Scott Gottlieb: “I think it is just awful that we would give false hopes and false promise to people that really want to access health…”

we are going to see health care costs go up if we see more people end up in emergency rooms.

I think the downside of this mandate in terms of hardening positions and taking something that was subtly political and making it overtly political could outweigh any of the benefits that we hope to achieve.

The bottom line is if you look at pediatric vaccinations where we have mandates in place, vaccines are a requirement to go to school.

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