Twitter.com election tweets: on Health Care
Donald Trump:
The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA
Twitter posting from @realDonaldTrump: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries.
CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
Source: Twitter posting on 2020 Presidential hopefuls
Feb 24, 2020
Eric Brakey:
Apply principles of freedom to broken healthcare system
Glad @RandPaul [GOP Senator from Kentucky whose ObamaCare replacement plan focuses on deregulation]
is fighting to fix our broken healthcare system with principles of freedom.
Source: Twitter posting on 2018 Maine Senate race
Feb 25, 2017
Gary Johnson:
US needs free market approach to health care, not government
Donald Trump: ObamaCare is a disaster. We have to repeal it, and replace it with something less expensive. And something that works. We have to get rid of the lines around the state, where we stop insurance companies from competing.
We want competition. Gary Johnson: Bring competition to healthcare! A free market approach is needed, and recognize that healthcare is far removed from the free market.
Source: Johnson Twitter posts on Second 2016 Presidential Debate
Oct 9, 2016
Jill Stein:
Medicare-for-all better & cheaper than ObamaCare
Q: How to improve ObamaCare?Donald Trump: ObamaCare will never work. It's too expensive, and not only expensive for the person that has it, unbelievably expensive for our country. We have to repeal it. We have to get rid of the lines around
the state, where we stop insurance companies from competing. We want competition. She wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster.
Jill Stein: We need a Medicare-for-all system. 25 percent of healthcare costs are spent on wasteful paper pushing, on CEO salaries, on advertising, on exorbitant pharmaceutical costs like paying $400 for an EpiPen, which contains $1 worth of medication.
Under an improved Medicare, that 25 percent overhead is reduced to 1 percent. It enables us to put our healthcare dollars truly into healthcare, so that you are covered, head to toe, cradle to grave.
Source: Stein Twitter posts on Second 2016 Presidential Debate
Oct 9, 2016
Joe Biden:
Supports national mask mandate
[In his ABC Town Hall interview, president Trump was asked about a national mask mandate; then Joe Biden responded by Twitter]: TRUMP: They said at the Democrat convention they're going to do a national mandate. They never did it, because they've
checked out and they didn't do it. And a good question is, you ask why Joe Biden--they said we're going to do a national mandate on masks. But he didn't do it. He never did it.
BIDEN (on Twitter): "To be clear: I am not currently president."
Source: Daily Beast/Twitter posting on ABC This Week 2020 Town Hall
Sep 15, 2020
Mary Throne:
Expand Medicaid: a no-brainer answer to cover more people
Honestly shout it from the rooftops: Medicaid expansion is a no brainer to get healthcare for 20k more people,
lower premiums for everyone else, and provide better support for our existing rural healthcare systems.
Source: Twitter posting on 2018 Wyoming Gubernatorial race
Jun 26, 2018
Marianne Williamson:
Vaccination should be a choice, like abortion choice
Marianne Williamson leans in to vaccine skepticism in NH: "To me, it's no different than the abortion debate. The US government doesn't tell any citizen, in my book, what they have to do with their body or their child."
[She added an additional tweet that] vaccine mandates are too "draconian" & "Orwellian" [but later rescinded those terms].
Source: Twitter posting in 2020 Democratic primary
Jun 19, 2019
Michael Eisen:
Gutting Obamacare leaves those in need without healthcare
Paul Ryan's Tweet: Meet Cindy: a single mom, making $30,000 per year, who hopes to one day get beyond living paycheck to paycheck. With a $700 increase in her tax refund each year under our tax bill, Cindy can start saving for her future.
Eisen's response: Until her daughter gets diabetes. Then the fact that you gutted Obamacare, leaving Cindy and her daughter without health insurance, forces her to sell her kidney to buy insulin.
Source: Twitter posting on 2018 California Senate race
Nov 19, 2017
Michael Eisen:
Gutting ObamaCare leaves people without health insurance
Paul Ryan's Tweet: Meet Cindy: a single mom, making $30,000 per year, who hopes to one day get beyond living paycheck to paycheck. With a $700 increase in her tax refund each year under our tax bill, Cindy can start saving for her future.
Eisen's response: Until her daughter gets diabetes. Then the fact that you gutted ObamaCare, leaving Cindy and her daughter without health insurance, forces her to sell her kidney to buy insulin.
Source: Twitter posting on 2018 California Senate race
Nov 19, 2017
Nancy Mace:
Americans should not have to forego health care due to cost
In 2017, I had to deny care after a bad car accident. I, like many American families, couldn't afford it. This is unacceptable.
With the number of COVID19 cases on the rise, we need quality affordable health care more than ever.
Source: Twitter posting on 2020 SC-1 House race
Aug 20, 2020
Pete Buttigieg:
2018: favored single-payer Medicare-for-All
Q [The People's Summit]: Not once have you tweeted support for MFA/SP or #HR676. We checked your handle & every possible hashtag or term.A: [@PeteButtigieg]: Buh? When/where have you ever heard me oppose Medicare for All?
Q: We never said that you
opposed it, but where did you say that you support #SinglePayer?
A: I've been on the record on this one since 2004: [Article in The Harvard Crimson, 3/8/04]: "We could finally see a single-payer health care system that closes the gap between the US and
other nations when it comes to medical treatment."
Q: You wrote that article 14 years ago as a student. I don't think you were a politician 14 years ago. Can you affirmatively say that we need #MedicareForAll now and that insurance does not belong in
healthcare?
A: Gosh! Okay: I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered.
Source: Twitter posting on 8th Democrat 2020 primary debate
Feb 18, 2018
Tom Steyer:
We need transparency on all drug prices
Drug price transparency is a
key piece of any equitable health care system.
Source: Twitter posting by Tom Steyer, 2020 presidential hopeful
Feb 27, 2017
Semi Bird:
No child will undergo a "gender affirmation" surgery
When I'm Governor of Washington, no child will be able to undergo a "gender affirmation" surgery. You can't get a tattoo without parental consent before you're 18, but apparently you are mature enough to make lifelong changes to your body.
In some states, they're doing these surgeries on TODDLERS now. When I'm Governor, that ends immediately.
Source: Twitter posting on 2024 Washington Gubernatorial race
May 4, 2023
Hung Cao:
Government-controlled healthcare sends us into recession
- Joe's right. There's a lot at stake in this election. Biden and @JenniferWexton have failed #VA10... Sent us into a recession.
Support government-controlled healthcare. Attack the character of their political opponent.
Source: Twitter posting on VA-10 2022 House race
Nov 1, 2022
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