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In the US, the cost of cancer treatment bankrupts a staggering 42% of patients after two years.

That's even *with* health insurance & Medicare.

The sheer cruelty of US-style healthcare is breathtaking 😔

Please, in December, vote wisely.

#GE2019
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The paper, entitled 'Debt or Death?', looked at 9.5 million US cancer patients.

On average, they spent $92,098 a year trying to stay alive.

Imagine - amid all the grief and trauma of cancer - having to fight for financial survival too.

Just awful 😔
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Rachel Clarke
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As an NHS palliative care doctor, it’s my #publicduty to inform the public that 9 years of brutal underfunding have run the NHS into the ground. We want to care for you brilliantly but we are at breaking point. The NHS won’t survive another 5 years of this.
#GeneralElection2019
A few examples from the NHS frontline. When I qualified in 2009 nobody lay on a trolley in an ED corridor in my hospital. Nobody. Now it’s routine. Every winter. With ambulances queuing round the block. With staff & patients equally desperate. In the world’s 6th richest country.
Now I meet patients in agony, in sheer desperation, who have waited well over a *year* for a simple hip replacement. Some are trapped inside by their pain. Some fall, inevitably, and fracture that hip. 9 years ago? You’d have your surgery in weeks. The contrast is diabolical.
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Rachel Clarke
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Seems @BorisJohnson’s lying is contagious.

Last week @MattHancock tweeted we had “thousands” more GPs.

A lie.

Now @UKStatsAuth has called him on it.

So he quietly deleted the tweet, hoping no-one would notice.

@MattHancock you are a liar.
independent.co.uk/news/health/he…
And incidentally, @matthancock, you once replied to a tweet of mine telling me you loved my passion for the NHS. Please tell me how lying about that same NHS does anything other than demoralise staff with similar passion. The NHS deserves better.
For clarity, it’s just been pointed out to me that this piece is 11 months old and not from today, as I thought. So @MattHancock’s actions are not from this week. The facts (the lie, the authorities’ censure, the deleted tweet) remain the same.
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Rachel Clarke
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"I was told I wasn't allowed to ask him any questions, which is a really good sign this was a PR stunt. People who work in this hospital know the reality of cuts. They were all really angry."

This med student totally nails @borisjohnson's latest stunt 👏
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
@BorisJohnson Watch the video - she is stunningly articulate, passionate, fearless & awesome. No wonder @BorisJohnson crept in through a back entrance & was too scared to speak to ordinary, uncensored NHS staff.
@BorisJohnson More from the brilliant @SJimons: "He was scared to be asked questions by the general public because he knows that what he's done is indefensible when you look at the reality of waiting times, of people not getting treatment when they need it."
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A federal judge ruled the #AffordableCareAct--also known as #ACA & #Obamacare--unconstitutional because #GOPTaxBill removed the mandate.
I've written about ACA since it was devised in 2009 & signed in 2010. Here is a thread📌on what the law does & how it impacts you:
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#HealthCare #ForTheRecord My story...
No one cared when Obamanation took my health care.
My family and I still have no insurance - we don't qualify under ACA giveaways.
Let EVERYONE pay the same price I did.
We have to pay cash or not go + $700 per person PENALTY on taxes!
I had insurance, could afford my healthcare my whole life. Why complain? The democrats destroyed it! Obama lied about how many didn't have "health care". It's MORE now. It's was never healthcare. It was an insurance scam.
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We were giving it to people who were illegal aliens as well as the poor.
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