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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Knowing Bezos not surprising to me.
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.
Sheesh! Single payer and proper sick leave is good for business!
Not the bezos brand of business
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
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
