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/
@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@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/
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/
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/
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.
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/
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 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...
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!
And the INCORRECT response given by all three contestants...
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/