Health Care in Crisis Under Trump
As one speaker after another distorted Donald Trump's record on health care during the Republican National Convention this week, the Ohio Democratic Party held a virtual roundtable with Dr. Arthur Lavin of Doctors Organized for Health Care Solutions, Dr. Beth Weinstock of the Physicians Action Network and Colleen Bowman, the mother of a childhood cancer survivor, to discuss America's health care crisis under Trump.
From Chairman David Pepper:
"Donald Trump has clearly, tragically, unnecessarily failed to contain COVID-19 because he didn't listen to experts, he didn't take it seriously and he didn't have a plan. And if that wasn't bad enough, now and still he wants to repeal health care for millions, including protections for people with pre-existing conditions, during a pandemic."
From Colleen Bowman:
"... when [Donald Trump] says, 'I'm going to protect pre-existing conditions' or 'I'm going to sign an executive order protecting pre-existing conditions,' there's a large population of people who thinks, OK well then that means that's protecting pre-existing conditions, not understanding that if the [Affordable Care Act] falls, there is no protection there because there isn't a plan."
From Dr. Arthur Lavin:
"We know that Joe Biden knows how to stop pandemics. He led the world with Obama on the last one, stopped the pandemic from spreading here, for Ebola. And if he's elected he can stop this pandemic in its tracks in six weeks."
From Dr. Beth Weinstock:
"I have had patients say things like, 'No one knows what the right thing is to do. And they're all saying different things.' And then I say, 'No, no people are saying the right thing to do -- you need to wear a mask.' But because of this mixed messaging -- and irresponsible messaging -- people are then choosing to not pay attention to any of it."
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