Thread by @briebriejoy

I'm an hour 20 min into watching the 2019 Ways and Means committee hearing on universal healthcare and there hasn't been a single question aimed at exposing how much money anti-M4All witnesses or congress members have taken from the private healthcare industry.

This is @RepKevinBrady from TX-8.

He received the 2nd highest amount in contributions from the healthcare industry in 2016: $202,751.

Might have something to do with the dishonest anti-Medicare for All screed he spouted.

He's been in congress 30 years. #primarytime

This is @VernBuchanan from FL-16.

He took $110k from a healthcare PAC. Might have something to do with his choice to lie about the cost of Medicare for All, which a conservative study found offers enormous cost savings by cutting out the middle man that's lining Vern's pockets.

Top industries donating to @RepAdrianSmith, who couched his opposition to #medicareforall in concern about costs and for rural healthcare consumers:

I, for one, would have loved to hear @RepKenMarchant argue that employer-based healthcare = security during a pandemic in which has kicked 15mil Americans off their health insurance -- esp since TX already had the highest rate & largest number of uninsured people in the country.

So far, Republicans have repeatedly argued that Medicare for All will cost more for businesses as well as costing more for individuals.

And although pro M4A witnesses have generally argued that M4All generally has cost savings, no one has articulated that there are enormous savings for business which no longer will be responsible for healthcare, or that any tax increase would be less than current premiums.

.@MikeKellyPA wasn't very fond of #Medicare4All in his testimony. The 2nd largest industry he takes money from is the healthcare industry.

I'm glad he was able to enjoy government run healthcare as he recovered from COVID earlier this year. Everyone should be so lucky.

I might have missed an earlier reference, but I think @repblumenauer is the first to say -- 1 hr 45 min in -- that we pay twice as much for healthcare as anyone else in the world to get less.

We can frame these issues much better when we #forcethevote.

.@RepJasonSmith of Missouri. Very concerned about wait times.

By July 2020, 100,000 Missourians had lost their employer-based healthcare. How long do they have to wait?

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I wanna sprinkle a little positivity in here. I'm a newly minted fan of @RepDannyDavis IL-7 -- a #MedicareForAll co-sponsor who made some great points about health disparities. Would love to have him on @BadFaithPod.