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Barack Obama: Created pandemic department for emergency response

He told his Homeland Security team, "Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy." In an 11/5/05 speech outlining the plan, he said, "if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare." The administration created a 381-page plan that would outline the proper responses to possible virus outbreaks.

Sections of this plan were implemented in 2014 when an Ebola patient was discovered in the US President Barack Obama and his administration escalated the planning through the creation of a department within the National Security Council to plan and prepare for possible emergencies. The plan was passed on to Donald Trump's incoming administration [who disbanded the offices prior to the coronavirus pandemic].

Donald Trump: Set aside pandemic response plans prepared by Bush and Obama

The plan was passed on to Donald Trump's incoming administration. The office was shut down in 2018 by Pres. Donald Trump, who disbanded the pandemic response team.

On Jan. 28, 2020, Carter Mecher, Senior Medical Advisor for the Department of Veterans Affairs, warned others [about coronavirus] that, "Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad." Mecher was one of the medical advisers who, in 2006, had conceived for George W. Bush a pandemic response strategy of "social distancing." He started to push for immediate social distancing. Ignoring that and other scientists' requests or emphasis on testing, Trump and his administration decided the best strategy would be to keep infected people in China.

George W. Bush: Created 381-page pandemic plan for emergency response

He told his Homeland Security team, "Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy." In a November 5, 2005 speech outlining the plan, he said, "if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today." The administration created a 381-page plan that would outline the proper responses to possible virus outbreaks.

On Jan. 28, 2020, Trump's DVA medica advisor Carter Mecher pushed for immediate social distancing for cornoavirrus. Mecher was one of the medical advisers who, in 2006, had conceived for George W. Bush a pandemic response strategy of "social distancing."

Wilbur Ross: Napped through 2017 demonstration on pandemic preparedness

In a November 5, 2005 speech outlining the plan, he said, "if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today." The administration created a 381-page plan that would outline the proper responses to possible virus outbreaks.

The plan was passed on to Donald Trump's incoming administration. A simulation was also run for them demonstrating what could happen and what measures should be put in place. Only a small number of the newcomers attending grasped the significance of the exercise. In fact some--like Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross--napped through it.

The office was shut down in 2018 by President Donald Trump, who disbanded the pandemic response team.

Joe Walsh: Look at things like universal catastrophic care coverage

Walsh: This would probably be, if I'm elected president, the issue I would start with. There is no more important issue in this country than this. We've got the American people living longer and longer. That's a good thing. But how we pay for the health care for all of these Americans living longer? You've got Republicans out there saying nothing. Because they're afraid to talk about health care. It would be the issue I'd want to lead a discussion on.

Q: What would you do?

Walsh: We have to take care of and make sure that people in need in this country and those people with chronic health care conditions are always taken care of and never have to worry about their health care needs the rest of the American people need to begin paying for the day to day health care costs and then look at things like universal catastrophic care coverage.

Joe Walsh: 2013: engage in civil disobedience to defy ObamaCare

On healthcare:
• Walsh is a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act, known as "ObamaCare," and supports repealing the law in favor of a free market system.
• In 2013, Walsh suggested breaking the law and to "engage in civil disobedience" to defy ObamaCare in Chicago.
• While in Congress, Walsh supported several bills that aimed to either repeal ObamaCare in its entirety or to strip key aspects of the law.
• Back in 2010, Walsh opposed government-sponsored health insurance in a Chicago Tribune questionnaire. "I am opposed to a government sponsored health care system. We need only look to the health care systems in Canada or Great Britain to see evidence of this. I support Republican proposals such as allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines, tort reform, and Medical Savings Accounts to reduce costs. Allowing competition across state lines and eliminating these costly mandates will reduce costs for most people," Walsh wrote.