BREAKING: The American College of Physicians declares they support #MedicareForAll

[Donkees]

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1. Yes!!!!

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2. K&R

Voices of sanity!

[Kurt V.]

3. K&R

[Hoyt]

4. The other mechanism the ACP endorsed is the Public Option. You gotta read stuff from Common Dreams

closely, because they manufacture headlines like this one. Even Bernie Sanders missed the obvious.

"While it [the ACP's Report] did not say that Medicare for All was the only way to achieve a more equitable, accessible, and sustainable healthcare system, the ACP laid out four key recommendations for achieving universal coverage in the United States. They are:

1. The American College of Physicians recommends that the United States transition to a system that achieves universal coverage with essential benefits and lower administrative costs.

2. Coverage should not be dependent on a person's place of residence, employment, health status, or income.

3. Coverage should ensure sufficient access to clinicians, hospitals, and other sources of care.

4. Two options could achieve these objectives: a single-payer financing approach, or a publicly financed coverage option to be offered along with regulated private insurance."

The ACP's Report is available here: https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2759528/envisioning-better-u-s-health-care-system-all-call-action

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10. Why do they have the need to constantly spin the truth?

The "re-framing" gets really old.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

[RobertDevereaux]

6. Also from this article..

“While the ACP in its backing of a single-payer approach also co-endorsed the more incremental step of creating a federally-administered "public option" as a pathway to universal coverage, Drs. Steffie Himmelstein and David Woolhandler, co-founders of Physician for a National Health Program (PNHP), argue the latter would be an inferior avenue if the aim is to cover everyone while reducing overall costs.”

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7. But they didn't say M4A was the only way:

"While it did not say that Medicare for All was the only way to achieve a more equitable, accessible, and sustainable healthcare system, the ACP laid out four key recommendations for achieving universal coverage in the United States. They are:

1. The American College of Physicians recommends that the United States transition to a system that achieves universal coverage with essential benefits and lower administrative costs.

2. Coverage should not be dependent on a person's place of residence, employment, health status, or income.

3. Coverage should ensure sufficient access to clinicians, hospitals, and other sources of care.

4. Two options could achieve these objectives: a single-payer financing approach, or a publicly financed coverage option to be offered along with regulated private insurance."

Let's be honest about this. It was an endorsement of universal coverage, not M4A as such. All of the candidates are in favor of universal coverage.

[ehrnst]

8. +1000. Reading something before posting it prevents embarassing

misrepresentations of something.

[blm]

9. This healthcare CEO is backing Med For All. The dam is breaking.

Healthcare CEO explains why Warren's Med4All plan will work.



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But for UMass Memorial Health Care CEO Dr. Eric W. Dickson, Medicare for All — specifically, Sen. Elizabeth’s Warren’s plan for Medicare for All — is not only worth considering, it’s worth praising.

“It’s a bold and courageous plan, and the best plan that any candidate has come out with to date,” Dickson said Tuesday. “It’s an option to consider ... very few health care CEOs would say that at this point.”

Early last month, Warren released a plan to enact Medicare for All that she said would not raise taxes on the middle class. The plan, constructed with help from economists and health policy experts, estimates a $20.5 trillion cost over a decade and moves the country to universal health care over three years by first building on existing laws, including the Affordable Care Act. The plan is largely paid for by requiring employers to pay what they would normally pay in health insurance premiums to the government in the form of an Employer Medicare Contribution.

https://www.telegram.com/news/20191207/umass-ceo-eric-dickson-backs-medicare-for-all-calls-plan-bold-courageous?

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Dickson wrote to the Massachusetts Democrat to offer his support, earning a Nov. 2 Twitter shoutout from Warren, and Dickson tweeted in support of a “redesigned Medicare for All plan,” the following week.

In an interview Tuesday, Dickson broke down two major challenges in health care that he said Warren’s plan would address: people without insurance, and care that costs too much and is getting more expensive.

The first challenge would be solved by definition by Medicare for All, Dickson said.

The high cost of health care is a more difficult nut to crack.

But Dickson said Warren’s plan has crucial elements that make it work.


A “linchpin” to the proposal for Dickson is administrative simplification — particularly simplifying the preauthorization and denial processes through streamlined forms rather than a form unique to each state and/or each medical insurer.

Not only would this go a long way to reducing costs by freeing up physicians’ and workers’ time, it would also lessen physicians’ frustrations with — and burnout from — constant paperwork, Dickson said.

The Warren plan also “levels the playing field” for health care providers by paying them all at 110% of Medicare rates, Dickson said.
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11. Warren has the intellectual agility to learn from experts

rather than simply reject that which contradicts a memorized loop.

She respects facts and data, and is willing to incorporate those into her thinking.

That distinguishes her from others who cling to the notion that a foolish consistency somehow equates to strength of character.

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12. Exactly.