doctors are employees of the government and hospitals owned by the government) for universal health care, so not a single Democrat has proposed "government-run health care." This is basic stuff, @voxdotcom.
A "rallying cry on the left"? 52% of Republicans and 70% of Americans want #MedicareForAll. But, I guess "centrists demand Medicare-for-all" doesn't really fit your narrative.
Read 38 tweets
Profile picture
Heritage Foundation
@Heritage
Health care is a top concern for many Americans—and members of Congress must now decide how to move forward.

Their task: provide a coherent answer to our national anxiety over health care.

Here’s how they can. 👇🏽
Americans care immensely about health care—in countless polls the number one issue voters said they want their elected representatives to address is the high cost of health coverage.
Despite this dynamic, Republicans ran away from an issue that had been a source of political strength in recent years.

Perhaps it was because of their failed attempt to repeal Obamacare...
Read 22 tweets

Trending hashtags

#Medicaid #ACA #RUN #Netanyahu #Economy #RegimeChange #Poll #SoJustTactics #VoteThemOut #Vallee #health #conflict #Findley #Duopoly #Medicare #PENTAGON #Lazar #Labourdoorstep #research #DemSenate2020 #SinglePlayer #openscience #SoJustSystemic #projectbluebook #workforce
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!