Reckless Republicans getting 'top-tier' health care after contracting COVID-19; others turned away

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October 5, 2020
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams

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“Now politicians are checking into hospitals as a ‘precaution.’ Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege,” Markey wrote. “We need Medicare for All.”

The senator’s statement came a day after former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a member of the president’s debate prep team this past week, announced he was checking himself into Morristown Medical Center after testing positive on Saturday.

“While I am feeling good and only have mild symptoms, due to my history of asthma we decided this is an important precautionary measure,” Christie tweeted.

Christie’s announcement angered social media users whose own family members had been denied admission at hospitals even as their symptoms grew more severe earlier this year, as medical centers faced severe shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE)—and as the Trump administration seized shipments of the supplies and claimed the federal government was not responsible for ensuring healthcare workers were equipped to combat the pandemic.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/reckless-republicans-getting-top-tier-health-care-after-contracting-19-while-others-are-turned-away/

[CrispyQ]

1. Good! I hope people are pissed off & motivated!

VOTE THESE EVIL FUCKERS OUT!

[dchill]

2. My best guess: Chris Christie has checked himself...

... into hospital “out of an abundance of REALLY SICK!"

[malaise]

7. THIS

To think that they caught this while celebrating the death of RBG

[Ohiogal]

3. Exactly THIS.

[Mike 03]

4. This PISSES me off.

Those are the very people who are trying to take our health care away.

I live in a community where people have given up on just getting tested for COVID.

[CrispyQ]

8. I am so fucking pissed off I can hardly stand it this morning.

I CANNOT WAIT TO GET MY BALLOT & VOTE ENTIRELY DEMOCRATIC.

KICK THESE PRIVILEGED FUCKS OUT!

[secondwind]

5. Whoa, Christie is in for a tough time.

Asthma, obesity.......

I don’t really care. At all.

[bullwinkle428]

6. McTurtle needs his fucking quorum for Operation Warp Speed on Barrett.

[rickford66]

9. My son's GF works in a local ER (upstate NY)

She told me that people are turned away and not admitted and tested unless they have severe symptoms. This has been the rule since the pandemic started. No way you get admitted as a precaution. This needs megaphone reporting. Maybe the WH could be designated a meat processing plant.