@Wally

https://twitter.com/hashtag/CaucusForBernie?src=hashtag_click

A bunch of caucus sites are being relocated because of a much bigger turnout than expected!

Also Rebel HQ is live on YouTube:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlvwEJs8sSc]

Please stop insulting pigs by comparing them to Chris Matthews.

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— gulag enthusiast Ⓐ (@vectorbae) February 3, 2020

@gjohnsit it's sickening that this level of trauma is needed for someone to come to the realization that for-profit healthcare coverage = bad.

I'm Canadian. I pay, what amounts to a lot of money for me, in taxes. I grumble a little bit about the tax deductions on my paycheque, but it is a) nowhere near as much as what I'd pay privately for a medical emergency, God forbid, and b) my privilege to cover someone who would have zero access to any healthcare services otherwise. (For the fiscal conservatives: it's cheaper to fund a universal, single-payer system than to pay for the poverty generated by a for-profit healthcare system.)

I went there to see if they were in mourning to, but instead I found this in the rec'd list.
I'll quote the part where the guy explains why he switched to Bernie.

Another reason is that I was skeptical of Medicare for All. I thought Biden’s modest reforms to the health insurance system, such as strengthening the ACA with a public option, were the more reasonable way to go.

I have changed my mind, and I’d like to tell you why.

In December, I had an auto accident and my car was totaled. I was able to walk away from the wreck but had severe back pain. I went to an urgent care clinic and they took X-rays and found that I had two broken ribs and a possible issue with vertebrae in my spine. They sent me to the emergency room at the hospital for a CT scan, which revealed that indeed I had a compressed vertebra. Fortunately, it was mild, and there was no neurological damage. The neurologist who examined me said I was lucky — if the compression had been worse, I could have been paralyzed from the waist down.

Because I am self-employed and not very well off, I have a Bronze plan under the ACA — the cheapest health insurance available. The only time I ever use it is for emergencies, because I am generally a pretty healthy guy. So, the only reason I buy health insurance is for situations such as my recent auto accident.

Last week I was informed by my health insurance company — one of the biggest ones in America — that they denied my claim from the urgent care clinic. The reason is, it was coded as a regular “office visit” instead of “urgent care.” My insurance company told me it was probably miscoded and I should try to persuade the clinic to change the code. So I called the clinic, and was shocked to learn that they have a “legal contract” with the health insurance company to systematically code everything as “office visits” instead of “urgent care” — even though their clinic actually has the phrase Urgent Care in its name, and the services they provide are for emergencies.

This sounds to me like fraud.

@gjohnsit

have you seen the one about Nina calling Bloomberg an oligarch? He's not according to them.

$53-60 billion.
Ex NYC mayor
Bought his way on to the debate.

Hmm seems to fit the definition of an oligarch to me.

I went there to see if they were in mourning to, but instead I found this in the rec'd list.
I'll quote the part where the guy explains why he switched to Bernie.

Another reason is that I was skeptical of Medicare for All. I thought Biden’s modest reforms to the health insurance system, such as strengthening the ACA with a public option, were the more reasonable way to go.

I have changed my mind, and I’d like to tell you why.

In December, I had an auto accident and my car was totaled. I was able to walk away from the wreck but had severe back pain. I went to an urgent care clinic and they took X-rays and found that I had two broken ribs and a possible issue with vertebrae in my spine. They sent me to the emergency room at the hospital for a CT scan, which revealed that indeed I had a compressed vertebra. Fortunately, it was mild, and there was no neurological damage. The neurologist who examined me said I was lucky — if the compression had been worse, I could have been paralyzed from the waist down.

Because I am self-employed and not very well off, I have a Bronze plan under the ACA — the cheapest health insurance available. The only time I ever use it is for emergencies, because I am generally a pretty healthy guy. So, the only reason I buy health insurance is for situations such as my recent auto accident.

Last week I was informed by my health insurance company — one of the biggest ones in America — that they denied my claim from the urgent care clinic. The reason is, it was coded as a regular “office visit” instead of “urgent care.” My insurance company told me it was probably miscoded and I should try to persuade the clinic to change the code. So I called the clinic, and was shocked to learn that they have a “legal contract” with the health insurance company to systematically code everything as “office visits” instead of “urgent care” — even though their clinic actually has the phrase Urgent Care in its name, and the services they provide are for emergencies.

This sounds to me like fraud.

@snoopydawg Medicare started. I'm pretty sure it was 1965 under Johnson.

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NEW: As Iowans prepare to caucus tonight, this new story by @onesarahjones is a must-read about how a health insurance company harming Iowans is boosting Vice President Biden’s campaign as he opposes significant health care reform. Let me explain (1/12) https://t.co/Hyl5a9fCPg

— Wendell Potter (@wendellpotter) February 3, 2020

Biden is trying to scare people away from MFA because Iowa privatized it's Medicaid which screwed the hospitals it was supposed to be paying. This meant that hospitals had to or are closing and especially rural ones. But in states that expanded Medicaid the rural hospitals are doing fine.

I didn't know that could happen. This happened during Obama's tenure and I would think that his Medicaid guru would have known what would happen if it did.

As Obama's Medicare guru told the country the only thing that changes is that insurance companies don't have a say in our medical treatment anymore and the government pays the bills. It's worked that way since FDR passed it so that is how Bernie should explain it to people. Take the profit motive out of insurance and just let people get treated instead of dying or being left with massive bills.

BTW you have to read the linked article and then the one inside it to get the whole story.

Potter's thread is a great read too. Lots of grifting going on in the health insurance industry!

This has been thread readed so it's easier to read. One dweeb went after him for doing a hit job on ByeDone on Election Day. I set him straight..lol.