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Quotes, the actual people and leaders are trying to figure out how to people people deal with this. people who face the risk of infection or death. that's regardless of whether they're in a red or blue state. federal government jumping in with emergency measures to try to help florida, some his failures, sending 200 ventilators, nasal kits, and that is actual government leadership and policy. while the policy tools to combat covid have evolved over the past year and a half, desantis has not. he seems very eager to keep reiterating fights over lockdowns or masking. when it's getting people vacc...

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula PhD is a Full Professor and the Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics & Law in the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California. She also serves as Co-PI of the NIH P50 funded RAND/USC Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center of Excellence (OPTIC) and is the Co-Director of USC’s Institute on Addiction Sciences Policy Affinity Group. Prior to coming to USC, she spent 15 years as the Co-Director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center, which provided her the...

Sort of collectively saying you know what? maybe now is not a good time to hire and invest. >> you have a looming deficit republicans used to care about. >> that's one of the real risks here. if we do have a recession, there is not a lot of powder left in the gun right now because we took on $2 trillion worth of debt, normally if there is a recession, what you would expect the president and congress to do would be to call for more fiscal stimulus. there is no room or little room for effective stimulus. beyond that if we did have policy tools, this white house fund mentally does not have a plan...

>> you have a looming deficit republicans used to care about. now nobody seems to care. >> that's one of the real risks here. if we do have a recession, there is not a lot of powder left in the gun right now because we took on $2 trillion worth of debt, normally if there is a recession, what you would expect the president and congress to do would be to call for more fiscal stimulus. there is no room or little room for effective stimulus. beyond that if we did have policy tools, this white house fund mentally does not have a plan and do not have competent personnel in place to develop a plan. >...

There's a drug shortage, we imported drug on a temporary basis from a foreign country when we have a shortage of that drug in the united states and in that circumstance carefully managing the import of a drug from a known facility typically a facility that might have been inspected by the united states or a foreign regulator we trust and guaranteeing the supply chain of the drug, the drug we are importing is the drug we seek to import. we are looking at a working group and looking at whether or not in select circumstances where there's a problem getting access to a drug because of a price chan...