<em>The Ticket</em>:<em> </em>Senator Bill Cassidy
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy discusses the coronavirus response, vaccines, and how states like his own, Louisiana, hope to reopen. He joined Edward-Isaac Dovere on an episode of The Ticket: Politics From The Atlantic.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript:
Edward-Isaac Dovere: Do you feel like you come at this public-health crisis as a doctor, or are you coming in at it more as a senator?
Senator Bill Cassidy: Everybody is a product of their life experience. That’s true of me. My medical practice was one in which 99 percent of my patients were either uninsured or poorly insured on Medicaid. I worked in a public hospital. But that still informs me. And so if we have a program, I’m thinking: How would that affect my patients The answer is of course no. And so it continues to inform. I used to give lectures regarding viruses and antibodies and immunologic response. I never thought I would use that again. That’s clearly come into force.
