Gary Cohen

Principal, HMA. Fmr VP Govt Affairs Blue Shield CA, Director, CCIIO implementing ACA, GC CA Ins Dept, GC CPUC, 2x cancer survivor, tweets are mine

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@ninashah33 Dr Shah! I just discovered a video of your trip to Iceland with the Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma program of the MMRF back in 2019. Liz and I will be trekking in Greenland with them in two weeks. We’re looking forward to an amazing trip.

https://t.co/hXx5s5hhc5

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@PhDHealthPR @_Eric_Reinhart I completely agree about flights

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@_Eric_Reinhart No problem. And I agree that public health officials should make the best recommendations they can based on the scientific evidence and consensus. I do wonder how much difference it would make at this point. As Walt Kelly said, “We have met the enemy and it is us.”

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@_Eric_Reinhart No I’m asking whether any such data exists, I don’t know. Not an attack, a question. I think we’ve found that Americans are willing to accept a level of sickness and death that is surprising. Government may be to blame for some of that, but IMO a lot of it has to do with us.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@_Eric_Reinhart Strong words, Eric. I’m curious whether you are aware of data demonstrating the impact of public health guidelines that face widespread, near universal resistance from the public. Just a question.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@michaelcdeibert Oh, I agree with that. I think it’s unlikely that any one speech can make much of a difference. I think this signaled the themes for the campaign and imo they are the right ones given all the MAGA election deniers running. Dems have to talk about them.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@michaelcdeibert He and his party have two things to run on, I think: against the MAGAs and for what his administration has done and hopes to do. I thought the speech addressed both, with the emphasis on the former. He clearly thinks love of country and its values means something to some voters.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@michaelcdeibert Sorry, didn’t mean to call you out, I just hear and read this to much. We’ll have to disagree on this one, I thought it was an excellent speech and just the one he needed to give. FWIW, I think the goal was to appeal to those who support democratic values and Democratic policies.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@michaelcdeibert The MAGA cultists were not the intended audience for this speech, imo, for the reason you suggest. But they were not the majority of the electorate in 2016, 2018 or 2020 and will not be in 2022 or 2024. I think pundits should stop pointing out they won’t change. We all get that

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@MattGlassman312 “In an ideal world” Trump is never elected and President Clinton never has to give this speech.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@MattGlassman312 I disagree. There’s an election coming. He made the case for democratic values and for Democratic policy. And for his re-election. Before what he hoped would be a big audience (The networks notwithstanding). As he should.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

“In an ideal world” he never has to give this speech. Not the world we live in, though.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@rickhasen How is it that Obama was elected twice? How is it that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016? How is that Biden won in 2020? Perhaps because the majority of Americans support democratic values and Democratic policies?

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

That it is full of shuttered factories and crushed communities. That it is beset by poverty and violence at home and war and destruction abroad. And he offered them a solution.
I am your voice, said Trump. I alone can fix it. I will restore law and order.” https://t.co/hc24FJg21p

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

“In 2016, Donald J. Trump mounted the stage, and told America that the nation is in crisis. That attacks on police and terrorism threaten the American way of life. That the United States suffers from domestic disaster, and international humiliation.”

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

@kayleighmcenany @SymoneDSanders Agree, that’s what he said. He spoke the truth.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

He’s running. He just made the case for himself and did a damn good job of it, IMO.

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Joe Biden calls out the extremism of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans: “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal.”

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

At least he didn’t wear a tan suit.

[Ben Yelin @byelin]

Optics and decorum police out in full force tonight.

[Gary Cohen @garcoak]

Amen. Employers and organized labor should join forces to support public policy that will reduce out of control health care costs, such as the recent legislation establishing an Office of Health Care Affordability in California. Keep up the good work!

[PBGH @PBGHealth]

"Those paying the bills can no longer accept a health care system that exploits workers and employers and endangers the country’s future in pursuit of a fatally flawed status quo." @lizzymitch2 @IWLMikeT @ntlalliancehlth

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