What kind of user would lie to a country desperate for a vaccine that could save thousands of lives and make our lives normal again?millions of people, has been playing with cancer patients for years.
Last week, President Donald Trump issued a “decree on a fitness care plan for America First,” which proclaims an “unwavering commitment” to Americans with pre-existing conditions. Actually, it’s nothing but “government propaganda. “says Nicholas Bagley, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law. At best, it’s a “small promise” for others with pre-existing conditions, tweeted Larry Levitt, executive vice president of fitness policies at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
It is inevitable that this latest attempt to factor in a “health plan” will lead to a small joke. It’s a joke because genuine threats to Americans with pre-existing situations come from Trump and his party. That’s what Americans want coverage against.
If Trump and Republicans simply didn’t do anything, cancer patients, the parents of medically fragile youth, and thousands of Americans who get help with opioid addiction wouldn’t have to worry about having their insurance taken away.
After a Republican majority in any of the chambers of Congress did not repeal much of the Affordable Care Act in 2017, the historic 2010 law that ended discrimination against others with physical fitness issues, the president has tried to erase the protections of the ACA. -term plans that would possibly refuse to cover pre-existing situations and support a lawsuit that would override the entire law on literal technicality.
The lawsuit, filed through Republican attorney generals in 18 states, can allow insurers to refuse to cover up to 133 million Americans with physical fitness disorders or raise their rates to inaccessible levels.
Among them, there may be more than 7 million people who tested positive for COVID-19, another 21 million could lose their fitness insurance, adding 12 million who get the policy through the extension of Medicaid law and 165 million. Americans with personal insurance would face caps on costly life-saving treatments, sinking most of the country on the days when it had to pass between their physical state and their bankruptcy.
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives Trump the chance to push an incredibly conservative new justice to the Supreme Court before this case is heard. Confirming Amy Coney Barrett would dramatically increase the likelihood of a devastating resolution that would end the ACA and destroy our fitness service delivery system. And that would be in the middle of the worst pandemic of this century.
Of course, Trump would like him to participate in this total component of the history of the pandemic.
That’s why he rarely wears a mask, why he took $300 million off the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to spend on a propaganda advertising bombardment to “overcome despair,” according to Politico, and why he rushes to get a vaccine that his administration has suspected public fitness officials are in a position to announce in October or early November.
Trump’s craving for the announcement seems to be the highest predictable “October surprise” in presidential campaign history. And it’s so obviously cynical that the public is already expressing great skepticism. In a recent poll, only 26% of Americans said they trusted Trump’s comments on a COVID-19 vaccine Most, 52 percent, said no.
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And scientists seem even more concerned than the public. Last week, Nature reported that “fears that political interference may see an approved vaccine for emergency use have intensified without sufficient evidence of its effectiveness. “
A desperate political gamble can destroy the integrity of a procedure that requires a large audience to expect to be effective, and the president’s investment in a vaccine as a panacea for American fitness and his crusade forget the science that even after the arrival of a vaccine, will take time to return to something like “normality. “
Trump’s miracle cure technique at COVID-19 reflects his attack on protections against pre-existing diseases. Just as you can save protections against pre-existing diseases by simply abandoning your attack on them, you can simply promote an exciting medical innovation that will be even more effective than any new vaccine: masks.
CDC Director Robert Redfield told the Senate Appropriations Committee that “a face mask is more guaranteed to protect me from COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine, because immunogenicity can be 70%. And if I don’t get an immune response, the vaccine may not protect me. This mask will. “
Redfield was then forced to retract the comments because they are consistent with the truth, but not Trump’s COVID-19 scam.
We know how to involve this virus while we wait for an effective vaccine, as Dr. Anthony Fauci tried Senator Rand Paul, Republican for Kentucky: masks, social distance, socializing outdoors without more than inside, avoiding crowds and washing his hands.
Trump has seriously advocated for any of these things, his meetings are massive announcements to mock those key principles, and his continued rush to reopen without any national trial or conspiracy plans has helped America continue to dominate the world in general cases and COVID-19 deaths. .
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Trump has spent his career blowing up things he inherited, bankrupting corporations and showing up how he fired people. This turned out to be a wonderful predictor of how it would take us the direct 27 weeks of the worst task losses in American history.
But the indicator of how your reaction to this pandemic would explode is the ease with which you have played with the physical care of those who want it most.
The president is not the only one to announce a vaccine, especially one who is in a hurry to get out before the election season ends, and all fair Republicans say so, if they don’t, help him pay for a bacteriological war. opposed to the American people.
Jason Sattler, founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a member of the USA TODAY Taxpayer Board and host of the “The GOTMFV Show” podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @LOLGOP
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