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HEALTH JUSTICE NOW: Single Payer & What Comes Next. mhpbooks.com/books/health-jβ¦
@heavyxmedical, @dsa_lsc.
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.@CBP says construction equipment that will be used to build the border wall may start arriving in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday #rgv pic.twitter.com/7e6CrFD39k
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kill π tim π faust
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oh i keep doing that, dying, reloading, and then killing him again and dying. fantastic game. i enjoy every minute of it
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kill π tim π faust
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im gonna kill hitler in a videogame
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yβall just.. print drug ads right on filled prescriptions now, huh
what fresh hell is this pic.twitter.com/qmAyRHWXEq
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kill π tim π faust
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The thing we want will never be offered to us by elected officials. It must be demanded from below. This is the only thing which has ever worked.
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kill π tim π faust
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i think you mistake me saying "this doesn't do this" as me saying "i don't want to do this."
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i wrote about why a public option is not an acceptable alternative to medicare for all/single payer splinternews.com/a-public-optioβ¦
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kill π tim π faust
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It's that last one -- the stapler.
Just kidding!! I typoed. Should be HCBS. Home and Community Based Services. Basically -- get care at home, or in your community, instead of being forced into a nursing home
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kill π tim π faust
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If the goal is to remove profit from health, or reject health as a market good -- M4A doesn't do that. (Nor would an NHS). It is just a tool by which we force the payor, finally, to be accountable for the costs of health injustice--then articulate, and reach, something better
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kill π tim π faust
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Lastly, the mandate that all for-profit providers become not-for-profit is good, and I like it, but it's also worth noting that it is insufficient. Some of the most flagrant excesses and exploitation in US health happen at non-profit providers.
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kill π tim π faust
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There's also things like payment methods and budgeting standards for which I think there is room for flexibility (though I think global budgeting, or One Budget Per Year, is compelling).
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kill π tim π faust
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on long-term-care (LTC)--fastest-growing job in the US, I think it's also warranted to regulate who provides that care and how. Insurance cos providing private LTC contracted out to Medicaid at bottom-dollar rates is insufficient and inhumane -- to the worker and to the recipient
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kill π tim π faust
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I distill the core components of Medicare for All/single-payer, as:
- A single, compulsory risk pool: all are included, nobody can opt out
- Comprehensive coverage, including LTC/HCSS
- Standards, payment, and oversight at the federal level.
- Local implementation and flexibility
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kill π tim π faust
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Ultimately proponents of "Medicare Advantage for All" just want to keep having private insurance that's subsidized by public money. Virtually every plan that isn't explicit single-payer is similar
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kill π tim π faust
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A good comparison would be a charter school that's given federal money for each student, plus a state-subsidized laptop per kid, plus free textbooks, but which returns similar graduation% as the more cash-strapped public school
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kill π tim π faust
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But ultimately it costs more money to return similar outcomes as traditional Medicare, and it has high churn (sick people drop out of it and go to Medicare + supplemental insurance). It's a big waste of money, frankly, and it has been given MANY advantages over regular Medicare
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kill π tim π faust
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Medicare Advantage is a different thing. It's a privatized form of Medicare which has been given significant advantage (+ public finding) over traditional Medicare program, making it -- and further privatization -- more tempting to Medicare recipients
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the only advertising i get on my scrips is for being an organ donor. which is certainly a generic placement ("this consumer has organs"). or, if i'm feeling wild paranoia, is nefarious targeted advertising ("this consumer has a high suicide rate + will leave behind young organs")
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A friend showed me her pharma pickup receipt. Walgreens printed an advertisement for Xeljanz (a $5,000/mo arthritis/colitis drug) on the receipt for picking up a prescription for an immunosuppressive cancer drug. This is impressively crooked direct-to-consumer drug targeting pic.twitter.com/qTmXLxhFo6
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