Million americans will lose their coverage overnight, including nearly 1 million in pennsylvania. Insurance, once again, to discriminate services are drop coverage for people like diabetes or cancer or asthma and so much more. Perhaps most cruelly of all, if donald trump has his way, those with complications from covid19 can be a new preexisting condition. Impact likeg health lung scarring and heart damage. If donald trump prevails in court, insurers would be allowed to strip away coverage, jack up premiums, civilly because of the battle they survived fighting coronavirus. Those survivors, having struggled and won the fight of their lives would have their , peace of mind stolen at that moment they needed it most. They would live their lives in a Donald Trumps twin legacies, his failure to protect the American People from the coronavirus and his crusade to take Health Care Protections away from american families. I have called on donald trump many times to withdraw his lawsuit. Today i
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The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
We are opening up regional lines this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zone, your telephone number is 202 7488000. If youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, your telephone number is 202 7488001. We are opening up a special line for people who voted this year already in the 2020 primaries. If you voted in the primaries, your number is 202 7488002. Tell us what happened. You can keep in mind always text us at 202 7488003. We are always reading on social media on twitter and facebook. What happened in the georgia primary earlier this week has caused concern around the nation about what will happen for this fall election. And there is a story in politico that was written about what happened in the georgia primary. I will read this to you. Some voters and george are experiencing our long lines to cast ballots in todays primary, with official trading blame for who exactly is responsible for the latest trip up and holding an election during the pandemic. Since polls op
Different set of drugs then you might need at later point in the disease. Not to make too complicated rep. Mccarthy i want to thank you all for joining me and before we begin, i want to continue to pray for everyone who has lost loved ones on this virus. I also want to thank all those from the medical community, to the Truck Drivers to the farmers to the grocery clerks two people who take out food, everyone making sure the country is still working through this. We cannot thank them enough, especially on the front lines, all those in the medical community as well. Ofave put together a group slide decks since we cannot be in person with one another, i thought i thought that could work better. Is first slide decks i go to some of the data we have from Johns Hopkins. We are still suffering from the virus, but we are making progress. On a gottlieb said today plateau, there are a couple things i take from this Johns Hopkins numbers from a positive sense of where i look at it, we have a downw