What a dramatic difference between those on the stage the first night and the second night… the first night it was like a group of Type B personalities participating in a very “polite debate” The Second night was like a group of type A personalities in a “cat fight”.
They keep talking about “Medicare for all” …but when you listen to the real details that they are tossing out there is really should be called “Medicaid for all” or “VA care for all”… they are talking about no premiums, no deductibles, no copays… and they even want to provider “free healthcare” for illegal aliens.
Do you know what you get when all healthcare becomes “FREE”… you get lines out the door, around the corner and down the street.
They also claimed that “healthcare is a HUMAN RIGHT ” does this mean that both chronic pain pts and those with various mental health issues – including additive personalities – deserve appropriate care ?
They talked about various discrimination… Roe v Wade and women’s right, LGBTQ’s discrimination, discrimination with school busing … but discriminating against chronic pain pts and substance abusers… apparently NOT ON THEIR RADAR ?
As many of these 20 contenders start falling off, the remaining will start having meeting in many communities are the primaries start happening. Is this where the chronic pain should start having demonstrations and trying to get discrimination of chronic pain pts on the NATIONAL AGENDA ?
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NOTHING is “free” in this world!! Payment WILL cost someone……..us while the elect prosper.
Wait until you get a knock at your door and it is the SBI. Just for expressing your opinion as a pain management patient got me a visit from my state SBI. Now I am being silenced for “complaining” about the 2016 CDC “guideline” act for acceptance of torture. In other words, if you are not perfectly healthy, screw you……and we (dot/gov) do not care what happens to you even if you served as a volunteer firefighter ( zero compensation) for 14 years. Hold on, it’s getting worse, not better in this so called “opioid crisis”. Why no real agenda about the pain management crisis?
Pain patients are a good scapegoat for the broken healthcare system. There is just too much profiteering for the system to function anymore. Other developed nations have Universal Healthcare, and pay a lot less than we are paying now for better care.
The dark money group funding attacks on Medicare for All, One Nation, was created by Carl Rove, a republican operative. The VA system has been undermined by the administration, and the corporations profiting or expecting to profit, we can do a lot better. It is still better than civilian healthcare.
Following the so called opioid crisis for 20 years illuminates the lies and propaganda surrounding healthcare. 1996 was the year they allowed the pharma companies to advertise, and the same year the Saklers started advertising opioids. There were laws in this country about advertising, and now it is a virtual free for all.
Check out some the very expensive ads, our media is running. Mass media has been silent on so many failures of the healthcare system, to please their advertisers and owners. The pharma ads run non stop. Other than the enforcement on pain medications, our regulatory agencies are unable to protect the public. We have seen years of regulatory capture where industry insiders have been put in charge of the regulatory agencies.
We should really be terrified, just look at the misleading use of statistics the use to justify the attack on pain patients. It is no accident that every content marketer and journalist that mentions addiction or pain, conflated pain with addiction. They had to demonize people with pain, in order to be able to dismiss the failures in the healthcare system. The alternative pain medications they marketed over the last 20 years, the devices and the procedures have been profitable. They had to demonize the blue collar workers who worked after they were injured and developed chronic pain. They had to get the public to believe that this could not happen to them.
The insurance companies wanted to discredit these people, to hide the adverse events or the probability of developing chronic pain. They had to come up with a way to get the public to ignore the uninsured, and create doubt about pain. Plenty of researchers funded with industry money cam up with biased research to support the industries false narrative. They had to override the empathy of Americans, it is great for corporate profits. Even injured veterans are suspect, they could be addicted. It was not the severe injuries or multiple deployments, they were just not resistant. This came directly from a torture psychiatrist. It was not about the people being tortured it was all about getting the public to accept it.
I don’t know why they would say Medicare for because I pay out the nose for my Medicare! They mean Medicaid for all if they want no one to pay anything, NOT Medicare! First place, I pay over 135.00 a month just to have the privilege to have Medicare. I paid in since I was 16 yrs old to have that Medicare. Then I go to the doctor and will pay between 20- 100’s Per doctor with each and every visit. So there is NO way they are talking about Medicare! Someone is seriously delusional about Medicare being free!