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Feb 26, 2020 15 tweets 26 min read Read on X
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/

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@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…
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may This is the @NHSuk annual "crisis:" Patients waiting on gurneys in ERs for hours to get admitted into regular wards, ambulances circling hospitals waiting to drop off patients... 4/

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@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may One @NHSuk ER doctor had to apologize for "Third World conditions of the department due to overcrowding."

Again, all this because of...the flu -- which we know hits every year. Imagine the impact of a #CoronavirusOutbreak. 5/

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@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may What would @BernieSanders' #SinglePayer bill due to ensure adequate funding to prepare for a #CoronavirusOutbreak or other pandemic? In a word, very little.

Neither the House nor Senate #SinglePayer bills dedicate funding towards pandemic preparedness. 6/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may Section 601 of both the @BernieSanders and @PramilaJayapal #SinglePayer bills do create a “reserve fund” to “respond to the costs of treating an epidemic, pandemic, natural disaster, or other such health emergency.”

BUT...they don't include any actual dollars in the fund. 7/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal Instead of having Congress spell out the amount of funding for issues like pandemic preparedness -- which is Congress' job, given its constitutional "power of the purse" -- @PramilaJayapal and @BernieSanders would let @HHSGov make all those funding decisions unilaterally. 8/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal @HHSGov Apart from being an abdication of Congress' constitutional role, it's funny that Democrats criticizing @realDonaldTrump for not requesting enough #Coronavirus funding want to give the President MORE POWER to determine that funding unilaterally. Hypocrisy much? 9/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal @HHSGov @realDonaldTrump Third point: If you think @HHSGov bureaucrats will make good decisions about pandemic funding vis-à-vis other priorities, they won't. Consider @BarackObama Administration's funding choices prior to 2014 #Ebola outbreak... 10/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal @HHSGov @realDonaldTrump @BarackObama Of nearly $3 billion in mandatory @CDCgov funding via #Obamacare's Prevention and Public Health Fund from 2010-2014, @BarackObama Administration spent only about 6% on building epidemiology and laboratory capacity. politico.com/magazine/story…
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal @HHSGov @realDonaldTrump @BarackObama @CDCgov Instead, @BarackObama Administration @HHSGov spent nearly three times as much ($517 million) for grants focused on objectives like “improving neighborhood grocery stores” and “promoting better sidewalks and street lighting.” 12/ cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/pr…
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal @HHSGov @realDonaldTrump @BarackObama @CDCgov While the other projects @BarackObama Administration funded instead of #Ebola research might have merit, I think preventing against a pandemic represents a higher priority than "promoting better sidewalks." And I think most people would agree. 13/
@BernieSanders @NHSuk @theresa_may @PramilaJayapal @HHSGov @realDonaldTrump @BarackObama @CDCgov To sum up:
1. @NHSuk can't cope well with the flu, let alone #CoronavirusOutbreak.
2. @BernieSanders' #SinglePayer bill doesn't dedicate real dollars to preventing pandemics.
3. The officials @BernieSanders' bill lets make funding decisions have made bad ones previously. 14/

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THREAD: @JoeBiden attacked @GOP in #SOTU for wanting to 1) sunset Medicare/SS, 2) “cut” those programs, and hold the debt ceiling hostage to pass those “cuts.”

As we’ll see, those are all things BIDEN PROPOSED HIMSELF.

Follow/RT for additional details… 1/
Let’s start with sunsetting Medicare/SS. This is a topic @JoeBiden should be very familiar with—because he proposed it himself. In 1975, he sponsored a bill (S. 2067, 94th Congress) to sunset all federal programs every four years. 2/
Here’s the language of the bill, which revokes authorizations for all federal programs—including SS and Medicare—after four (not five) fiscal years. 3/ Image
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BREAKING: @JoeBiden AGAIN dodged thousands of dollars in #Obamacare and #Medicare taxes in his 2019 tax returns. RT/follow along for more details, as I update my @WSJopinion piece in real time...
wsj.com/articles/how-t…
@JoeBiden and @DrBiden released their 2019 tax returns a little bit ago -- you can view them here. They show the Bidens again used a loophole that I profiled in my @WSJopinion piece... 2/ joebiden.com/wp-content/upl…
The issue involves two corporations, CelticCapri Corp. and Giacoppa Corp., through which @JoeBiden @DrBiden funneled their book/speech income. Funneling the income through these S-corps allowed them to avoid #Medicare and #Obamacare payroll taxes... 3/
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THREAD: Ahead of @realDonaldTrump speech on #healthcare, it's worth looking at how @JoeBiden's plan likely will undermine the existing system of employer health coverage.

Details in my report available here -- or follow/RT this thread... 1/ juniperresearchgroup.com/post/5608/how-…
Regarding employer coverage, @JoeBiden's health plan contains two key features. First, it would allow individuals who have an offer of employer coverage to go to the Exchanges and receive subsidies -- right now, they can't do that in most cases... 2/ joebiden.com/healthcare/#
Second, @JoeBiden wants to increase #Exchange subsidies. He would allow individuals with incomes over 400% of poverty (about $100K for a family of four) to qualify for them (they can't now). But he also wants to expand the existing subsidies for those under 400% of poverty... 3/
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Absolutely AWFUL decision by @IndyCar to end #Indy500 under caution. Anticlimactic, and deprived the fans of the shootout we deserved. Big 👎👎👎 to @IMS @PenskeMedia @jdouglas4 for a bad call!!!
This action is also totally inconsistent with 2014 #Indy500, where @IndyCar threw a red flag with nine laps to go to guarantee a green flag finish.

The drivers, teams, and fans all deserve CONSISTENT calls by @IndyCar. They didn’t get it today. usatoday.com/story/sports/m…
The cynic in me says @IndyCar might not have thrown the red flag late in #Indy500 because @NBCSports wanted to end the broadcast by 6:00 Eastern. If so, that would make a bad decision even worse...
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I mentioned this episode back in December, and @Jeopardy just reaired the proof for all the people who thought January 1st started a new decade. It didn’t! Image
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And the INCORRECT response given by all three contestants... Image
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THREAD: @standorn @FamiliesUSA released a study about the uninsured and #COVID19 that includes both material inaccuracies and material omissions, inflating the estimated number of uninsured as a result.

RT/follow along for details... 1/
The report takes estimates of job losses from February to May, and multiplies them using an @urbaninstitute formula of coverage changes from 2014-2018, to estimate coverage losses during the current recession. But the report has two flaws... 2/ familiesusa.org/wp-content/upl…
First, on at least a couple of occasions, it makes definitive -- and unwarranted -- statements. It claims "more than one in seven adults (16%) IS NOW UNINSURED."

In other words, it takes ESTIMATES and conflates them into FACT -- without a little thing called EVIDENCE. 3/
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