2022 State of the Union address: on Health Care
Joe Biden:
Cut cost of prescription drugs, cap insulin at $35 a month
Cut the cost of prescription drugs. Just look at insulin. One in ten Americans has diabetes. In Virginia, I met a 13-year-old boy named Joshua Davis. He and his Dad both have Type 1 diabetes, which means they need insulin every day.
Insulin costs about $10 a vial to make.But drug companies charge families like Joshua and his Dad up to 30 times more. For Joshua, and for the 200,000 other young people with
Type 1 diabetes, let's cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month so everyone can afford it.
As Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up.
That ends on my watch. Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.
Source: 2022 State of the Union address
Mar 1, 2022
Joe Biden:
I've ordered more anti-virus pills than anyone in history
Here are four common sense steps as we move forward safely [to move past the coronavirus pandemic]:- First, stay protected with vaccines and treatments. We're also ready with anti-viral treatments. If you get COVID-19, the Pfizer pill reduces your
chances of ending up in the hospital by 90%. We've ordered more of these pills than anyone in the world. And Pfizer is working overtime to get us 1 million pills this month and more than double that next month. And we're launching the "Test to Treat"
initiative so people can get tested at a pharmacy, and if they're positive, receive antiviral pills on the spot at no cost.
- Second--we must prepare for new variants.
- Third--we can end the shutdown of schools and businesses. We have the tools we
need.
- Fourth, we will continue vaccinating the world. We've sent 475 Million vaccine doses to 112 countries, more than any other nation. And we won't stop.
Source: 2022 State of the Union address
Mar 1, 2022
Joe Biden:
ARPA-H: end cancer as we know it
Let's end cancer as we know it. Our goal is to cut the cancer death rate by at least 50% over the next 25 years, turn more cancers from death sentences into treatable diseases. To get there, I call on Congress to fund ARPA-H, the
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. It's based on DARPA--the Defense Department project that led to the Internet, GPS, and so much more. ARPA-H will have a singular purpose--to drive breakthroughs in cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and more.
Source: 2022 State of the Union address
Mar 1, 2022
Kim Reynolds:
Republican governors honored your freedom during pandemic
Republican governors faced the same Covid-19 virus head on. But we honored your freedoms and saw right away that lockdowns and school closures came with their own significant costs; that mandates weren't the answer.
And we actually listened to the science, especially with kids in masks and kids in schools.
Source: GOP Response to the 2022 State of the Union address
Mar 1, 2022
Libertarian Party:
COVID fatigue comes from government's overreaching approach
President Biden alluded to pandemic fatigue--to Americans growing weary of government imposed restrictions in the name of public health. In reality, Americans have expressed not just fatigue, but anger and outrage against the heavy hand of government
that promotes and perpetuates mandates, division, and isolation instead of choice, liberty and cooperation. From the earliest days of the pandemic under the previous administration, any attempts at peaceful dialogue and sensible advice
was drowned out by political vilification, and this administration has done nothing but amplify that.COVID is not the last crisis and perhaps not even the last pandemic we will face.
We likely have not seen the last case or last variant yet. But we must learn from the failures of the government's overreaching approach these last two years.
Source: LNC Chair Whitney Bilyeu on 2022 State of the Union address
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