Editor,
So things have gone “viral.” All the doubters and critics of a need for a National Health Plan with paid sick leave have to do some fancy dancing to get around the obvious evidence: that states that refused to expand their Medicaid and the party that opposed efforts to create the Affordable Care Act are, in many cases, now in quarantine themselves. My how some things come around to bite you in the ... well you know. Oh let’s not “get political” about such a serious matter they say. Well, unfortunately, bad politics seem to have landed us right in the mud. We need to learn a bit from this. Although my hero Bernie probably won’t be the standard bearer for the Democratic nomination, his talking points, and the manner in which reality has proven him totally correct, will most certainly affect the Democratic platform going forward. That’s a good thing.
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Anyone else would have mass testing by now, like was done in South Korea
with 10,000 tests a day. We are far behind the rest of the world in testing.
We still don't have a date set for mass testing when each day and hour counts.
Mike - perhaps it has escaped you but the European countries with nationalized healthcare are more affected by the Wuhan Corona virus than we are, so far. In no way would the failed Obamacare system have made our situation better.
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