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.
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.
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.
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.
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?”
Eat the rich
Knowing Bezos not surprising to me.
