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Mike Johnson: “People with autoimmune deficiencies who are also disabled…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 31:34

… or Medicare recipients, for example, who have been able to receive health care at home because we expanded that through telehealth and all that. All that is shut down. Yet People with autoimmune deficiencies who are also disabled, they cannot go visit the doctor's office. So thankfully, mercifully, they've been able to be treated at home. But all that just stopped. So people are canceling their health importance health appointments with their physicians. (31:34–31:40)

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Asserts that disabled people with autoimmune deficiencies cannot visit doctors due to current circumstances.

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