Katie Porter on The 2020 Election, Covid and The Post Office | The Next Wave

Rep. Katie Porter became a breakout star of Congress’ class of 2018 by wielding a dry-erase marker. The California congresswoman, a former law student of Elizabeth Warren’s, has spent the past two years exposing the arrogance and incompetence of Trump lackeys and American CEOs by asking very simple questions, often involving a little back-of-the-envelope math.

On March 12th, for example, at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, Porter took out her dry-erase board and sketched out the costs the average uninsured American might incur if they went to the hospital suspecting they have the coronavirus — a blood-count test, a metabolic panel, a flu test, an ER visit fee. It added up to more than $1,300, a daunting figure considering roughly half of all Americans can’t cover an unexpected $400 expense. But the CDC has the legal authority to says tests will be free for every American, and that day, Porter extracted a pledge from CDC director Robert Redfield that he would use it.

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