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Lied to, we are.                                                                                                              Yoda, Senator from Dagobah             When you hear SCARY STUFF about Medicare for All, you are hearing propaganda from the for-profit health insurance companies and their plutocratic pals in the Republican Party.  Look for more reliable sources! I'm serious! A new study in The Lancet by a team of Yale epidemiologists finds that Medicare for All would save more than 68,000 lives and $450 billion in cost EVERY YEAR. Volume 395, Issue 10223 , 15–21 February 2020, Pages 524-533 Truth is Breaking Out All Over There is more and more of this truth telling about single payer. The for-profit health insurance companies have spent and are spending huge sums to keep us repeating their memes, "how are you going to pay for it?" and "socialized medicine!!" Nuts to them.   The on

A Comment Storm 2:11 to 4:06 pm, Thursday June 29, 2017 Another Tom Toles masterpiece in the Washington Post ("Guardian of Amazon's tax practices:" DJT)....                               Sing a song o’ sick, Pence ... inspired me to write a "comment." I took the opportunity to plug single payer! (Predictable, you say.) duffworx   [That's my handle on the Washington Post.] 2:11 PM MDT SINGLE PAYER! Single Payer! Say it again. Finally the moment is here for the U.S. to join the rest of advanced civilizations in pulling the plug (teat?) out of the rapacious for-profit health insurance companies. A healthy workforce is a more effective workforce. People without the fear of medical bankruptcy and inadequate care are more productive, less angry people. The costs of Medicare for All will be less and far more predictable. IT'S TIME! Right, VP Pence? Hello? 6like Jerry B.     [Jerry B. reflected the widespread misunderstan

Sneaking In My Advocacy for Single Payer    Single payer HEALTH INSURANCE , that is. I've mentioned that I am an almost-compulsive "comment" writer on several newspaper sites. Haven't I? Well, maybe two or three a day!  Whenever I see the chance, I sneak in something supporting "Medicare for all," "Single payer" or whatever. Check these three tap dances. You write 'em, I'll comment on 'em.  Washington Post -  David Ignatius: Hypersonics should make a Sputnik moment. 11.7.18 duffworx Is the U.S. now even capable of a Sputnik moment? I'm worried that it's not, based on the 45% who apparently long for a plutocratic autocracy, yet are repelled by anything so "socialist" as keeping our workforce healthy with Single Payer, much less an national industrial policy. It's not just AI where the Hand of the Market is fumbling; the Chinese just demonstrated quantum radar - which greatly deteriorates our

Nobody Considers What the Brain Surgeon Wants * I have a Libertarian pal who sends me stuff from the Ayn Rand Institute to make his side of our various arguments. They are always good for a giggle in my view. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the latest screed. Atlas Shrugged and Today's Healthcare Controversy October 16, 2007 "While Atlas is 50 years old, it contains many timeless truths that are just as relevant today as they were when it was first published. "Take the realm of health care. Most Republicans and Democrats are proposing forms of socialized medicine--under euphemisms like 'universal health care,' 'national health insurance,' etc. Everyone talks about how to protect patient's 'right' to health care--but no one talks about the rights of the doctors that create this value. This is a deadly evasion that one of the characters in Ayn Rand's novel, Dr. Thomas Hendricks, an eminent surgeon who quits the field, eloq

Big Pharma's Perspective in a Nut$hell Hemophilia, a truly rotten disease to have...   ... But wowee-zowee; Money Honey! Etc. Hemlibra, a new and effective medication for the bleeding disease, is celebrated in the Big Pharma newsletters not for making life possible for the affected, but for the profits... the MARKET . fda ,  new products ,  regulatory All revved up and ready to roll, Roche is handed the keys to a multibillion-dollar hemophilia market by  john carroll  —  on  October 5, 2018 05:49 AM EDT COST TO THE PATIENT?   Over $450,000 a year . Insurance still iffy.  Medicare and Medicaid?  Fuggidaboudit for now. art credit

 All The Latest On  The Fungus Pestilence A friend of mine, recovering from sepsis (bad enough, but he was getting over it) was suddenly infected with "a yeast infection**," without further details. It killed him rather quickly. The hospital won't say any more, and guess what?  Hospitals are protected from having to disclose fungal infection outbreaks!! [From a NY Times piece :   By  Matt Richtel ,  Andrew Jacobs   April 6, 2019    "With bacteria and fungi alike, hospitals and local governments are  reluctant to disclose outbreaks  for fear of being seen as infection hubs.      Even the C.D.C., under its agreement with states,  is  not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. "]   Now This new article really gets my attention: ^ SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Link Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them 75,0