VT4HealthCareFreedom

#VT health policy nonprofit educating about risks and failures of socialized medicine, and advocating for free market solutions in health care.

[VT4HealthCareFreedom @VTHCFreedom]

@DaveSilberman @RSPavek @thevpo1 Racist, much? The MBBS degree = US MD. Google it. Whether Dr. Hansen practices medicine or not is her prerogative. She graduated medical school with flying colors. No amount of your xenophobic trolling can negate that fact.

[Meg Hansen @hansen4vermont]

Happy to be spending the day volunteering (#VT Medical Reserve Corps) at the COVID-19 drive-through testing station. I may not be practicing medicine today but I took the Hippocratic Oath in medical school. It’s a personal commitment that I take very seriously.

[Meg Hansen @megmhansen]

#VT All-Payer model, run by for-profit @OnecareVermont, has worsened access and #healthcare quality, while any benefit to Vermonters is yet to be demonstrated. Now in midst of #COVID19, OneCare is seeking to privatize profits and socialize losses. https://t.co/Ev52ZGJT4I #vtpoli

[VT4HealthCareFreedom @VTHCFreedom]

“Besides plummeting #VT to the bottom in #healthcare access, the @OnecareVermont-run All-Payer ACO model has constructed a billion dollar bureaucracy in a largely rural healthscape grappling with monopoly-induced shortages and insolvency." #vtpoli @SeemaCMS @CMSGov

[Kevin Pho, M.D. @kevinmd]

COVID exposed this state’s mangled health care system https://t.co/hLJ7oRb5ND #Policy #COVID19coronavirus via @kevinmd

[Meg Hansen @hansen4vermont]

Why does this bully @thevpo1 get to abuse a young woman of color online? Is his harassment okay ‘cause he belongs to the Left? Will you who talk the talk about racial inclusivity and diversity in #VT walk the walk? @BrendaForVT @mollyforvermont @ingramforvt @RHolcombeVT #vtpoli

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

End Certificate of Need.

Build more #hospitals.
Build more #Surgical Hospitals.
Build more Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Build more, a lot more.

#Coronavirus has shown, it’s in the best interest of “patient safety” to have more capacity not less.

#healthcare
#medtwitter

[Meg Hansen @megmhansen]

Mounting the most effective response against #COVID19 is straightforward – increase #VT healthcare capacity. 1) Suspend CON laws 2) End @OnecareVermont All-Payer ACO model's #healthcare rationing https://t.co/DNE86z4hxk #vtpoli

[Meg Hansen @hansen4vermont]

North Carolina suspended its Certificate of Need laws, enabling hospitals to add beds without state permission. #VT must do the same to prepare for expected #COVIDー19 surge. We need proactive measures to mount most effective pandemic response. https://t.co/2ZIB4JlJu9 #vtpoli

[Meg Hansen @hansen4vermont]

1/2 Balancing regulatory flexibility & public safety is key. To mitigate #COVIDー19 spread & increase community preparedness in #VT: 1) Suspend restrictive Certificate of Need laws. 2) Remove plastic bag ban. 3) Use @OnecareVermont
database to identify at-risk persons,

[Bennanias @Bennanias]

@tonykatz @93wibc West side of Indy, my family is one of the few respiratory (oxygen regulator and ventilator components) domestic manufacturers

Currently 100% production and innundated with orders

So much production was moved to China because of the ACA medical device tax

[VT4HealthCareFreedom @VTHCFreedom]

CON laws “retard technological improvements in #healthcare delivery” by fostering cronyism. They make it difficult for families in rural communities to receive high quality care because facilities to provide such care do not exist thanks to these regulations.

[CGallMD @GallaherCaren]

How Certificate of Need (CON) laws make health care more expensive - Washington Times. When you are lucky enough to have a state representative who “gets it” https://t.co/6Fp0ZFGyb3

[VT4HealthCareFreedom @VTHCFreedom]

“#Healthreform should center on patients paying out of pocket for their routine and specialist care.”

Solutions: price transparency, expanded health savings accounts, and #DirectPrimaryCare.

[David Balat @DavidBalatHC]

Excellent article by ⁦@klindley1⁩ https://t.co/yOtyt29K32

[Chris Pope @CPopeHC]

When you look at the details, the public option proposals don't seem very optional:
https://t.co/jgYXS6yP3t

[Kimberley Strassel @KimStrassel]

And why? Because of a thriving, innovative free market. Keep that in mind when people push socialized medicine.

[Rich Duszak, MD @RichDuszak]

"Almost 40% of women physicians go part-time or leave medicine altogether within six years of completing their residencies." https://t.co/KPZFA97F98

[Goodman Institute @GoodmanInst]

"Show me a health care sector where there is no Medicare, no Blue Cross and no employer and I bet that’s a market that works very well." -@DrJohnCGoodman in @Forbes #freemarkethealthcare

READ: https://t.co/bQldrwXZ2x

[VT4HealthCareFreedom @VTHCFreedom]

Vermont’s ACO All Payer Model follows global budgets or spending targets (euphemistically referred to as “value based care”) for almost all health services — not only hospital care. @OnecareVermont @CPopeHC https://t.co/yq16CVO9fj

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Deaths (total) from vaping: 9

Deaths (2018) from fentanyl: 30,000

🤔

[Richard L. Reece, MD @rreecemd]

Brant Mittler MD JD in multiple tweets has criticized those who condemn doctors for performing “unnecessary tests.” I agree with Brant. Doctors often perform tests to “rule out” disease. This narrows scope of diagnosis. Only in retrospect are negative tests “unnecessary.”