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In reply to the discussion: I beg you to stop politicizing this, COVID-19 as all about M4A. [View all]BidenBacker
(1,089 posts)If he's saying M4A would be good to have so that everybody had coverage and have access to treatment then that's hard to disagree with. But if he's saying that M4A woulda stopped this pandemic in the first place then either he doesn't get it or he's demagoguing his ass off.
This growing plague was caused or at least greatly exacerbated by a complete lack of competent leadership in addition to a total failure of the system to detect and combat it that we had in place. Given that, it wouldn't have mattered one lick if we had had M4A or single payer or anything else.
How the Pandemic Will End
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/
M4A would not have provided test kits or respirators or PPE for health care workers...it would have only in theory promised everybody coverage for things that are simply not available. When I listen to Biden it sure seems to me that he is much more realistic and has a firmer grasp of what the underlying problems are, and therefore would be a much better POTUS to have in the White House to deal with such matters.
Sanders can't armwave away a virus any more than Trump can bullshit it gone.

primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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