What to watch at the Republican National Convention
The RNC kicks off Monday. Here’s what STAT will be watching:
Will Republicans try to minimize the pandemic?
It’s still unclear just how much of the focus will be on the Covid-19 pandemic. If the roster of speakers is any guide, it’ll be the last thing on Republicans’ minds. There are only a few speakers known for their opinions on health care. Among them is Amy Johnson Ford, a nurse from West Virginia who traveled to New York to help with Covid-19 response, and who was honored at the White House earlier this year.
It’s still unclear just how much of the focus will be on the Covid-19 pandemic. If the roster of speakers is any guide, it’ll be the last thing on Republicans’ minds. There are only a few speakers known for their opinions on health care. Among them is Amy Johnson Ford, a nurse from West Virginia who traveled to New York to help with Covid-19 response, and who was honored at the White House earlier this year.
Republican’s reluctance to talk Coid-19 isn't very surprising, given the Trump administration's under-water approval rating when it comes to handling the pandemic. Democrats, of course, took nearly every opportunity to slam Trump’s pandemic response at their convention last week.
Right to Try goes primetime
Natalie Harp, who has made a number of dubious claims that she gained access to an unproven bone cancer treatment via the experimental treatment pathway known as “Right to Try," doubled down on those claims during a Monday evening speech.
It’s unclear if anyone else at the RNC will focus on the right-to-try law Trump spent his first term fighting to enact, but it wouldn’t be surprising. After all, the 2016 GOP platform, which the party readopted for 2020, pushed for that law and it also waged a number of highly controversial criticisms at the FDA, including that “The FDA has slowly but relentlessly changed into an agency that more and more puts the public health at risk by delaying, chilling, and killing the development of new devices, drugs and biologics that can promote our lives and our health.”
Natalie Harp, who has made a number of dubious claims that she gained access to an unproven bone cancer treatment via the experimental treatment pathway known as “Right to Try," doubled down on those claims during a Monday evening speech.
It’s unclear if anyone else at the RNC will focus on the right-to-try law Trump spent his first term fighting to enact, but it wouldn’t be surprising. After all, the 2016 GOP platform, which the party readopted for 2020, pushed for that law and it also waged a number of highly controversial criticisms at the FDA, including that “The FDA has slowly but relentlessly changed into an agency that more and more puts the public health at risk by delaying, chilling, and killing the development of new devices, drugs and biologics that can promote our lives and our health.”
Some he-said, she-said on drug pricing
Trump used his remarks Monday afternoon at the convention to tout his work lowering drug prices, and you’ll likely hear more of that as the convention goes on. But the advocacy group Lower Drug Prices Now wants the convention to think twice about Trump’s claims.
The group will spend the Republican convention driving around a mobile billboard criticizing Trump’s record on lowering drug prices. The billboard, which reads, “President Trump hasn’t lowered seniors’ drug prices,” also accuses Trump of interfering with USPS delivery of essential medicines.
The advocacy comes on the heels of Trump’s efforts to campaign on a recent slate of drug pricing actions, which have yet to be enacted.
Trump used his remarks Monday afternoon at the convention to tout his work lowering drug prices, and you’ll likely hear more of that as the convention goes on. But the advocacy group Lower Drug Prices Now wants the convention to think twice about Trump’s claims.
The group will spend the Republican convention driving around a mobile billboard criticizing Trump’s record on lowering drug prices. The billboard, which reads, “President Trump hasn’t lowered seniors’ drug prices,” also accuses Trump of interfering with USPS delivery of essential medicines.
The advocacy comes on the heels of Trump’s efforts to campaign on a recent slate of drug pricing actions, which have yet to be enacted.
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