Political Quotes

“As an emergency physician, I have seen the faces of failed healthcare policies. I have looked into the eyes of the suffering when they couldn't afford care. I have cried with families who have lost a loved one, knowing it could have been prevented with routine care if only they had health insurance. Even now, I have gone into hard-to-reach and high-risk communities and personally conducted COVID-19 testing, watching the health inequities and disparities play out in real time, seeing disproportionately higher rates of transmission and deaths in low- income, uninsured, Latino, farmworker, and the homeless communities. As a physician and humanitarian, I find it unconscionable, repulsive, that during a global pandemic, while millions are infected by COVID-19 and millions more are unemployed and struggling economically, that the Trump administration is actively working to repeal the Affordable Care Act through the Supreme Court. Repealing the ACA would be a disaster, leading to millions of families facing financial hardships and many, many more deaths from COVID-19. Repealing the ACA would eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions, the very same conditions that render a person more likely to die from COVID-19. Repealing the ACA would take away health insurance from millions of Americans who, for the first time, have health insurance because of the Medicaid expansion.…”