Political Quotes

“As I start to respond to your question, I want to repeat my main mission statement for being here through the night, and that is to ring the alarm bells of alarm at this authoritarian takeover and at this strategy of doing authoritarian bills in which families lose and billionaires win. Families lose their healthcare or their nutrition benefits or their Medicaid in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires. But I am so glad you requested that study from the Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina. They are highly accredited, highly capable. It is a great place to go for this sort of information. I think back to a couple of years ago when we had a hospital in Baker City, OR, and they announced, very suddenly, that they were having to shut down their maternal care unit. Now, it is quite a ways down the highway to the next hospital. So, depending on the roads you take, can you even get down those roads in the winter when there is ice or there is snow if you are having to go 40 or 70 miles depending on your undertaking? Boy, it is the idea that, when you are trying to get prenatal care, you will have to go that far round trip; the idea that maybe it will be harder to get classes that you are supposed to take to help you prepare for being a good parent; the idea that, when you go into labor, you will only have limited time. So are you going to make it to the hospital? Anyway, it is a big deal to this medium-sized town to lose their maternal unit.”