Thread by @SenBobCasey

Welcome to Pennsylvania, Mr. President. I hope you wore a mask while you were here.

And since you visited, in a blatant attempt to rewrite your disastrous response to the #COVID19 pandemic, let me be clear: between downplaying the outbreak and failing to meet the needs of the health care system, you’ve failed Pennsylvania and people across the country.

We need tests. We need PPE. And we need you to #ProtectOurCare and #DropTheLawsuit to rip coverage from millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians, which will only throw the health care system into chaos.

Further, decades of disinvestment in state & local governments has left us unable to do the basic things that many other countries are doing for their citizens during this pandemic. What we need is localities equipped to respond to the needs of the people, in good times & in bad.

The risks associated with coronavirus are particularly dangerous for older adults in Pennsylvania and nationwide, folks who rely on the programs you’re trying to decimate.

In PA alone, according to @ProtectOurCare, nearly 5.3 million Pennsylvanians have a pre-existing condition, including 643,000 children. The protections the ACA provides for people with a pre-existing condition are as important as ever.

Mr. President, if you really want to show you care about the health of Pennsylvanians, then you’ll file a brief with SCOTUS supporting the ACA, establish a special enrollment period through Healthcare.gov and reverse your plans to cut Medicare and Medicaid.