One of the largest physician groups in the US now supports Meidcare4All

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Monday January 20, 2020 · 11:22 PM PST

2020/01/20 · 23:22

Looks like the American College of Physicians has thrown it’s ring in with Medicare4All.

One of the largest physician groups in the US now backs Medicare4All. It saves money, covering everyone without copays or deductibles, expanding medicare to include dental, vision, long-term care & more without supplemental plans.

No-brainer.

Bernie's the one to make it happen. https://t.co/v0fAsMLyJY
— Pat the BernerÃ°ÂÂÂ¹ (@PatTheBerner) January 21, 2020

The ACP delivered its case in a 43-page position paper—titled "Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: Coverage and Cost of Care"—published in the Annals of Internal Medicineon Monday. According to the paper:

Although the United States leads the world in health care spending, it fares far worse than its peers on coverage and most dimensions of value. Cost and coverage are intertwined. Many Americans cannot affford health insurance, and even those with insurance face substantial cost-related barriers to care. Employer-sponsored insurance is less prevalent and more expensive than in the past, and in response, deductibles have grown and benefits have been cut. The long-term solvency of U.S. public insurance programs is a perennial concern. The United States spends far more on healthcare administration than peer countries. Administrative barriers divert time from patient care and frustrate patients, clinicians, and policymakers. Major changes are needed to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and the author of the The Medical for All Act of 2019 now in the U.S. Senate, welcomed the development.

Edit: here’s the link for the article linked in the twitter thread. (h/t VClib for calling that out).

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UK local council elections bring drastic results - Conservatives lose in EPIC proportions

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Friday May 03, 2019 · 3:28 PM PDT

2019/05/03 · 15:28

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The UK just had their local elections today, and boy was it a doozy for the Conservatives:

The Sun says GRAND SLAM: Local elections 2019: Election wipeout for Tories as they lose more than a THOUSAND councillors – far worse than May feared

BBC: Local elections: Conservatives lose more than 1,300 councillors

Now I had to go looking for the significance of the UK Local Councils — so I pulled up Wikipedia where it outlined that “Councils have historically had no split between executiveand legislature. Functions are vested in the council itself, and then exercised usually by committees or subcommittees of the council.”

So the UKIP (racist party) lost bigly (-145 seats), and so did the Conservatives (biggest loss since 1995 for any party with -1334 seats). Labour didn’t do swell either (-82 seats). So who won? Lib Dems (+703 seats) Greens (+185 seats) and various other non-aligned regional parties (+612).

Of course the Conservatives/Tories are saying UK wants to “get on with Brexit” — with the dramatic UKIP loss, it’s pretty clear (at least to me) that UK voters want more to “get off Brexit” than to get on with it.

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Oakland risks losing control of police force to federal control

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Tuesday January 31, 2012 · 5:47 PM PST

2012/01/31 · 17:47

Apparently, OWS is having a impact other than peaceful protesters getting caged, jailed and tortured.

According to this SFGate article, Judge Thelton Henderson has decreed that Oakland has lost the right to independently hire/fire/promote or acquire hardware for it's police force without an independent monitor.

Henderson issued an order that bars city officials from hiring, firing, promoting, purchasing equipment or retaining consultants without prior approval of an independent court-appointed monitor. The ruling also means that neither interim Police Chief Howard Jordan nor Mayor Jean Quan can change police policy, procedures, rules, tactics or disciplinary procedures in the Police Department without getting permission from the monitor.

So all changes are now subject to approval by the independent monitor (Robert Warshaw)... why is this the case? Apparently the brutal response to OWS as per HuffPo:

This ultimatum comes in response to a report issued by Warshaw last week sharply criticizing the department for its handling of the Occupy Oakland protests. "We were, in some instances, satisfied with the performance of the department; yet in others, we were thoroughly dismayed by what we observed," he wrote. "I cannot overstate our concern that although progress on compliance has been slow, even those advancements may have been put in doubt in the face of these events."

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Tuesday October 05, 2010 · 2:48 PM PDT

2010/10/05 · 14:48

As if having one domestic worker file suit isn't enough, how about a second one that corroborates the character issues at stake:

"I totally believe" Diaz,[says Jill] Armstrong, 59, of Mountain View, said in an interview with The Chronicle. "I know the family. I know what it was like."

For those of you just tuning in, here is some context from the original diary.

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Wired: Obama follows Bush on Warrantless Wiretapping (updated)?

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Friday January 23, 2009 · 12:21 PM PST

2009/01/23 · 12:21

UPDATE:

most of the discussion has already happened on a front-paged diary here, sorry, this is my first time!

UPDATE2: Also, my favorite comment from that story (by Mary Julia):

I took a look at the filing referenced. The only thing that happened as far as Obama is concerned is that he was substituted for Bush as a party, under the applicable federal rule. Otherwise, this filing was made by the Bush DOJ. Let's all recall that Eric Holder hasn't even cleared the Judiciary Committee yet before we start saying that Obama is going to continue with the "unitary executive" theory.

This is much ado about nothing. Take my word for it. I play a lawyer in real life.

We do not rent rooms to Republicans.

by Mary Julia on Thu Jan 22, 2009 at 10:04:55 PM PST

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