AOC on Surgeon General: Actually ‘It’s Inequity That’s the Pre-Existing Condition’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “It’s so funny how this pandemic was — when it was impacting — when it was impacting the elderly, when it was impacting all sorts of people, we didn’t talk about personal responsibility. We only started talking about, you know, you know, taking personal responsibility over contracting Coronavirus when we started talking about black Americans contracting it at a higher rate. Obviously there are certain things we can do to make sure that pre-existing conditions don’t exist, but ultimately, it’s inequity that’s the pre-existing condition. It’s the inequality that’s the pre-existing condition. And you can’t just go to someone and tell them, hey, you should have had health care this whole time when you’re working, you know, when you’re working an hourly job and your employer doesn’t give it to you. You know, a lot of these pre-existing conditions have to do with the inability to access quality health care, the inability to afford quality health care, because we live in a country that continues to have a for-profit health care system unlike the rest of the developed world.”