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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

United States Representative from New York since 2019.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s policies on healthcare issues

These issues below are sorted in descending order based on how important the average American voter ranked them on the quiz.

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Healthcare  ›  Masks on Public Transportation

Should the Federal government mandate that masks be worn by all people on public transportation?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, we need to do everything we can to protect the immunocompromised population

Healthcare  ›  Drug Price Regulation

Should the government regulate the prices of life-saving drugs?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, and we should socialize medicine and healthcare

Healthcare  ›  Medicaid

Should the federal government increase funding of health care for low income individuals (Medicaid)?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  AI Doctors

Should AI be allowed to diagnose patients and prescribe medicine without human doctor supervision?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseNo, current AI makes confident mistakes in complex cases

Healthcare  ›  Mental Health

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, our mental healthcare system needs more funding to provide a higher quality of care and services

Healthcare  ›  Pre-Existing Conditions

Should health insurers be allowed to deny coverage to individuals who have a pre-existing condition?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseNo, it is immoral to deny health insurance to people with pre-existing conditions

Healthcare  ›  Single-Payer Healthcare

Do you support a single-payer healthcare system?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  Obamacare

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

  Public statementsYes, but a mandatory single payer system would be even better

Healthcare  ›  Marijuana

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, and immediately release anyone serving time solely for drug offenses

Healthcare  ›  Healthcare Debt Relief

Should the government forgive all medical debt for necessary, non-elective procedures?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  Vaccine Mandates for Customers

Should private businesses have the right to ask customers for their vaccination status?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  Safe Haven

Should cities open drug “safe havens” where people who are addicted to illegal drugs can use them under the supervision of medical professionals?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, drug abuse should be treated as a health issue, not a criminal issue

Healthcare  ›  Drug Pricing Caps

Should the government eliminate price caps on generic drugs?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseNo

Healthcare  ›  Medicaid Work Requirement

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseNo

Healthcare  ›  World Health Organization

Should the government fund the World Health Organization?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  Medicare Drug Prices

Should the federal government be allowed to negotiate drug prices for Medicare?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  COVID Employment Health Pass

Should the government require employees of large businesses to be vaccinated from COVID?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  Private Equity Hospital Ban

Should private equity firms be banned from owning hospitals and healthcare practices?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, Wall Street's profit motive strip-mines medical resources and endangers patient care

Healthcare  ›  Banning Toxic Food Additives

Should the U.S. ban food ingredients and dyes that are currently prohibited in Europe?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, we should adopt Europe’s precautionary safety standards.

Healthcare  ›  VA Privatization

Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseLess, we should increase funding to improve the current system instead

Healthcare  ›  Marketing Unhealthy Products to Youth

Should the government ban the promotion of products that contribute to unhealthy lifestyles for young people, such as vaping and junk food?

  ChatGPTYes

Healthcare  ›  Medical Consensus

Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, this will decrease the amount of misinformation patients receive

Healthcare  ›  Legalizing Psychedelics

Should the government legalize psychedelics, such as magic mushrooms and MDMA, for therapeutic use?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, but only in supervised medical settings.

Healthcare  ›  Medicare Coverage for Weight Loss Drugs

Should the federal government require Medicare to cover the cost of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes, access to life-changing medicine shouldn't depend on wealth and Medicare must modernize to cover effective treatments

Healthcare  ›  National Sugar Tax

Should the federal government impose a national tax on sugary drinks and snacks to combat the obesity epidemic?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseNo, sin taxes are deeply regressive policies that disproportionately hurt low-income families

Healthcare  ›  Ban Pharma TV Ads

Should the government ban pharmaceutical companies from advertising prescription drugs directly to consumers?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseYes

Healthcare  ›  Legalize Organ Sales

Should individuals be allowed to legally sell their non-vital organs for medical transplants?

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voterbaseNo, slapping a price tag on body parts will economically coerce our poorest citizens into being stripped for spare parts

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in connection with his effort to overturn his 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S Capitol.Trump was first indicted on four felonies in August 2023: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The case was then put on hold for months as Trump’s team argued that Trump could not be prosecuted.The indictment marked an extraordinary moment in American history — the first-ever accusation that a president sought illegally to cling to power.The dismissal also marks a historic moment. Fifty years after Richard Nixon was forced by lawmakers from both parties to resign the presidency amid allegations of criminal conduct, half of American voters will return Trump to the presidency despite his own serious charges of criminal misconduct in office.“The Government’s position on the merits of the defendant’s prosecution has not changed. But the circumstances have," Smith’s office wrote in Monday’s filing, adding that it is seeking to dismiss the charges ahead of Trump's inauguration, in line with the Justice Department’s longstanding position that it can’t charge a sitting president.“That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind," the special counsel added.The Supreme Court handed Trump an early victory in the case in July with its ruling on presidential immunity. But a new federal grand jury indicted Trump on the same four charges again in August, alleging that Trump’s false claims about mass voter fraud during the 2020 election were “unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing” and that Trump “knew that they were false.”

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Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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