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Friday, September 17, 2021

Biden takes medicines away from Florida

The story reminds us months ago “Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida was being roundly castigated for promoting the use of Regeneron’s monoclonal-antibody treatment as part of his state’s efforts to fight COVID-19.”

As recently as last week, the left was implicitly praising Biden's effort to shame Governor Desantis into handling  COVID Biden's way (HuffPo).  Now the Biden administration is seeing the benefits and seeks to ration what Florida receives (National Review). 

"I will fight like hell to overcome Biden’s cruel decision to drastically reduce lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments for Floridians. We’ve seen steep reductions in hospital admissions due to early treatment efforts. It’s wrong to penalize Florida for his partisan bitterness (Ron DeSantis - Twitter)."

When pressed on this, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said “Our supply [of drugs] is not unlimited and we believe it should be equitable… We’re not going to give a greater percentage to Florida over Oklahoma” (Twitter).

Our questions should be "Why is government in control of medicine access?  Why should government decide who sickens and maybe dies?

This is the legacy of ObamaCare mentality.

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