The Washington Post editorial predictably ignores research showing that a single-payer system would save hundreds of billions of dollars—and tens of thousands of lives—each year.
An editorial published on Christmas by the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post inveighed against supporters of Medicare for All in the United States, pointing to the struggles of Britain’s chronically underfunded National Health Service as a “cautionary tale” while ignoring research showing that a single-payer system would save the US hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives each year.
The editorial, headlined “Socialized medicine can’t survive the winter,” laments the “religious-like devotion to the NHS” in the United Kingdom even as “hospital corridors overflow and routine procedures get canceled due to a catastrophic event commonly known as ‘winter.’”
The Post editorial board, led by opinion editor Adam O’Neal, waves away expert analyses showing that the UK government is underinvesting in its healthcare system relative to other countries in Europe, resulting in the kinds of problems the Thursday editorial attributed to the supposedly inherent flaws of single-payer systems.
One more wedge to drive between us.
“Don’t you just hate all those people sponging off our Government?!”
No. I don’t hate them, I envy them.
Conservatives in Britain and Canada continually underfund their national health Care service with the goal of eventually eliminating it. Then conservatives in the United States point at the British healthcare service in say, “Look at that, see it doesn’t work.”
This is literally been the case for the last 30+ years.
Underfunding government services so they break and then using that brokenness as a reason to cut funding further has been the Republican MO for decades.
Republican MO
*Conservative and neoliberal MO
Starving the beast
That’s the case in Portugal too, but both of the two largest parties have been cutting it for years.
Oh yeah the so-called liberals are totally complicit in this farce. All they do is wave their hands and say “this is terrible” and do literally nothing to stop it.
Chronically underfunded by the Tories in order to make getting rid of it more palatable.
The only thing the UK believes in is the NHS. It is our religion.
I loved the NHS while I was over there. I got health care SO MUCH BETTER than in the US. And it was way more continent and less stressful. And, assuming that the “entry fee” I paid when I got my visa wasn’t subsidized, cheeper too.
stephen fry is pretty popular
Richard Ayoade is a national treasure.
I enjoyed the IT crowd… I had/have a MASSIVE crush on the Jen(?) character (the boss of the it department) but not on the actress, the character in terms of how she moved and also those pencil skirts god damn
How awful would it be if we made the billionaires pay for everyone’s healthcare.
And we have the power to make it happen; that’s their biggest fear. But do we have the will? They will do whatever they can to divide us so we don’t obtain the will.
Shocker! Rich person who can afford anything they want thinks the poors don’t deserve a healthy life. Can’t work the slave pits if I can’t lift 5 lbs boss.
Whos also doing pharmacy and health insurance
When a hot dog sign makes so much sense
I need to know that you know that that’s a Dickens line. It’s from A Christmas Carol.
I didn’t know Dickens owned a hot dog store
I’m only familiar with his cider.
Charles “Deep” Dickens
A Christmas Carol
My favorite scene was when Blackadder kicked Tiny Tim’s crutch out from under him on Christmas morning.
imagine having the shittiest healthcare among top developed countries and thinking it’s the best. and also thinking it’s better to pay insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, and constantly fighting insurance over your meds all of a sudden being “not medically necessary,”… instead of a higher tax bill that covers everything
america is so fucking stupid
Well duh! Everyone knows the weak should be allowed to die from curable conditions. And no public schools either. That way, the billionaires will have a fit, obedient work force.
The NHS is chronically underfunded, because every successive UK government is determined to make the NHS do more with less - and at some point something has to give, which is why service declines every winter despite it being the same story every year, because the money isn’t there to prevent it
Eat the rich
Ew, no. They must be absolutely full of preservatives. Head on a spike in a prominent public place is my preference.
Sheesh! Single payer and proper sick leave is good for business!
Not the bezos brand of business
Washington Post slogan used to be “Democracy Dies in Darkness”.
I assume now it’s “Hey Democracy, can you step into this dark room with me for just a sec?”
Flu season started weeks early this year unexpectedly, causing massive critical strain on an underfunded system. The solution is a bigger better funded NHS, not whatever the shit they do in America of all places.
Knowing Bezos not surprising to me.
