John Tierney: “I stand in favor of this particular amendment. In Massachusetts we have plenty of testing going on already. This idea by…”

“I stand in favor of this particular amendment. In Massachusetts we have plenty of testing going on already. This idea by the President simply raises the quantity of testing, while doing nothing about the quality. Beyond that, we have the issue of bringing the testing procedure up to scale. The New York Times articles on Sunday and Monday indicate that this industry is not ready to produce the kind of quality tests and have them designed and administered and corrected in an appropriate way. We need to go back to the drawing board and make sure that this is done not as a mandate that will not be funded, but as a way to be actually used as a diagnostic tool for our children.”