President unable to protect country's health

We deserve a President with a vision to protect the current and future health and well-being of our country. Donald Trump has proven woefully unable to fulfill that role for us. Let's examine his record.

In a cost-cutting measure in 2018, he disbanded our nation's Pandemic Response Team, firing all its members and leaving us defenseless against future pandemic crises like the one we face today. His administration is actively mounting a legal challenge to thoroughly dismantle the Affordable Care Act, with the goal of stripping coverage from millions of Americans, raising premiums, ending protections for people with preexisting conditions, and forcing seniors to pay more for prescription drugs.

All this at a time when millions of Americans are facing the existential threat of COVID-19. And just yesterday, he suggested that he might ignore the advice of the medical professionals on his own coronavirus response team, to promote saving the economy at the expense of American lives.

Let's hope and pray that we have reached the depths of this president's inability to govern this country.

Florence Appel

Lombard